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Today's the last day at the supermarket I work for before the refurbishment starts. Yesterday was already a strange day. Lots of things were already sold out and it felt like every other customer wanted to know why (the walked past about six signs about the refurbishment entering the store). I expect today's going be worse. We're open until 5pm (normally until 9pm) and after that there's three hours of packing everything before the keys get hand over to the builders.
From tomorrow I'll be working at another store for three week. I chose to go to the one close to my parents. There are stores that are closer, but those are in not so good neighbourhoods with a very different type of customer and I don't think I'll enjoy that.
We went by the other store on Sunday and it's tiny, from what I remember (my aunt and uncle lived near and I used to look after their cats during their summer vacation) it was a lot bigger. It's also a quieter store than ours. I'm filling a cashier who is on vacation and I'm not sure whether I will work the regular tills, on self check-out or a combination. I hope the latter.
Normally it takes a 12 minute bike ride to get to work. Now it's a 12 minute ride to the bus station and then a 50 minute bus ride. I don't mind it as much in the morning but at night it'll take away time to myself. I normally have about an hour, after getting home and taking a shower, to do whatever I was before my sister gets home. Lately I've taking to working on a cross stitch project during that time. Now I'll be home probably half an hour before my sister and that'll give me just enough time to shower. That's a shame because I enjoyed my quiet cross stitching hour. And yes, I will be bringing an ereader with me, so I can read on the bus (and during my lunch break). But it's still different spending time at home or on a, possibly, crowded bus.
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