off-topics

So, i missed my weekly favourite songs listing last night in favour of sleep… sadly, the next two weeks are just going to be sketchy like that because of my new job. What is this job? Well… as you may or may not have gleaned from my incessant chatter, i worked for Drexel University this summer as an Orientation Leader. Our Orientation occurs smack in the middle of the summer months, and it is a day and a half long. There are six sessions that occur, and every Freshmen makes it to one of them. My job was to alternately be a guide and resource for groups of students (20 to 30) and parents. All of the 24 OLs lived together on the top floor of one of the dormitories, and we had a bunch of fun.

Now i’m headed into Orientation Part 2: New Student Week. Essentially, everybody gets here six days early and we drag them everywhere there is to go in Philadelphia, both on and off the campus. This time around all 2200+ students will be going at it all at once, so instead of 24 leaders there are 100. Not all of the original OLs applied for the job, but over a third of us wound up getting hired. 10 of the NSW leaders are Alpha-Leaders, who were chosen to act as coordinators for groups of nine other leaders each. We are the contact between the people from the University that are running things, and the students who are leading around Freshmen. Exciting, huh? Now at least you’ll know what i’m talking about when i say that i’m caught up in Orientation. Starting this week i need to be with the other Alphas to work out the kinks, and then next week it’ll be showtime. Again.

grrrrr…. now to battle the phone company! Argh! … well, the phone actually rings now, which is interesting, since it’s been disconnected all week. Hopefully that means that it has been miraculously turned on for no reason whatsoever. Electric is working (thanx to matt, go matt!!!), and i am on the phone with the Gas company as of right now. It looks like everything is a go for moving in tomorrow at 7:30 am. Whoo!!

ye-gods… that wasn’t easy. And now i’ve got to call all 9 people and tell them that if they have any problems i can’t fix them because i’ll be incommunicado starting tomorrow morning. Ugh.

Gods, please don’t let me go into business… please. I just got about 5 emails in excel format that i have to somehow interpret and then distribute to 9 unwitting orientation group leaders. My head feels as though it’s going to explode. See, this all would have been simple except for the fact that i packed away all of my New Student Orientation information and sent it to my new apartment. Had i followed it there, i wouldn’t be able to receive any emails because i’d have no phone service, and if i had kept it here i’d have no way to get my crate of papers and folders there because it’s too heavy for me to lift without reinjuring my collarbone. So, i’m at a bit of an impasse. Luckily, the NSW office helped me out with the info i’m missing. Now i just have to explain to them how i won’t be around monday, tuesday afternoon, or thursday, and it’ll all be fine. >sigh

At work yesterday my co-worker pointed out that i’ll never succeed if i never try. Sure, this seems like the most common sense fact that you’d ever heard, but i don’t think it had ever ocurred to me. We were talking about dating, and how i may or may not occasionally flirt with customers. My co-worker is of the mind that i could easily go out with many of our mid-to-late twenties female customers if i made an advance, but i balked because i haven’t even got dating experience with people my own age. And then he said it.

Why don’t i have dating experience with people my own age? Because i haven’t been able to succeed without trying. The few people i have ever actually approached to ask out fell through for obvious reasons; i’ve simply got to set my sights a bit more effectively and ask a bit more often. At least, that’s we he says…