Wow

So since August (the week before school started) I have been a deskworker down at Reinert. It's a bit of a walk, but I really do like my job. I think I have the hang of it. I've only had minor emergencies, though, and no fire drills, so I haven't had every single experience yet. Hopefully it will stay that way. There was the time that one of the RA's knee caps popped out while I was working and I had to do the whole ambulence thing. And there was the time that some really assholeish people tried to check in, one of whom wasn't a SLU student and didn't have any ID on him, so they left but then an RA caught them climbing on the roof and they tried to check in again but couldn't, but then came back, after the RA kicked them out, and tried to check in, one with his SLU ID and the other with a driver's license that had the SAME name as the SLU ID, so obviously they thought I was stupid, and they called us names and were rude, and we kicked them out of the building and they got written up and it was pretty sweet. And there was the time that the person who works the 3-6am on Saturday didn't show and no one was around to work it so I stayed until 6:25. And the fact that I'm almost always at Reinert now because not only do I work every waking (and sleeping) moment but I also hang out there all the time. But tonight was so crazy. I work every Saturday from midnight-3am (except on the rare occasion that I get someone to cover it), but tonight there was not a moment of down time. I was busy pretty much all night. Highlights include: talking to the guys playing pool (yeah, I know, but it was fun), getting calls from DPS, having to call the CDC, having to page the RA's on call more than once, having kids outside get busted for smoking hookah because DPS thought it was pot, having kids throw multitudes of notepads out the window onto cars, having multiple people try to check in without photo IDs, having multiple people forget or lose their IDs, asking the floor guy to get some kids backpack out of the locked cafeteria and signing for it, eating McDonald's fries for the first time in many months from some kid who was thankful that I let him go without an ID once, having dozens of people hanging out and being loud in the lobby during quiet hours, having them all check in and most of them having the same last name, watching CSI with people, and oh yes, the really, really drunk girl who couldn't understand simple concepts, couldn't get checked into the building, and KNOCKED MY ID BOX OVER so I had to go through and pick them all up and put them all back in order and match up the visitor IDs to the host ones. Not to mention the over 2 pages of people I checked in and out. And then there were all the people I talked to, and the boys playing video games, and my convo with the Reinert RAs who were covering Gries tonight, and my 2 key audits because the first was so long and babbley that it got cut off before I got to the actual key audit. And Sarah calling because she forgot her cell phone and I didn't know who it was because I didn't know the number and at first I didn't recognize the voice and I couldn't understand who this was and why they wanted Andrew's number. And then it was just so busy all night that I wasn't even tired and I am still awake now at 4:40 even though I got back to Gries at 3:15. I was gonna take a shower, but eh, I hung out with Anu and Rhoochi next door, both of whom were in Reinert earlier. Good times, good times. And I made slightly more than minimum wage for it all for the 2nd and 3rd hour! Yeah!

Good stuff.