One week before my brief return

I'll be training an intern to shoot photos and put together the nightly slideshow tomorrow(Monday), and then shooting video the rest of the week.

I've been feeling somewhat useless — actually a rather common feeling among intern-level staff members from what I've seen in my several years with Mission Discovery. We all want to feel as though we are required for something, that if we weren't there to take care of things, they would fall apart. This summer I've been filling a lot of holes. I've been helping with sound when I'm needed, or taking photos when I'm needed, or cutting linoleum, or making sandwiches, etc., etc. I haven't really had the specific job of shooting and editing video like I thought I was going to have, and as a result I've felt somewhat unneeded. It's a useless and fairly illogical feeling, but unfortunately that doesn't stop it being a feeling. Hopefully shooting video this week will cure me.

Here are a couple photos I took last week.