Adventures in Night Auditing #1

So, as of right now, I am doing my first shift as a night auditor at the hotel I work at. My shiny new job as it were.

This is actually my first shift here alone, so I understand if my manager is nervous. Especially since I'm all loopy because I fell down the stairs this morning and broke my fall with my head. Slammed it into the wall at the bottom of the stairs, actually. Thought I'd broken my leg too but it was just wedged at a weird angle. I can walk on it but it still hurts like hell. So does my left shoulder, my neck, my back, and about every single bone in my body.

I should probably go to a doctor sometime in the near future.

Anyway, I work from 11 pm to 7 am tonight. So this is going to be awesome.

11:30 - Manager calls. Tells me that the night shift is quiet, no one is going to call/be loud/cause problems. Tells me that the breakfast lady will be there at 4:30, he'll be there at 7, and to call him if I need him. Also makes crack about calling him if the cops show up, but reassures me that the police will not show up.

11:45 - Group decides to sit in the lobby, drink beers and do shots of Tanqueray. Demand popcorn, which I dutifully make. I spot a sheltie, which I must pet and coo over while the owners stand there and talk proudly of their dog.

12:00 - Member of Tanqueray group decides to ask me where the nearest zoo and strip club is. Is disappointed when I inform him that Charlottesville has neither.

12:20 - The cops show up.

1:10 - Run reports. Check people out. Wonder why in the hell the computer is messing up on me now at 1:10 in the morning.

1:30 - Fix computer and manage to check the two people out who had been waiting since 1:10 to check out. The now absolutely hammered group in the lobby finally go upstairs.

1:40 - I am convinced there is a ghost in the exercise room, so I keep watching it on the security camera.

3:00 - The ghost has moved into the lobby. Serves me right for being all paranoid after watching yet another Exorcism documentary.

3:55 - Officially bored out of my mind. I've eaten two bags of popcorn, a velveeta easy mac thing, and sipping on apple and cinnamon tea. I've also channel surfed the tv in the lobby, watched an hour of Mrs. Doubtfire and am now going to go make coffee.

4:00 - Diane comes in to teach me how to make breakfast. I end up covering myself in waffle mix.

5:30 - Apple and cinnamon tea does not taste good cold. Ghost in the exercise room remains a mystery.

Now I guess since people are getting up, I should sign off of here. Until tomorrow.