Current Mood: CC is listening to: a CSI episode You know you're a nerd when you hear the movie preview guy say: "Stiller. Black. Downey, Jr." and YOU reply, "No, it should just be 'Stiller. Black. Downey.' The 'Jr.' goes with his first name."
Current Mood: CC is listening to:Nothing right now For the past few weeks I had been helping out at the hospital Front Desk. It was a really good experience, and I enjoyed doing it. At the same time, I wanted to explore the other volunteer opportunities at the hospital. I think I may have found the one that's the best fit for me: Materials Management Volunteer.
"You're going to be a janitor?" Steve replied when I told him about it. "No, I'm not going to be a janitor. Materials Management Volunteers do things like take inventory, sort supplies and deliver medical equipment to the nurses' stations." He looked at me. "...And you're volunteering for this?"
I had to laugh. At first glance it probably did seem like a less exciting thing to do, but I had admitted to myself that I don't necessarily want excitement. "Well let me tell you what I'm looking for in a volunteer opportunity and maybe you'll understand why I think this is better for me.
"I want an opportunity to be helpful and at the same time have minimal patient contact--I'm more introverted than extroverted. I also want a volunteer opportunity that gets me walking a lot so I get more exercise. Oh, and I don't want to have to think too much--I've been doing that all week at work, I don't want to have to think on the weekend."
Steve thought about that for a second. "You're right, this does sound like the perfect fit."
I start my first day in the Materials Management department tomorrow. I already met with the manager, who was excited to know I was volunteering because they've been short-handed lately. I was told that the only things I would need to do tomorrow are cut the tops off of boxes, put stickers on things, pull stuff off of shelves, and deliver equipment. I even get to wear sneakers :-). And then she said I can work my way up to more complex tasks like man the phones and take requests, but only if I wanted to :-).
Sounds delightfully low stress :-). I'm really looking forward to it :-).
Current Mood: CC is listening to: a JAG episode From Steve: "You know you're turning Filipino when you have a set of flipflops that you wear outside the house and a set that you wear INSIDE the house." :-)
Current Mood: CC is listening to:Nothing right now You've all seen samples of some crazy Japanese game shows, right :-)? The Human Tetris one is classic :-)...
Oh those wacky Japanese :-).
What I *didn't* know was that there was a new game show that premiered late June on ABC.
"I Survived a Japanese Game Show."
It's a reality tv show but you've got *Americans* as contestants :-). Steve said it wasn't very good but I'm halfway through the first episode and I think it's pretty funny. It's funny not just because of the stunts, but the contestants didn't know what kind of reality show they were going to be a part of, so they CERTAINLY weren't expecting they'd fly halfway around the world for it. It's also entertaining to see them trying to overcome the culture shock of being in Japan.
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