Productivity! A bit, anyway.
So KK and I had our first buddy productivity session tonight, and it was definitely a success on my end. We started at 18:00 and I stopped just shy of 20:00 so that I could have food. We chatted away the whole time, and I emptied the dishwasher, cleared off all the kitchen counters and the stove, dealt with the recycling, cleared off part of the dining room table, and washed all the countertops and the stovetop. KK's plan for tonight was to do her taxes, so that she can use her refund to pay for the move, and I don't know if she submitted anything, but I know she got all her information input in the right places, so definite progress on that front too.
We have three weekends before she moves in (June 18th is a Friday). So this coming weekend I'll be going over on Saturday, and I'll go over for a day on the following weekend, and then both days on the weekend of June 12-13. I mentioned in a previous post that I'm going to try to get a day or two off that week as well, hopefully at least the 18th, so that I can be here to help coordinate the move. It will depend on our staffing levels at work. One employee is going on parental leave the following week, so if baby decides to come early we might already be short-staffed.
I also found out some pretty bad news about another employee today. He's not directly my employee, he's someone from elsewhere in the unit who has been saving our collective bacon by going on shift even though that's not his actual job. Without him, we wouldn't be able to run the operations floor because we simply wouldn't have enough people. Anyway, last year he underwent successful treatment for prostate cancer, and now his doctor suspects it may have returned and metastasized to his colon. He's going to undergo a colonoscopy soon (tomorrow, maybe? I'm not clear on the details) to figure out what's what. This is obviously super shitty news on a personal level--fuck cancer, seriously--and also because I can't completely turn off my manager brain, I have no idea what we'll do if/when he has to take time off work to take care of his health (which of course he should, there's no question there).
This basically just highlights the problem I've been telling people about from the start: we are flirting with disaster, and are perilously close to just having to shut down the unit due to lack of staffing. It's so bad. /o\
In totally unrelated news, I had another detailed dream last night in which I and at least two of my fandom friends (possibly more, but definitely two that I remember) were renting a really shitty apartment somewhere in France. We had two roommates who I think were foreign students (foreign to France), one Chinese and the other from somewhere in the Middle East, I can't remember where. The rest of the building was also home to lots of young single Chinese people, probably students. I and my two fandom friends introduced them to some trendy TV show and got them hooked, so that everyone would crowd into our apartment to watch it when it aired and comment about it and talk about fan theories and the like. The TV was small, and looked like a model from the mid-1990s, and no one else in the apartment building appeared to own a TV, but the dream didn't take place in the past because I had a smart phone. It was mostly a fun dream except for one part that was very stressful: I was trying to show one of my fandom friends a Supernatural video (of Dean Winchester) on my phone, but she was impatient and felt I was taking too long, so she kept snatching the phone away from me and trying to type in the video URL herself. We had a brief argument about it: I felt it was rude to grab at people's property without permission, and she felt it wasn't rude to be more efficient than me at typing on a phone. "Type faster if you don't want me to do it!"
I keep meaning to get myself a notebook to write down my dreams. Maybe I should actually get around to doing that. :P
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We have three weekends before she moves in (June 18th is a Friday). So this coming weekend I'll be going over on Saturday, and I'll go over for a day on the following weekend, and then both days on the weekend of June 12-13. I mentioned in a previous post that I'm going to try to get a day or two off that week as well, hopefully at least the 18th, so that I can be here to help coordinate the move. It will depend on our staffing levels at work. One employee is going on parental leave the following week, so if baby decides to come early we might already be short-staffed.
I also found out some pretty bad news about another employee today. He's not directly my employee, he's someone from elsewhere in the unit who has been saving our collective bacon by going on shift even though that's not his actual job. Without him, we wouldn't be able to run the operations floor because we simply wouldn't have enough people. Anyway, last year he underwent successful treatment for prostate cancer, and now his doctor suspects it may have returned and metastasized to his colon. He's going to undergo a colonoscopy soon (tomorrow, maybe? I'm not clear on the details) to figure out what's what. This is obviously super shitty news on a personal level--fuck cancer, seriously--and also because I can't completely turn off my manager brain, I have no idea what we'll do if/when he has to take time off work to take care of his health (which of course he should, there's no question there).
This basically just highlights the problem I've been telling people about from the start: we are flirting with disaster, and are perilously close to just having to shut down the unit due to lack of staffing. It's so bad. /o\
In totally unrelated news, I had another detailed dream last night in which I and at least two of my fandom friends (possibly more, but definitely two that I remember) were renting a really shitty apartment somewhere in France. We had two roommates who I think were foreign students (foreign to France), one Chinese and the other from somewhere in the Middle East, I can't remember where. The rest of the building was also home to lots of young single Chinese people, probably students. I and my two fandom friends introduced them to some trendy TV show and got them hooked, so that everyone would crowd into our apartment to watch it when it aired and comment about it and talk about fan theories and the like. The TV was small, and looked like a model from the mid-1990s, and no one else in the apartment building appeared to own a TV, but the dream didn't take place in the past because I had a smart phone. It was mostly a fun dream except for one part that was very stressful: I was trying to show one of my fandom friends a Supernatural video (of Dean Winchester) on my phone, but she was impatient and felt I was taking too long, so she kept snatching the phone away from me and trying to type in the video URL herself. We had a brief argument about it: I felt it was rude to grab at people's property without permission, and she felt it wasn't rude to be more efficient than me at typing on a phone. "Type faster if you don't want me to do it!"
I keep meaning to get myself a notebook to write down my dreams. Maybe I should actually get around to doing that. :P
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