Little Miracles

Thank heavens for those.  The supervisor who saw me whack my head took it easy on me yesterday so I didn't have further trouble doing my job.  Granted, it was still a long day.  We cleaned out the drains at the base of the bleachers on the east side.  The problem with those is the sand that runs out from under them, and gathers in the drains.  Forms a very effective barrier.  Then leaves and such get stuck under there (we found an old water bottle in there!).  Took us over three hours to get it clear enough for the water to flow, but it's still got stuff in there.
Then we got to run around the track with a hose to clean off the gunk that landed there while cleaning.  Nobody wanted to get wet, though it was a very nice day.
Have two assignments for today.  The first is creating a game flyer for my computer class (that's not too hard) then redo my report so I can actually get credit for it.
That and try not to go insane, which my mom thinks I will if I take summer classes with my current job.

Ow...

Yesterday we painted the fields for the hammer throw and javelin events in a track meet tomorrow.  While getting something for a supervisor I whacked my head on the underside of the bleachers where the paint supplies are kept.  Not too bad, but it gave me a headache for a while.
No rain today, and rather nice in temperature.  I can redo a rather poorly done assignment, and so my save my grade for that class. Yes!

Argh...

The only downside to having a full time job (only counts as part time due to it being seasonal) is there is never time for school work.  This is the first time since I started school where I've had to stay up late to get things done.  I hate that.  It makes for sloppy work and I'm trying to get good grades this semester!
Thankfully my strong start has kept my grades from going down the toilet, but they are slipping and I'm having to work really hard to stop them.
We got to clean the stadium the past two days.  Only problems were the wind being fickle and changing directions as we nearly completed one side.  All of us got dust in our eyes from that.  We also got to rake the sand pits for the track team, though they told us not to worry too much about it as they weren't a urgent concern.
Rained this morning, and it's warming up a bit.  The wind has finally died off-after we finished blowing off the bleachers of course.
One thing I can be thankful for: 'crazy' coworkers.  They keep life interesting at work, even if they try to make you snort water up your nose on break(yes they tried that yesterday-I choked instead).

Electronics

My supervisor told us in a meeting last week that texting, cell phones, and ipods are becoming the new smoking.  You see people walk out of class or work and pull out their phones.  I've seen coworkers stop work and spend several minutes texting before getting back to work.
It's kinda sad that these modern conveniences are turning into something much darker because people begin to abuse them.  Given my work hours and my personal decision not to text or listen to my ipod at work I can't do that.  Plus I don't want those new smart phones with the touch screens.  Touch screens of any kind don't like mew very much anyway.
We had a nasty wind storm last night and into this morning.  Snowed too, and got rather cold in the process.  Ironically, the snow stuck only in the areas where my job would be working: i.e. the grass and flowerbeds. Sigh.
On a brighter note, my personal trainer/cousin told me that I need to eat more.  Shocker, given how most of the time they want you to eat less, but in my case I'm maintaining, not trying to lose weight or anything.

Fertilizer

Those spreaders aren't very heavy by themselves, but you add the fertilizer pellets (grass seed doesn't weigh enough to bother about) and your arm starts dragging really fast.  We were laying that down on thursday because a storm was coming and it would help set the seed and fertilizer in the ground.  Then in rained all morning friday but stopped before I went to work.  Got attacked by one of those bushes with rather long thorns-those feel like a doctors needle.

Oh the Irony

Two of my coworkers and I were driving a truck to a work site yesterday and on the radio a 70's song was playing.  The ending line includes the words 'I Love You'.  That line played right as we parked the truck across the parking lot from a car which had the phrase I (heart symbol) You written on the rear window.  We spotted it at the same time it was spoken on the radio and burst out laughing from the irony.  Granted, just before that one of my coworkers teased the other that this was 'their song'.  So that added to the humor.  It was a complete joke, but the timing was funny.

Okay

When you tell your coworkers that you don't like swearing that can have different effects.  In my case they tried to censor themselves by changing the word or just not using it.  If you've watched Bill Cosby:Himself he states that trying that makes you sound like an idiot.  Given that they are making this effort for my sake, I can't find any of that.  I'm just grateful they  are willing to try.
Had a few accidents over the past week though.  First with a coworker holding open a bag and getting hit rather hard.  Then my dad was trying to hit moths and got my brother in a painful area.  Then yesterday a coworker got their fingers smashed while moving heavy picnic tables to be disassembled and refinished.  They got to go home early to ice said fingers.
I also got attacked by the lawnmowers on friday.  Bruised my arm and scratched my thumb trying to start one (this was a second use as the first went just fine) then scratched the back of my hand while trying to put the mower away.
It rained most of yesterday so we cleaned paint machines after cleaning out all the drains-so they wouldn't flood the road when clogged.