hi from me-e-e-e-e-e
record breaking.. 12 hours at the hospital today, 15 mins for lunch. ha.
08h30-20h30.
yeah, it's been a.. long day to say the least.
BUT..
only TWO MORE DAYS LEFT of foodservice!!!
except i also have FIVE REPORTS to write. i was getting depressed about it last night. and this morning. because only with my particular mcgill stage coordinator would you have to write a stinkin full report for every project and/or activity that we are assigned. no body else has to write 8 reports. yup, i asked around. except if you're with heidi at the jewish. it's.. just not fair. i like.. almost cried on the way to the hospital today. actually i did, but i managed to keep the tears in the eyelids, hehe. anyways i have more of an idea of how to write the rest of the reports so that said.. things could be worse. i'm just suffering from overexhaustion. others have been having fights with their dietitians and crying in their office (yes really), or.. another friend was called on by the union!!! she was doing foodservice also, but at the montreal general. so she sees a kitchen employee drop a piece of chicken on the floor. she's like, hey what are you going to do with the chicken now. and the employee says oh, just pick it up and rinse it. obviously this is unexceptable practice. so my friend tells the supervisor because that is what she's supposed to do.. and the employee ends up getting suspended. hence calls his union on my friend. HUGE fiasco. lovely eh. so back to my point.. i'm just suffering from stress and exhaustion. could be worse.
tomorrow is my second and final taste panel: moroccan chicken vegetable couscous. i'm worried cos basically.. had to do lots of guestimation and resizing and theoretical approximations of ingredients, volumes and their weights. but after i did that.. i starting preparing my veggies today according to my calculations but.. the amounts were WAY smaller than i thought. too small in fact. and then i was like great all that hard work all wrong?! but my supervisor (she's mcgill grad, and the hospital's cafeteria manager) sat with me and looked over all my calculations for the recipe amounts and costing and really helped me out. and confirmed my logic was right. made sure i left her office not worried. and helped me solve the problems i had. she's really nice, i'm one of the lucky ones to get her: she's by far the most approachable, understanding, chilled.. easy-going but so helpful supervisor out of the six of them in the hospital. AND she graduated from mcgill dietetics too. so she's been through exactly what i'm doing now. and i thought even more uncanny: she had heidi also. and made a face after she told me. haha! anyways wish me luck. going in tomorrow early to COOK IT UP! have to ammend my costing and print out my nutritional analysis for tomorrow after this.
and kanna i just got your msg!!! but i don't know if i can though :-( friday is better. but i'll call you tomorrow when i leave the hospital ok? sorry i didn't get to talk to you yesterday!
ok. well. i have a lot of things to do tonight, so i better go. friday afternoon: come soon.
08h30-20h30.
yeah, it's been a.. long day to say the least.
BUT..
only TWO MORE DAYS LEFT of foodservice!!!
except i also have FIVE REPORTS to write. i was getting depressed about it last night. and this morning. because only with my particular mcgill stage coordinator would you have to write a stinkin full report for every project and/or activity that we are assigned. no body else has to write 8 reports. yup, i asked around. except if you're with heidi at the jewish. it's.. just not fair. i like.. almost cried on the way to the hospital today. actually i did, but i managed to keep the tears in the eyelids, hehe. anyways i have more of an idea of how to write the rest of the reports so that said.. things could be worse. i'm just suffering from overexhaustion. others have been having fights with their dietitians and crying in their office (yes really), or.. another friend was called on by the union!!! she was doing foodservice also, but at the montreal general. so she sees a kitchen employee drop a piece of chicken on the floor. she's like, hey what are you going to do with the chicken now. and the employee says oh, just pick it up and rinse it. obviously this is unexceptable practice. so my friend tells the supervisor because that is what she's supposed to do.. and the employee ends up getting suspended. hence calls his union on my friend. HUGE fiasco. lovely eh. so back to my point.. i'm just suffering from stress and exhaustion. could be worse.
tomorrow is my second and final taste panel: moroccan chicken vegetable couscous. i'm worried cos basically.. had to do lots of guestimation and resizing and theoretical approximations of ingredients, volumes and their weights. but after i did that.. i starting preparing my veggies today according to my calculations but.. the amounts were WAY smaller than i thought. too small in fact. and then i was like great all that hard work all wrong?! but my supervisor (she's mcgill grad, and the hospital's cafeteria manager) sat with me and looked over all my calculations for the recipe amounts and costing and really helped me out. and confirmed my logic was right. made sure i left her office not worried. and helped me solve the problems i had. she's really nice, i'm one of the lucky ones to get her: she's by far the most approachable, understanding, chilled.. easy-going but so helpful supervisor out of the six of them in the hospital. AND she graduated from mcgill dietetics too. so she's been through exactly what i'm doing now. and i thought even more uncanny: she had heidi also. and made a face after she told me. haha! anyways wish me luck. going in tomorrow early to COOK IT UP! have to ammend my costing and print out my nutritional analysis for tomorrow after this.
and kanna i just got your msg!!! but i don't know if i can though :-( friday is better. but i'll call you tomorrow when i leave the hospital ok? sorry i didn't get to talk to you yesterday!
ok. well. i have a lot of things to do tonight, so i better go. friday afternoon: come soon.