Today I finally had the chance to stop by Aldis. We were out of bananas, so I figured I'd pick some up.
Overall, I wasn't really impressed. The carts were gigantic and the aisles narrow. The aisles didn't seem to have much rhyme or reason for what they had - which meant they couldn't mark them clearly. Some prices were better, but not remarkably so.
It just didn't seem like they'd thought through people flow when designing it. Then I got to checkout with my one bag of bananas. I got in line behind a lady with about 10 items who was behind someone else with 100+ items. While we were waiting another cashier came by and told us to get into a new lane. So we did. He left. 10 minutes later he returned with his cash box. We were basically stuck waiting because all the other lanes were packed. The lady in front of me remarked that she'd made two visits to that store - her first and her last.
As for me, I think I'll wait a few weeks and try again. Maybe by then they'll have gotten more organized.
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I'd seriously like to drop my sixth grade tutoring student. Not because of him, but because of his mother. She's so flakey!! Sunday I texted her to dblchk that we were on for Monday as normal (last week was spring break.) She finally replied Monday morning that she was in the process of moving - so could we just do Wed/Th instead? Sure, why not lose $40 of my April budget - just a tank of gas and some groceries. (could've met him at the school)
So today I really wasn't feeling good, but I needed the $30 plus the $40 she owed me from before spring break. So I head out to her new address. Just as I'm about there, I get a call from her saying she'd jet realized it was Wed and that her mom had picked son up from school. She then later had the gall to try and place the blame on me - for not texting her to double check about today!!
Tomorrow I'll meet him at the school and supposedly get the money owed previously, and "take care" of this week. I'm curious if she's planning on compensating me for today - I highly, highly doubt it.
(for reference - the drive is about 30 minutes if I leave at 3 pm. If I leave at 3:08 or later, it will take at least 45 minutes or more. So I either leave at 3 and wait in my car for 30 minutes, or leave 10 minutes later, and sit in traffic for 15 extra minutes.)
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Well since I didn't have tutoring, I stopped by the library to pick up the books for my next journal assignment. Oy vey!
I had the titles and the call numbers written down, so shouldve been easy right? HAH!
After the third time I had to ask a librarian (same one) where a book was, she told me I could just put the books on hold so I didn't have to hunt for them. I told her I thought you couldn't do that for books in your home branch - but she said I could!
I ended up finding all but three books I needed, and put the rest on hold! (these were all books showing as having multiple copies checked in at this branch)
Most of these books are *thick*! Ordinarily, I love thick books, but when I have 8 of them to read, plus the research project, plus the asl video project, etc. all due in less than a month ... Ai Ai Ai!!
The good thing though is that after May 2, other than the third cataloging test, I am done with school until June 6(or whatever date is Sunday that week.) So I'll have a few weeks to just breathe - and concentrate on ASL. 
My First Aldis visit
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That is a good idea. In fact, she canceled on me AGAIN today. I am ready to send her an email essentially saying that if she wants me to continue working with her son, my policy from now on will be payment in full for the coming week on Thursday. No refunds for missed/canceled appointments, but if the cancellation is on my end, or notice given at LEAST 12 hours in advance, I will add the missed sessions time to future sessions.
I am also getting ready to start looking for a student to replace her son - preferably at the same school where I work with the Biology student. 15 minute drive.
My English Castle,
That's it! A garage sale! That's exactly what it reminded me of.
Whitestripe,
Maybe next time I go there it'll be better, since I'll go with much lower expectations.
Purple Flower,
Exactly - that was the problem I had. Most of the people who flocked to the "open" lane had ten or less items. They'd all been standing in line behind people with the gigantic cart FULL of stuff.