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well talk about snatching victory from the jaws of defeat
as you may have remember from yesterday's whinge, i had the whole worry about the music books weighing over me. thing is with my boss chris, he can vary wildly in how he's going to react to stuff like the sudden appearance of hundreds of tatty music books clogging up his library and after my entry yesterday i began to - as is my wont - panic and feel sorry for myself and generally head into my customary self pity which has been happening a lot at work this last week or so (i blame undue tiredness and need for a holiday - so huzzah tomorrow!). but sometime after my lunch was interrupted by a huge digger (don't ask) i decided to take the matter into my own hands and tracked down the head of music and asked if she wanted to take a look
well frankly she didn't want to bother coming to the library, but was more than happy for me to dump the stuff in the music library and she could look later on. so foresaking the obvious getting a porter to do it, because i felt somehow that i'd cocked up enough with regards to the poor porters when it came to underestimating exactly how many books were there for collection i should leave them in peace, i decided to move ten heavy boxes of books all by myself using nothing but a trolley to assist me
oh dear
now sarah will tell you happily i struggle to even steer a shopping trolley, let alone a huge trolley heavily laden with books. but to be honest the steerage wasn't so much a problem first trip down - what was the problem was that the pathways had all been dug up for the new disabled access and so the route to the music department ended up being slightly bonkers due to the lack at important times of things like a path where one had been the day before. ugh. still managed the first trolley load
next trolley load though i packed up the huge trolley, with wire mesh covering the sides to take the boxes through the music building because that way i'd avoid the worries of there being no paths. except the problem with this trolley wasn't steering again (not a problem) but if anything that it steered too well. i'd forget how much was in the ruddy thing and let the trolley have a life all of its own - so i'd suddenly find a slope and realise the trolley was very VERY fast catching up with me and about to overtake me. this was even harder going through the building because it is entirely on a slope and the trolley seemed determined to gouge out huge chunks of wall on its merry way
THIRD attempt i managed to find a far better route round the side of the building, although again i had the problem of it wanting to attack me and the added bonus of this route being on the side of a three or four foot dip down to the ground outside the theatre and the trolley being REALLY keen to have a look. still, i got to the building far less painlelssly, opened the door and...
well let's just say by letting go of the trolley to open the door i was very nearly faced by a trolley about to fly down the slope towards the three or four foot drop (if i was lucky) and if unlucky see it head towards the windows to the theatre which would have been EVEN BY MY STANDARDS sodding bad luck of a grand nature. i managed to catch it and bring it inside and quickly unpacked it so it would behave - which went okay apart from the heaviest box suddenly giving way under the weight of the books and exploding over the music library four
oops. thankfully the fourth trolley load was an undramatic affair, and despite shedding half my bodyweight in sweat, the job was done. i told the head of music and - thank the lord - she was over the moon. she loved them, especially the sheet music and i've given her the contact details of the woman at the college we got them from in case she wants to get the rest of it. only proviso being the whole in case SHE wants to get the rest of it. i wash my hands of the whole thing
this will probably be my last major mail for the next couple of weeks - i may post occasionally when out in america with doubtfulme but i'm sure you'll understand if i'm distracted! hope all goes well with the lot of you and speak to you - and see some of you! - soon! TTFN!
as you may have remember from yesterday's whinge, i had the whole worry about the music books weighing over me. thing is with my boss chris, he can vary wildly in how he's going to react to stuff like the sudden appearance of hundreds of tatty music books clogging up his library and after my entry yesterday i began to - as is my wont - panic and feel sorry for myself and generally head into my customary self pity which has been happening a lot at work this last week or so (i blame undue tiredness and need for a holiday - so huzzah tomorrow!). but sometime after my lunch was interrupted by a huge digger (don't ask) i decided to take the matter into my own hands and tracked down the head of music and asked if she wanted to take a look
well frankly she didn't want to bother coming to the library, but was more than happy for me to dump the stuff in the music library and she could look later on. so foresaking the obvious getting a porter to do it, because i felt somehow that i'd cocked up enough with regards to the poor porters when it came to underestimating exactly how many books were there for collection i should leave them in peace, i decided to move ten heavy boxes of books all by myself using nothing but a trolley to assist me
oh dear
now sarah will tell you happily i struggle to even steer a shopping trolley, let alone a huge trolley heavily laden with books. but to be honest the steerage wasn't so much a problem first trip down - what was the problem was that the pathways had all been dug up for the new disabled access and so the route to the music department ended up being slightly bonkers due to the lack at important times of things like a path where one had been the day before. ugh. still managed the first trolley load
next trolley load though i packed up the huge trolley, with wire mesh covering the sides to take the boxes through the music building because that way i'd avoid the worries of there being no paths. except the problem with this trolley wasn't steering again (not a problem) but if anything that it steered too well. i'd forget how much was in the ruddy thing and let the trolley have a life all of its own - so i'd suddenly find a slope and realise the trolley was very VERY fast catching up with me and about to overtake me. this was even harder going through the building because it is entirely on a slope and the trolley seemed determined to gouge out huge chunks of wall on its merry way
THIRD attempt i managed to find a far better route round the side of the building, although again i had the problem of it wanting to attack me and the added bonus of this route being on the side of a three or four foot dip down to the ground outside the theatre and the trolley being REALLY keen to have a look. still, i got to the building far less painlelssly, opened the door and...
well let's just say by letting go of the trolley to open the door i was very nearly faced by a trolley about to fly down the slope towards the three or four foot drop (if i was lucky) and if unlucky see it head towards the windows to the theatre which would have been EVEN BY MY STANDARDS sodding bad luck of a grand nature. i managed to catch it and bring it inside and quickly unpacked it so it would behave - which went okay apart from the heaviest box suddenly giving way under the weight of the books and exploding over the music library four
oops. thankfully the fourth trolley load was an undramatic affair, and despite shedding half my bodyweight in sweat, the job was done. i told the head of music and - thank the lord - she was over the moon. she loved them, especially the sheet music and i've given her the contact details of the woman at the college we got them from in case she wants to get the rest of it. only proviso being the whole in case SHE wants to get the rest of it. i wash my hands of the whole thing
this will probably be my last major mail for the next couple of weeks - i may post occasionally when out in america with doubtfulme but i'm sure you'll understand if i'm distracted! hope all goes well with the lot of you and speak to you - and see some of you! - soon! TTFN!