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[amadeupname]

I like working the Medieval Conference desk a lot better than the Michigan Youth Arts Festival desk. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that, at Medieval, I don't have to deal with check-in at all, whereas I spent eight hours checking people in for MYAF and going completely insane. For Medieval I just have to give directions, sell parking permits, and occasionally check people out and call a taxi or look up the phone number or directions to someplace in town. It's pretty quiet in Ackley/Shilling for the most part (I can't speak for the other Valleys). I'm also convinced it's because Medieval is full of academics and professionals from all over the world, and MYAF and the other conferences on campus are all teens and their parents. I'm hearing a lot less whining in the Valleys than I did in Bigelow.

I have to admit, I find it more than a little amusing that people will preface questions with "I know this is a strange request, but can you..." and then they'll ask me to lend them a pen for the day or cut a tag off their clothing that they can't quite reach. Some guy asked me a few minutes ago to tell him if he looked "put-together". I also bought a big box of snowball snack cakes and had put them up on the desk, and one person asked me if they were for sale. I gave him one (for free, of course!) and put the rest under the desk.

I'm working 9:00-1:00 tonight, then 6:30-9:00 tomorrow morning in Henry, and then the rest of my shifts are back in Ackley/Shilling. The good thing about working early morning is that the camp kids will either be asleep or shuffling off to their activities, so it should be mostly quiet then.

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[not-gini.livejournal.com]

i was actually thinking the completely opposite. i like the MYAF better. granted i was in henry, not bigelow. but the high school kids just expect a lot less out of me it seems. i feel sometimes that the medieval people expect this to be a professional hotel, and i just don't feel that way at all. this guy wanted me to call a cab for him today and i was just like...uhh...are you sure you don't want to do it yourself? i've never called a cab before.

as much as i admire the scholarly old people, i can relate to the kids more because i was exactly they are just a few years ago. i think it's cause they're all musicians, and i know what its like to have your life be full of endless practices, rehearsals and lessons. it's like i'm looking at my past.

so yeah. i guess with the medieval people i just feel like my service won't be good enough for them. granted all of my shifts have been 12am to 8am, and i don't talk to a single person between about 1 and 6.