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i burned myself at work yesterday. it’s been a while since i’ve done that.

i think i’ve been on the dock for 4 weeks now. i shrink-wrap at least 10 pallets every day.

the first day on the dock, myron (the supervisor) asked me if i wanted a different pair of gloves. the ones i had were cut-resistant, but dock workers don’t use knives (well, except for fast eddie, who gypped mine.) i said, “no, these are fine.” well, really, they grip the shrink wrap too much and it’s hard to wrap with them and the kevlar burns off really fast, so i ended up losing them…somewhere… and i’ve been wrapping barehanded ever since.

it took me a while to get the hang of it. the first day i probably burned myself ten times. but i think i figured it out by the second day, so i’ve been ok since then… until yesterday.

ouch.

i wasn’t too happy with how long it took chemusa to get my laptop fixed and back to me. it happened at pretty much the worst time: the night before we left for choir tour. i couldn’t just ship it off; i had to get a RMA number. so i couldn’t sent it off until the Saturday after we got back from choir tour. so that was one week without a computer. next week was Thanksgiving. another week. but i got it back the following week. however, caleb g’s laptop went down about the same time, and he still hasn’t gotten his back. he did finally get a “replacement/loaner” (today) until they get his fixed. and caleb b’s laptop has been gone almost all semester. wow. i would be quire mad if it took them more than a month. so it looks like i got off pretty good.