"The reward for having feelings is great joy."

So says my fortune cookie. I feel like its one of those sayings where it looks like its saying something, but it's actually not.

A few more pamphlets had to be thrown into the new hire packets, so I spent a few hours this morning getting that down. Besides that, I've been working on my paper. It's just over 4 pages right now. A huge chunk of the paper is my telling the history of the bulletin board. I had quite a few roadblocks, with getting permission to use the pictures, then printing them, finding one of the preschool, and decorating to best of my ability. After all, there's only so much I can say about paper work.

I was not able to post yesterday because I had my AP exam. I didn't go to my internship that day, but rather got a good night's sleep, reviewed a little, and took my nearly 4 hour long exam. I forgot to pick up the picture of the preschool that I took and had printed, so I'll have to do that sometime today. Hopefully that will fill the hole in my bulletin board and it will look lovely. I hope that they keep the pictures up there for a little while. More than just over the summer, I mean. Believe it or not, I've actually spent a lot of time making it look nice (and I'm not the patient type!).

My vase has been empty for a few days now, so I'm hoping to swing by Market Basket and grab some flowers to prettify my office. I love flowers. They just make everything better! (As long as the flowers don't appear sickly.) I got a lovely compliment a few days ago on the $10 Marshall's picture that hangs on my wall. Mrs M. was saying how well it compliments the other pictures on the wall and how much more interesting it makes the office look. (To my skeptical mother: See! It is pretty!)

I spoke with Mrs D. and she agreed that I might be able to assist them this summer. After graduation and my vacation, I'll get in touch with her and see if they might need some help. Mrs H. told me a few days ago that August gets quite busy.


Note: Carnies still here. Walked fast past them on the way to my internship today. Yikes.

Finished!

Today I concluded my packet project. That is 50 packets, with over 100 sheets in each. Guess how many paper cuts I got? (scroll to end of post for answer) I think for the rest of the week I'll be working on the bulletin board. I found some beautiful pictures by a wonderful photographer named David Fingerhut and someone at the high school is going to print them for me. Unfortunately, I do not have a picture of the preschool attached to the Central Office yet. I asked another senior, who is doing photography as his internship, to help me, but he has not gotten back to me yet. :( Maybe I'll have to add that picture last. I tried to plan out how it will look, but nothing ever turns out how I plan. I'm not an entirely artistic person. I can't color inside the lines. I can't cut a piece of paper in half without it looking like a 5 year old cut it. My handwriting leaves much to be desired. But maybe, just maybe, I'll make a beautiful bulletin board. But $5 says less than 10 people will look at it while I'm still interning (not counting people who work here).

Also, I answered the phone once today. Yay!

Answer: ZERO!!

When the cat is away...

First of all, yes I forgot to post yesterday. I'm sorry to everyone who was looking forward to my post (i.e. my dad). So here's what I did yesterday:

Mrs D. is off this week because her daughter is getting married on Saturday. (How exciting :) ) The office isn't much different, except that sometimes Mrs H. has the radio on. When I first started, I thought about listening to Pandora, but I figured it wasn't appropriate. But I love working with the radio on. Just like driving with music, it just makes everything a bit more interesting. I started a new project, making packets for the new hires. They won't come in for a few more months, but it's a large project. I went through thousands of sheets of paper yesterday making copies. Thousands. I basically hogged one of the copiers all day. I had one packet that I was copying that took 45 minutes to finish. It was like 29 pages long, front and back, stapled. And I had to make 50 copies. I think some people were rioting over the copiers. Whoops.

Yesterday was also the beginning of open enrollment for next year. A few parents were in the hallways filling out forms, hoping that their child can join the school system even though they don't live here. They have a fee to pay so that their child can go here, but I think that makes sense because they don't pay our town's taxes. And anyway, the fee is minimal (in my opinion).

My internship adviser told me that he liked my shout out to him in my very first post. I'm glad/excited he's actually kinda reading this (or anyone else not including my parents. Sorry mom and dad.). So hello again, Mr. C. You're really cool. I enjoyed pysch class this year. Especially Criminal Minds. Not so much memorizing all of the development theories (Paiget, et cetera). Oh, and I wore lederhosen once when I had to dress up at Freud. That was interesting.. at least I got a decent grade.