Oh, the life of the desk worker

As I type this, I am on a time clock, earning $9 per hour.

I'm not getting paid for blogging though, I'm being paid for working the front desk of MacGregor House.

Part of my job is what I just stepped away from my laptop to do: give residents spare keys when they lock themselves out of their rooms.

So far I've been working for 52 minutes and two people have needed their red keys.

That's a higher rate of keys locked in rooms than I had imagined.

Besides that, I've also accepted a package from a FedEx delivery man, given multiple residents their packages, answered a few inquiries, let a girl who forgot her id into the building, checked my email, snacked on some Cheez Its... you get the idea.

There's a lot of random (and important) stuff a desk worker can be called upon to do.

For example, I just got to check a returned movie back in. I hope she enjoyed the unrated version of Live Free Die Hard.

I also have lots of printer paper back here to give out when the printers are out of paper.

Like I said, lots of random stuff.

For all that stuff though, there's also a pretty fair bit of downtime in which to be online or study like I will be soon for that nasty physics test tomorrow.

The three day weekend is coming to an end, but after my shift I'm celebrating the night with some ice cream and then some studying. It's back to the daily grind.