Wednesday, September 2, 2009

September 2 or I have a library card to the Library of Congress

I am not going to write a lot because my eyes are killing me (staring at a computer screen for eight hours is hard!), but I wanted to announce that I now have a library card to the Library of Congress. Yes. It has my picture on it, my name, and an official looking barcode.

The best part? I actually had to get it for my job. I wasn't just pretending that I needed it for "research" because I was a student; I actually had to get one. I am going to a Library of Congress research seminar tomorrow during work. Righteous!

Today I did some research for one of my supervisors, Autumn. (She is nice and pretty and has nice and pretty red hair.) I researched loan guarantees for alternative energy sources and electric cars for the first half of the day and then thorium as an alternate fuel (as opposed to uranium) for nuclear power the second half of the day. So, in sum, I learned a lot. I even had to reach back into the recesses of my mind and dust off that Chem 105 and 106 knowledge. Who ever thought that knowing the difference between fission and fusion would matter in a setting other than nuclear physics?

Plus I know that the secretary of the Department of Energy is Secretary Chu, and cylindrical receptors are all the rage in solar technology. At least, the U.S. guaranteed 450 million dollars banking on the fact that they are...

If you want to know more about the place where I work, go to our website at www.taxpayer.net

1 comment:

  1. Sounds like work is getting a bit better!

    Eight hours of computer time + library of congress = my job. We're closer than ever. :)

    ReplyDelete