Vivir es Trabajar

Yep, that's essentially what these last couple of days have been for me. Monday, I pulled a 730-500 shift (or something like that), absolutely wiping out my body. I had nothing to eat, very little to drink, and was doing a lot of serious physical labor. I was pretty much devastated that night, as I only ate when I got home and then went straight to bed. Basically, I was lifting crap all day (seriously heavy equipment, movies [25 loads of them], tons of boxes, computers, desks, furniture, and hauling trash to the garbage), which followed with some serious fifth degree burns on my arms, whihc now are sadly tanner. I despise tanness. I've been trying to get as freakishly pale as humanly possible, and Monday did not help.

Tuesday was another pretty long day, from 630-200. However, yesterday was mostly an indoor day, as our dumpsters were all full. I managed to sort all of our resources, so that books and videos are everywhere they belong, and I organized the storage room. After these I put all of our posters up and went to get my badge for the hospital (YAY! Now I can go anywhere). My sister turned 18 yesterday. I definitely makes me feel older knowing that my siblings are starting to turn into actually legal adults. I'll be freaking old when my other sister becomes one (I'll be 29 [just a month or so from 30] when she turns 18). Think about that. My life will be one third over, when hers is just beginning. Damn.

So avoiding life crises, we move into today's activities, which were diverse. I had one placement test today and I had to swap out all of the VGA cords on the computers for the DVI cords. I can't tell you what they do, but that's what I did, and I typed up stuff for my boss. Speaking of which, Ph.D. people cannot write in appropriate English. I had one vision statement I typed that lacked commas and had listed adjectives, as such: "collaborative low-anxiety friendly warm welcoming environment". That screams for commas. I love commas, by the way, in case you didn't know that. I also labeled pretty much everything that we have (computers, TV's, Storage, you name it, it's labeled) and dumped what little trash we had left that facilities would not take.

I came up with a list of things that we need to do between now and Tuesday, which is a LOT. Essentially, I need to get all of our supplies in order and on order, I need to finish organizing the storage room, I need to organize the student workspace, I need to make our presentation power points for French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Latin classes, come up with a schedule for where tutors can go into foreign language classes to encourage visits into the LTC, a million printing jobs, and a whole bunch of other things that take up a whole sheet of paper. In my miniscule writing.

YEAHHHHHH tomorrow is going to be seriously busy. It will probably be an 830-500 day. While one could complain about such things, This is getting me a WHOLE lot of money, and saving me from completely sinking into credit card debt. Not to mention it's going to let me start saving up a bunch of money towards my Spring semester, which will be my cheapest yet.

Thursday is probably going to be a full day, but hopefully Friday is a normal 10-1 day.

I'm assuming so much charge over things, it's actually pretty nice. I'm going to be running the open house for the professors, which is no small task. I'm going to have to make sure that we have some food to eat (hopefully not a whole bunch of Sodhexo, if necessary, I will spend the entire day baking spanakopita), a presentation planned which shows all of the professors our new computer programs, encouraging them to send students into the labs, encourage participation in our conversation tables, and giving an overview of all of our services offered. I'm going to have to make sure that the professors feel comfortable scheduling classes in our computer lab, and much much more. I'll probably have to put together some complementary packets or something for them as well, that gives instructions on how all of the new stuff works.

Then we have LTC training on Tuesday, and basically, since I've been putting everything together, I'm going to be doing some of that stuff, since over the last few days, the LTC has become basically my little baby. My boss is in his office, and has left me a LOT of control over how the LTC looks, how our storage is set up, etc. I'm surprised that he's given me so much leeway to be honest, but I think the amount of work I've put in over the last few days has shown him that I have genuinely good intentions.

Well, to work again tomorrow!