Working for the weekend

This past weekend I had my very first day of work at my third job (I also work here at Admissions and then at the Neese Theatre box office selling tickets for Beloit shows.) This new job of mine is of the hard, physical labor variety working for my FYI advisor, who recently purchased a beautiful, old Victorian mansion and needs help renovating it. She was generous enough to offer me a job doing odds and ends around the place to help whip it into shape, so Saturday I walked on over and proceeded to rake, scrub and paint. It was actually kind of nice to take a break from mental labor and do physical labor instead. I'd forgotten how rewarding it is to put a lot of physical work into something and then sit back to bask in the results.
(Though I still haven't been able to completely get all the paint splotches off my hands...)
I'm financing my study abroad completely on my own, so every little drop in the bucket counts and I'm currently drudging up jobs wherever I can. (I have two more possibly in the pipeline.) My schedule is already full as it is, but when I make a goal to do something (like study abroad), I don't give up until I reach it. (I'm a little stubborn that way.)
A good number of students who enroll at Beloit do work-study and work-study jobs can range from stocking shelves in the library to washing dishes in commons to being a writing tutor at the writing center to working in Admissions and keeping a blog.


After work, my friend Ellen and I drove to Hollywood video to rent a couple movies. (We got Matchstick Men and Maria Full of Grace.) Unfortunately, we somehow got turned around and wound up driving in the exact opposite direction of the college for roughly twenty minutes. We'd known from the start that we were on the wrong road, but in our infinite wisdom, we thought we would be able to sort ourselves out eventually. In the end, we had to stop at a gas station and shamefacedly ask which way the college was.
We did finally get back safe and sound (and watched Matchstick Men), but I've decided it's time to reactivate my Netflix account in order to avoid further incident.
I spent most of today working on my study abroad application for Lancaster. It's so close to being done, yet so far from it. The due date for the application is Nov. 3, so it's getting down to the wire. Luckily, there's been a slight lull in my schoolwork load, so I'll be able to finish it in time.