Thursday
Sep152005
Today is.... Thursday?
Thursday, September 15, 2005 at 10:25AM
The thing with shift work that I'm still getting used to is never knowing what day it is. I imagine it must be easier if you work shifts Mon - Fri only but I'm working 7 days a week. In two different hospitals (but potentially 4) in three different areas of the department.
I guess I have a valid excuse then. Whew.
But, this week (for example) Monday 8-4 in Hospital #1, Area #2. Tues - Sat in Hospital #2, Area #1, 2 early day shifts, 2 late afternoon shifts and a weekend shift. Apart from that being 6 days in a row, I've got a ton of other stuff going on. After two days off, next week is five shifts, no two at the same time, over two hospitals and three different departments.
For each of the shifts there are different job duties. Even the same shift is totally different between the hospitals. And it's BUSY.
So, yanno, I have no idea where I am, what day it is, or what I should be doing or which doctor is waiting on what line for the other doctor I just paged.
It's kind of fun. But I'm very tired. Last night I had a two hour nap, ate dinner and then went back to bed until 9:30 this morning.
Right now I'm just waiting for the eggs to cool so I can start making lunches for the next three days, writing to you, answering email, figuring out when I have to leave as I've got a doctor's appointment on the way to work and looking for the phone number of the person I'm supposed to be having coffee with once I actually get to the hospital.
I haven't run since Sunday but I've committed myself to participating in the Run for A Cure. More on that later.
I had a family dinner on Tuesday (where round about the third beer I promised I'd go to Peurto Vallarta for a week at Christmas), I've been working on the site redesign for the trip, tomorrow, I'm picking Wade up at the airport for lunch before work. This morning I set the combination to the locks I bought for my pack (which is arriving with Wade. Hopefully.)....
Aren't they cute?
I've got a bunch of stories to tell you, just not enough time to tell them.
How boring does that make me? Minutiae of daily life just seems to be intruding on my inna'net time.
How dare it! The nerve!
I guess I have a valid excuse then. Whew.
But, this week (for example) Monday 8-4 in Hospital #1, Area #2. Tues - Sat in Hospital #2, Area #1, 2 early day shifts, 2 late afternoon shifts and a weekend shift. Apart from that being 6 days in a row, I've got a ton of other stuff going on. After two days off, next week is five shifts, no two at the same time, over two hospitals and three different departments.
For each of the shifts there are different job duties. Even the same shift is totally different between the hospitals. And it's BUSY.
So, yanno, I have no idea where I am, what day it is, or what I should be doing or which doctor is waiting on what line for the other doctor I just paged.
It's kind of fun. But I'm very tired. Last night I had a two hour nap, ate dinner and then went back to bed until 9:30 this morning.
Right now I'm just waiting for the eggs to cool so I can start making lunches for the next three days, writing to you, answering email, figuring out when I have to leave as I've got a doctor's appointment on the way to work and looking for the phone number of the person I'm supposed to be having coffee with once I actually get to the hospital.
I haven't run since Sunday but I've committed myself to participating in the Run for A Cure. More on that later.
I had a family dinner on Tuesday (where round about the third beer I promised I'd go to Peurto Vallarta for a week at Christmas), I've been working on the site redesign for the trip, tomorrow, I'm picking Wade up at the airport for lunch before work. This morning I set the combination to the locks I bought for my pack (which is arriving with Wade. Hopefully.)....
Aren't they cute?
I've got a bunch of stories to tell you, just not enough time to tell them.
How boring does that make me? Minutiae of daily life just seems to be intruding on my inna'net time.
How dare it! The nerve!
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Reader Comments (3)
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:)