Summer Job, Home & School Work

Good news, I found a summer job last week. I'll be working for 84 Lumber in Pataskla making roof trusses (triangular pieces that make up the roof of a house or barn).  It's full time hours, which is tough to find for a summer job. No one wants to hire full time worker who'll just go back to school in a couple months. And on top of all that, I'll only being working about 3 miles away from my sister's house, so gas money won't be a problem. The only time I'll really have to drive is to ODU every Saturday for the summer science class I'm taking. I'd say I got pretty lucky.

Because of my new found employment, I had to make a trip home to pick up some old work clothes--jeans, steel-toed boots, a few old t-shirts. I had a good time, though. Pretty relaxing, plenty of time to do homework. Plus it was my aunt's birthday, so we all went down to my grandmother's for cake and ice cream. I shot up to Pittsburgh to buy her a birthday gift--a John Irving novel. We both like to read, and I usually take advantage of any opportunity to get into a bookstore.

Now it's back to the salt mines this week (i.e. school work). I'm pretty busy, let's see: Eng. 222 poetry homework, finish reading a novel by Wednesday, write another precis for political science class (which are really time consuming) then my final Eng. Lit. paper is due next Monday. And somewhere in between that I have to take a drug test for 84 Lumber.

I should be able to fit it all in, though.

Cya!