Living in a Library, and Tales of Day Labor
Monday, December 10, 2007
Things went very smooth for on the first night of operation live in a library. With many real students jamming for finals I was far from the only scruffy faced youth stealing a few hours of sleep in a remote cubical. I got a solid four hours of good sleep, and another hour or two of dozing. I was up bright and early for operation Day Labor though (4AM, yikes!) If I can get away with it for three more nights I'm covered till I leave town.
I left the warm confines of Milner Library at about a quarter after four AM this morning to make the penguin like march through the ice to the Labor Ready office in Normal, IL. I arrived a good half hour before the doors unlocked but was only able to secure the 16th spot in line. Apparently the higher your sign in spot the sooner you get sent out to work. Once I got in and signed in it was a good hour before I got my assignment. I was sent to Central Illinois Door to help unload a truck full of garage doors. The job only took from seven AM till about noon. It didn't require much in the brain department, but did not lack heavy lifting. At the end of the shift I got to violate multiple OSHA regulations but getting lifted up in the air on the forks of a fork lift truck to unload some garbage into a high sided dumpster.Its now about nine PM, and I'm back at my temporary home, Milner Library on the Illinois State campus. Its been a long day and I'm pretty tired so I think this post will be a bit shorter then I intended. After work today I once again used The Compassion Centers free shower facility. Six days had passed since my last shower and even before five hours of sweaty manual labor I was smelling a tad past due. I did not want my undercover student disguise blown by someone complaining to a staff member about my hobo stench. This post did not turn out as fun as I hoped I'm just to tired. I nearly lost my two gig flash thumb drive today. Like a retard I left it plugged into the computer at Bloomington Public Library when I left. I once again got lucky and made a phone call, to a kind librarian who found it and is holding on to it till tomorrow for me.
For my five hours of manual labor I made just over thirty dollars. Not much but enough to cover the cost of my train ticket to the next town. Here are some pictures and a video from today. Sleep calls.
Some of the many garage doors I unloaded today.
My train ticket to my soon to be new home, Springfield, IL
And today short episode of the Homeless Hackershow.
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posted by Cory @ 8:56 PM,
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At December 12, 2007 at 3:55 AM,
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Yeah, train travel! I've been sitting outside a closed train station in the rain for the last six hours just so I can escape this town. Can't wait for my 14 hours of "train sleep!"
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At December 12, 2007 at 8:13 AM,
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Yeah its been raining here for like twenty four straight hours! Looks like there is finally a break in it today though.
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