hey guys--work and such things.
Yes, I know that I haven't posted in awhile...mostly because a. I don't have internet at my apartment and b. have the time to sit in front of the pc. There's so many people that I'd like to email, but since I usually end up treating e-mails like real letters, that usually means I don't end up spending the time to email all that many people either, as i don't feel like I can devote the proper amount of time to a decent newsy missive. Then again, there's some people that I've been meaning to send a snail mail letter to as well...
Work has been pretty busy lately--mostly because of the Canadian tourists. This is the first time that the American dollar has been so weak that the Canadian one is at par in about thirty years. So, thanks to the Canucks we made plan the whole weekend! Wha hoo.
We offered a 40% DVD box set coupon at work last week Monday and Tuesday. So, I took it and bought myself a copy of Firefly and saved 20 bucks. I'm well on my way to becoming obsessed and can't decide who I'm crushing on more, Alan Tudyke or Nathan Fillion.
So, on Saturday evening I got paid to stand around and look stupid for about a half an hour outside of my store as we checked out the cute firemen. At least this time it wasn't microwave popcorn that called the fire department to Borders. Sometime around 8:30PM we started to smell the sort of odor that one finds when electrical appliances/wires are burning, and it persisted until the manager (with the most authority) on duty called the fire department. And when that happens, its company policy to evacuate the store. You gotta love the obnoxious tourist who wants to buy about forty dollars worth of merchandise as the store is being evacuated. Excuse me, i don't want to suffer smoke inhalation because you want to take this crap back to Canada. But of course, Forks Company. #2 couldn't find anything, and we just looked stupid from 10-10:30PM. The really surprising thing was how many people stayed around in our parking lot the whole entire time--if I had been evacuated from a store, I would've either gone home or off to a bar or coffee shop, the only other types of businesses that are open that late in the evening.
Just thought I'd remind everybody--my birthday is coming up in less than two weeks.
Anybody going to Homecoming this year?
Will the Buffalo Bills please stop getting ridiculously injured?! And please please actually keep a lead when they've got one--first quarter or not.
Last week I sent off my resume and a cover letter to the Buffalo and Erie County Museum of Science and to the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society. I'm alittle embarassed to admit that these are the first real cover letters that I've ever had to write. Which means that I got really nervous about both positions, put off sending out those two pieces of paper, and then obsessed about them for two and a half hours when I did try to write them. The position at BECHS is for an admissions/sales clerk in the gift shop, and the Science Museum was looking for a student assistant to help with fund raisers and other special events for the fall, so I'd be qualified for both positions. With my luck, they've been filled already, but we'll see. I'm going to call at the end of the week, just to follow up...and I also wrote up some generic cover letters for some of the other history museums in the area, and am planning on sending them out soon--my supervisor at my internship never had a Master's degree, so maybe I can get a position without one as well.
I guess that they only really interesting thing that I've done in the past month is to take a trip to the Griffis Sculpture Park in Cattaraugus County. I had happened to have the day after Labor Day off of work, and it was absolutely gorgeous outside--70 and sunny--and I wanted somewhere new to hike. I had heard about it before, but never actually went to the Sculpture Park, and after going online, found out that what it actually is is a 400acre nature preserve that a local sculpture artist acquired as an open air art museum.
http://griffispark.org/ahf/
http://www.griffispark.org/ahf/?page_id=16
I got some really cool pictures--and they're on my cell phone. Stuck in eletronic limbo. Oh well. I think that what I really found fascinating about the site was that it was so interactive. These were all museum quality pieces, and people were not only allowed to touch them, but they were also encouraged to touch them. What better way to get children and families and cynical twentysomethings excited about art?!
Work has been pretty busy lately--mostly because of the Canadian tourists. This is the first time that the American dollar has been so weak that the Canadian one is at par in about thirty years. So, thanks to the Canucks we made plan the whole weekend! Wha hoo.
We offered a 40% DVD box set coupon at work last week Monday and Tuesday. So, I took it and bought myself a copy of Firefly and saved 20 bucks. I'm well on my way to becoming obsessed and can't decide who I'm crushing on more, Alan Tudyke or Nathan Fillion.
So, on Saturday evening I got paid to stand around and look stupid for about a half an hour outside of my store as we checked out the cute firemen. At least this time it wasn't microwave popcorn that called the fire department to Borders. Sometime around 8:30PM we started to smell the sort of odor that one finds when electrical appliances/wires are burning, and it persisted until the manager (with the most authority) on duty called the fire department. And when that happens, its company policy to evacuate the store. You gotta love the obnoxious tourist who wants to buy about forty dollars worth of merchandise as the store is being evacuated. Excuse me, i don't want to suffer smoke inhalation because you want to take this crap back to Canada. But of course, Forks Company. #2 couldn't find anything, and we just looked stupid from 10-10:30PM. The really surprising thing was how many people stayed around in our parking lot the whole entire time--if I had been evacuated from a store, I would've either gone home or off to a bar or coffee shop, the only other types of businesses that are open that late in the evening.
Just thought I'd remind everybody--my birthday is coming up in less than two weeks.
Anybody going to Homecoming this year?
Will the Buffalo Bills please stop getting ridiculously injured?! And please please actually keep a lead when they've got one--first quarter or not.
Last week I sent off my resume and a cover letter to the Buffalo and Erie County Museum of Science and to the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society. I'm alittle embarassed to admit that these are the first real cover letters that I've ever had to write. Which means that I got really nervous about both positions, put off sending out those two pieces of paper, and then obsessed about them for two and a half hours when I did try to write them. The position at BECHS is for an admissions/sales clerk in the gift shop, and the Science Museum was looking for a student assistant to help with fund raisers and other special events for the fall, so I'd be qualified for both positions. With my luck, they've been filled already, but we'll see. I'm going to call at the end of the week, just to follow up...and I also wrote up some generic cover letters for some of the other history museums in the area, and am planning on sending them out soon--my supervisor at my internship never had a Master's degree, so maybe I can get a position without one as well.
I guess that they only really interesting thing that I've done in the past month is to take a trip to the Griffis Sculpture Park in Cattaraugus County. I had happened to have the day after Labor Day off of work, and it was absolutely gorgeous outside--70 and sunny--and I wanted somewhere new to hike. I had heard about it before, but never actually went to the Sculpture Park, and after going online, found out that what it actually is is a 400acre nature preserve that a local sculpture artist acquired as an open air art museum.
http://griffispark.org/ahf/
http://www.griffispark.org/ahf/?page_id=16
I got some really cool pictures--and they're on my cell phone. Stuck in eletronic limbo. Oh well. I think that what I really found fascinating about the site was that it was so interactive. These were all museum quality pieces, and people were not only allowed to touch them, but they were also encouraged to touch them. What better way to get children and families and cynical twentysomethings excited about art?!