last day of bumbling

so tomorrow is it.

my last day of bumbles.

no longer will i have to wrestle with vaccuum cleaners (ours is broken so you have to carry it in your arms like a baby) and duvet covers, clean toilets, change bins, mop floors, wipe down surfaces, etc etc etc etc good GOD i am so glad to be going!!!

strange thing about work is that there are daily trends. people living in a common space, even when they are not in the same room, tend to do the same exact things on the same exact days. its like they're communicating on some molecular level. for instance: one random wednesday morning it seemed like everyone and their mother bought a thirty rack of beer, drank it, and then left the bottles strewn throughout the room. another day, everyone seemed to be reading newspapers. another day it was brochures, everywhere. yesterday it was banana peels-- i found a banana peel in almost every bathroom trash bin. oh and hair, i swear yesteday some really hairy person just travelled from shower to shower depositing wisps of long black hair. it was a like a scene out of the grudge. and that stuff is NOT easy to get out of a shower with a sponge. and then today, it was duvet covers. usually we change them every couple of days (i know, sick, so be sure to use that top sheet when sleeping in a hostel!!), so people usually leave them on the bed. but today literally everyone took their duvet covers off and brought them down to the laundry. thus we were stuck doing laundry until 1:30... bah. it is such a strange little world, the hostel life. hmmm.

today i went to the saturday craft market and bought some gifties for the momster. and a necklace for myself made out of new zealand coins. thats about it for the day... started up a new book-- the curious incident of the dog in the night time, i think that's what its called anyhow... it's pretty good so far. just finished my sister's keeper, which was absolutely rockin. really amazing contemplation of issues such as medical ethics, the self, genetic testing/ selection, neo-eugenics, choice/ consent, minors and the law, etc. reminded me so much of the class i took with rebecca herzig: blood, genes and american culture. highly recommend both the book and the class, btw.

signing off!

xoxo
alli