Sunny Thursday
This morning I woke up early before the music was turned on. It's my birthday and I went outside to blue skies. Yeah! I needed that.
Yesterday I worked damn hard. I team leaded a crew of 7 to move about 35 school desks, filing cabinets a couch....tried very hard to find a school or church to come and pick them up and it was raining. I haven't walked down there this morning but I really hope someone got them. In my crew there were four MBA guys here for their volunteer requirement. Nice guys but 2 of them are very bossy and thing they know what they are doing and tell me what to do-funny. Instead of getting the job done they stand around debating about the proper procedure. A task that takes an hour takes hours. But I kept them in line-hee hee. The saying goes-get'er done!
We finished early and I asked for another job to give them. They sent us out to a finishing gut on the house from hell in the 9th ward. This house looks as if should be demolished. The structure is compromised and these guys were upset that we were working on it. We pulled out he remaining nails and cleaned it really well. I tried to explain to them that 80 percent of all homes in NO should be torn down but that the cost of rebuilding 80 percent of the homes from the ground up is an impossible feat. Besides on this particular house we had a very bad incident. Back in December we sent out a huge crew to gut it and they took out a wall to the outside or the house. Stupid! We made this historical house worse off than it was. We have to replace the wall and the project manager feels that because of that we will do all we can to restore it. I didn't feel like debating this with volunteers who have been here all of 3 days. So I took them next door to look at a house that hasn't been touched since Katrina and has a spray painted note on the front that says "one dead body." In it was all their belongings molded. That is how most first day guts look-its dirty and disgusting work. They were quiet then. They stopped bitching.
Today I have a meeting with a local principal about implementing a art/music program and also making the library work better in their school. Tonight I'm hosting the talent/no talent show we have occasionally here. The church gave me permission to hold it in the santuary which is great because it has amazing acoustics.
I may go out later to an open mic. I plan to sing at the talent show but have no idea what I'm going to sing. I haven't practiced in so long-oh well-it will be ok.
Well-another year older. It's just a number right?
Yesterday I worked damn hard. I team leaded a crew of 7 to move about 35 school desks, filing cabinets a couch....tried very hard to find a school or church to come and pick them up and it was raining. I haven't walked down there this morning but I really hope someone got them. In my crew there were four MBA guys here for their volunteer requirement. Nice guys but 2 of them are very bossy and thing they know what they are doing and tell me what to do-funny. Instead of getting the job done they stand around debating about the proper procedure. A task that takes an hour takes hours. But I kept them in line-hee hee. The saying goes-get'er done!
We finished early and I asked for another job to give them. They sent us out to a finishing gut on the house from hell in the 9th ward. This house looks as if should be demolished. The structure is compromised and these guys were upset that we were working on it. We pulled out he remaining nails and cleaned it really well. I tried to explain to them that 80 percent of all homes in NO should be torn down but that the cost of rebuilding 80 percent of the homes from the ground up is an impossible feat. Besides on this particular house we had a very bad incident. Back in December we sent out a huge crew to gut it and they took out a wall to the outside or the house. Stupid! We made this historical house worse off than it was. We have to replace the wall and the project manager feels that because of that we will do all we can to restore it. I didn't feel like debating this with volunteers who have been here all of 3 days. So I took them next door to look at a house that hasn't been touched since Katrina and has a spray painted note on the front that says "one dead body." In it was all their belongings molded. That is how most first day guts look-its dirty and disgusting work. They were quiet then. They stopped bitching.
Today I have a meeting with a local principal about implementing a art/music program and also making the library work better in their school. Tonight I'm hosting the talent/no talent show we have occasionally here. The church gave me permission to hold it in the santuary which is great because it has amazing acoustics.
I may go out later to an open mic. I plan to sing at the talent show but have no idea what I'm going to sing. I haven't practiced in so long-oh well-it will be ok.
Well-another year older. It's just a number right?
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