The past couple of days, I decided to spend a lot less time in front of the computer on my days off. So after I got home Monday morning, I limited my computer time to an hour or so a day. It's not that I think the computer is a bad influence, or is a waste of time. The computer has enabled me to do a lot with less time. I just wanted to take a break from it a bit. No checking my work email. No blogging. No newsgroups, or yahoo groups, or listservs.
So we spent some time watching television and getting caught up on our shows.
I'm really very impressed with Threshold and Supernatural.
I'm not as enthusiastic about this season's CSI: Miami. It just has a totally different "feel" compared to the other CSI shows, and I think the story lines are just too unbelievable. But I still like the original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: New York.
I've also been catching up on my reading. I'm working on the latest Dune novel, Battle of Corrin. I'm also reading the second book of a trilogy based on the World of WarCraft online game (I got hooked on it, even though I don't play the game).
Holiday Schedule
I've put out the holiday schedule for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. Publication of the holiday schedule always means my popularity will suffer a few dents and dings over the next few weeks. There are a lot of nurses who simply did not understand the ramifications of being a hospital nurse, rather than going into, say, stock market brokerage, or loan underwriting, or fanciful blooming plant propagation, or domestic cattle gynecology. I just don't understand it. I mean, someone HAS to be there 24/7. Most of my folks are accepting the responsibility of sharing the holiday coverage. But I also have a line forming outside my office, with nurses clutching photos of their toddler-age children, or with their booked airline tickets, or with their selection of fonts for their New Year's party invitations.
One nurse can't understand why I don't just staff with agency and pool nurses over the holiday. I couldn't believe she didn't know that nurses work agency and pool so they can Never Work A Holiday Again During Their Lifetime.
I'll get through it. I just have to watch my temper, and my tongue. Oh, and I guess I should take down that poster advertising openings for H&R Block Tax Prep classes that I pinned to my door (no I didn't really do that but...)
Really, if you don't want to work holidays, you just can't be a hospital nurse. Just get over it and move on (and those tax prep classes are filling up...)
We've had a bout of Crazy Virginia Weather
The past couple of days, it's been cold and rainey. Temperatures have dipped into the 50's. We're running the heat in the car, and we might have to turn on the heat in the apartment (something about Phoenician blood being a bit thin due to the summer heat, making us more sensitive to cold -- sounds good to me). Downright nippley, as I used to say in college.
We went grocery shopping yesterday, and it rained on us. You would have thought the sky had opened up with battery acid, based on our reaction.
Winter is coming, and I can hardly wait!
The website "my cat hates you" is the perfect symbolic expression of a typical staff nurse's reaction the the dreaded Holiday Schedule.
My Cat Hates You
Posted by: shrimplate | October 21, 2005 at 06:14 PM