Opening staff week has come to a close, crazy times indeed. Friday was insanely busy, this just after the day when four different vendors showed up at the same time to deliver their goods.
The opening banquet was amazing, the food was great. It was set up picnic style (well, as much as it can be in a dining hall I suppose), with steak sandwiches, wings, fruit, cheese and crackers and ice cream.
Other than that, things chug along as always, I’m pretty much set in the office, or at least I think I am. I’ve been playing phone tag with
So far though, technology has hated me. I’ve run out of ink (or in one case film) on two different faxes (both are refilled and we have one hooked up and working now though), and the office radio wasn’t working, so it’s off to be repaired while I borrow someone else’s in the meantime. It all reminds me of the fax machine from “Office Space,” see the title of this post above.
While making nametags for the reservation staff, which I think turned out excellent, I noticed that one of the staff members has a last name of Garrison, which of course, reminded me of URU: I laughed for a while at that one.
Speaking of, I made an observation about how my one friend Kyle likes to get the menu item A4 (some sort of noodle dish if memory serves) at his favorite Chinese restaurant and A4 is the basic paper size in
Writing for my script is coming along nicely, I’m a bit behind, but I’m hoping to catch up later tonight and tomorrow. I was central CQ last night and got some writing done, also finished my second book since I’ve been up here. The bed was uncomfortable, because it was so soft (I like a firmer mattress), but other than that, it wasn’t too bad, just a bit boring at times.
I’ve met a staff member who was a lone scout at one point, two who go to Gateway and two from Seton Hill, so it’s been quite an exciting time in terms of meeting new people. I’m hoping that the two from SHU will join me for Homecoming at SVC this year (although we’ll be playing W&J).
The other big news is somewhat related to my parents and their vacation. Apparently there is a fox living in the bushes near the house they rented for the week, and two days ago I saw a bear on reservation for the first time. He was rummaging around in the dumpster and we went over to watch it, grabbed some pictures (but I don’t think they came out, it was too dark), and Ranger Will and his grandsons came over as well. He was a really brave bear, he let us get fairly close, then we scared him off property.
Well that’s it for now, I think I’m heading into U-town tonight to get off property for a bit, catch everyone later!
