The exercise:
Write four lines of prose about: sorting things out.
Helped sort bottles and cans for a fundraising drive at the boys' school this evening. If I had known how big a job it was going to be and how late it would go and how long a day work would be today, I would not have volunteered.
It ended up being pretty fun with a good group of parents, but I am now quite officially done doing things until I have to go back to work on Monday.
2 comments:
Hahahaha :) That kind of thing always generates a lot of work because separating items that can be recycled like that from other household waste is easy for people to do and makes them feel good about themselves for contributing, so you tend to get a lot of 'donations'. So I'm not surprised there was a lot to handle. It's a bit of a shame that the work day wasn't easier for you beforehand, but I suppose there's good days and bad days and today was clearly an unlucky day for you.
Still, sit down, relax a little, tell the boys not to disturb until they're actually burning the house down or there are more than three moose outside and do something easy :)
Sorting things out
Miss Snippet's school, as she liked to think of it, was having a fundraiser involving the sorting of recyclable rubbish and delivery to the local recycling centres. The headmaster had been astonished at the speed at which Miss Snippet's class had tackled the project; what he'd expected to be a whole weekend's worth of 'fun' for the volunteers had been dealt with in just under two hours and now the volunteer parents were looking at him expectantly, waiting for the promised beer and pizza.
"We're sorting it out," he said to the assembled people, wondering if he could taser a couple of them and then make a quick getaway.
"We're sorting it out," said Miss Snippet behind him, who had set her class to work making two dozen pizzas, a pizza oven, fake IDs, and sent two of them off to the nearest shops to buy beer.
Greg - indeed. And I'd say Mission: Do Nothing This Weekend was reasonably successful, all things considered.
Ah, Miss Snippet and her worrying amount of efficiency :)
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