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I finally managed to get someone alive calling DCPS back about the Blackman/Jones award letter they sent me. Apparently since we won I get my award in the form of a computer that is above certain reasonably generous specs and below $1500. I've got a choice between a PC laptop or desktop or a Mac laptop or desktop. I'm going to go with the macbook. Best Buy Government and Education has apparently been put in charge and is being as generous with DCPS's money as they can. Which is good for me.
My Job is going great, I got up close and personal with a couple of toilets today. Somehow one or more of the users of one of the toilets managed to piss behind it in a way where to get a strait line from a crotch to the space would involve the same great amount of creativity and disregard for the sharp pokey toilet roll dispenser required to clean it... Apparently on my first day some freshmen boys in D dorm managed to clog a toilet the week before and didn't call anyone (figuring themselves in trouble or something?) however they did continue to piss in it causing a tremendous stench that was eventually reported by neighbors and responded to by one of my friends.
I have also been struck be a peculiar variety of cynicism that seems to get stronger with more experience with the job; I think it stems almost entirely from the inherent impermanence and unpleasantness of our work. I wonder if I, seeking the job out specifically for those qualities, will be more resistant to it than most. My more experienced coworkers coming to resent the residents of the campus makes intuitive sense to me as the job puts us in inherent opposition to everyone around us. The tempting illusion that our work would be so much easier, much less accomplishable, if only everyone would just go away. However as it stands the work is never done, there is always something to clean or clean more throughly and everything we do is undone often in front of our eyes.
Class and my schedule in general is feeling more manageable as I get more used to it, its been a while since I've never had nothing to do.
My Job is going great, I got up close and personal with a couple of toilets today. Somehow one or more of the users of one of the toilets managed to piss behind it in a way where to get a strait line from a crotch to the space would involve the same great amount of creativity and disregard for the sharp pokey toilet roll dispenser required to clean it... Apparently on my first day some freshmen boys in D dorm managed to clog a toilet the week before and didn't call anyone (figuring themselves in trouble or something?) however they did continue to piss in it causing a tremendous stench that was eventually reported by neighbors and responded to by one of my friends.
I have also been struck be a peculiar variety of cynicism that seems to get stronger with more experience with the job; I think it stems almost entirely from the inherent impermanence and unpleasantness of our work. I wonder if I, seeking the job out specifically for those qualities, will be more resistant to it than most. My more experienced coworkers coming to resent the residents of the campus makes intuitive sense to me as the job puts us in inherent opposition to everyone around us. The tempting illusion that our work would be so much easier, much less accomplishable, if only everyone would just go away. However as it stands the work is never done, there is always something to clean or clean more throughly and everything we do is undone often in front of our eyes.
Class and my schedule in general is feeling more manageable as I get more used to it, its been a while since I've never had nothing to do.