First day on the job.

Yesterday I went into the RACC to "schedule" my internship hours. The problem is that I am going to the temp agency tomorrow to get a job, so I don't know my schedule yet, and the Wal-mart Photo Center is another option. So basically I walked in as Lauren was walking out and she said come in when you can during business hours. So I told her I would be in today at 11am.

I went in today and I just asked Sandy, the secretary for some garbage bags. Then I went upstairs to get started cleaning out the room. The photo lab has been used, but it has been about 10 years, and they have been sort of using the room for storage. Whoever planned the space didn't do a great job either. It is on the third floor and it has 2 windows. One of them is covered pretty well, but the other needs to be covered, and it is rather warm in there, which isn't good. So I got lost finding my way to the 3rd floor by the way. This place used to be a house, so there are all these cool little rooms and hallways, but it is interesting trying to find places. I put everything not photo related in the "Alice in Wonderland" room. Then I started going through the boxes. There is a lot of very old stuff that expired in the 80's, so new chemicals are a must, but I figured that anyway. At some point I tried to turn on the water and it spat yellow water at me. That needs to be looked at. There are 5 enlargers set up. One doesn't work, but the room is too small for it anyway. One is not set up at all and it is HUGE. It must be for large format film and prints. I don't think that I can set it up by myself. They have all they need basically, but chemicals and plumbing needs to be dealt with. I brought Lauren up to have a look and she was pleased that she could see the floor. I told her about the plumbing and she said she could have someone look at it. Then she told me that I should set everything up so that it works efficiently and that I would need to make signs for everything. She basically said everything is completely up to me, so I guess that is good and bad. I will have absolutely no help, but I can do what I want and go in when I want. I am going to try to do 10 hours a week, and there is 10 weeks left so I should be right on schedule. Hopefully I can help with some of the film editing classes to add on some hours. Going in tomorrow after the temp agency.

Today I did 2.5 hours.