Resume workshop and a shopping cart

So today I did a few exciting things. It started off with fetching a few things from upstairs (yippee, stair-climbing!) and then cleaning strip lights. I bruised my shin pretty good when I picked one up and it swung into my leg because the tilt wasn't tight. That was pretty cool. Then I helped focus a few lights and then it was break time! Woo! I'm in a silly mood tonight, I apologize. Anyway, after break I helped haul truss up to the mezzanine level using the chain motors, which is always exciting. We then cleaned some scrollers. I watched my coworker lose her cleaning paper towel (which she had just minutes before told me to hold onto tightly when doing this) lose her pape rtowel in the scroller roll as she lost her grip and it rolled up. It was kind of funny because it moves really fast and there is nothing you can do once you lose it but turn it off and move the scrollers back manually. She lost it at the beginning of the scroll, so it took a while to get it back. Their scrollers are really cool because they have 2 color scrolls so you can mix to create colors. I throughly enjoyed playing with the handy little color wheel that it comes with. Color mixing never ceases to amaze me.

After lunch I returned to the shop and started wrapping LED christmas lights around a shopping cart, or as it may happen to be, the "pinball machine" in Tommy. I felt pretty awesome, lol. That took me quite some time so I ended up spending most of my post-lunch/pre-2nd break time working on that. I returned briefly after 2nd break to staple some lights to the empty picture frame before bustin' out the portfolio. I showed it to my supervisors, which turned out to be both good practice and very helpful. We also looked over my resume before I headed to the intern resume workshop at 5:15. It was supposed to end around 7, but I ended up staying almost 45 minutes late because I wanted to share my portfolio with the woman running the session, who happens to be the one who does almost all of the hiring at CTC. It was great and I took notes, even on stuff I thought I should already know but just really wanted to remember.

I'm currently waiting for my aunt to get home. I called her at 7:45 and she said she'd be home in a half hour. I'm not surprised that it is already 9:00 and she isn't here. She's usually late for most things (though not work, I would imagine. I don't really know). My plans for the evening are to watch Big Brother (again, because I'm cool like that) and then to focus on sound research for my honors project because I have a hard time focusing on that, unlike with lighting research. I tend to get carried away with lighting research and end up doing it for hours at a time. Sound research ends up boring me or I forget to pay attention to the music I have playing in the background (I've got some Debussy playing right now, but I don't think it is what I'm looking for. Too mellow thus far). Otherwise I've just been chillin', drinking some blue moon and eating the nasty Subway I got from one connected to a gas station at 8:00. I know, terrible idea. But it sounded good until I saw the lettuce and tomatoes. I dubbed them too nasty to eat and settled for the hard cucumbers and dried out green peppers. The spinach was the only thing that tasted okay, other than the chicken. I don't really want to talk about it any more.

So that was my overly exciting day. I'm not certain yet if I'm going to bring my laptop to my other aunt's apartment in Fargo this weekend. If I don't, I probably won't blog until Monday when I return. After tomorrow, I don't work again until Tuesday.