MY LIFE - JANUARY

Thursday, January 18, 2001

I found out my schedule for next week and I kind of like it, kind of don't. The part I like is having two days off in a row, Monday and Tuesday, the part I don't like is everything after that. I don't generally like having two days off in a row (aside from the weekend) because it takes away any kind of possible breather the rest of the way through the schedule. Somewhere, I'd have to work at least 4 days in a row and although I'm used to that by now, doing it after two days off is something I haven't done often.

Of course, the fact that I have two days off next week should be a pretty big relief. This week has been brutal and today didn't make it any easier for me. At this rate, I'm going to have a pretty tough time getting up in the morning when I have to, especially if I work another long shift like today.

I didn't end up leaving until around 7:20pm and I was scheduled until 6. I stayed not because we were busy, but because I was working on a project and wanted to finish it rather than have someone else try and finish what I started. It still needs a little work, but it's pretty much done now. It only took me more than 3 hours to do too, so everyone had better be happy with it.

I basically had to go through our old pharmacy stuff that's been up in the backroom and find anything that's over seven years old and throw it out along with any regular invoices that are from before last year. I ended up with only around four boxes that needed to be tossed, but I did clear up some room and was able to reorganize the whole section. It basically goes from 1994 straight through to 2001 and every box is marked with the year of its contents.

It wasn't easy to do that either. Those boxes were not light and I had to go up high to get them down, so the fact that I didn't seriously hurt myself or even kill myself in the process is a minor miracle in itself. The big mistake was packing all the script hardcopies into huge boxes. The boxes don't hold together well and they're heavy, so the method we use now, using smaller boxes, works that much better. It's easier to carry and stack the smaller boxes.

I got it done, despite now being incredibly tired and sore. That's going to be the reason why I'm not writing much tonight. I don't have the energy, nor do I have anything really worth talking about at this point. It's been a pretty good week and I don't think it's going to get worse anytime soon. I've been enjoying myself and not worrying about what others have to say about what I'm doing. Not even Tuesday when I rang register all day was a bad day because it went quick and Roberta helped me out from time to time.

This week is going by quickly, which can only be a good thing. I just can't wait for it to end so I can have a day or two off and just relax, and maybe clean up my room since it's such a disaster area. It really needs to be vacuumed and picked up, but I haven't had any real chance to do that just yet. I'm hoping I get one either this weekend or when I'm off Monday and Tuesday, so let's cross our fingers.

The only other thing worth noting is what do we do after next week when Velvet is gone? Especially if Linda goes beserk and decides to try and get Steve to stop giving her the very midnight shifts that she said she preferred? She tried it once and it didn't exactly go very well, so if she tries it again, there could be some real problems. I for one will not be picking up all her shifts and I know Paul isn't thrilled with it either.

However, Linda has seniority over Paul which means he would get stuck with most of them since I have seniority over both of them (which Paul did not try to hide his distaste with either). The idea is that Steve will be able to find a couple people to bring in and help ease the pressure on the rest of us, but we'll see about that. I haven't seen any applications come in recently aside from the woman who is retired, and I don't think we'll be seeing many in the near future.

All in all though, it's been a decent week. How many more of these will I have? Hopefully more. I just wish I didn't have to listen to Paul and his doomsday-like attitude as much. Oh well. That's how he is.