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Great Big Sea: Live in Freeport, Maine
Aug. 12th, 2007 12:13 amThis is crossposted to the Great Big Sea message boards, so references to people are in their board names.
( Damn good concert )
( Damn good concert )
So, I'm... alive. And not online much.
The job at L.L. Bean is great, I really enjoy helping customers. It's just that the "part-time" seasonal job is giving me 40 hours a week. And many of those are the 4:00 PM - 12:00 AM shifts, where I sleep until 11:00 AM and then get out a couple of resumes for library work, drive in to my job, work, and get home at 1:00 with enough energy to read. No real internet time for me.
I want to update on all sorts of things since I've been in Maine, and it's going to have to wait. My two days off this week are today (large backlog of resumes must get out) and Saturday. Saturday will be spent at L.L. Bean, just not working. I've learned that the locals start putting out chairs for the free concerts at 10:00 AM (show starts at 7:30 PM). So if I want a front row seat for Great Big Sea, my blanket and I will need to be there at 7:00 AM. I'll just bring food and a book.
The job at L.L. Bean is great, I really enjoy helping customers. It's just that the "part-time" seasonal job is giving me 40 hours a week. And many of those are the 4:00 PM - 12:00 AM shifts, where I sleep until 11:00 AM and then get out a couple of resumes for library work, drive in to my job, work, and get home at 1:00 with enough energy to read. No real internet time for me.
I want to update on all sorts of things since I've been in Maine, and it's going to have to wait. My two days off this week are today (large backlog of resumes must get out) and Saturday. Saturday will be spent at L.L. Bean, just not working. I've learned that the locals start putting out chairs for the free concerts at 10:00 AM (show starts at 7:30 PM). So if I want a front row seat for Great Big Sea, my blanket and I will need to be there at 7:00 AM. I'll just bring food and a book.
Why L.L. Bean is so damn cool
Jul. 12th, 2007 04:30 pm1. They hired me. Part time, working in their L.L. Home department (where they sell books, videos, furniture, bedding, food items, dishes, and various stuff). This is good, and given that my sifts will be from around 4:00 PM until midnight I get their shift differential bonus. Very nice. Still looking for a full time job in libraries, but this is great while I am looking.
2. They have a free concert series, with GOOD acts. Paula Cole (Where Have all the Cowboys Gone?) has already played. Future acts will include the Portland Symphony Orchestra (free symphony? wow!), Arlo Guthrie ("You can get anything you want..."), Great Big Sea (SQUEEEEEEEE!), the Indigo Girls, Shawn Colvin (Sunny Came Home), and Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (wacky neat jazz). Damn, that is some pretty impressive stuff to hear for free.
3. Amazing customer service. They will replace things that break over the course of normal use. I had a large Duffel bag with wheels on it, big enough to take a college student's dirty laundry from Iowa to Maine. One of the wheels broke off after about two to three years of use. I no longer had a receipt. I brought in the bag and the wheel, thinking they would mend it for a fee. They just gave me a new one. Took less than 15 minutes. Fabulous.
2. They have a free concert series, with GOOD acts. Paula Cole (Where Have all the Cowboys Gone?) has already played. Future acts will include the Portland Symphony Orchestra (free symphony? wow!), Arlo Guthrie ("You can get anything you want..."), Great Big Sea (SQUEEEEEEEE!), the Indigo Girls, Shawn Colvin (Sunny Came Home), and Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (wacky neat jazz). Damn, that is some pretty impressive stuff to hear for free.
3. Amazing customer service. They will replace things that break over the course of normal use. I had a large Duffel bag with wheels on it, big enough to take a college student's dirty laundry from Iowa to Maine. One of the wheels broke off after about two to three years of use. I no longer had a receipt. I brought in the bag and the wheel, thinking they would mend it for a fee. They just gave me a new one. Took less than 15 minutes. Fabulous.
