Step on a crack...
Jul. 14th, 2004 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianJust to update you, I still have a job. Everyone was actually really nice about the whole thing, explaining to me that mostly this sort of thing is the relatives of patients looking for someone to blame. This was backed up by the fact that the person who logged the complaint had already had a go at my consultant and obviously didn't get the response she wanted. If she'd really had a problem with me, she'd have had a go then. However, I have offered to apologise if my manner somehow caused offence, mostly because it's a small enough thing for someone who's only just lost her mother. Besides, I really am sorry if I accidentally made her life harder at an already difficult time.
I've had it pointed out to me that I've been surviving on five hours of sleep or less per night. Part of it can be put down to being keyed up over yesterday's meeting, but the rest of it seems to be pure backache. I think it's down to my desk chairs -- they both have the lumbar support of a wet marshmallow in a blast furnace. Neither mattress in the house (either our bed or the one in the study) is particularly good either as far as my thoraco-lumbar spine is concerned and when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cholten99 has a restless night, it's world of pain. I find hot water helps, but hot baths have kind of lost their appeal since Yuki started using the bathtub as a litter tray. I'm not sure what to do about any of this.
Work is also becoming more and more stressful, particularly since Violet started dumping tapes on me. I'm deliberately going through Dr Propper's newest cassette slowly so that I won't get saddled with yet more typing. After all, the lack of typing is part of the reason why I took this job in the first place. And the minute my other consultants go on holiday, I'll finally be able to do the tidying and filing and the rest of it without that lot blundering around, getting in my way and interfering with the pile order. Hell, I'm almost hoping that my back or head gets to a stage where I have to stay home. At least I'd have a day off.
Well, can't really complain. Tonight we're polishing off the Firefly RPG (we think and hope and pray), and then we can spend our free nights on Buffy or Angel instead. I have remembered to put Kat and Mark's foci lists, Andy O's Mage character sheet and Simson's Firefly character sheet in my bag before I even left the house, and don't even have to go home if I don't want to. On the one hand, it's probably safer (no temptation to shop) but on the other hand, if I get there on my own I might actually get there on time for a change. ^_^
And I have a Sunday where I don't have to trek out to North London this week. Andy O's headed to Paris and wants to have a free weekend before he goes so Exalted is cancelled. Probably a good thing -- I can sit home watching the stuff thatcholten99 isn't interested in watching (Ring, Battle Royale II, Amadeus for my twentieth time...). Then again, I have a fortnight of empty house to do that in.
Bah. I'm gonna miss him.
I've had it pointed out to me that I've been surviving on five hours of sleep or less per night. Part of it can be put down to being keyed up over yesterday's meeting, but the rest of it seems to be pure backache. I think it's down to my desk chairs -- they both have the lumbar support of a wet marshmallow in a blast furnace. Neither mattress in the house (either our bed or the one in the study) is particularly good either as far as my thoraco-lumbar spine is concerned and when
cholten99 has a restless night, it's world of pain. I find hot water helps, but hot baths have kind of lost their appeal since Yuki started using the bathtub as a litter tray. I'm not sure what to do about any of this.Work is also becoming more and more stressful, particularly since Violet started dumping tapes on me. I'm deliberately going through Dr Propper's newest cassette slowly so that I won't get saddled with yet more typing. After all, the lack of typing is part of the reason why I took this job in the first place. And the minute my other consultants go on holiday, I'll finally be able to do the tidying and filing and the rest of it without that lot blundering around, getting in my way and interfering with the pile order. Hell, I'm almost hoping that my back or head gets to a stage where I have to stay home. At least I'd have a day off.
Well, can't really complain. Tonight we're polishing off the Firefly RPG (we think and hope and pray), and then we can spend our free nights on Buffy or Angel instead. I have remembered to put Kat and Mark's foci lists, Andy O's Mage character sheet and Simson's Firefly character sheet in my bag before I even left the house, and don't even have to go home if I don't want to. On the one hand, it's probably safer (no temptation to shop) but on the other hand, if I get there on my own I might actually get there on time for a change. ^_^
And I have a Sunday where I don't have to trek out to North London this week. Andy O's headed to Paris and wants to have a free weekend before he goes so Exalted is cancelled. Probably a good thing -- I can sit home watching the stuff that
cholten99 isn't interested in watching (Ring, Battle Royale II, Amadeus for my twentieth time...). Then again, I have a fortnight of empty house to do that in.Bah. I'm gonna miss him.