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Up to my elbows in mosasaur today.

At the museum, they're having us volunteers rearrange the drawers in storage because they've gottne messed up over the years. The item number range on the outside of the drawer is correct: if it says 7515-7620, then you'll find those items in that drawer, but you'll ahve to paw throughe very single specimen in order to find it. So we're arranging them in numerical order, then ticking off the numbers on a sheet to make sure they're all there. For the most part, they are, and we've even managed to find a few that were marked as missing previously.

But I get to go in tomorrow and learn how to clean fossils in the paleo lab.

They have an Eryops skull in the collection that's big enough to be a breastplate on a suit of armor. That's one damn big amphibian.

And they let me hold Lisa the Australian bearded dragon. She's a very laid-back sort of lizard.

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Bearded Dragons

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My good friend has an Australian Bearded Dragon, his name his Goldstein because every lizard needs a good Jewish name. Actually Goldstein is a sweet guy, because he has never been bred he spends a lot of time sleeping.

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Every time I see Lisa (well, a grand total of three times so far) she's been awake. Not moving very much, of course. She just sits on her rick and suns under her lamp. Brian (the curatorial assistant) put her on my shoulder, and she decided she liked it there. He warned me that she like hair, and likes to climb it, but apparently my hair didn't pass muster or she decided it was too much trouble. THere were two museum goers looking in the window of the animal area, so we went out and talked to them and showed them Lisa. Lisa does a lot of outreach on school trips, it seems. :)