Let's be honest, I have the best job EVER!!!

I figure when you're at work for 11 hours and when you get off you're amazed that that's how long you worked, it's a good job. It felt like nothing.
So I'm going to tell you a little about what my job's been entailing thus far, and what it's going to entail the next week and a half.
Yesterday, I got paid to take a tour of the Alaskan Heritage Center. Which, being a stop on the tours we give, people usually pay for. Today, I got paid to drive to the airport and back. Just for fun, to see where it is. And all the time, I was laughing and joking with my trainer who was telling me funny stories and giving me advice. Then I was paid for sitting in the break room for an hour, eating lunch. (If you leave the shop so they can't get ahold of you if they need you, then you have to log off, but if you eat in the shop so they could deploy you if they suddenly need someone, you can stay on the clock.) Then we had a kind of silly circuit in which we learned a lot, but no one actually had enough information to fill the whole time slot given, so we got a lot of breaks. Plus the 15 minute break that they just gave us for a break.
After that, we logged off and they fed us dinner. (So while we didn't get paid for that time, they fed us. Worth it.) Then we "met the mechanics" and they taught us how to properly fill out some paperwork to make it easier for them and showed us what a bus looks like underneath. I got to walk around underneath a bus. It was cool (although he did warn us that if we heard the doors to the shop start to shake to get out from under there as fast as possible since that likely meant an earthquake and the coach would come down soon). :O
Now, next week, we will be getting paid to ride on a train to Denali. A very posh train where they feed you dinner while you get to see the beautiful scenery of Alaska. (We likely won't get a fancy dinner like the guests will, but still) Then we will stay over night at the Denali Lodge before taking a coach over to the McKinley Lodge to get a look around. For the whole time we are gone (with the exception of possibly eight hours, I'm not sure how that's going to work) we will be getting paid for our time. At some point next week, we'll be doing the same thing to Kenai, although I don't believe we'll be staying over night. Right now, for a lot of times, I feel like I'm getting paid to take the tour, only I get the fun part and am sitting in the drivers seat! (Trust me, it's a much more fun place to be than a passenger's seat. You can actually see a lot more)
Now, comparing it to Bel Aire (and you all know how I felt about that place), I'm currently getting paid a training wage of $7.15/hour (minimum wage in AK). That's only $.35 less than I was getting paid as an actual employee at Bel Aire. When I'm actually acting as a driver I'll be getting $10.50/hour. Also, although I've only worked three days this week, I've already logged 18.5 hours. That's more than I had in an entire week down there. I'm working four more days this week. And since I worked 9.75 hours today and Alaska's overtime policy is anytime over 8 hours in one day and 40 hours in one week, I've already logged 1.75 overtime hours. How's that for cool? And since there are days when I could work up to 12 or more hours, I'll be making good money. And seeing Alaska while I'm at it!
So for those of you who were wondering why I came up here, I think it's pretty self-explanatory. Can you blame me? :D

The randomness that is my brain

So, update! I'm in Alaska, although everyone who read this already knew that, oh well. I'm very excited for work to start, even if I do wish that it could start on Monday instead of tomorrow so I wouldn't be scrambling like mad trying to figure out how to be able to go to church. Oh well. I have faith in myself and, even more critical, that something this important will be able to work out.
Last night I had a thoroughly random dream. In it someone was trying to get us to solve a math problem in order to win something. It was actually a very simple equation. 96x11x180. This was in inches. My question is, how in the world did my brain come up with those numbers? Do you realize that if you figure out exactly how many inches that is, it comes up to exactly 3 miles?How did my brain come up with three numbers when multiplied by each other and then divided by 63,360 come to an even number? What are the odds? I was expecting a decimal with a lot of numbers behind it. It was very weird.