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edenfalling1. Today I saw ducks in Cascadilla Creek! Ducks!!
They come back every year -- at least one mating pair, sometimes more -- to build a nest and lay eggs (full disclosure: I have never actually seen the nests) and hatch and raise ducklings. I have watched them do this for years and I never get tired of the first sighting, nor of watching tiny fuzzy ducklings swim in train behind their parents.
When I put the ducks together with the way that today was also the third day in a row that I didn't have to wear my scarf wrapped around my head on my way into work, perhaps I can begin to believe that spring may be creeping its way into Ithaca. :-)
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2. I forgot to mention, but last week BP (our quasi-new-hire guy) flaked out on a closing shift without calling anyone beforehand to say he couldn't make it. He also picked up an unexpected extra class at college which he apparently needs to graduate this spring, which ate into his availability. He and PM mutually agreed that it therefore made no sense for him to stay on at the smoke shop, and RE and I basically split his shifts for this week.
This is actually not a problem, since we rehired RE and PB this past month (their grand departures last August having fizzled for separate reasons) and have also cut back our hours a little by closing at 8pm instead of 9pm five out of seven days a week. But I do think it's kind of funny that our last two new hires (BP and AS) have failed to work out and our staff roster (aside from MS, who is still out indefinitely for medical reasons) looks exactly the same as it has for the past... three years, now?
Someday I should try doing a staff turnover graph or something, for science. *wry*
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3. Other changes at the smoke shop: Mr. Speakerphone recently got on a kick about how we aren't really a bookstore, we don't sell enough books to be worth it, and we should just get rid of all of them. PM agreed that we have too many, but she thought getting rid of that entire section was a bit drastic, so instead we just removed one of our mass market paperback shelving units this past Sunday. PM pruned 3/4 of the relevant books, I pruned the rest, and then RE and I physically removed the empty unit, moved the other units to fill in the vacant space, and vacuumed the geologic layers of dust that had accumulated under them over the decades.
I am slightly terrified to imagine what the carpet under the magazine shelving units must look like.
They come back every year -- at least one mating pair, sometimes more -- to build a nest and lay eggs (full disclosure: I have never actually seen the nests) and hatch and raise ducklings. I have watched them do this for years and I never get tired of the first sighting, nor of watching tiny fuzzy ducklings swim in train behind their parents.
When I put the ducks together with the way that today was also the third day in a row that I didn't have to wear my scarf wrapped around my head on my way into work, perhaps I can begin to believe that spring may be creeping its way into Ithaca. :-)
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2. I forgot to mention, but last week BP (our quasi-new-hire guy) flaked out on a closing shift without calling anyone beforehand to say he couldn't make it. He also picked up an unexpected extra class at college which he apparently needs to graduate this spring, which ate into his availability. He and PM mutually agreed that it therefore made no sense for him to stay on at the smoke shop, and RE and I basically split his shifts for this week.
This is actually not a problem, since we rehired RE and PB this past month (their grand departures last August having fizzled for separate reasons) and have also cut back our hours a little by closing at 8pm instead of 9pm five out of seven days a week. But I do think it's kind of funny that our last two new hires (BP and AS) have failed to work out and our staff roster (aside from MS, who is still out indefinitely for medical reasons) looks exactly the same as it has for the past... three years, now?
Someday I should try doing a staff turnover graph or something, for science. *wry*
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3. Other changes at the smoke shop: Mr. Speakerphone recently got on a kick about how we aren't really a bookstore, we don't sell enough books to be worth it, and we should just get rid of all of them. PM agreed that we have too many, but she thought getting rid of that entire section was a bit drastic, so instead we just removed one of our mass market paperback shelving units this past Sunday. PM pruned 3/4 of the relevant books, I pruned the rest, and then RE and I physically removed the empty unit, moved the other units to fill in the vacant space, and vacuumed the geologic layers of dust that had accumulated under them over the decades.
I am slightly terrified to imagine what the carpet under the magazine shelving units must look like.
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Date: 2013-03-28 02:07 am (UTC)Spring has certainly taken its time about getting here, though. I saw an ad for one of those late-night comedy programs, and they had a clip of the host saying, "You know that groundhog who told us spring would be coming soon? We should EAT HIM."
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Date: 2013-03-28 04:59 am (UTC)(As for the groundhog, ha! Though I will take a lazy spring in preference to what we got last year -- Georgia weather in Ithaca! followed by a heart-of-January deep freeze! -- which was both deeply disconcerting and devastating for a number of fruit crops and other agricultural endeavors.)