Work, Beer & Cookies.

The week has gone by so fast and it tends to be that way especially when one works evenings. Well, my work schedule has been finalized by my supervisor. I'll be working on Wednesday evenings from 4PM-11:30PM, Friday from 4PM-10PM, Saturday from 7AM-3PM and Sunday from 2PM-10PM. In total, I'll be working 29 1/2 hours. Trust me, the work goes by really fast because there's so much to accomplish while you're there.

On Friday, I spent my first day at the regular house and like I mentioned before, it's coed and there are more women than men. In total, there are fourteen residents at this house and each of them has a their own unique personality. The person I work with has been there for a number of years and she has been around the block a few times. It's good that I'll be working with her as she'll be able to give me a many pointers. Since I went back to the house on Saturday morning, the residents are definitely familiarizing themselves with me. I'm so proud of the fact that I've remembered all their names and that says alot. There's nothing more important than calling someone by their name. It tells them thay they are important.

After work on Friday, Brian had his fourth Beer and Cookies party and I told him that I'll be late because of work. I kind of expected more people, but oh well. Those of us who were there had a great time. I'm not a big beer fan, but since it was a Beer and Cookies party, I bought myself a six-pack of German beer which I had before. Instead of buying cookies, I had some leftover Thin Mints girls scout cookies in the freezer and I brought it with me to the party. How was the combination? Splendid! I would have stayed longer, but I had to work in the morning the next day. That's was fine by me.

Ann invited me over for dinner after work on Saturday and there was no way I was going to turn down dinner at the Martin house. I told Ann that she would be sick and tired of seeing me since it would be three weeks in a row I made it to their place! We had a feast and I mean a feast. We started out with salad, green bean casserole and instead of Ann's world famous rolls, we had Texas Toast which was delectable. For the main course, we had hamloaf which was downright amazing. Later that evening for dinner, we had an apple cake which was good although Ann did not care too much for it. It was such a nice evening spending it with Ann just shooting the breeze. Daylight Savings Time ended so the clock was turned back an extra hour which meant an extra hour of sleep.

Next weekend will be a fun weekend because a friend from Drake, Dan Schuster who is currently a deacon studying at Mundelein, will be spending the weekend here. He'll be the deacon at the Sunday Mass and I believe he'll be preaching too. I've not seen Dan in quite some time and I'm sure we'll be able to catch up with one another. There's also a classical concert by the Turtle Island String Quartet that Joel and I will be going to and St. Kate's will be having it's annual fund raiser for the students to go to El Salvador. I've donated a 6-7 course Malaysian dinner for 8-10 people and I'm excited to find out who will be bidding for it and end up winning it.

That's pretty much all the news from me for this week.