Monday

Yeah. That's really all I have to say about today, nothing special. I started out the day working Kidcot, which I enjoyed. I got a lot of organizing done and made a lot of necklaces. I also got to talk to quite a few cool people. I did that for about an hour and a half then I went to do the Turtle Talk show outside the theatre. I did that for a while and then had a break. I got the sculpture garden greeting task again. Some people keep getting to ride through the ride on their task, why don't I get to be that lucky? Then I got another task to give OUTRAGEOUS service and Kidcot. That was pretty cool, because after I left there I went to Turtle Talk and did the show with a few of the people I'd been chatting with, and wouldn't you know it the one talkative little boy was picked by crush. I really enjoyed that.

I spent quite a bit of time today at wheelchair assist. It was crazy. We would have no wheelchairs for 20 minutes and then in 5 minutes I'd have 6 people. They'd come in faster than I could get the chairs parked in another area. It was worse when I went back later, because they dropped the 2nd assist position so I was by myself and still had the same amount of chairs to deal with. There were few times I thought my head was going to explode. It didn't help that I'm still a little rough trying to drive the ECVs (electric wheelchairs). They all have a different way to put them in neutral so that you can push them. And some have weight sensors where you can't drive unless there's someone sitting in it. It was all crazy. Gabby came over from transition greeter (a pretty useless position) she was escorting a GAC (guest assistance card) family to the alternate entrance and realized I was swamped so she stayed and helped until rotation came around. Then I went to unload for my last half hour. It wasn't too bad.

Someone finally showed me how to extend a shift today, so now I can do that. Apparently everyone is getting shorted hours, so yesterday I jumped onto the extra hours website and picked up an additional 12 hours for next week. I picked on up on my day off, and then extended another day so it's a 12 hour day, we'll see how that goes. I have the next day off, so I'll have recovery time. But even adding the 12 hours, I'm only at 42 hours total. I don't know why they're shorting everyone, because as full time I'm guaranteed a minimum of 32. Lets just hope it gets better. We get new trainees everyday, so I think I should write to my manager about cross training to give myself more opportunities.

I stopped at the learning center on my way out of work today and was really upset to see that they'd moved the books around. The whole Disney reference section was in boxes and the shelves were empty. I'm just going to hope they're reorganizing and not shipping them off somewhere else. I rented the 2nd Atlantis movie, I love the first one so much. So we'll see if the 2nd is any better.

Answer to Yesterdays Trivia: What was the first film in the True Life Adventure series?
Seal Island, the Disney film distibutor at the time didn't believe audiences would sit through a nature film, so Walt asked a friend to run the film in his theatre for one week in December of 1948 so it would qualify for the Academy Awards. It won the Oscar for best documentary and another 12 films followed.

Today's Trivia Question: How many seconds are between clams on The Seas with Nemo and Friends? (Come on mom, we were stuck at this part of the ride.)