French is still hard (with a little more lighting)

French is hard.

Just throwing that out there. I haven't taken it in two years because I suck at it, but I agree with the girls in canada that french is hard.

Anyways moving on to my project...

Lighting is fun. Im working at Vincent Lighting in solon. The section that I'm working in is a rental division where its basically a giant warehouse that stocks and rents lighting equipment for special events like weddings, corporate events, parties, some theatre stuff, and an occasional concert.

I'm gonna summarize yesterday in this post.

Day 1:

When I arrived yesterday, I was supposed to meet up with JT who runs the rental shop and is supposed to be my supervisor, but i quickly learned that he was going to be gone all day returning a truck of gear from columbus. Luckily I already knew Scott, one of the production people, so he introduced me to all the people that I didnt know. They all seem pretty nice. Its a pretty relaxed work environment overall.

As we got into the day, basically everyone who worked there had to leave because they were all going out on projects, and that left me with gabby, who is actually also a hawken grad. Even though this wasnt really the plan, I was able to learn a lot about where stuff goes and procedures because there was not a huge amount going on in the shop. Lots of paperwork. To keep track of inventory, everything gets signed in and out, and when its a big rental, that means signing in like over 100 pieces of equipment.

Later in the day Tori, the asst shop manager, came back and asked for my help to go downtown to st. joes high school to pick up some rental equipment. I got to ride in a big truck. that was fun and it was a nice break from signing in old rentals. The one part that sucked was that when we were about to start loading the equipment onto the truck, we were opening the trucks lift, which is made of two very heavy steel plates. my hand slipped and two of my left fingers got crushed in between the plates. yep. it hurt. a lot. theyre still black and blue. but what can you do.

I'll leave it at that and end on a rhyme.

Until next time...

which will be tomorrow. because i have to write bog posts. so excited. yay.