Schedules

I wrote the following paragraph just before Thanksgiving, but I forgot to post it.

The mother of an IVer or two works at Crossroads, where I usually eat when I’m at RIT. She often waves or says hi when I go by the salad station where she works. Last week was finals week, and this week and the next are break. This means, of course, that nearly every student has gone home (or the equivalent thereof). But not me. I’m still working, since CIMS, including their co-op students, doesn’t follow the academic schedule. When I walked into Crossroads this afternoon, there she was working. When she saw me, she made a weird face and said, “What are you doing here?!” “I’m working,” I replied. “Aren’t you going home this week?” I explained that I lived locally, so it didn’t matter. “That explains a lot of things.”

RIT has two weeks off for Christmas and New Year’s, but I only have a week and a day, so I’ll have four days of similar quiet before everyone comes back on the 8th.