Seriously?

OK so this is gonna be a 3-blog post day. I know that's crazy. But the story I have so perfectly illustrates why I called this blog "The madness of Ms. Katherine" I have to tell it as well as starting the series. My life is crazy.

So I work at Campbell House Museum. Today 2 women come in and say "We have 15 minutes, can you give us a tour in that amount of time". Keep in mind that Campbell House is 3 floors, close to 10,000 square feet, and my tours normally last between 45minutes and an hour. This was not gonna be easy. So rather than introducing myself and taking my time like I normally do, I say "I won't be able to give much info on the story but I"ll try" and just launch into it, moving as quick as I can. We get to the servants exhibit, one woman needs to go to the bathroom so I show her where it is, and the other one and I talk a little about Philadelphia, which is where she's from. I loved Philly. If a job at a historic house museum opened in Philly, I would jump at it. Other woman comes back, we move on with our quick tour.

At the end, the woman from Philly starts talking to our director Andy and says "I'm the director of a historic mansion in Philadelphia". Yep. That's right. I gave a tour to a woman who runs a historic house in the city I'd love to be in. Perfect networking opportunity. I HAD NO CLUE TILL THE END! And I don't even have time to introduce myself and say I'm a museum studies student or give the pretty good (at least in my opinion and what I've heard from others) tour to her! Plus by the time she says this, she's talking to Andy about important stuff so I can't say "Hey I'm a museum studies student!" without sounding immature and dumb.

The good thing is I just looked the place up, and it's not a museum. It's a mansion owned by a college that you can rent out for events. So it's not the dream job I thougth it was when I first heard who she was. And Mom said it's perfectly OK for me to get her info from Andy (she gave him her card) and send her my resume saying 'I was your tour guide".

Yeah - PERFECT opportunity to get an in on jobs and they only have 15 minutes for the tour. Are you kidding me? See how crazy my life is????