8/4/2018

What have I been watching?:  The Office
What have I been reading?:   Beatrice and Virgil
Last movie I watched: Mamma Mia 2

Another long work week for me.  Scheduled a total of 52 hours at Culver's, and 6 hours of tour-giving on my one day off from Culver's.  It's gone by smooth enough, I suppose, and the prospect of 12+ hours of overtime is sweet. 

Yesterday, Friday, was my second day as a university tour guide.  My first tour went surprisingly well.  Members of the tour were friendly, smiley, and responsive.  At the end of the tour, several of them told me I'd done a great job and thanked me.  My second tour group was much more unresponsive.  They asked no questions, gave little indication that they were alive (let alone enjoying the tour), and stared at me with blank, uninterested faces.  Although one kind woman did approach me at the end of the tour to inform me that a large bug had been clinging to my jeans for a while.  The tours are a bit tiring.  We walk a swift loop of campus, entering most of the academic buildings and viewing a residence hall and a staged dorm room.  Each tour takes about an hour, during which I am, ideally, not supposed to stop talking. 

Once finished with tour-giving, I had a hastened gym session (some good work on my back), and returned to my place to meet up with my sister and her boyfriend Richard for the rest of the day.  Richard had called me the day before to see if they could visit me spontaneously the next day.  We initially were considering making a trip to the Mall of America, but ended up going to the outlets in Eagan instead.  None of us had been there before, but it ended up being a good decision because it seemed generally less expensive than the Mall of America and had a lot of nice brands.  I got a nice pair of lounge sweatpants from Converse and an O'Neill long sleeve shirt from Tilly's.  We could have spent more time shopping, but Katie and Richard couldn't stay visiting too late.  So we finished our visit with some Chinese food in the food court, and they went back home that night.

Despite only working an 8 hour shift today and getting plenty of sleep last night, I felt absolutely beat for the last couple hours at work.  I made my way back home and changed into my new comfy sweats, planning to head to the gym after doing a load of laundry, having a meal, and relaxing a bit.  I then checked the gym hours and *facepalm* the gym closed at 4.  So, I will just stay in for the rest of the evening.  I've restarted watching The Office, so I've been entertaining myself with that.  I've watched it an obscene number of times, but its always very comforting to return to it. 

I'm really looking forward to the new semester starting up, new classes, the familiar hustle and bustle (if you can even really call it that) of campus.  It's been a pretty good summer.  I had a great vacation in South Carolina, got promoted, have saved a bit of money, and have cultivated some travel ideas for the upcoming year.  Hopefully they will come to fruition.