SHERI MYLER THE CFZ INTERN: Day Four

Sheri Myler, our student who is doing a series of placements with us over the next year or so is back for her second stint. Once again, I am putting her to work and she will be blogging each day about her time here...

I have known that working at the CFZ would bring unorthodox working hours since before my first trip down here, six months ago. It was stressed to me that arriving before ten would be futile as it would yield no response from the occupants who would all still be slumbering on.

With this in mind, I endeavour to arrive no earlier than half past ten, to play it a little safer than arriving at ten and this has always been met with a response from a waking person within. However, today, I arrived at my usual time, and was greeted only by the orange cat, who was also locked out. I rang the bell on either door to no avail, so I decided to sit in the garden and go on facebook, using their wifi until someone found me.

I was let in by eleven, whence we began a staff meeting, which lasted till around noon and included such topics as grounds and animal enclosure maintenance. The “M” section of Eberhart took almost all day to complete. Afterwards, there was another two hour lecture on various cryptozoological subjects as well as the more parapsychological subject of the neurological effects of, and potential for hallucinations caused by, environmental factors, such as electro-magnetic interference.

We then ventured catwards. It was a relatively short cat hunt as people were feeling tired and wanting an early night. It was also relatively unexciting, presumably because of the prolonged cold. The high points were the sightings of two moths and something that may have been a rabbit.