This was the last day of my orientation week. I'm exhausted. It's worse for me to sit for seven or eight hours a day in front of a computer than it is for me to be run around doing different things all the time. I think my actual job will be more running around.
These little volunteer sunflowers popped up in the garden. Every morning their happy little faces greet me. This one had sheltered a little napping bee overnight. Poor little guy. I hope he was okay.
I actually finished all my learning modules today--a miracle--or at
least the ones that were on my plate when I left the facility for the
day. I expect more will be added by next week. There will probably be
enough down time after I start so that I can work on whatever new ones
crop up. As I sat at the computer, today, hour after hour, I had to
remind myself that I was getting paid. It takes a tiny bit of the sting
out of it.
I also had time to finish up some new hire
things online, arranging to have my paycheck direct deposited into our
account, filling out tax forms, and emailing parking services to have my
parking pass changed. I'm now paying $400 a year for parking--yes, four
hundred American dollars--but I will have rock star parking. Without
the permit change, I was paying $260 a year to park at a distant,
unpaved lot and ride the shuttle to work (which takes 15-20 minutes on a
good day, adding 30-40 minutes to my twelve-and-a-half hour work day,
really). With the new parking pass, I'll be parking pretty much in front
of the building where I'll be working, which is unheard of at this
organization. (I'm not at the main hospital.) Seriously. Many of the
doctors don't park closer to the hospital than I do (though many of them
park closer than the patients can) and they pay around $2,000 a year
for their parking. It's worth the extra $140 a year to me to park
close, especially in winter, when I'll be arriving and leaving work in
the dark.
After I finished for the day, Dave picked me
up and we came home. I had enough time to change out of my scrubs and
to feed the dogs. Then we headed back out to pick up Grace for dinner.
We went out for Greek food and I had something besides chicken. (I've
been eating a lot of chicken recently, taking chicken sandwiches for
lunch and having chicken and salad for dinner.) Chris has been sick with
a stomach virus, so she stayed home, but Grace, Dave and I went out and
chatted and had a good time (even though I was so tired that I just
wanted to go to sleep at the table).
It started to rain
as we were driving home and was turning into quite a storm by the time
we dropped Grace off at her place. Dave and I had to run an errand for
my brother and by then it was raining hard. We ran into and out of the
store, trying--and failing--to dodge the raindrops.
The
rain is nice but intense. The thunder scares the dogs. (I had to dose
them with CBD oil last night, which helps them a bit.) The rain cools
everything off, though. It was into the nineties today and now I'm
sitting here kind of chilled in my damp clothes. (Of course I'm sitting
under an air conditioner vent and drinking a giant, icy drink, which
might be contributing to my feeling cold.)
I want to
relax for a bit, but I'm feeling a bit restless, too. I've done not much
else but stress about the new job all week, even in my down time. I'd
like to just stretch out and get a full night's sleep (ha!).
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