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beansideIt occurred to me that there's been a shameful lack of Duran Duran for the subject line of my posts, so I shall rectify that. This one brought to you by sorchar pointing out that the video for Wild Boys is the most homeoerotic thing ever filmed, including actual gay porn.
Today is supposed to be a lovely, albeit slightly windy, spring day here in MD. Actually the entire week is going to be nice...right until it's time for us to go away. Then, nothing but rain. I'm still going to have fun, no worries, but it's mildly annoying.
Have another day of shadowing, which is boring the crap out of me. The thing is, they have one trainer, and she was already training a woman who started in late January. Their training runs about 2 months, so she's just taking her first monitored calls. So I am kind of stuck cooling my heels while she does that. The first day was interesting, seeing how she did things, but now it's making me want to progress. She's very nice and sweet, but she does things differently from how I would do it, and she verbally fumbles a bit if the patients go off script. So, I'm both bored and feeling like "I could do better than this if I knew the ins and outs."
Aside from being a touch bored, work is going pretty well. Yesterday was my 30 day review. I figured it would be my manager and I, but no, apparently it was also the Dept Head and the Assistant Dept Manager as well as my trainer. I was dressed like a schlub, but realized with a minute to spare that it might be on camera and grabbed a blazer and yanked it on over my tank top. Fortunately, I was able to angle the camera to not see that I wasn't wearing a bra.
The review went well. Mostly it was seeing how I was doing, and how I felt about the process so far. But there was a bit of feedback, all of it really good. I mentioned that my teachers were all really engaging and cohesive, and was told that they all "loved the hell out of me." And then there was that I was "setting a high bar for future new hires," and that even day one, I was a "dream" to work with. (This was because I brought my own computer (since I didn't know when they would be issuing my Hopkins laptop during the day, and doing zoom on a phone just annoys the crap out of me.) They were really nice and encouraging, and it helped to smooth over a few scars from the last 911 review.
Dad's been doing pretty well. He seems to be getting a little bit stronger every day, which is good. Jess and I get him up in his wheelchair on my lunch break, and then when I get done work, he can go back into bed.
Tonight we have the Brindlewood Bay game, so that'll be a lot of fun. It's been a few weeks, so I'll have to look at the notes so I remember all the clues.
I am SO ready for this weekend. The week is going so slowly. I want to run away!
So I set up with the Hopkins Credit union, and it turns out they have reciprocal agreements with most other credit unions. And one of those is within walking distance, which is stellar. It'll be nice to not have far to drive to get out money. I'm keeping the other account, but I'm thinking harder about moving my primary banking to the Hopkins account. It would be a pain, since all the bills are linked to the other account, but it might be worth it. Something to think about.
Okay, time for me to consider getting in gear. Everyone have an excellent hump day!
sorchar pointing out that the video for Wild Boys is the most homeoerotic thing ever filmed, including actual gay porn.Today is supposed to be a lovely, albeit slightly windy, spring day here in MD. Actually the entire week is going to be nice...right until it's time for us to go away. Then, nothing but rain. I'm still going to have fun, no worries, but it's mildly annoying.
Have another day of shadowing, which is boring the crap out of me. The thing is, they have one trainer, and she was already training a woman who started in late January. Their training runs about 2 months, so she's just taking her first monitored calls. So I am kind of stuck cooling my heels while she does that. The first day was interesting, seeing how she did things, but now it's making me want to progress. She's very nice and sweet, but she does things differently from how I would do it, and she verbally fumbles a bit if the patients go off script. So, I'm both bored and feeling like "I could do better than this if I knew the ins and outs."
Aside from being a touch bored, work is going pretty well. Yesterday was my 30 day review. I figured it would be my manager and I, but no, apparently it was also the Dept Head and the Assistant Dept Manager as well as my trainer. I was dressed like a schlub, but realized with a minute to spare that it might be on camera and grabbed a blazer and yanked it on over my tank top. Fortunately, I was able to angle the camera to not see that I wasn't wearing a bra.
The review went well. Mostly it was seeing how I was doing, and how I felt about the process so far. But there was a bit of feedback, all of it really good. I mentioned that my teachers were all really engaging and cohesive, and was told that they all "loved the hell out of me." And then there was that I was "setting a high bar for future new hires," and that even day one, I was a "dream" to work with. (This was because I brought my own computer (since I didn't know when they would be issuing my Hopkins laptop during the day, and doing zoom on a phone just annoys the crap out of me.) They were really nice and encouraging, and it helped to smooth over a few scars from the last 911 review.
Dad's been doing pretty well. He seems to be getting a little bit stronger every day, which is good. Jess and I get him up in his wheelchair on my lunch break, and then when I get done work, he can go back into bed.
Tonight we have the Brindlewood Bay game, so that'll be a lot of fun. It's been a few weeks, so I'll have to look at the notes so I remember all the clues.
I am SO ready for this weekend. The week is going so slowly. I want to run away!
So I set up with the Hopkins Credit union, and it turns out they have reciprocal agreements with most other credit unions. And one of those is within walking distance, which is stellar. It'll be nice to not have far to drive to get out money. I'm keeping the other account, but I'm thinking harder about moving my primary banking to the Hopkins account. It would be a pain, since all the bills are linked to the other account, but it might be worth it. Something to think about.
Okay, time for me to consider getting in gear. Everyone have an excellent hump day!
