Friday Five #26
How are you planning to spend the summer [winter]?
This summer’s goals are finish up a couple stories I’m writing for
DargonZine, finding a new job,
and training for and completing my
third Pan-Mass Challenge, a 200-mile
charity bike ride to benefit cancer
research and treatment. If you’re interested in helping me reach my
fundraising goal, either email me or
go here.
What was your first summer job? When I was about fifteen I began working as a counselor at a YMCA day camp. My first year, I think I was paid $25. Later, I’d have my marriage ceremony at the same lakeside camp.
If you could go anywhere this summer [winter], where would you go? Probably Scotland. I’d really like to have more time to explore the countryside.
What was your worst vacation ever? I’m not sure it qualifies as a “vacation”, but the celebration at the end of the Staples project was the most dismal that I recall. The consultancy we worked at gave us a comp day, but it the weather was raw, windy, and rain-sodden. I spent more than two hours on a bus with my coworkers, some of whom were fine and some of whom were the kind of people you’d pay money to avoid. We were dumped off on a sleazy patch of slag near the ocean, and left for two or three hours to freeze in the rainstorm (yes, the bus left). When the bus finally returned to pick us up, someone had the wonderful idea that we could really cap this celebration off by going to a theater and all watching the tedious and formulaic X-Men movie before our two-hour bus ride home. Looking back on it, it was thoroughly painful and disheartening, and a truly pathetic way for our employer to thank us for the months of long hours the project had required.
What was your best vacation ever? I’d have to say it was last year’s Scotland Dargon Writers’ Summit. Twelve days driving around the country, sightseeing, accompanied by some of my closest friends.
What was your first summer job? When I was about fifteen I began working as a counselor at a YMCA day camp. My first year, I think I was paid $25. Later, I’d have my marriage ceremony at the same lakeside camp.
If you could go anywhere this summer [winter], where would you go? Probably Scotland. I’d really like to have more time to explore the countryside.
What was your worst vacation ever? I’m not sure it qualifies as a “vacation”, but the celebration at the end of the Staples project was the most dismal that I recall. The consultancy we worked at gave us a comp day, but it the weather was raw, windy, and rain-sodden. I spent more than two hours on a bus with my coworkers, some of whom were fine and some of whom were the kind of people you’d pay money to avoid. We were dumped off on a sleazy patch of slag near the ocean, and left for two or three hours to freeze in the rainstorm (yes, the bus left). When the bus finally returned to pick us up, someone had the wonderful idea that we could really cap this celebration off by going to a theater and all watching the tedious and formulaic X-Men movie before our two-hour bus ride home. Looking back on it, it was thoroughly painful and disheartening, and a truly pathetic way for our employer to thank us for the months of long hours the project had required.
What was your best vacation ever? I’d have to say it was last year’s Scotland Dargon Writers’ Summit. Twelve days driving around the country, sightseeing, accompanied by some of my closest friends.