everyday: a work update.
today was the first day of me starting at nyu hospital...
i got switched out to this other job and now i have to wake up earlier too which sucks but i really like the forman on this job. its this guy pj who zari insists is around our age which is facsinating to me. almost as facsinating as him being this big foodie--a subscriber to bon appetite (sp? french?) magazine, not me, pj! he never really eats anything at work but always asks me what i'm having and used to be in the marines. i did sheetrock with andy who is a rasta, lives a few blocks away fom me and also a forman. i havent done sheetrock in a couple of weeks so i was kind of anxious to be the guy who gets all the measurements and then has to scribe and cut out all the pieces while andy tells me the numbers and screws in the boards. until recently i have been pretty crappy at scribing, which is done free handed in the union with a pencil or knife guided by a tape measure. its one of the most valuable skills to have as a carpenter becos it allows you to make quick accurate marks for cuts without having to use a straight edge, a level or some other bullshit.
the last time i did sheetrock was at beth isreal hospital with albert my old forman and buddy who i love and taught me how to truly do pathagorean therom (sp?--cant spell it but i can layout and make a perfect 90 degree angle like no ones business). the last time me and al worked together he put me in scribing boot camp where i had to do all these intracit cuts without a straight edge and i was clumsy and frustrated. today, all the sudden i could just do it, straight lines, no problem. accurate, precise measurements and cuts--i love that shit.
another girls is on this job too...
this girl sheena who is the third punk to be added to our dyke punk crew at ronsco--which is outrageously amazing. she's a first year, has three quarter sleeves and i guessed her birthday is in the first week of aries. she says she got fat when she first joined the union too. i checked in with zari to see if it was a universal thing and she claims to actually have lost weight, go figure. i guess the only pattern is weight change in general, not so facsinating.
i got switched out to this other job and now i have to wake up earlier too which sucks but i really like the forman on this job. its this guy pj who zari insists is around our age which is facsinating to me. almost as facsinating as him being this big foodie--a subscriber to bon appetite (sp? french?) magazine, not me, pj! he never really eats anything at work but always asks me what i'm having and used to be in the marines. i did sheetrock with andy who is a rasta, lives a few blocks away fom me and also a forman. i havent done sheetrock in a couple of weeks so i was kind of anxious to be the guy who gets all the measurements and then has to scribe and cut out all the pieces while andy tells me the numbers and screws in the boards. until recently i have been pretty crappy at scribing, which is done free handed in the union with a pencil or knife guided by a tape measure. its one of the most valuable skills to have as a carpenter becos it allows you to make quick accurate marks for cuts without having to use a straight edge, a level or some other bullshit.
the last time i did sheetrock was at beth isreal hospital with albert my old forman and buddy who i love and taught me how to truly do pathagorean therom (sp?--cant spell it but i can layout and make a perfect 90 degree angle like no ones business). the last time me and al worked together he put me in scribing boot camp where i had to do all these intracit cuts without a straight edge and i was clumsy and frustrated. today, all the sudden i could just do it, straight lines, no problem. accurate, precise measurements and cuts--i love that shit.
another girls is on this job too...
this girl sheena who is the third punk to be added to our dyke punk crew at ronsco--which is outrageously amazing. she's a first year, has three quarter sleeves and i guessed her birthday is in the first week of aries. she says she got fat when she first joined the union too. i checked in with zari to see if it was a universal thing and she claims to actually have lost weight, go figure. i guess the only pattern is weight change in general, not so facsinating.