I have spent the past two days holed up in my room searching for jobs. The only time I allowed myself to leave was last night. I went to my high school's homecoming and then bowling, and I've never felt so lame in my life. In fact, I can't believe I just admitted it. Anyway, I need a break from the job search, so I'm going to give a quick update on how searching for records has been going.
Wednesday afternoon, I arrived in Yadkin County. I looked up the number to the fax machine in our office in the phone book, and then I called the Whiteville PD. I talked to Edna. (She's the lady at the front desk ... I got her name this time.) She was really helpful; she agreed to fax the most current report to me so that I could at least see what I'll be dealing with when I go pick them up next week. Everything went wonderfully ...
... Until I realized that I was back in Yadkin County, which means nothing works right. I got the fax not long after I got off the phone with Edna. And it looked terrible. For one, my family doesn't know how a fax machine works. We get a lot of fax spam, and my dad just puts them right back in the fax machine ... So my report is printed on top of a "Bahamas Cruise for $99!" ad. If that were the only problem, I would have just called Edna back and asked her to fax it again. But, the toner is also messed up in our fax machine. So even if there were no ad on top of the report, I probably wouldn't be able to read it. It's very frustrating. In this place, I don't have any other fax machine options.
I did try to get one report to look at. I failed. Well, I actually do have the report, and I'm bringing it to class. But, it's still a failure. Next week, however, I am definitely going to have good information. I'm sure of it. Edna is so helpful that there's no way this can go poorly. I hope.
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