Friday, December 9, 2011

My life is never boring.

Great news! After this Friday night, I will only have one more Friday night shift for the year! (and if they try to schedule me to work another weekend night, I will refuse.) Tonight's shift is especially painful. The OACL people are having their annual Christmas party tonight. Of course. I emailed to ask if I could still go and just leave the lab unattended for a few minutes... or hours. What's the worst that could happen? Those guys playing World of Warcraft in the back room really don't look that dangerous. And that lady who is here every Friday night, well, she's here every Friday night and does nothing. So in reply to the email, I was told I could go to the party from 6:30 to 7:00. 30 minutes? Lame, but I'll take it. The one downside: the party starts at 6:30. Who goes to a party right when it starts? Well, I did. And you can bet that it was just me and the old lady who works here with her husband. Finally around 6:45, people started showing up. And at 6:50 I actually got to eat some food in a rush so I could make it back to the lab by 7:00. Oh well, their loss because it's not going to be much of a party without me there. I'm pretty much a big deal. Ok, not really. But I did want to hang out with my friends longer...

Other news: Classes are officially over! And one week from now I will be right back at this lab with no homework, no responsibility, and no life. But that's ok because finals will be over!

Fun moments in the labs this week: Some lady just started blasting some Bob Marley because she plugged her headphones into the wrong place. On Wednesday we were bored, so we made 3D snowflakes. Thank you, YouTube! As I was trying to hook them to the ceiling tiles with a nifty paperclip chain, we hummed Christmas carols. I might have been mistaken, but I would say that the lab patrons thoroughly enjoyed it. Or maybe those were just annoyed looks. Oh and my friend Allison from the labs totes just came and said hi. (I never ever will say "totes" out loud. It even makes me cringe just typing it. But it's an inside joke I guess.)

And last of all, here is the best YouTube video I have seen this week. Enjoy!

3 comments:

Scott & Christie said...

I read the class dialogue to Scott who said, "I feel bad for all the boys who aren't good looking in the class. They'll never have...children." Hahaha.

AJ Candrian said...

I don't think we ever had OACL Christmas parties. They're really stepping up their game. Totes.

Allison said...

#1. I TOTES shared that Youtube video with my roommates and they about died.

#2. The party was lame, you didn't miss much.

#3. I feel cheated that I haven't worked with you this semester, because none of the people I work with thought to make 3-D snowflakes. What a bunch of Scrooges.