not too much going on...
this has been a very quiet week. my work schedule is compressed to where i work five 10-hour shifts over the course of four days. (the first of these five starts late in the day. each shift then starts progressively earlier, so that by the end of my workweek i am on the earliest shift.) the flipside of this is that when i get to my days off, i have 72 hours away from the store! so two days off effectively becomes three. while i am working, it's all-consuming and difficult to plan around. but when i am off, it's like a mini vacation. i'll see how it goes for awhile and report back.
this time around it was good, as tony and i were able to spend the majority of the time together, except for him going to work. we had dinner with some friends of his on two nights, as well as he and i sharing a quiet dinner alone one night. i also got loads of laundry done, some cooking in, my house picked up and a visit with my sister. so i WAS able to pack alot in to my time. i also feel like i am better prepared this week for the sustained burst of work that i have coming up. it is not a good idea for me to try to plan activities on nights off when i only have a 9 or 10 hour turnaround. i'll save that for when i have 12 hours away. it's still a bit tight, but at least i can get more than 4 or 5 hours of sleep.
the arrival of my alumni magazine offered a pleasant surprise. there was a major article about the gay student group on campus, Kaleidoscope. this is the continuing legacy of a group which i helped to start back in the early eighties, when i was a senior. they have recently revised their mission statement and raised their profile on campus. the story is a far cry from the quiet meetings of 6 or 7 folks, held in a basement room when we were getting started. my hat is off to these young men and women and the work they are doing!
we are having some wonderfuly cool weather. everyone is wearing long pants and jackets. this is the second time this summer that this is happening and i love it. i much prefer this to the endless heat that you cannot escape. at least with cool weather you can cover up. when it's so unbearably hot and you are out of the a/c you are simply at the mercy of the weather.
as i said, this has been a pretty boring week,.....
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this time around it was good, as tony and i were able to spend the majority of the time together, except for him going to work. we had dinner with some friends of his on two nights, as well as he and i sharing a quiet dinner alone one night. i also got loads of laundry done, some cooking in, my house picked up and a visit with my sister. so i WAS able to pack alot in to my time. i also feel like i am better prepared this week for the sustained burst of work that i have coming up. it is not a good idea for me to try to plan activities on nights off when i only have a 9 or 10 hour turnaround. i'll save that for when i have 12 hours away. it's still a bit tight, but at least i can get more than 4 or 5 hours of sleep.
the arrival of my alumni magazine offered a pleasant surprise. there was a major article about the gay student group on campus, Kaleidoscope. this is the continuing legacy of a group which i helped to start back in the early eighties, when i was a senior. they have recently revised their mission statement and raised their profile on campus. the story is a far cry from the quiet meetings of 6 or 7 folks, held in a basement room when we were getting started. my hat is off to these young men and women and the work they are doing!
we are having some wonderfuly cool weather. everyone is wearing long pants and jackets. this is the second time this summer that this is happening and i love it. i much prefer this to the endless heat that you cannot escape. at least with cool weather you can cover up. when it's so unbearably hot and you are out of the a/c you are simply at the mercy of the weather.
as i said, this has been a pretty boring week,.....
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