So DW and I have a new job, we are delivering papers for the Detroit News Partnership which is primarily the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News, but we also deliver the New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. My workday starts at about 1:30 in the morning and I'm done at about 5:30 am. As jobs go it's actually not that bad. The only drawback is that we are independent contractors so we have to find our own people to cover if we want to take a vacation or a day off, as the job is 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Hopefully that won't be too much of a problem. But the reason that this inspires feelings of scum is that the person who had the route before us (and had for the last 17 years) got cancer and was no longer able to work... Generally this isn't too much of an issue because there aren't many of our customers awake and around at 4 in the morning, but this Sunday (when we finish around 8am) I ran into one of our customers as I was delivering her paper. She asked if I was her new carrier and I said yes and it turns out she had developed a friendship with the previous carrier, but hadn't heard that she was quitting or about the cancer. So it was very hard to explain that the woman (who I had never met) had cancer and I was the new carrier on the route without feeling like I was the most horrible person in the world. *sigh*
Ok, so regular knitting content will totally be up soon! I promise! With all the moving and everything else I have managed to lose my camera in a box somewhere and so as soon as I find it I will totally post knit related stuff... I've got a pair of socks, a surprise FO, an all but finished twin baby blanket and a number of other works in progress (I'm a horrible case of project ADD) to show you! Be back soon!