Work, work, work

Well, the population keeps going up, but the number of bakers has remained the same. This has lead to many 12 hour days, just getting it all done. With any luck this week one of the other new bakers will arrive, and the last one will show up next week, in theory. While the extra hands will be welcome, it does mean that I will likely be moveing to the midrats (that's short from Midnight Rations-a Navy holdover) shift to make bread-until Christmas, when I'll shift back to days.
Yes, it's a real bite-but it does make sense in terms of the staff on hand. I just wish it would not be phrased as a compliment quite so often, that I'm to be trusted to be getting this done, and doing it well, all without constant supervision....And it might even be nice to be in the galley when the noise level has come down some.
We have over 900 people here at the moment and most of them want to eat brunch at the same time. So from 10AM to 1PM it's a zoo on Sundays. And the sheer volume that they can consume is staggering. Folks like to take stuff as a snack, or for later (all of the rooms in the dorms come with a fridge-it's better than having folks pile stuff on the window ledges, where maurauding skuas can have a snack.) One day someone walked off with an entire 2kg tub of honey-all they had to do was ask and we would have given them a containerful, but taking it was easier, I guess. I also guess it was easier to steal the couch from the 203B (that's what I call home)dorm lounge and put it in someones' room than to improvise something else to sit on. And this has happened to just about every sofa on the station-they've been dissapeared. I emailed the station manager, asking what was to be done about this, but have received no reply. *sigh* Guess it's low on his list of priorities.
I have now recieved 3 volumes of Neal Stephensons' Baroque Cycle-I'm not sure I'll be able to get through all 3,500 pages without destroying several synapses-I like the guys' writing, but this is a LOT of it.
As you can see the brain has been baked to a delicate crisp-tonight I'm watchin 2 odd SF movies-Dark Star by John Carpenter and Le Dernier Combat by Luc Bresson, and then I'll become a pumpkin for as long as possible before getting back to work......
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