It's a beautiful Saturday afternoon. We just spent some time outside attempting to fly a kite (and failing to do so), reading on the lawn in front of Lee Chapel (and arguing about whether Jane Austen is worthy of literary merit), determining cloud shapes (I taught Stephen all about cirrus vs. cumulus vs. stratus clouds and why the sky is blue...Mrs Brady, my 8th grade science teacher, would be proud), and otherwise basking in the beautiful weather. Stephen thought it was too hot but it was in fact glorious. Now we're back in air conditioned Gaines watching soccer games on a TV acquired by questionable means. I can't think of a better way to spend a day (unless Disneyland or the beach is involved). Now, while Stephen cleans and I watch future husband Fernando Torress kick some South Africa tookus, I shall fill you in on the events of the last few days:

We started work on Thursday with a short staff meeting. We quickly learned that the five of us RAs would have little to no structure or supervision during the next few weeks. We basically got a list of tasks to complete and were set loose to do them in whichever order and at whatever pace we wanted. We picked up our University credit cards (legit), acquired keys to the golf cart and huge 15 pasenger van we'd be driving (also legit), and completed "Ed Bulger Driver Training" (which consisted of Ed telling us that people have a natural tendency to want to steal golf carts and informing us that if an alumn wanted to bring alcohol onto the cart we were to inform him that "either you go, or the booze goes"). Ed was the first of many "characters" we met during the first two days of the job. He's the head of security at W&L and enjoys pretending like he's bffs with people even though they've never actually met. He mentioned to colleague-Tyler that they had met several times and while talking about speed limit policies said "This kid knows what I'm talking about", a comment which still baffles Tyler--he asserts he has never seen the man before. Ed excitedly exclaimed to head-RA-Mike "You ride Traveller, don't you?!" Yes, Ed. We all ride Traveller. He also enjoys making fun of people for where there from by making unneccessary comments like "You know how they parallel park in Michigan! harty har har" Danielle from Michigan has no idea what this comment means. So yes, that's Ed. We really like him. He's fun.

Our first 15 passenger van adventure (the van has yet to be named. I'll think of a good one soon enough) was to the storage unit behind Taco Bell to get all the supplies for AC that were put away for the school year. Tracey (one of our trusty bosses) told us that we'd be overwhelmed by the amount of stuff in there. We assumed she was overexaggerating. Oh no. That little storage unit was literally filled to the brim with lamps, bags of pillows, crates of light bulbs and vases, boxes of hangers and Kleenex, and tons of other random crap (for lack of a better word). It took 4 trips back and forth with the van (a great chance for each of us to practice driving) to get all the stuff into our inventory room in Gaines and that took most of the rest of the day.
Our final task of the day was a trip to the Wal (you know how giddy we get about the Wal). Toilet paper and trash bags in hand, we five BA RAs returned to the hill and were done for the day.
This is when sdub and I decided to "practice driving" the golf cart. For details on this adventure, see our two facebook videos.

Well co-author of this blog just informed me that this is "a long-ass post" so I guess I should stop. I'll turn it over to him for the question of the day and maybe if you're lucky, another little surprise.