YKYW - Nursing Student Blog

Auto insurance can bite my ass. Are these people on crack? Geico wants over $200/mo to cover me. Madness, I tell you. Granted, I need full coverage and just got a speeding ticket, but I only have ONE on my record. My driving record is otherwise perfect. Jerks. They may as well bend me over and have their way. I didn’t even get a reach around.

Yet, I am in a really fantabulous mood today. The sun is shining, the birds are singing and the weather is perfect. I wish I could be sprawled out on blanket under a tree, reading a book with her head in my lap. Alas, maybe this weekend.

I’m exhausted. I haven’t slept much in the last few weeks. I can’t seem to turn off my brain. Last night, I spent more time on the phone that I intended, but it was worth it. I’m reading a new book. The Nameless Day by Sara Douglass. It places a fictional character in historical 1300s and she “brilliantly blended detailed research with religion and magic to reinterpret actual historical events, here the shift from extreme spiritualism to humanism that began in 14th-century Europe.” Anyone read it, or anything else by her? I wanted Wayfarer Redemption, but they didn’t have it.

I’ve already had a couple of people at work talk to me about possible job opportunities within the company. The company policy is I have to wait for 6 months before I can move on. Yesterday, I was informed of an opening, and told that my company is willing to waive the waiting period for certain promotions. My supervisor thinks it’s too soon, but it was still a good feeling that my skills were recognized.

Ewww.

This is just gross. I walk into the restroom and I’m one of those people who just naturally look down for feet in the stalls. Does anyone else do that? Anyway, in looking down, I see hemorrhoid cream laying on the FLOOR of the bathroom next to this lady’s feet. Seeing the tube of cream is bad enough, but WTF is she thinking, laying it on the bathroom floor?!??! Hasn’t she been to health class? Hello! Germ city! Would you want something off the bathroom floor near your pink parts?!

/shudder

Welp, I’m in DFW now. Wahoo! I feel like this great weight has been lifted off of my shoulders. I don’t have Internet access where I am staying, so forgive me in my replies are slow.

I have a job interview this afternoon and another one I need to schedule. Frankly, at this point I feel like saying fuck it all and just taking the job I know I have so I can actually relax for awhile. That sure would be nice.

I got a speeding ticket on the way up here. It friggin pissed me off! I had my cruise control set on 80 and got pulled over. The cop was a jerk. He said I was going 84. He said it is up to him to figure out who is speeding. I said, don’t you think it is more likely the guy in front of me was the one speeding? He said “Just because they are in front of you doesn’t mean they are going faster.” I said “It does if they are passing you!”

Jerk. Pisses me off that it will prolly cost me more to fight it than to just pay the damn thing.

Anyway, I have a lot of email to reply to and then I have to go get ready for this blasted interview.

Try not to miss me tooooooo much

So, I accept the job offer and have to go pee in a cup. This is awful. I have never in my life had to pee in a cup (well, other than that time I thought I’d join the Air Force, but that’s another story). I take off during lunch yesterday and call for directions. The lady manages to give me bungled directions 3 different times. I finally find the place and go inside. The place is PACKED with greasy guys covered in tattoos. Seriously, not only am I the only woman in the waiting room, but it also looks like I am the only person who had a shower in the last week, much less that day.

As germ paranoid as I am, waiting rooms are an awful experience. At least this one wasn’t in a doctor’s office. Those are teh sux. After waiting for an hour and a half and seeing 3 guys be processed, I ask how many people are in front of me. “4” WTF? It took an hour and a half to have 3 guys pee in a cup and I still have 4 people in front of me? I tell them I am leaving. Big drama ensues. I wind up telling them that if they get me fired from my current job because of their incompetency, I’d sue them. They shut up. To top things off, I needed to go to the bathroom since an hour before I showed up, but wanted to make sure I could perform on command. I was miserable.

They open at 8a, and I don’t have to be to work until 830, so I figure I’ll just be sitting there at 8a and get in and get out. I leave with just enough time to get to the pee-cup place before 8a. When I get in my car, my gas light is on. No problem, I’ll just stop after I pee. Nope. Left my DL (which is a must for the pee test) and Ccard at home. *sigh* Sometimes, I think I really should carry a purse. So I go BACK home and get my stuff, but now it’s too late and I have to go to work.

I wait until this afternoon and go in. Thank god, the place is empty, but it doesn’t assuage my fears, because I remember the nasties that were in there yesterday. Remember kids, don’t touch ANYTHING! The friggin nurse STILLL makes me wait for 45 minutes!!! Madness, I tell ya. I go through the process, and manage to perform adequately. I laugh as I sign the label and tell the nurse “Are you sure you don’t want a blood sample?”

Silly hoops just to get a job.

Thanks everyone for all the warm thoughts! It must have worked - According the the guys I interviewed with, I was a smashing success! It’s a really awesome company - same-sex partner benefits, and all that loveliness…

As I was going into the interview on Friday, a guy called to schedule me for a phone interview for another company. He asked when I would be in town, and I told him I was in Dallas now. Sooo, they scheduled an interview for Monday morning. This company is smaller, so it prolly doesn’t have the same-sex benefits, but it’s about $10k a year more money. I guess I will worry about that bridge if and when I get to it.

On to better things!
I went out to celebrate last night. I drank waaaaaay too much. Sheesh, the women were out in full force! I decided it was time to go when this couple was trying to each make the other one jealous by dancing with me. That, and that last shot kicked my ass. Southern Pucker sure tastes good, but woo! I’m a light weight.

I left with a pocket full of numbers. Now, the fun part is to see if I can remember which number goes with which face :p

I have an interview - TOMORROW
so I have to drive tonight
sorry this is short but I have to get on the road!

/panic

I had Chinese for lunch today.  One of the girls who went too - Her fortune said “Your hard work will soon pay off” and we all say “IN BED!” and start laughing.  She says “I don’t work hard.”  I say, “No, but it works better if he does!”  *laughing*

My fortune said “Good news will be coming your way through a letter or message”

I check my email when I get back to the office and low and behold…what do I see?
“Hey!  My supervisor is going to be calling you for an interview!”

/faints

*fingers crossed*

A client website was hacked - it now redirects to porn.
*sigh*

So, can we say bad day?

The interview on Saturday went well,  The lady doing the interview wanted to schedule a face-to-face later this week.  She goes in a Monday to find out when the boss wanted to meet me and learns that they hired someone they interviewed on Friday

I’ve had this project I’ve been working on for awhile now.  The lady called to complain about something and just wouldn’t let me get a word in, bitchin at me because I wouldn’t drop everything and rush to her office.  When she finally let me talk, I explained that if she would read those notes she wrote herself while I was training her on the software, she would see that she that I said ‘Don’t forget to do this step, or you will have a problem.’  It pisses me off to take an hour (or more) out of my day to tell her to read her notes.  Stupid me - never bundle support in the with sale price.  Support will ALWAYS be per-incident in the future.

My roommate was fired on Friday and went out of town this weekend.  So she needed me to meet with her old company and return things.  She is trying to walk me through her key ring and make sure I give back the right keys.  Have you ever tried explaining what a key looks like?  Gah.

And, I wanted to chat with someone but spent the evening trying to resolve all this other crap.  Bummer.
AND, I was hoping for a personal phone call that never came.  I hate waiting for the phone to ring.  Is there anything that sucks more than that?

Oh, and I started.  Lovely.

I have a phone interview in the morning.

OMFG

Wish me luck!