adventures in babysitting.... um, i mean, mail-delivering

ahhhhh.... it's friday. and finally all of the assignments and exams that i was complaining about in my last blog are over. and being friday, i worked for 5 hours this afternoon. but this was no ordinary friday.

i got to work and i found out that the guy who normally delivers the courier mail wasn't coming in today. i'm not sure if he got the boot or if he just didn't feel like coming to work. (yes, he's done that before and one day he decided that he didn't feel like delivering one package so he didn't and as a result the recipient missed the deadline to a master's program). oh ya, i wasn't gonna gossip in my blogs except about myself. okay. so, I was the courier today. 7 packages to be delivered around campus, on foot, carrying a very awkward shaped bin that had handles on the long ends but is really too big for me to carry in front of me like that and is too wide to carry on my hip. and my, our campus is very large!

it took over an hour. but before you start feeling too sorry for me, allow me to tell you that while i was trekking across campus, i was not only getting paid for my usual 5 hours, but on top of that i was getting paid for the hike i was on. oh ya, and it's an automatic pay for 2 hours, no matter how long my adventure actually was. so i was making double time, or maybe even triple time, at work today for a bit.

the first place that i headed to, despite the fact that i had a map with me, i walked way too far. not sure how that happened. when i got to the building, i couldn't find a door. hmmmmm. then someone asked if i was lost and i asked how to get in and he showed me where to go so i was walking through this Research Plant trying to find the main office.
i discovered all sorts of weird places. I rode a very creepy-feeling elevator up to the economics department where everything felt.... i dunno, just weird. as i walked away i thought to myself how much i love the cleanness and brightness of the nursing building and how if nursing was in a building that felt as grungy as that, well, that would just be wrong somehow. okay maybe i'm just spoiled. i did ride another elevator in another unknown building and i'm positive you would not be able to squeeze 2 more people into it. even without my big bin.
now that i think of it, i almost couldn't find the door to the building that had the huge fluffy bison head on the wall (i wanted to touch it but i wasn't tall enough) and the crazy big trees. hmmm, where was i?
at one point on my journey i got a huge whiff of something rank. it smelled like i was driving past blumenort. mmmmmm. pig. i looked up and i saw a sign that said animal research studies or something like that. hmm. i'm glad i don't go to school there either.

well, besides getting my little stick arms all tired out, i almost enjoyed my little adventure. we'll just see if i'll be having more of these adventures on monday....