Summer Update, Part II
Jul. 17th, 2009 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gateslackerWow, is 79 degrees too cool to head to the pool? Is that something you ever expect to hear in the south in JULY!?! I've been debating for over an hour now. I really don't know what I should do as I suspect the water will be pretty cool since it was cloudy and rainy yesterday. It is going to be in the high 70's over the next few days.
Brandon is off to church camp. I would have gone with them except, as usual, my work schedule didn't coincide. (My Saturday schedule seems to only coincide with church work days!) After dropping him off at the church and heading to the grocery store, I holed up here at home and read the entire day. The cloudy day was perfect for assuaging my lazo guilt. I don't think I can get by with that today.
I was cast adrift after the Great Farscape Rewatch ended and was lucky to enter Harry Potter mode. I watched all of the previous movies over last weekend and read Half Blood Prince before seeing the movie on Wednesday. Then, I wanted to read Deathly Hallows but it was missing. I probably loaned it out and forgot all about it. So, I had to buy the paperback version (because , naturally, it was checked out from the library) and that is what I read yesterday. I enjoyed the movie but, like the book, it isn't one of my personal favorites of the series. However, reading Deathly Hallows made me very excited to see how the movie versions of that turn out! Still, I am not sure that I am done with HP as now I am thinking about rereading the first five.
I have been reading quite a bit and I finished the Twilight series last week. Strangely, I enjoyed each book in that series more than the last resultng in Twilight being my least favorite. And since the media comparisons between Twilight and Harry Potter are well underway, I am very strongly in the HP camp, thank you very much...LOL! My desire to read more and more is a little desperate of late as I feel the summer flashing by and know that, all too soon, it will be only textbooks for me. In fact, I am thinking about purchasing them as early as the list comes available so I can find some small way to get ahead. I cannot believe that Brandon only has a few short weeks left as school starts August 3rd for him!
I have realized that I am going to have to go part-time when school starts. I have checked the calendar and I see that I have, perhaps, 13 weeks to fit in 240 clinical hours and that is cutting it close. I will have to work in clinical three days a week most weeks to fit it all in. Three 12's does not leave much wiggle room and I expect that at least one of them will have to go. I don't really mind doing this but going PRN will leave me without benefits for a very long time as I suspect that I can't merely switch back and forth from PRN to full time status over breaks, even if I am able to work full time hours. It is a huge problem. I purchase Brandon's insurance privately but even the monthly baseline premiums for someone my age without health issues would be too costly for me, and that is not including the "fat fee" I am sure would be added. I am going to keep checking. I looked into one student type program and it required that you be a full time student. As per my usual luck, I am one hour short of that requirement. We'll see. I'll be praying for the best.
I have been doing a few overtime days this month and it hasn't been so bad. I have another one next week, though. Ugh. I have been enjoying my patients and trying to remember interesting and or funny things from work. I had a 21 year old male patient who had, at his bedside, an omnibus containing all of Jane Austen's novels! That's not something you see everyday. Mostly, though, it is comments overhead such as
in report after an unexpected and unwelcome revelation during the night: "Oh, the patient will calm down if you let him hold your breast."
From a woman about her husband: "He'll drive ya to drink" a pause and then a more serious, "Ya'll ain't got nothing, do ya?"
A personal fave from an elderly woman: " I had to pee, ya dumb ass."
And the one that had me in tears from a very confused and mathematically challenged patient: "My mother and father had 12 children. Eleven boys and six girls".
This, of course, will be me in a few years.....
Brandon is off to church camp. I would have gone with them except, as usual, my work schedule didn't coincide. (My Saturday schedule seems to only coincide with church work days!) After dropping him off at the church and heading to the grocery store, I holed up here at home and read the entire day. The cloudy day was perfect for assuaging my lazo guilt. I don't think I can get by with that today.
I was cast adrift after the Great Farscape Rewatch ended and was lucky to enter Harry Potter mode. I watched all of the previous movies over last weekend and read Half Blood Prince before seeing the movie on Wednesday. Then, I wanted to read Deathly Hallows but it was missing. I probably loaned it out and forgot all about it. So, I had to buy the paperback version (because , naturally, it was checked out from the library) and that is what I read yesterday. I enjoyed the movie but, like the book, it isn't one of my personal favorites of the series. However, reading Deathly Hallows made me very excited to see how the movie versions of that turn out! Still, I am not sure that I am done with HP as now I am thinking about rereading the first five.
I have been reading quite a bit and I finished the Twilight series last week. Strangely, I enjoyed each book in that series more than the last resultng in Twilight being my least favorite. And since the media comparisons between Twilight and Harry Potter are well underway, I am very strongly in the HP camp, thank you very much...LOL! My desire to read more and more is a little desperate of late as I feel the summer flashing by and know that, all too soon, it will be only textbooks for me. In fact, I am thinking about purchasing them as early as the list comes available so I can find some small way to get ahead. I cannot believe that Brandon only has a few short weeks left as school starts August 3rd for him!
I have realized that I am going to have to go part-time when school starts. I have checked the calendar and I see that I have, perhaps, 13 weeks to fit in 240 clinical hours and that is cutting it close. I will have to work in clinical three days a week most weeks to fit it all in. Three 12's does not leave much wiggle room and I expect that at least one of them will have to go. I don't really mind doing this but going PRN will leave me without benefits for a very long time as I suspect that I can't merely switch back and forth from PRN to full time status over breaks, even if I am able to work full time hours. It is a huge problem. I purchase Brandon's insurance privately but even the monthly baseline premiums for someone my age without health issues would be too costly for me, and that is not including the "fat fee" I am sure would be added. I am going to keep checking. I looked into one student type program and it required that you be a full time student. As per my usual luck, I am one hour short of that requirement. We'll see. I'll be praying for the best.
I have been doing a few overtime days this month and it hasn't been so bad. I have another one next week, though. Ugh. I have been enjoying my patients and trying to remember interesting and or funny things from work. I had a 21 year old male patient who had, at his bedside, an omnibus containing all of Jane Austen's novels! That's not something you see everyday. Mostly, though, it is comments overhead such as
in report after an unexpected and unwelcome revelation during the night: "Oh, the patient will calm down if you let him hold your breast."
From a woman about her husband: "He'll drive ya to drink" a pause and then a more serious, "Ya'll ain't got nothing, do ya?"
A personal fave from an elderly woman: " I had to pee, ya dumb ass."
And the one that had me in tears from a very confused and mathematically challenged patient: "My mother and father had 12 children. Eleven boys and six girls".
This, of course, will be me in a few years.....
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Date: 2009-07-18 05:11 pm (UTC)We have been having some sunny days but overall it has not been that hot so far this summer. It has been alot rainier then usual. Today it is quite foggy, humid, overcast and rainy with a temperature of 66F. Perfect weather for an outdoor concert. D'OH!! ; )
That is sad that you have to give up your health benefits to go part time. Good Luck on finding different coverage.
If you want something fun to read you should pick up "Just a Geek" by Wil Wheaton. He writes about his life Post TNG. Great stuff.
See you in 47 days. : )
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Date: 2009-07-19 06:31 pm (UTC)Yeah, 79 degrees is perfect beach weather if you have no intention of getting in! LOL.