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hawkwing_lbSo, it turns out my volunteer gig at the charity shop may work out both tolerable and useful.
They take in donations of everything. And sell everything. And one of the things they sell are used books, which, when I arrived on Saturday morning, were piled on shelves willy-nilly with no concern for author, or genre, or even keeping the spines facing out.
One thing, as you might imagine, led to another, and before I left at half-past noon, thriller/mystery had been separated from romance, and both had been set in somewhat alphabetical order. And even if the rest was still much as it had been when I arrived, I seemed to have achieved instant promotion into Responsible For the bookshelves, which, ah. Kind of worries me.
At any rate, hopefully this gig will look all right on my CV when I go looking for a real job in the new year. For someone who is allegedly smart and motivated, I have a shocking lack of Real Experience in, well, anything. Even retail.
(I don't know how some of my mates manage, working twenty hour weeks to pay the rent and still making high marks in college.)
Freshers' Week starts tomorrow. Sigh. If I were not unsane, and on a society committee for the third year in a row, I'd be enjoying one last week of lazy mornings. Instead, I get to spend time manning a stand. Oh, well. Maybe I'll get the Mattingly book mostly finished while I'm at it.
(And perhaps my departments'll have their timetables up in a timely fashion - for once! - so I can get started on planning my term.)
At least being in town means no bunking off from running or climbing. And I completely forgot: I need to pick up a litre-sized durable water bottle, so I'm not hauling so much water around with me.
Monday:
Purchase ringbound folders, ink cartridges.
Man stand 1130-1430
Purchase books
Running. Climbing.
Tuesday:
Call Westjet, make sure ticket is email confirmation thing for Toronto-Calgary. Check baggage weight limits.
Hospital visit.
Wednesday:
Man stand.
Running. Climbing.
Thursday:
Man stand.
Badger dept. admin. about timetables.
Karate.
Friday:
Man stand.
Timetables.
Running. Climbing.
One of these days, I'll be able to prep for something without totally spazzing out. That day does not appear to be today.
They take in donations of everything. And sell everything. And one of the things they sell are used books, which, when I arrived on Saturday morning, were piled on shelves willy-nilly with no concern for author, or genre, or even keeping the spines facing out.
One thing, as you might imagine, led to another, and before I left at half-past noon, thriller/mystery had been separated from romance, and both had been set in somewhat alphabetical order. And even if the rest was still much as it had been when I arrived, I seemed to have achieved instant promotion into Responsible For the bookshelves, which, ah. Kind of worries me.
At any rate, hopefully this gig will look all right on my CV when I go looking for a real job in the new year. For someone who is allegedly smart and motivated, I have a shocking lack of Real Experience in, well, anything. Even retail.
(I don't know how some of my mates manage, working twenty hour weeks to pay the rent and still making high marks in college.)
Freshers' Week starts tomorrow. Sigh. If I were not unsane, and on a society committee for the third year in a row, I'd be enjoying one last week of lazy mornings. Instead, I get to spend time manning a stand. Oh, well. Maybe I'll get the Mattingly book mostly finished while I'm at it.
(And perhaps my departments'll have their timetables up in a timely fashion - for once! - so I can get started on planning my term.)
At least being in town means no bunking off from running or climbing. And I completely forgot: I need to pick up a litre-sized durable water bottle, so I'm not hauling so much water around with me.
Monday:
Purchase ringbound folders, ink cartridges.
Man stand 1130-1430
Purchase books
Running. Climbing.
Tuesday:
Call Westjet, make sure ticket is email confirmation thing for Toronto-Calgary. Check baggage weight limits.
Hospital visit.
Wednesday:
Man stand.
Running. Climbing.
Thursday:
Man stand.
Badger dept. admin. about timetables.
Karate.
Friday:
Man stand.
Timetables.
Running. Climbing.
One of these days, I'll be able to prep for something without totally spazzing out. That day does not appear to be today.
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Date: 2008-09-30 08:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-30 01:51 pm (UTC)I'm just looking for an average litre canteen, as opposed to hauling in 2 litres of supermarket bottled water in the original packaging, so to speak.