the job, two days in + miscellaneous

Note regarding world events: I don't have anything to say that hasn't been said already, or linked to by others. Am working on doing what I can financially and on trying to think of anything else I can do-- it's rather frustrating, because I can't even give blood (my tattoo is too recent). I will probably follow yhlee's excellent lead and sign up for fandom_charity, and hopefully this will at least be something.

I've completed training for the job. It's going to be fine as long as I work half-days, or have at least a day between whole-day shifts to rest; basically either opening or closing exhausts me, so I shouldn't do them both on one day. Having pulled my first shift while I was off my meds due to a now-thankfully-fixed prescription-transferral snafu probably didn't help, but my second day did not leave me wiped out. I think it's a good job as far as amount of work and responsibility and supervision, too-- in other words, this is a one-person store, I do everything myself while I'm there (customer service, cleaning, stocking), but it's absolutely tiny, doesn't sell too many products, and doesn't have somebody breathing down my neck every minute. In fact, I only talk to my boss twice a day on the phone, to clock in and clock out. I can live with that. ^_^ I don't think I could put up with the job indefinitely, but it'll be a good way to increase stamina for grad school, and the bread is very good. Also, it's very part-time, which I need, and I think will help me work up to a better job.

It looks like I'm probably going to be doing Tuesdays and Thursdays for a while, in, um, some mess of shifts or other. I'll keep people posted as I know, but Management does not seem to believe in scheduling terribly far in advance. If you want to drop by and see me, you should probably mention ahead of time so I can tell you whether I'll be there. If you happen to be randomly in the area, I'm the girl with the blue hair and the nose ring. I recommend the azuki cream bun, the custard cream, and the an-pan and would advise you against the chocolate croissant.

I promise to be more interesting later (and am in fact STILL working on a wedding entry), but the meds stop-and-restart, the new job, my inability to cope with most everything on the news, and some domestic tension have combined to leave me grindingly exhausted, and I have not really been on LJ much, especially since it counts a source of news. For now, ( have a BPAL review. )

the job, two days in + miscellaneous

Note regarding world events: I don't have anything to say that hasn't been said already, or linked to by others. Am working on doing what I can financially and on trying to think of anything else I can do-- it's rather frustrating, because I can't even give blood (my tattoo is too recent). I will probably follow yhlee's excellent lead and sign up for fandom_charity, and hopefully this will at least be something.

I've completed training for the job. It's going to be fine as long as I work half-days, or have at least a day between whole-day shifts to rest; basically either opening or closing exhausts me, so I shouldn't do them both on one day. Having pulled my first shift while I was off my meds due to a now-thankfully-fixed prescription-transferral snafu probably didn't help, but my second day did not leave me wiped out. I think it's a good job as far as amount of work and responsibility and supervision, too-- in other words, this is a one-person store, I do everything myself while I'm there (customer service, cleaning, stocking), but it's absolutely tiny, doesn't sell too many products, and doesn't have somebody breathing down my neck every minute. In fact, I only talk to my boss twice a day on the phone, to clock in and clock out. I can live with that. ^_^ I don't think I could put up with the job indefinitely, but it'll be a good way to increase stamina for grad school, and the bread is very good. Also, it's very part-time, which I need, and I think will help me work up to a better job.

It looks like I'm probably going to be doing Tuesdays and Thursdays for a while, in, um, some mess of shifts or other. I'll keep people posted as I know, but Management does not seem to believe in scheduling terribly far in advance. If you want to drop by and see me, you should probably mention ahead of time so I can tell you whether I'll be there. If you happen to be randomly in the area, I'm the girl with the blue hair and the nose ring. I recommend the azuki cream bun, the custard cream, and the an-pan and would advise you against the chocolate croissant.

I promise to be more interesting later (and am in fact STILL working on a wedding entry), but the meds stop-and-restart, the new job, my inability to cope with most everything on the news, and some domestic tension have combined to leave me grindingly exhausted, and I have not really been on LJ much, especially since it counts a source of news. For now, ( have a BPAL review. )