Yes, the first week of school is done, for me.
I was, so I thought, ready on Sunday night after putting my digital note tablet in my messenger bag; packed up my food, for quick dinner between classes, and put in the fridge; ordered the tool & supply kit for Beginning Metals; and put my tool box with other tools & supplies in the trunk of my car.
I decided to buy the kit so I don't have to haul tools back and forth to class, that's why I bought it. The items in my tool box were my prescription safety glasses, other small tools I like to use, extra pens and pencils, rubber cement, Loctite, flux brushes and more. I planned on getting to the Art building well before class and sign up for a locker on the first floor, where my classes were, and then after my last class, on the drive home swing into the teacher parking lot and put the tool box into my locker. Ahhh, the best laid plans... this year instead of filling out an online form with the locker we want and then immediately putting our stuff in it NOW we filled in an online form and waited to hear back with our locker number. Well, I was assigned a locker on the SECOND FLOOR and wrote back to the person doing the work and requested that it be changed. I did not hear back by the time I was ready to go home so I was not able to get the toolbox out of the car.
But let's backup and talk about the buses, parking, and getting onto campus. What a CF!
First while driving onto campus I was caught behind on bus that broke down and the Police were directing the traffic around it because the bus was blocking an intersection. Then a second bus side swiped a pickup truck and the police were there too doing there thing. I arrived at the main main commuter lot at 10:30 and it was full so I headed over to the stadium lots and they were almost full and did not want to spend a lot of time looking and so I headed over to the Bobcat Village on Mill Street lot. Yes there were lots of car but I found a spot easily, parked and went to the pickup spot. A bus soon arrived but when exiting the lot we stopped and had to wait because the road to turn right on was now closed for utility work and the driver could not proceed until the dispatcher told him the new route. While waiting 2 people wanted to get off since they were now late for class and wanted to walk (the walk was going to be over 1.5 miles to campu) which the driver was not allowed to do. When we did finally move and got to the next stop there were sooo many students they couldn't all board. Finally I arrived at the student center.
Since my last class let out at 7:50 pm and I was in the far lot I had to take the late bus back. These buses make some additional stop and do not run as often. By the time I got home it was 9pm.
I was tired so I had a cuppa tea and went to bed. Welcome to the semester.
I was, so I thought, ready on Sunday night after putting my digital note tablet in my messenger bag; packed up my food, for quick dinner between classes, and put in the fridge; ordered the tool & supply kit for Beginning Metals; and put my tool box with other tools & supplies in the trunk of my car.
I decided to buy the kit so I don't have to haul tools back and forth to class, that's why I bought it. The items in my tool box were my prescription safety glasses, other small tools I like to use, extra pens and pencils, rubber cement, Loctite, flux brushes and more. I planned on getting to the Art building well before class and sign up for a locker on the first floor, where my classes were, and then after my last class, on the drive home swing into the teacher parking lot and put the tool box into my locker. Ahhh, the best laid plans... this year instead of filling out an online form with the locker we want and then immediately putting our stuff in it NOW we filled in an online form and waited to hear back with our locker number. Well, I was assigned a locker on the SECOND FLOOR and wrote back to the person doing the work and requested that it be changed. I did not hear back by the time I was ready to go home so I was not able to get the toolbox out of the car.
But let's backup and talk about the buses, parking, and getting onto campus. What a CF!
First while driving onto campus I was caught behind on bus that broke down and the Police were directing the traffic around it because the bus was blocking an intersection. Then a second bus side swiped a pickup truck and the police were there too doing there thing. I arrived at the main main commuter lot at 10:30 and it was full so I headed over to the stadium lots and they were almost full and did not want to spend a lot of time looking and so I headed over to the Bobcat Village on Mill Street lot. Yes there were lots of car but I found a spot easily, parked and went to the pickup spot. A bus soon arrived but when exiting the lot we stopped and had to wait because the road to turn right on was now closed for utility work and the driver could not proceed until the dispatcher told him the new route. While waiting 2 people wanted to get off since they were now late for class and wanted to walk (the walk was going to be over 1.5 miles to campu) which the driver was not allowed to do. When we did finally move and got to the next stop there were sooo many students they couldn't all board. Finally I arrived at the student center.
Since my last class let out at 7:50 pm and I was in the far lot I had to take the late bus back. These buses make some additional stop and do not run as often. By the time I got home it was 9pm.
I was tired so I had a cuppa tea and went to bed. Welcome to the semester.
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