Artbash

Ah, Artbash-- the yearly orientation-like student exhibition madness in the Columbus building.. run by admissions, of course.

If there's one thing I can say about Larry Lee, it's that he's intense. This whole newly-hired first-day process was much akin to being chucked off a cliff.

There are 5 other newbies besides myself, and yesterday morning we all found ourselves suddenly in the midst of the (usual, expected) event behind-the-scenes craziness, mixed in with all the vetrans and only vaguely understanding what we're supposed to do. There was no introductions of the other Stubassadors, or the Coordinators, or even of the faculty or other Admissions helpers (I just had to guess about everyone); it was assumed we knew all about Artbash and the rooms in the Columbus Drive (I didn't: newly learnt, the Millenium Room!); and even with Larry's briefing about how the crowd of 300 visitors was going to be split up and handled, it was incredibly hard to figure out what was going on next until it was actually happening.

Ay, ay. Not that it was all bad. Us noobs clumped together most of the time if there was a lull in projects (seemed wasteful to stand around but we didn't know what to do!) until a more authoratative person passing by could hand a project off on us. We were fed, too, catered lunch with everyone else (nummy turkey and carmalized onion sandwich with some sort of cheese I didn't recognize), as well as a pimpin' $20 worth of food at Sonny's (the 2nd floor "cafeteria") (which is like, 2 1/2 meals worth, which is like 5 meals because they give you too much to eat in one sitting!). But only good Sunday and Monday, which is pooey.

Because it was wild Artbash things, we get paid for 18 hours, huzzah! In actuality it was more like 7 or so. (Was tired when I left an didn't check the exact time, but I think it was around 2:30.) Now I just need someone to explain the whole timesheet thing to me...

Next Thursday: shadowing a tour. How boring! (Jk, jk)