Marysville

Today I went to Marysville with a bunch of other people from church to a trout farm where, every now and then, a group of people from church go to help rebuild in the aftermath of a devestating fire a couple of years ago.

This was my first time going.

So today I got in some good, old-fashioned physical labour (mostly moving dirt), I learned how to gut a fish, and I celebrated friends' engagement within an hour of the proposal with sausages and champaigne. He threatened us not to put it on facebook but I'm pretty sure no one reads this blog so I'm safe. At least, no one who knows who I could be talking about.

Tomorrow I'm going to a birthday barbeque, and then I'll be going to church (in the evening) to what will be my last service as a member (but I will probably still visit but as a guest).

I'm currently reading The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne which is great! I'm reading it on my kindle.

I may have missed an opportunity out of shyness.

The Issue with Casual Work

At the moment I have two casual jobs while I'm looking for a more regular full-time job. The problem with casual jobs is that they often change on you.

ORIGINAL PLAN:
Wednesday: job (2)
Thursday: job (1)
Friday: visit friend

So I go to job (2) on Wednesday and boss (2) asks me if I can come in tomorrow (Thurdsday) as well. I have job (1) on that day so I tell her no. She asks about Friday. I have social plans on Friday but I do need the work, I already felt bad for saying no to Thursday, and as much as I was looking forward to it, the social engagement is something that can be rescheduled.

After work Wednesday night I get a message from boss (1) saying that he won't have the work ready for me on Thursday after all, can I come in on Friday, instead? Now, I've already cancelled social engagement so I can go to job (2) and it's too late to reschedule job (2) to Thursday so I tell boss (1) that I can't and he'll have to wait until Monday.

So that means I have Thursday off even though I thought I was going to be working. But then on Thursday evening I get a call from boss (2) asking me they don't really need me on Friday after all, they didn't have as much work for me as they thought they did. Which means now that my Friday is free after all. I already told boss (1) that I can't come on Friday, so I decide to messsage my friend to see if she's up for un-cancelling. Quite reasonably, she already made alternative plans.

We've rescheduled, though, and maybe this time I will give the social engagement priority over work if either of them ask me to work on that day.