Scanner Extraordinaire

My week's Routine
6:47 am: Wake Up
6:52 am: Force myself out of the warm bed
7:20 am: Walk to town Centre
7:50ish am: Arrive at Ministry of Health
8:00-10:30am: Remove staples, scan, stamp and pile health contracts
10:30-10:45 am: Drink tea with team members (oversee these agreements/contracts)
10:45-12:30: More scanning, or if scanning's finished, hole punching and filing.
12:30-1:00 pm: Lunch
1:00-3:30 pm: More scanning and/or filing
3:30-3:45: Tea with team members
3:$4-4:30: yup, more scanning and/or filing
4:30: "Is it raining?" yes = go to internet cafe, check mail and wait for the 510 bus (which usually arrives at 520) no = walk home
5:30-6:30: Wash dishes or cook dinner (depending who's turn it is)
6:30-9:30: Sudoku and tv
9:30: BED

As you can tell, my week has been less than pleasurable, and extremely mundane. While I did not gain any career skills, I did learn a lot about training my mind to bare the boredom that it faced. I must say that I gained a massive amount of respect for people that work on assembly lines. Thankfully, I was allowed to listen to my ipod while doing these mundane tasks, but even that got boring after a while (although Dane Cook's 3 cds kept me quite content for a long time!). The people that I work with are all very nice, and I was offered a full time position there where I would not be scanning all the time, but its still along the same lines of data entry, so I am not pursuing it. I have an interview with a tavern on saturday morning, and I do not have my hopes up, but I do have my fingers crossed that something comes of that, because I did not come to New Zealand to have to pry myself out of my bed before sunrise every morning!

While it's certainly not the filing that gets me out of bed in the morning, the walk to work is very helpful motivation. The views are magnificent. For half of it the sun is just starting to come up, so the city lights are all on over the harbor and the hills, and because my walk there is mostly downhill, its great! The first two days I was not able to walk home because of the rain, which thankfully held off on both days until the afternoon because there is no bus in the morning that would get me to work by 8. The walk home yesterday, while not enjoyable due to its mostly uphill nature and my exhausted feet, was good for me b/c it kept me warm for an extended period of time in the flat!

After I find out about this tavern job, I will either be starting that or onto the next temp assignment that comes my way. I get the impression that most of the temp jobs are for various government agencies that are rather behind on their filing...so I may or may not be facing a few more weeks of the fun I experienced this week. Either way, I'm looking foward to a change, and to meet some more people, hopefully this time people I have more in common with and are in my age range!