Taking Care of Business... and Working Overtime
This is as close as I've come to physically running myself into the ground, perhaps, ever. I've been working 16hour days and sleeping on average 4 hours a night to fit the re-model hours at Club CC. It's nuts. I usually take the 2-hour break and use it wisely in a powernap, but I opted to look into something and check my email instead. Now I'll pay until I finally leave 'round midnight. I am delrious, though. My shift is going to be a diaster and I am slipping. Two more days of this craziness, a typical work-filled weekend later, and then finally relief in the form of a day off on Monday. But the money is good and I am taking it right down to the wire -- giving my two weeks notice tomorrow and then moving to Madison with lots of overtime cashola in my pocket. Like most things that seem grating at first, I admit now that there will be some faces from this crew that I'll miss, even if I won't soon be longing for my days at the greasy public's beckon call.
Every day, books from my most-recent Amazon spree arrive. The essential library for a film grad student (titles recommended by someone in the know) and they are piled up on the desk here beside me, taunting me. I am longing for the days of assignments, reading, and packed end to end with new ideas. Not to completely over romanticize my lifestyle - but there isn't much fantasy in my every day right now and I am craving long days that don't feel like taxing, exhausting long days...
Back to the trudgery. I've logged in 42 hours in 3 days. 7 more to go before quitting time this calendar day.
posted by lmjasinski at 3:09 PM
