Today, I got to go out in the field, and do an actual assignment (meaning that the results of my work today will be used as real census data, not just a measure of how well I'm doing in training).
So I went out to the general area I would be working in, met up with my crew leader in the parking lot of a nearby shopping center that I already knew how to get to, and we went out together for about half an hour before he decided that I appeared to have a good enough grasp on what I was doing to be left out there on my own. I confirmed 25 addresses on the list, updated errors on two others, and added four whole buildings that weren't on the list. For a total of 83 addresses canvassed today (counting each individual unit of the multi-unit housing structures).
And no, I can't be any more specific about the details, because federal law forbids me to divulge any specific census data.
But that completed the assignment block. Of which I had two in the assignment area today, and I would have done the second as well, had the rain not been an issue for the electronic hardware required to do the job.
So, we've all got tomorrow off, for the occasion of Zombie Jesus Bunny Day, and then on Monday I get to go back and canvass the other assignment block.
I'm a productive member of society again. It feels nice.
Meanwhile, I've been having some fun at the expense of one of my friends (who hasn't been in touch with me lately), and I figured I'd share the AIM transcript from a couple nights ago with you all.
So I went out to the general area I would be working in, met up with my crew leader in the parking lot of a nearby shopping center that I already knew how to get to, and we went out together for about half an hour before he decided that I appeared to have a good enough grasp on what I was doing to be left out there on my own. I confirmed 25 addresses on the list, updated errors on two others, and added four whole buildings that weren't on the list. For a total of 83 addresses canvassed today (counting each individual unit of the multi-unit housing structures).
And no, I can't be any more specific about the details, because federal law forbids me to divulge any specific census data.
But that completed the assignment block. Of which I had two in the assignment area today, and I would have done the second as well, had the rain not been an issue for the electronic hardware required to do the job.
So, we've all got tomorrow off, for the occasion of Zombie Jesus Bunny Day, and then on Monday I get to go back and canvass the other assignment block.
I'm a productive member of society again. It feels nice.
Meanwhile, I've been having some fun at the expense of one of my friends (who hasn't been in touch with me lately), and I figured I'd share the AIM transcript from a couple nights ago with you all.
And the amazing thing is that everything I said was true. I just kept enough of the details vague enough to let him jump to all the wrong conclusions. So much fun. ::grins::