It's Friday night. We close Sunday at 7 pm and let me tell you, Sunday can't get here quickly enough.
Closing started off pretty quietly, a continuous flow of check-outs with some peak times that led to lines outside our office but nothing too bad. As I mentioned earlier, I'm pretty much done with all the paperwork, so I just need them to move out, so I can add the last few paragraphs about closing to my transition report, complete the damage and missing keys documents and then I'm really done.
I got my summer assignments today and it really shouldn't be a very stressful summer. I have a feeling I'm actually going to have quite a lot of time on my hands, which may get me into trouble ecause I tend to start new projects during that time. Or maybe I can just be smart and plan things for the Fall, so next Fall won't be as crazy. We'll see....
So all in all, I was in a pretty good mood. And then tonight happened. We have Saturday exams here and let's be honest, having an exam on Saturday simply SUCKS. There's no better way of saying it. Half of your friends have already moved out, almost everyone else is out celebrating - and here you are, stuck in the building studying as if your life depended on it (because a lot of those exams tomorrow aren't in the easiest classes). If I was one of those students, I'm sure I'd be in a pretty bad mood right now. But if all that wasn't bad enough, now you have to deal with inconsiderate other residents who are loud, playing music, yelling in the hallway, throwing parties in their room with way too many people in much too small of a space....
No wonder the duty phone has been ringing quite frequently tonight and the callers have sounded pretty frustrated. And so I've spent my evening running up and down stairs, documenting incidents, calling the police once because I smelled marihuana, unpropping exit doors and doing late check-outs.
And I'm just SOOOOO tired. I want to end the year on a good note - because in spite of everything it's been a good year and I've had a great group of residents - but it's the stupid little things like everything that happened tonight that just build up and at this point of the year I'm just ready to be done with it all. I usually have quite a lot of patience (when it comes to working with students; I have absolutely no patience when I want to see something change in our department...haha), but at this point of the semester students should really be on their best behavior because it's not the time to mess with me. ;)
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It's coming to that time here, too; we're just at the end of dead week coming into finals week, and I had an interesting conversation with two of my residents while on duty tonight. We have 24-hour quiet hours and I had asked them to talk in the main lounge rather than the hallway. Found them in another hallway a few floors down and their excuse was that they 'saw other people talking in the hall'. I explained that they were still bothering people and just because others were breaking policy didn't mean that they should.
ReplyDeleteI'm certainly ready for the semester to end so I can go home to some peace and only need to be responsible for myself :)