Happy August!
Well, it is August now. That's kind of exciting to me. So much good stuff comes with August and September. This Saturday (5 short days away) is the first NFL Preseason game. The return of the NFL makes me giddy like a school girl. I've missed football soo hard. Of course the return of games on TV is just gonna make me want to hit people again. Maybe I can scare up some kids to play on the weekends again. That won't involve hitting unfortunately, but it will involve burning coverage and catching touchdowns which is an acceptable second place.
Having trouble getting work done today. Part of that is the haze from the drugs. Whatever I had last week came roaring back this weekend. How nice of it to ruin two weekends in a row. I think they screwed up and that it is strep that just didn't culture. Which happens sometimes. So I am back on the anti-biotics. Starting to feel better so I might be smarter than the lab. YAY!
I've been spending the morning doing paperwork type things. That and writing a script to do some of my work for me. I <3 Python so hard. Like I'm gonna sit there and do volume testing. HA! That's what scripting languages are for. To allow me to be lazy. WOOT!
I have some school paperwork to do too. I have to fill out all the CSC tuition reimbursement paperwork and what not. The class needs to be approved before I take it. So that means I need to get that done this week to give them enough time to screw up and fix it before classes start. Yeah, I have no faith in systems. The only thing you can count on a system to do is break. :-D I also have to get my medical records crap all sorted out. Bleck! That means I get to deal with both a hospital and a University for the same transaction. Can you feel my optimism? Someone is gonna lose something in this process and I know it won't be me. See what a ugrad education at UVM teaches you.
Kentucky was fun. I saw a Louisville Bats game (they suck) and had most of my meals paid for as "project lunches" so I got to pocket all of my per diem. YAY! Basically I made an extra $100 and saved the money I would have spent on groceries and gas for the week. I love my job. I think I could do a trip like that every 5-6 weeks. That would definitely help the budget a little.
Also I changed my schedule this week. I now work 9 hours M-Th and only 4 on Fridays. YAY!!! This serves 2 purposes. First, it allows me to finish my goal of taking every Friday this summer off without completely annihilating my vacation store. Second when classes start it will give me Friday afternoons off to get last minute things done before I spend all day Saturday in class. Quite nice. I was tempted to go with the 10 hour days, but that is a bit much. That 10th hour is a hard one especially on Thursday. This makes more sense to me. Plus I am less likely to waste Friday if I have gotten up and going for work in the morning rather than sleeping in and such.
Ok, that was kind of a waste of time post. Oh well. That's what LJ is for right?