Slog

Monday I woke up and went into work. I literally spent the entire day calling brigade captains. I made over 150 calls during the course of the day. I would tell them my name, where I was calling from, ask them if I could call the brigade member on my list, and that was it. Really the only note of the day was one guy saying "You're calling from CFA headquarters? I thought you were calling from the New York Stock Exchange." Ya, so a pretty dull day but productive. Oh and on a positive note, we learned the temps would be coming the next morning.

I went home and tried to get a game of basketball going since I had found a court, but no one wanted to play because there were a bunch of Asians there. After dinner, which was really good (sweet chilli chicken), I spent several hours editing and writing my paper. I was about to fill out my partner assessment form, which was due the next day, when I realized I couldn't access my email. I stayed up the rest of the night, till 11:30, trying to figure out why. Apparently, WPI just decided to change the password.

The next morning, I woke up and immeadiately called WPI. I got the problem fixed after some stupid conversation. Her: Ya your email account was locked at 7:00am this morning.
Me: "Ya that was last night at 11 when I was trying to log on, I'm in Australia" Her: "Oh is this something you need for your project?" Me: "uuhhh YA"

So with that fixed, I headed to work and wrote for my project the whole way there since I was trying to figure out why my email wasn't working while I was supposed to be writing. I got into work early at 8:30 and Max and I met the temps. There's Aly and John. Aly and John are both probably in their late 30's or early 40's. John is a an Asian guy who used to be in the Navy and Aly is a house wife who does some work on the side. They both seem fairly intelligent and I'm pretty happy with the choices made. Max and I split up into different rooms with one temp in each so we wouldn't drown each other out with our phone conversations and Max and I could still supervise the temps. Aly decided to work with me and John with Max. I gave Aly the rest of the Captains to call and she finished that fairly quickly. She didn't have internet access yet so I didn't have much else for her to do as our survey entry is online. I spent most of the morning writing for our project. In the hour before lunch I started updating all of our spreadsheets to reflect who had been called, who needed to be replaced, and who needed to be called back. This was a pretty hefty task. I went to lunch at the cafe again and got some mushroom chicken penne, which was just ok. After lunch, Aly had internet access and I instructed her on how to conduct the survey and off she went. I spent the entire rest of the day updating the spreadsheets and our pivot charts. It was a rather productive day and I'm quite pleased with our progress thus far in the project. Our online survey has 131 responses and we've complete 19 telephone surveys. At this rate we should end up with approximately 400 online responses and we should be able to complete the telephone survey in just over two weeks, which is right about what we planned on. The temps will be a big help and I'm glad we've got them on board. Well I'm on the tram now. I might try and get a pick up game of basketball going versus the Asians but we'll see what happens.