Updated stuff
This week has gone by with less intensity, which is good.
No more negative encounters with colleagues, and my boss sat down with me and reviewed the situation from last week, and was in agreement that "this is not my problem." Thank you, boss! (She's awesome, btw.)
For whatever reason (hey--maybe last week?!?) I have a building dread about going to work this week. I've been wishing it were Friday since Monday morning / Sunday night. Perhaps it's a good time for a vacation--but oh, wait! We're leaving for the British Virgin Islands in 16 days. (Not that anyone's counting...)
Today I have several stressful things coming up--I have HIV clinic, which up to this point has been a pleasant, anticipated event in my week and has (last week) become a stress-inducing encounter with someone who's ego made her yell at me. I also have another meeting of undetermined importance, yet it is VERY IMPORTANT that I GO. (Whatever.)
Then, I meet with my boss for my annual review. I've never had one of these before, and I have some ideas, but I'm not sure what I'll be able to talk about with her with a straight face. Some of the possibilities:
I want to become the fellowship director for the international women's health fellowship that my sous-boss really wants to get started but is too disorganized to do while doing 15 other things she won't delegate.
This will enable me to travel / do research 3x a year as I desire.
If I need to join a hospital committee to make academic advancement, I REALLY want to be on an environmental impact committee, and work on hospital-wide recycling and resource management.
I want to be an associate professor in the minimum 3 years it takes to do so.
I want to pass my MFM Boards in April
I want research mentorship by people outside the department and without my "colleague" in ID being the only choice. (Let's just say I'll generously include her in my research...)
I want time that has been promised to me for academic research to actually come to fruition so that I can actually do the research and academics I'm trained to do (so that I can further my own agenda without being the one who covers everyone else's ass all the time).
I don't know, perhaps that's enough for the first year. Of course, I should get a raise, because I will have been here a year, and salary is based upon years of training, service, call and a few other things inserted into a calculation. I think we already got a 3% COL increase, since my paycheck changed, anyway. (Not that there was big fanfare)
Anyway, I'm off to my LAST PT appointment.
Interestingly, I missed last week due to traffic and leaving late (because I was posting on LJ).
AND I've noticed in the last 3 days or so that I've begun walking almost normally, and am not having nearly as much pain in my ankle. (Thank heaven or whomever for small favors!!)
As the guy at the parking lot says every morning (his name is Mesela):
Keep the Peace! Be all you can be!
No more negative encounters with colleagues, and my boss sat down with me and reviewed the situation from last week, and was in agreement that "this is not my problem." Thank you, boss! (She's awesome, btw.)
For whatever reason (hey--maybe last week?!?) I have a building dread about going to work this week. I've been wishing it were Friday since Monday morning / Sunday night. Perhaps it's a good time for a vacation--but oh, wait! We're leaving for the British Virgin Islands in 16 days. (Not that anyone's counting...)
Today I have several stressful things coming up--I have HIV clinic, which up to this point has been a pleasant, anticipated event in my week and has (last week) become a stress-inducing encounter with someone who's ego made her yell at me. I also have another meeting of undetermined importance, yet it is VERY IMPORTANT that I GO. (Whatever.)
Then, I meet with my boss for my annual review. I've never had one of these before, and I have some ideas, but I'm not sure what I'll be able to talk about with her with a straight face. Some of the possibilities:
I don't know, perhaps that's enough for the first year. Of course, I should get a raise, because I will have been here a year, and salary is based upon years of training, service, call and a few other things inserted into a calculation. I think we already got a 3% COL increase, since my paycheck changed, anyway. (Not that there was big fanfare)
Anyway, I'm off to my LAST PT appointment.
Interestingly, I missed last week due to traffic and leaving late (because I was posting on LJ).
AND I've noticed in the last 3 days or so that I've begun walking almost normally, and am not having nearly as much pain in my ankle. (Thank heaven or whomever for small favors!!)
As the guy at the parking lot says every morning (his name is Mesela):
Keep the Peace! Be all you can be!