Fall Time in Juneau Town

Hellllo Friends and Family,

Still loving my new job at the Juneau Douglas City Museum :) It's a lot to learn, but I'm taking in as much as I can about the Museum and working for the City and Bourough of Juneau.
It's hilarious the amount of details that go into buying cases of copy paper, but I've been doing the best I can getting used to the process! One of the administrators for Parks and Rec told me it took him 2 years to really know everything...and our curator of public programs (who's been here for 6 years) says she's still learning!
But I have a pile of random tasks within a single day, so I keep busy and never get bored. The Museum is in an old library, and our staff consists of me, the director, 2 curators (one for collection and the other for programing) and an intern from Virginia. It's awesome to work in such an adorable little place, with a small staff.
The director told me 76 people applied to this job, so i feel pretty lucky to be working here!

Fall is rolling in and the leaves are beginning to fall steadily. I forget how quickly fall comes and goes in SE AK. I'm looking forward to winter and skiing, but for now with all the cruise ships gone I'm just enjoying the quiet contemplative season.

I've been still playing music, and writing more songs too! I'm attempting to bang out some chords on the guitar to practice singing, but really it just makes me miss my autoharp. Someday I will get another one...but I really really miss my sparrowharp. My good friend Alicia had her fiddle and guitar stolen out of her car in Portland on a road trip to West Virginia...I felt her dissapointment and that horrible feeling of violation when someone steals from you...Well someday I will pick up a harp again. I still have my bass and I'm loving it more than ever with new strings on it thanks to Scott and Brooke!

I'm planning on developing another blog with my buddy Sarah Ritter who lives nearby. We both love cooking and we have similar taste in basically everything, so watch out for that if we make it happen. Last week, for example, we watched a Werner Herzog documentary and made red velvet cupcakes with garbanzo beans instead of flour. They actually turned out! Crazy!

Halloween is approaching, and Thanksgiving too...just looking forward to everything!
I'll be in Seattle in Decemeber for Christmas! YAY! and then again in February for a bluegrass festival in Bellevue. I'm hoping for a tropical escape sometime soon, but we'll see how much cash I can sock away to make that happen.

Hope everyone is healthy and happy down in the states!

More soon!

Love,
Amanda