so i woke up early this morning at 5 am to come into work. it's 2 pm and i'm still at work. i could've gone home at 1, even earlier than that really cuz my supervisor isn't here. but i'm toughin it out cuz i have a few deadlines to meet. i have to time-code the food bank story i shot, to publicize our CWY food drive. unfortunately, being the lowly volunteer that i am at the bottom of the totem pole, i can't seem to get any time in the editing suites. i dont know if i can get this piece to air before thursday!!! which totally defeats the point of me even doing it! boooooo!
and being the only one in my tuin dui that actually works downtown, i have to go into sobey's today to talk to the manager about our food drive on thursday.
and then i have to meet someone at 5 pm to interview him about the community winds project, which is basically a bunch of windmills being built across new brunswick.
my work counterpart james got into work this morning about 10, and he left about 1. i don't really blame him for working so little. i mean, i can, but i'm not gonna. it's hard to work in an environment where you don't speak the language fluently. and i don't have the time to baby sit him, so i just let him go home early.
funny thing. last night, me and sarah went around neighborhoods handing out flyers for our food drive. in negative degree weather. for an hour. but whatever. it was good exercise. but what pisses me off is that there are 6 people in our tuin dui, and only me and sarah did it. shirley hurt her knee 3 weeks ago, and so she didn't want to come with us. kevin and nick just came back from montreal and were too tired to come out. and amy, her excuse was the best of all. she wanted to take a shower. A SHOWER PEOPLE!!!
so anyways, i came back home around 10:30 pm and saw amy in the kitchen. I asked her, did you take your shower yet? and she said no. I asked her why not? and she said she had to help shirley "write something about a picture" and to "research the exchange rate between Canada and China" i'm like what? that is so disrespectful! so whatever shirley is doing is important enough to miss your shower, but what our tuin dui was doing was not! amy explained that she had planned to take a shower, but then shirley asked for her help, and that she didn't think it would take very long. and it took longer than she expected, blah blah blah blah. amy saw that i was pissed and started laughing! she said in china it is okay to do this. that her chinese friends would understand. so i asked her, okay, so if i asked james, or nick, or nancy about this, they would say it's okay? and she started backtracking on her words. eventually, she admitted she was "maybe wrong" and rah rah rah. so i just told her, well if this is "okay" in china i'm not going to do any work for our tuin dui! if i'm feeling tired, i'm just not gonna help out. and then she started panicking. she said "in china, you should not do what i do"
i know, right?
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