Typical Sunday Night

It’s a Sunday which means that I worked from 7-10 p.m. It also means that I watched the NFC and AFC title games while I sat at my work desk. Today was a pretty slow day as far as work is concerned. Paul, my boss, and I had our usual converstation about how our weekends went. After that, we talked about football for a while. His two favorite teams, the cowboys and the chargers, got eliminated from the playoffs last week, so he wasn’t too interested in the outcome of this week’s games. There was nothing to watch on Hulu, so I spent most of my time listening to music. In the three hour period of work, I checked out 3 pairs of headphones to students working in the lab and started a movie that a class had to watch. Around nine o’clock, a little bit of excitement came my way. I had to help a student use one of the scanners to make a collage on photoshop. As usual, my shift seemed to last an eternity. The best part of my work day comes at 9:45 cause that’s when I get to tell the few students working in the lab that we have to close up, and I get to lower the gate when they all leave. I can’t wait for my next shift tomorrow night.

First entry

I should probably start by telling you the basics. I’m a student worker in the Center For Learning and Technology or CLT for short. I work ten hours a week, and I spend most of my time watching television online. Yes, most of the time CLT is pretty vacant and really quiet, but I don’t mind at all. Every once in a while I have to answer the phone or show a student how to use a scanner, but that’s about the extent of my work. On Sunday and Monday nights, I have to close up the lab with my boss Paul. Paul grew up in San Antonio, and I’m fairly certain that he graduated from Trinity University sometime in the 80’s. If someone in the lab needs help with a program that I don’t use very often, Paul is the guy that helps him or her out. Actually, my main role in CLT, besides checking out equipment for in-house use, is to relay information and make sure that a qualified person handles the job. The majority of the calls that we get at the lab come from professors who are having trouble with their computers in the classroom, and they are usually pretty distressed. If I get a call like this, I have to forward their classroom number and some base line information about the difficulty they’re facing to one of our tech guys. Our tech guys usually hop in a golf cart and are able to help out those people as soon as possible.