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Gotta Save Them All
Jul. 13th, 2011 01:05 amThis is a challenging week.
The boss' dog has been left down here again, and I didn't realize it until it was too late. Usually when he's left near the school, he keeps a good amount of people up by barking incessantly at the night-life until he gets too tired. I lock him in the office to counter-balance that, but… well, I'm the only one who does that. And I'm only one guy.
Taking Sundays off is a bad idea. All sorts of shit starts to happen. Not doing it again; would rather just grin and bear it, or get permission to take off friday evenings.
Maybe I can get a bike ride in today. Lower back was killing me.
My hard drive is gone. All my data. The idiots at the computer store accidentally destroyed it in one of the most ridiculous mix-ups ever. They've literally changed store policy based on this one fuck-up, but still… all my history is gone. All the logs, all the writing, all the music, all the games. Put me in a bad mood right away, especially since they were the very same guys I got the defective external hard drive from. If they hadn't sold a shitty hard drive, my files would've been backed up; this wouldn't have happened.
I wish I had taken the time to back up my files on mom's hard drive. Ugh. I knew I should have.
Feeling lonely and alienated. Living in a camp that's perpetually bug-infested and falling apart. Wanted to go to bed early today, but it's been a REALLY, REALLY sour relationship between the mentors and students this week. Two kids were apparently going to run off to the forest without permission to sleep with each other, so they were camping out in the courtyard, waiting for them to go to sleep and making sure they don't run off, all the while noisily laughing about their "shitty groups" and complaining incessantly at way-above appropriate volumes for 11:30 in the evening. Opted to stay up in their place to keep an eye on things; and now I'm in bed at quarter past 1, but at least I defused the situation.
I think part of the problem I have with the mentors and tech staff, and they vice versa, is that I know I won't always take their side. I'm not in on the group that way… when they started pranking an extremely disliked staff member and moving around her stuff, I came out to the staff member and told them they were pranking her, if only so she could make the decision to leave for good. I know I pretty much ruined their fun on that level.
Not to mention how they often have worse cleaning habits than the students; when I have to clean up their teacups and their plates or get a kitchen volunteer to do it, and then when I have to grin and feel EMBARRASSED for them when the kids remark how irresponsible the staff-members can be…
It's not a good situation, and I don't know how to broach the subject. It's not exactly in my job description, is it? Whatever that job description is now.
God. I just want to sleep in today.
Going to bed.
The boss' dog has been left down here again, and I didn't realize it until it was too late. Usually when he's left near the school, he keeps a good amount of people up by barking incessantly at the night-life until he gets too tired. I lock him in the office to counter-balance that, but… well, I'm the only one who does that. And I'm only one guy.
Taking Sundays off is a bad idea. All sorts of shit starts to happen. Not doing it again; would rather just grin and bear it, or get permission to take off friday evenings.
Maybe I can get a bike ride in today. Lower back was killing me.
My hard drive is gone. All my data. The idiots at the computer store accidentally destroyed it in one of the most ridiculous mix-ups ever. They've literally changed store policy based on this one fuck-up, but still… all my history is gone. All the logs, all the writing, all the music, all the games. Put me in a bad mood right away, especially since they were the very same guys I got the defective external hard drive from. If they hadn't sold a shitty hard drive, my files would've been backed up; this wouldn't have happened.
I wish I had taken the time to back up my files on mom's hard drive. Ugh. I knew I should have.
Feeling lonely and alienated. Living in a camp that's perpetually bug-infested and falling apart. Wanted to go to bed early today, but it's been a REALLY, REALLY sour relationship between the mentors and students this week. Two kids were apparently going to run off to the forest without permission to sleep with each other, so they were camping out in the courtyard, waiting for them to go to sleep and making sure they don't run off, all the while noisily laughing about their "shitty groups" and complaining incessantly at way-above appropriate volumes for 11:30 in the evening. Opted to stay up in their place to keep an eye on things; and now I'm in bed at quarter past 1, but at least I defused the situation.
I think part of the problem I have with the mentors and tech staff, and they vice versa, is that I know I won't always take their side. I'm not in on the group that way… when they started pranking an extremely disliked staff member and moving around her stuff, I came out to the staff member and told them they were pranking her, if only so she could make the decision to leave for good. I know I pretty much ruined their fun on that level.
Not to mention how they often have worse cleaning habits than the students; when I have to clean up their teacups and their plates or get a kitchen volunteer to do it, and then when I have to grin and feel EMBARRASSED for them when the kids remark how irresponsible the staff-members can be…
It's not a good situation, and I don't know how to broach the subject. It's not exactly in my job description, is it? Whatever that job description is now.
God. I just want to sleep in today.
Going to bed.