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velessawell, I had an interesting morning to say the least. on Fridays I don't have any classes, but I do go to school to tutor a student in English. today I missed my meeting with him. why? because I WAS TRAPPED IN AN ELEVATOR! yeah that made my day right there. I have classes on the fourth floor of the Health Building, and so does my tutee (why they hold English classes in the nursing building is beyond me), so I'm in there three times a week. there are two elevators and the stairs aren't even remotely close to them, which means when you walk in the front of the building it's easiest to just take one of the elevators. both of them have been out of order on and off for the past few weeks, but today they both appeared to be working fine. NOT. I got in one of them with another girl; she had to go to the third floor, I had to go to the fourth. it went to the third floor, let her off fine, and continued on its way. but when we reached the fourth floor, I guess it got stuck. it just sat there, blinking the number "4" on the screen, and the doors wouldn't open no matter what I pushed. suffice to say I was not happy about it. I felt panicked, worried, scared, nervous, angry, all at the same time. I was mainly worried that I'd be stuck in there for a long time and pissed off that this stupid contraption was making me miss my tutoring appointment, which is totally unfair to the guy I tutor. plus I was a bit scared as visions of the movie "Speed" kept flashing through my head and hoping that I wouldn't have to go out through the opening in the roof of the car.
anyway, I got out just fine and didn't have to spend my whole day in there. I hit the emergency phone button and a guy gave me different instructions for trying to make the doors open. when that didn't work, he sent a technician over to get me out. I actually had to pry the doors open with my fingers from the inside before he could pull them open the rest of the way from the outside. all together I was only stuck in there about 20 minutes, but it was enough to freak me out; from now on I'm using the stairs in that building!
in other news, I got called in to work today to cover for someone. this involved me going on a ride with 16 Girl Scouts ages 9-10, plus doing closing, which is a lot more back breaking work than opening (my normal shift). I don't mind closing once in a while, but I did it for oh about four years and I got really sick of it. which is why I won't do it anymore as a regular shift. I didn't know I was closing when I agreed to do it, I thought they just wanted help with the huge ride. ha, apparently not. nevermind the fact that two other staff members showed up, but they bolted when they realized that I was there to do the hard work for them. hmph. I'm also subbing for someone tomorrow (but just three hours, 7-10am), then I have my usual shift on Sunday, and I might sub for someone else on Monday. busy busy! and I'm going to the Sharks playoff game tomorrow *g* go Sharks!
we have two new horses this week: a sweet Arab mare with a horrible name, and a feisty little Paint cowhorse. the Paint is named Cisco and the Arab is named Wiz! ugh. apparently it's shortened from whatever her long Araby registered name is, but really, I think we can do better than that. that doesn't even sound like a female name. I mean if it was a male we could make it Wizard or something. but for a mare? oh and it keeps making me think of the movie "The Wiz" (which I've never seen and really don't want to see). blech!
Cisco Wiz
