Do you take your time to get started and head straight to a coffee pot?
Is it a steady pace or does it all climax when you're running out of time?
Tonight is quiet, although I really shouldn't say it out loud. We are running like a well oiled machine... other nights have been hell lately. Surprise admissions with a diagnosis you're sure someone just made up.
Call bell's ringing with inaudible repsonses so when you've left the room you were in and taken off your gown etc you find out that they rolled over on it and didn't want anything at all. We carry phones that have been dropped in anything you can imagine and no amount of alcohol wipes can ever bring them back. So I'm always in a hurry to take mine away from my face.
I am only annoyed more by the person that asks me what channel his.her favourite show is on. This is ALWAYS a parent because the TV's are programmed to come straight to the Disney Channel because we are Pediatrics.
-- 3 hours and then I go home. Sunday mornings are a double edged sword. Everyone is alseep when you get home and you really need to get the dog out because no one else has and she's old. (say no more) and the State police have a guy with a radar gun hidden somewhere on the Hi-way.
I say hidden, but basically I just mean he's in a slightly different spot.
Sounds like a tough job.
I get in around 8, read my e-mail and eat some breakfast until about 9, then I do some 'house calls' until about 10.30/11 and either go drop in on one of my friends in another office or visit my girlfriend for breaktime.
Lunch is between 12 and 1 usually and then I do some work until 2.30. Stop for a break and another friend visit and then work until 5.
Pretty easy and might bore some people but definitely works for me. Occasionally this routine is totally shot and I've had a few emergency calls out of hours or had to relocate entire servers and workstations at very short notice to meet deadlines but that is very rare. I don't mind when that happens - I figure I am mostly around as insurance anyway.
Oooh, good can I have a moan too? The cell phone idea for nurses is stupid. Convenient for whom? Mine kept ringing last evening when I was doing a gravity tube feed (both hands busy for about five minutes) and the patient piped up "Do you want me to answer that for you? I can tell them you're busy" Har har! If I do pick it up if I'm in a room and it's an outside call, I can't really say much as surely I'd be violating hipaa. Plus, for most information I need the chart which is at the desk. Along with the land line phone and the unit secretary. Our phones are probably the most MRSA ridden things on the planet, I'd hate to think in what situations someone else may answered them.
If I work a 6-2 shift then all my admits are invariably admitted between 1:30 and 2pm.
Also do a baylor, things normally quieten down by 10pm there.
Hmm. My day.
Alarm goes off at 6:35...6:40 then 6:45. I pull myself out of bed and turn on the shower. I pee while the water is heating up. Out of the shower by 7am. Wrap around a towel and throw on my dressing gown.
Into the kitchen. Pour milk into a jug and microwave for 2 minutes. Find a bowl and insert Weetabix. Pour nuked milk over Weetabix, add sugar go into office. Check email and newsgroups while eating breakfast. 7:10 done eating. Find a stack of bowls and plates to put used bowl on. Go to bathroom, shave if it's a Monday or Thursday
brush teeth. add smellies. Go into bedroom, get dressed. Fill a bottle of water from the fridge and leave around 7:20. Get to work around 7:30. (Yes, I have a real job that I have to drive to now). Leave work around 4:30pm and go home. There ya go.
Hmm, I guess there is a real danger I may bore you to death with this
6:30 - Get up, wife continues to sleep/snore, bury feelings of resentment. Shower, dress go down stairs.
6:45 - make breakfast, Oatmeal. I have high cholesterol, I have a non functioning thyroid...when did I get old.
7:00 - Take daughter to school, sometimes she speaks, sometimes she doesn't gets out of car and shows her buttcrack to the whole world.
7:30 - arrive a Bayfair station, catch train into San Francisco
8:10 - Reach office, start computer, go get coffee, look out over Market Street. I am a DBA, systems administrator, technical lead and project manager since my company decided not to renew a position. Work my arse off, don't take lunch, don't leave desk.
5:30 - 6:00 - Leave office
6:45 - 7:15 - Get home.
rinse and repeat.
A typical day depends on my class schedule and if there are departmental meetings. Mostly if I teach a late class or seminar I'll fit nine holes in the morning and get to my office around 11ish. No late class I'll be in by 9:30. Then Nancy brings in coffee and biscuits (Peek Frean's Assorted, I got her well trained) and I check mail, do a bit of reading have a bit of a chat with colleagues then its off to lunch with said colleagues or graduate students. Possibly teach a class in the afternoon or I may take in lecture myself, Nancy then brings in tea and more biscuits around 4:30 and has that look like, 'can I go home now' which she usually does. A tutorial or a seminar in the early evening and then off for bevies and something to eat. Weekends consist of battling between hangovers and writing.
More or less.
A typical day depends on my class schedule and if there are departmental meetings. Mostly if I teach a late class or seminar I'll fit nine holes in the morning and get to my office around 11ish. No late class I'll be in by 9:30. Then Nancy brings in coffee and biscuits (Peek Frean's Assorted, I got her well trained) and I check mail, do a bit of reading have a bit of a chat with colleagues then its off to lunch with said colleagues or graduate students. Possibly teach a class in the afternoon or I may take in lecture myself, Nancy then brings in tea and more biscuits around 4:30 and has that look like, 'can I go home now' which she usually does. A tutorial or a seminar in the early evening and then off for bevies and something to eat. Weekends consist of battling between hangovers and writing.
More or less.
You're my God.
Oooh, good can I have a moan too? The cell phone idea for nurses is stupid. Convenient for whom? Mine kept ringing last evening when I was doing a gravity tube feed (both hands busy for about five minutes) and the patient piped up "Do you want me to answer that for you? I can tell them you're busy" Har har! If I do pick it up if I'm in a room and it's an outside call, I can't really say much as surely I'd be violating hipaa. Plus, for most information I need the chart which is at the desk. Along with the land line phone and the unit secretary. Our phones are probably the most MRSA ridden things on the planet, I'd hate to think in what situations someone else may answered them.
If I work a 6-2 shift then all my admits are invariably admitted between 1:30 and 2pm.
Also do a baylor, things normally quieten down by 10pm there.
We're not suposed to answer them in isolation rooms but since everyone is on isolation (no wonder) if you don't pull off a glove then you'll hear that you weren't answering your phone?!?!?!
We currently have a neutropenic nightmare. mostly we've been lucky with dilligence. There isn't enough lotion in the world to stop my hands from stinging.
I came in for a 12 hour shift tonight by mistake... it was my night off and I forgot! WTF?
Up at about 2.40-2.45ish on a normal day, coffee, toast and 20 minutes doing internet stuff (correspondence etc..) or just reading the news. Off to work at about a quarter to four, twenty minutes drive to work and a chance to listen to half an album on the way. City's deserted at this time of day so quite relaxing. Work starts about 4.20ish and can either be utterly exhausting or slightly dull for the next five hours, depending on what people are deciding to send each other.
Next time you decide to order that Bowflex, think of the people who have to deliver the damn thing! And please make sure, whatever you send, that its packed properly. Its a hard life going through the UPS mailing system.
The drive home is better, everybody's in a hurry to get to work but i'm done for the day. Shower, pot of tea and then its down to the studio for a few hours, or out with the vaccuum cleaner. I prefer lurking in the studio and being creative but you gotta vac sometimes..
As its finally Not-Winter (good season, that) I can get out into the garden- since we bought the house theres a ton of stuff to do. Been felling trees for the last fortnight and there's still the vegetable beds to be dug.
We're learning that all those headache inducing things that landlords never fixed are actually quite a bit of fun once you realise that its really easy to sort them out and landlords are just lazy scum who never wanted to do anything anyway.
Mrs Servalan gets home around Four, or Six, or Eleven- depending on her schedule and then we do stuff together, or flop infront of the telly. As its warmer we will sometimes cook out in the garden or, on occassion walk to a local pub or resturant for some grub.
I usually get to bed about 9ish. Sometimes at the weekends i'm up past 10.30 (whooooo!)
Hmmm, well we are retired so we get up when we want, eat when we want and the only "must do" that we have is to take care of our dogs and drive out and see to our horses every day. We spend time with them and clean out their shelter then feed them before coming home.
We spend our time reading mostly as we elected to not watch TV many years ago... and of course I write too. We do buy or rent the odd dvd to watch and have built up quite a library.
We garden too but the weather has not allowed for much of that yet and I fear nothing will get done unless the weather changes.
We are night owls too... Mr Melug spent many years on graveyard shift and I kept those hours too. Its hard to switch back even when you don't work any more!
The day (or shall I say the night) starts at 7pm when I wake up after the second round of 'day sleeping'. I have to do the routine of making myself fresh before getting to the real work.
I'll leave the house around 8.30 since 9pm is the start. From that time until 12 midnight,I'll sit in front of a computer. I would write at least three articles, check my e-mails, talk to my boss through the net, post something on my blog, join in forum discussions and make the daily report.
By 12, I got out of the office with friends and eat something. It would be the usual fast food chains in the area. We go back before 1pm, take some rest and get back to work again.
The work would last until 6am. When the clock ticks, it's already time to go home. By 7am, that's the time to start sleeping then wake up before lunch. Take a rest after eating then it's gonna another round of sleeping..
Had my latest and last job for 16 years.
I get up around 7:30am, make a pot of tea for my wife and I, then go back to bed with cups of tea, toast and Robertsons Marmalade.
After 30 mins or so I get up and take a shower and shave. Then I go to my office in the living room and check for e-mail etc. After shutting the office the wife joins me to check out the latest BBC World news at 9:00am. At 10:00am I go for a short walk and pick up the two free daily papers ( Metro and 24 Hours). We have another cup of tea while checking out the newspapers.
The wife is not a morning person so I usually go for a long walk by the Ottawa River and usually meet other wrinklies and have a discusion on how to run the world. On other days I walk to the local mall and get some groceries. We tend to shop several times each week rather than one big weekly trip.
Around mid-day we have our lunch and check out the latest news both local and US.
We often go out for another walk in the afternoon or sometimes take in a movie at the local Cineplex theatre ( just 5 min walk). Other days we may go to a local Mall and check out things and have a coffee.
We usually have our supper around 5:45 which I always prepare and cook. I have done this ever since I started this job in 1992.
After supper we settle into an evening of TV and or reading.
Thats a typical work day for which we actually get paid quite well and enjoy yearly cost of living increases of approx 4%.
BTW thats the same work day whether in Ottawa or San Diego.
I usually go for a long walk by the Ottawa River
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BTW thats the same work day whether in Ottawa or San Diego.
A very long walk on the San Diego days, eh?
Mine varies. The only given is the alarm at 6:20. If I'm volunteering in the school early in the morning (Tues and Thurs usually), then I have to jump out of bed and shower and dress while beest makes tea. Otherwise I lie in bed while he makes tea, roll out at the last possible minute and throw yesterdays clothes on with clean undies. Then I yell at the kids for a bit sergeant-major style, or sign their permission slips or help them cram their swim kit into their backpacks.... then we bike to the bus stop at 7:15. They leave, i ride home, wheeling one bike with two scooters on my luggage rack thing. Then it gets variable again.
This morning, my cellphone rang about 30seconds after the bus left. It's an emergencies only phone, so I rammed on the brake. bad mistake. front brake only. flew over handlebars, got shafted.... *ow*. Hebe forgot her giant crochet hook we made from a wrapping paper tube for her demonstration in school at 9:15. Abandon plans of slightly lazy breakfast before ice skating class. grab hook, leave early, drop hook at school, go to class. Pass 4 more elements on Basic 8 including waltz jump (yay me!), realize no-one checked Thor had his swim kit. Realized when I checked he had his lunch i didn't see it.
Decide that his misery over not being able to swim not worth the lesson that he needs to remember his kit, plus it's the first time he's forgotten it as well at the first time we've forgotten to check. Phone school, find out swimming is in 1 hour.... original plan was to go home, spend couple of hours preparing class for the afternoon then returning to school to run class. Change to dash home, grab stuff for class, grab swim kit. Hand over kit, spend time in parking lot preparing for class -sawing 1inch PVC pipe into 18" lengths ready for "spy school" -today they are learning Spartan code. Class fine. Read email, lots of paperwork to do, somehow volunteer to sub as an unpaid sub swim coach for the little kids -one of our coaches is sick and none of the subs are available. Just got in from that. I'm still alive. If a little pruney. Most of the kids are still alive too.
Get home at 7:45'ish put cup in microwave because water dispenser thingy is broken. Make menatl note to get knew one from Home Depot (can't remember where this one came from) or call water bottle people.
Get in PJ's (Monster mentioned her undies so I'm bringing nightwear into it)
Wash face and brush teeth. Grab tea and toast or something... not that I need it because I always have half a twix in car from way into work. OK sometimes it's a second Twix, but they're two small candy bars if you think about it.
Get in bed and watch Good Morning America for the 10 seconds it takes me to fall asleep. Remember to throw a load in washing machine then head to creepiest basement in the world. Pray no spiders get me.
Sleep untill 2pm when my daughter get's home from school and begins banging cabinets in the kitchen. She is now not eating meat and sighs that I don't buy food she can eat! I tell her there are chocolate chip cookies on the counter and I'm pretty sure there's no meat in them.
Try to get just 5 more minutes of sleep, but boys get home from school. (Their bus is 45 minutes later than the High School one)
4:30 - 5 Make dinner or order it depending on day.
Get in shower and then go back to work again at 6:30pm.
8pm recieve phone call at work from kids that there are bats in the basement. Flying not baseball. OMG!
Call husband and get lecture that I have too much stuff in basement. Since when were the washer and dryer mine?
Kids call back and ask if they can film the bats and put them on YouTube... I Google bats in basement.
Well now it's 2:30am... Waiting for Dunkin Donuts to open.