I'm surrounded by ill planning. And not the Government's.

[deckardcanine]

1. On Sunday, a little more than a year after my grandfather's death, we visited the Baltimorean cemetery where he and my grandmother, who died in 1989, are buried. In all the years that we've paid our respects there -- always at least once a year -- never before do I recall them not having nearly enough chairs for the service. Actually, they were still bringing out chairs during the service, so there came to be almost enough, but few people opted to move while the rabbi was speaking. Furthermore, they had learned at the last minute that the rabbi who couldn't come was the only one with access to the booklets, so we didn't read Psalm 23 in unison this time (and I think the speaker accidentally combined the KJV with bits of a modern translation). At least they've fixed the problems with my grandparents' headstone.

2. On Tuesday, I attended the first session of a Drawing and Painting class. The course is so popular that they added an extra night for it, which the community center office personnel hadn't known when I first went to sign up. I learned that the Tuesday class needed at least four enrollees to proceed, but only three showed up, so I'm worried. They'd better not cancel it after I buy all the supplies. Despite the small class size, there were barely enough chairs due to the nearby classes; the instructor took a kindergartener's chair. All the tables were covered with glitterrrrgh and dried glue, so I'm glad we'll soon be using easels.

3. Yesterday I went to an open house. It seemed like a good place, except for a detail they left out of the Craig's List ad: a loud band practices in the living room once a week. I know it doesn't make for good marketing, but if you're gonna say it at the open house, why not put it in the ad? That would have solved another problem: crowdedness. After the tour, visitors kept having to ask others if they lived there. It was too noisy to address more than one at a time. As a result, I decided not to describe myself to more than one resident. I'd have taken up valuable time. Besides, the one band detail makes the place very iffy for me.

Comments

[-fairest.livejournal.com]

In my office, we have enough work stations for about 100 agents. We employ 350 who all have different shifts/days off. Of course, every day about 25 people call in sick or something like that. Still, the shifts overlap a little to keep the phone lines covered. People are coming and going every hour of the day. (Okay, late at night, it's all going...but you get the idea.) Often, when I arrive at work at 3:30pm, there are no available work stations (my current position used to include assigned seating -- no longer available). So, having arrived 10 min early, I could actually be late logging in</> if I can't find a seat with a working computer!Accomodations have been made. We seatless ones must sign in on paper at the Support Desk then continue to look for a seat. *sigh*

And you...."the one band detail"...lol

[-fairest.livejournal.com]

oops...italics. Is it possible to edit one's own replies?

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

'Fraid not. You can only delete them, but by then the LJ owner and the person to whom you were replying (if they're separate people) have received the erroneous message by email.