What's up lj? Long time no see.
I'm at work. Bored. So what better thing is there to do than to update my lj, which i haven't done in about 6 mths.
My job: The bane of my existance. While in theory and on paper is sounds great. In reality, I want to wrap the computer cord around my neck and call it a day. Ok, maybe i'm exaggerating a tad. Let me enlighten all my non-readers... Neighborhood Diabetes is the name (of my company), spanish tranlation is the game. Currently my job consists of sitting in a health clinic, Springfield's finest I'm sure, either at a desk or in a doctor's office, waiting for MAs, doctors or nurses to escort a patient with diabetes to me. Once said patient is with me I talk to them (in spanish, usually) about their diabetes. If they have a glucometer, I sign them up with our company, a pharmacy, to receive their testing supplies from us (with their health insurance, which is typically medicare, medicaid or mass health, their testing supplies are no cost to them, we bill the ins. co.). If they do not have a glucometer, I give them one, and I show them how to use it, etc. etc. etc. Sounds good so far right? Well, well, well, no. I see on average two to three patients in a given day. An EIGHT to NINE hour day! Each meeting with each patient takes no more than thirty minutes! God. What a mind waster. The upside, and reason for not quitting- the pay. It's pretty amazing. And I can't afford not to work here and take my pick of some almost minimum wage job. It's depressing.
My friends: Well, lately I feel as if the number of friends I have is getting smaller by the day. Or minute. Aside from my jujubee, my snugz, my <3, Derby, I hang out with virtually no one. I work, I come home. We hang out. We/I go to bed. Grubert and Jasper are around, but I've always felt, they consider me the girlfriend of their friend. I mean I know that's not completely true. But whatever. I need girls back in my life. Liz is in CA and that's a total bummer, still. Melissa works. I work. We both have boyfriends. It's rare we see each other now that she quit Ground Round. Sarah's busy. I'm busy. I don't make time, is what it comes down to. I don't call people. I miss all the friends I had sophomore/junior year. I mean don't get me wrong. I love my life and the people I spend time with now. I just miss the old. I want everything. I want it all.
School: I didn't get accepted into grad school. Which was a HUGE let down and disappointment. I am, however, going to take a grad class at UMass this semester as a non-degree student. I have no idea how I'm going to pay for it yet though. Eeek. Leah is in the class too, so at least I'll know someone and have a study partner. I've been thinking, maybe I'll study super hard for the GREs and apply for the spring semester, then next year, when I plan on leaving Amherst, I'll transfer out to another school, like MGH Institute of Health Professions. I was reading over the package they sent me with info on the ComDis grad dept. It sounds pretty awesome, and I think I'd really like to go there. I mean really like to go there. Not half ass well maybe it's in Boston I may as well apply there.
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OH MY GOD. I just lost half of what I just wrote!!!
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My love: He is almost most certainly joining the National Guard. Something that scares the poop out of me. I don't want him going to war. I don't want him to leave me all alone (yeah, I'm a girl, and a baby, get over it). But this is what he needs/wants to do, so I'll support him 100% nevertheless. I just get scared. And nervous. I think about the future. The future outside Aspen Chase. Next year. Once joining, he can wait upto a year to start basic. Basic is 9 weeks. Then culinary training would be 12 weeks. We're looking at a grand total of 5 months, 1 week (if I'm correct). That could be now til January or Oct to Feb. This lease ends in June. I want to go to Boston next year (or so I think now). I'm almost positive he wants to move to Boston next year too. Then again that all depends on this whole Guard thing. He could be anywhere really. All I know is I want us to be together. I want to move to Boston together. It's been almost a year. 8 days from today will be a year since we met. Oct 22- our 1 year anniversary of "offically" dating. That's a long time. Especially for me. It's going to be hard if/when he leaves, whenever that is.
My life: Ideally, this is how things will go: live out the rest of this lease working/going to school, get into UMass for the spring, get into MGH for fall 07, move with Derby to Boston next summer, go to MGH, live life, love life. One year at a time. (Maybe I should try one day at a time..... Yeah, no, that's not possible!)
Well, I've just wasted TONS of time at work. Which is good, since I have yet to receive the charts I need to work on my Diabetes Registry Database, or to see a patient.
LJ is lame. But I was bored.
My job: The bane of my existance. While in theory and on paper is sounds great. In reality, I want to wrap the computer cord around my neck and call it a day. Ok, maybe i'm exaggerating a tad. Let me enlighten all my non-readers... Neighborhood Diabetes is the name (of my company), spanish tranlation is the game. Currently my job consists of sitting in a health clinic, Springfield's finest I'm sure, either at a desk or in a doctor's office, waiting for MAs, doctors or nurses to escort a patient with diabetes to me. Once said patient is with me I talk to them (in spanish, usually) about their diabetes. If they have a glucometer, I sign them up with our company, a pharmacy, to receive their testing supplies from us (with their health insurance, which is typically medicare, medicaid or mass health, their testing supplies are no cost to them, we bill the ins. co.). If they do not have a glucometer, I give them one, and I show them how to use it, etc. etc. etc. Sounds good so far right? Well, well, well, no. I see on average two to three patients in a given day. An EIGHT to NINE hour day! Each meeting with each patient takes no more than thirty minutes! God. What a mind waster. The upside, and reason for not quitting- the pay. It's pretty amazing. And I can't afford not to work here and take my pick of some almost minimum wage job. It's depressing.
My friends: Well, lately I feel as if the number of friends I have is getting smaller by the day. Or minute. Aside from my jujubee, my snugz, my <3, Derby, I hang out with virtually no one. I work, I come home. We hang out. We/I go to bed. Grubert and Jasper are around, but I've always felt, they consider me the girlfriend of their friend. I mean I know that's not completely true. But whatever. I need girls back in my life. Liz is in CA and that's a total bummer, still. Melissa works. I work. We both have boyfriends. It's rare we see each other now that she quit Ground Round. Sarah's busy. I'm busy. I don't make time, is what it comes down to. I don't call people. I miss all the friends I had sophomore/junior year. I mean don't get me wrong. I love my life and the people I spend time with now. I just miss the old. I want everything. I want it all.
School: I didn't get accepted into grad school. Which was a HUGE let down and disappointment. I am, however, going to take a grad class at UMass this semester as a non-degree student. I have no idea how I'm going to pay for it yet though. Eeek. Leah is in the class too, so at least I'll know someone and have a study partner. I've been thinking, maybe I'll study super hard for the GREs and apply for the spring semester, then next year, when I plan on leaving Amherst, I'll transfer out to another school, like MGH Institute of Health Professions. I was reading over the package they sent me with info on the ComDis grad dept. It sounds pretty awesome, and I think I'd really like to go there. I mean really like to go there. Not half ass well maybe it's in Boston I may as well apply there.
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OH MY GOD. I just lost half of what I just wrote!!!
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My love: He is almost most certainly joining the National Guard. Something that scares the poop out of me. I don't want him going to war. I don't want him to leave me all alone (yeah, I'm a girl, and a baby, get over it). But this is what he needs/wants to do, so I'll support him 100% nevertheless. I just get scared. And nervous. I think about the future. The future outside Aspen Chase. Next year. Once joining, he can wait upto a year to start basic. Basic is 9 weeks. Then culinary training would be 12 weeks. We're looking at a grand total of 5 months, 1 week (if I'm correct). That could be now til January or Oct to Feb. This lease ends in June. I want to go to Boston next year (or so I think now). I'm almost positive he wants to move to Boston next year too. Then again that all depends on this whole Guard thing. He could be anywhere really. All I know is I want us to be together. I want to move to Boston together. It's been almost a year. 8 days from today will be a year since we met. Oct 22- our 1 year anniversary of "offically" dating. That's a long time. Especially for me. It's going to be hard if/when he leaves, whenever that is.
My life: Ideally, this is how things will go: live out the rest of this lease working/going to school, get into UMass for the spring, get into MGH for fall 07, move with Derby to Boston next summer, go to MGH, live life, love life. One year at a time. (Maybe I should try one day at a time..... Yeah, no, that's not possible!)
Well, I've just wasted TONS of time at work. Which is good, since I have yet to receive the charts I need to work on my Diabetes Registry Database, or to see a patient.
LJ is lame. But I was bored.