Monday, July 31, 2006

You know it's humid when...

...you step from the hockey rink where you work to the staff parking lot and...your glasses fog up. That was weird.

It's kinda weird at work right now. There are a few people around the building from Canlan Ice Sports but they're really not allowed to do too much as the facility hasn't officially been sold yet (I mean, sure, they've fired the general manager--and his daughter--and taken over his office, besides firing 3 others, but that's pretty much all they've been able to do other than take measurements in areas they're going to renovate and give job offers to the people they're going to and inform those who aren't getting offers of their situation). They had been hoping the closing would go through such that they would be the owners as of August 1, but looks like it will be happening later in the week. This means all our people who had thought today would be their last day (those in management who elected not to accept the offers Canlan gave them) are actually going to be in tomorrow and maybe the next day. One of them told me and my fellow Guest Services worker today that he'd had a hard enough time getting himself out of bed to come in today; tomorrow will be harder. I commented to him that it must be hard to get anything done when it is almost your last day and he agreed; the motivation just isn't really there. It will be kinda neat and kinda exciting to see the transformation of the place into a Canlan rink, but it is sad to see some of these people go. Anyway, I'm not sure how much of the transformation I'll get to see as teacher's college starts Aug. 28 for me and I still don't know what my school schedule will be like (I guess I get that at the Aug. 28 orientation); I may not have time to work during the school year and thus I may only be around the Ice Gardens/Canlan Ice Sports York for another three weeks or so. We'll see. This is just a summer job for me, after all; I am not invested in the place or even emotionally attached to it. I'm just curious to see what the next few weeks are going to be like.

Oh, I will definitely be working fewer shifts in August than I have been the past few months as apparently we are going to be cut down to only having one Guest Serv--er, Customer Service Representative (the Canlan term) working the desk in the evenings, just like we had before the bankruptcy thing started (before I started working there). This means fewer shifts are available, though we still have the same number of girls in our department. So...the house is going to get cleaner and my husband and friends and other family are going to see more of me. Maybe I'll even get some more sleep.

Speaking of sleep, I'm going to continue my evening wind-down routine now so I will be in a sleep mindset in a while (I'm never sleepy when I come home right after work so I gotta prepare my mind for bed in a way). Goodnight for now.

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