Work week over, finally

Huge sigh of relief, phew!

Finally this work week has come to an end. I swear this week seemed like a year long, no joke. You may think i'm crazy or lying, but it's completely true. Even my co-worker thought so. Each day seemed to last forever. Time seemed to go backwards instead of forwards. Lucky for her, she was able to take today of, the lucky bastard. But seriously this week seemed like it would never end. But at last it has, and I, for one, couldn't be any more happy.

With the weekend, finally in my grasps, one may ask what sort of plans I had. Originally I was supposed to get together with some friends this weekend, but apparently they all suck. One "forgot" we had made plans and is going to spend time at the cabin (sure, you just "forgot" ... hehe) then another just abandoned the whole cause and another I just have simply heard nothing. This is why our weekly get togethers never seem to materialize. Ah well, it won't be long before I'm not attending because I'll be working on my weekend again. It's been quite a long time since I last worked on the weekend at the hospital. They've already started to call me to give me shifts, although I have not phoned to say I'd be accepting shifts again, but c'est la vie. Surely I won't be on the casual list anymore if I don't go back soon. I'll more likely be on the forgotten, discarded and unemployed from there.

Back to the crazy work week. Never have I really had a week quite like this. It was quiet for the most part, but when it got busy, it got busy. Stupid busy though. Like you'd be dead for hours on end, then BAM everyone arrives at once and are pissed because they have to wait or they demand to know when is a better time. Do I look like I can see into the future? Not bloodly likely.

But today takes the cake. It was really intense this morning. If thye had all been for simple things like extremities (ie hands, wrist, feet, ankles, etc..) or chests, I would have been estastic. But you know my luck. Instead I had about 8 people in my waiting room and each requisition form had some interesting almost challenging stuff because there would be crazy things. Things like "chest and complete spine" which equals to about 10 x-rays and about 30 minutes to do it all and check all the films. My day continued like that.

At lunch time, I was like a minute away from putting my closed for lunch sign up and of course some one came in with a crazy req. First of all, one of my biggest pet peeves is when doctor's don't really know what they want, so they sort of just write different things down and hope we [techs] figure it out for them. This seriously drives me nuts. Then you have a patient who is telling you something different, and it gets just stupid. So back to my stupid pointless story. This person comes in with a req that says and I quote "L jaw (TMJ)." Ok so first of all jaw and tmj (temporomandibular joints) are in the same area but are two completely different types of pictures. So I ask the patient what sort of pain they're having and where it is. Of course, the pain is sort of in both areas.

I decide ok, well I'll just do the TMJ x-rays (I mean there are 5 x-rays there alone), but after finishing them, I'm not fully convinced that I have all the information I need. Plus the patient is now saying the doctor is really concerned with the mandible (jaw). So instead of having my radiologist looking at the films then deciding that the mandible needs to be done, I decide to do the mandible x-rays too. So here we go again, adding another 5 x-rays and 40 minutes to the total time with the patient. Thanks god, all the pictures came out first try. I don't normally see TMJs or mandibles but thank god they all turned out almost text book quality, which really made me happy. Remember it's the little things that make me happy. Turns out my lunch was late then, so then I was behind for the beginning of my afternoon. But still my luck continued. I even had another paitent come in with a req for a procedure I hadn't done in a while. It's just funny how you can go months without having to do any of those "obscure" x-rays then in one day you get a bunch right after eachother. Same thing happened yesterday too but no biggie.

I must add that I quite enjoy the ability to update my blog outside on my brother's laptop. Yes we now have 3 computers. It's a little bit of a madhouse but oh well. We're fully networked now so it's really good. Plus I can borrow his laptop and come outside, like I'm doing right now. It's quite enjoyable. Just sitting under the very creepy looming rain clouds typing here. Of course I'm really out here to be with the psycho kali who resembles something of a mud creature presently, but that's kali. Seriously her face is entirely caked mud, as are her legs. But it's hiliarious that she is trying to jump on my dad and he's freaking like some little school girl. The dog is NUTS!

this dog has talent. she gardens, aerates the soil, trims tress, chases squirrels (and corners them) as well as birds, and yet she still has time to attack garbage and people. Craziness. Plus the longer I stay outside, the more I can put off giving her a bath because that in itself is a huge task. But i guess i should soon, I mean she keeps licking her lips and getting mud and yet she doesn't seem to like it. Oh well enough about her.

So what else is there to yammer about.

Hopefully by the end of this weekend, I'll have posted my "alias season 5/michael vartan theories," and my men for my closet (including those that I shall be sharing with those non-commitital friends of mine). Plus I plan on installing adobe creative studio on my computer, so maybe I'll even have some fanart. But we'll see. I mean I do have another zillion projects in the work.

That reminds me of how I was thinking about all the projects I have started in the past few months. Seriously I have a problem with finishing anything, big surprise I know. As it stands right now i have to finish some candle making, some hemp jewllery, wire jewllery, scrapbooking, my inventory lists (nerd, I know), updating my mom's recipe book (it's all handwritten so obviously a nice typed up version is required after almost 30 years), my knitting, finishing some fanart, finishing a puzzle, finish those doodle pad things, make a classmates.com thing (maybe..I mean who would really be interested in me 5 years after high school. Hell I'm not even interested in me, lol). Oh and my learning italian, my mosacics and of course my fanfic from 3.5 years ago. Yes my projects date back that long ago. My list continues like this. I'm sure there are a bunch of other projects I've started. I doubt I'll ever finish them. Even so, what do you do with them once you've completed them. Normally I'm left empty as well. It's just a big stupid cycle. But at least it helps to pass the time...

Any hoos it appears it's time for me to head inside, for the bugs are starting to attack me. They want my blood...my blooo-ooo-ooo-d.

Plus I'm off to bathe the mud creature from the backyard.

Later days!

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{..::current..mood::..} Meh, bored and well more bored
{..::currently..reading::..} "white lies" by gemma townley (or something like that)
{..::currently..watching::..} the creepy looming clouds of rain
{..::currently..listening::..} scissor sisters - "laura"