When did it get warm?
24 May 2008 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
3rdragonI wish people would warn me about these things so that I would know to dress properly. And no, I have no intention of checking the weather report on any kind of regular basis. Although perhaps I will now, just this once.
Hmm. Looks like it intends to remain warm.
I realize that lately I've been babbling on a lot about things that happen but not saying very much about myself, so I'll state right here that I'm doing well. I'm mostly dividing my time between hanging out with friends and work (oh joy, lots of not doing much at all interspersed with interesting demands ("You want a six-ft screen and one of those 25 lb portable microphones and a projector and a laptop and speakers for the laptop and a laser pointer? Of course, Ma'am. Right away. Would you like whipped cream with that?"), made all the more interesting by the fact that of course no one tells you how they want things to be set up, and then after you've set things up the best way you can figure out what with the constraints of the room and the equipment and the fact that it's a dining hall and people need to sit/eat/move around, they're annoyed because "Why on earth did they set it up this way?" So I'm smiling and nodding and doing my best not to let it rile me (and mostly managing fairly well). But though I complain, it's not bad work, and I think that being paid to do whatever I please for a few hours is worth a couple of unpleasant trips with a screen on a little cart. And I really do enjoy talking to the alums. I had a lovely conversation with some of the '48s yesterday about computers and changing technology, and then just a few moments ago I fell into a discussion with another '48 and discovered that she grew up in the same neighborhood my mother lives in and went to my highschool back in the '40s. Last night I had a talk with a rather drunk '73, but on the whole it seems that classes earlier than 1950 are the most interested in chatting with students (by which I mean me, since I'm my only example). I'm trying to figure out why this is, and while I have several theories they're all in the early stages of speculation.
Hmm. Looks like it intends to remain warm.
I realize that lately I've been babbling on a lot about things that happen but not saying very much about myself, so I'll state right here that I'm doing well. I'm mostly dividing my time between hanging out with friends and work (oh joy, lots of not doing much at all interspersed with interesting demands ("You want a six-ft screen and one of those 25 lb portable microphones and a projector and a laptop and speakers for the laptop and a laser pointer? Of course, Ma'am. Right away. Would you like whipped cream with that?"), made all the more interesting by the fact that of course no one tells you how they want things to be set up, and then after you've set things up the best way you can figure out what with the constraints of the room and the equipment and the fact that it's a dining hall and people need to sit/eat/move around, they're annoyed because "Why on earth did they set it up this way?" So I'm smiling and nodding and doing my best not to let it rile me (and mostly managing fairly well). But though I complain, it's not bad work, and I think that being paid to do whatever I please for a few hours is worth a couple of unpleasant trips with a screen on a little cart. And I really do enjoy talking to the alums. I had a lovely conversation with some of the '48s yesterday about computers and changing technology, and then just a few moments ago I fell into a discussion with another '48 and discovered that she grew up in the same neighborhood my mother lives in and went to my highschool back in the '40s. Last night I had a talk with a rather drunk '73, but on the whole it seems that classes earlier than 1950 are the most interested in chatting with students (by which I mean me, since I'm my only example). I'm trying to figure out why this is, and while I have several theories they're all in the early stages of speculation.
