Today, my main job was to figure out who amongst the Habitat for Humanity volunteers was a sexual predator. Apparently, Habitat International has a rule that a background check must be performed of all volunteers. If any are found to be sex offenders, they are not allowed to volunteer at Habitat for Humanity. Habitat Geauga had not been following this rule since... forever... and they figured it was time to get caught up. And what are high school interns for if not probing into the backgrounds of everyone there and discovering all the evil things they've done?
I was a bit uncomfortable doing my job since my views on the treatment of sex offenders conflicted with what I was doing. This was amplified in this situation since anyone who was a sex offender would not be able to volunteer at a non-profit organization, essentially punishing the homeless for their crimes. I had a paranoid fear that one of the most devoted volunteers would turn out to be a sex offender. Luckily for me, no one who volunteered at Habitat Geauga had a spotty criminal record, so I didn't have to make any deep moral choices.
Afterwards, I discovered that the tool box I had painted on Friday was not firmly attached to the newspaper it had been on top of when I painted it. The rest of my day was spent trying to remove the newspaper from the tool box, which I did not finish before I went home.
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