Time is going by so much faster than I
Well, this has been pretty much the craziest week ever at work. And life in general. I've been racking my brains today and yesterday trying to figure out how to describe to people who are not in the title insurance or real estate business why this week was so crazy for me at work, and I've decided it's nearly impossible. But I'm going to try to put this in layman's terms as best I can and make it not be too boring or too long:
Lately we have been absolutely inundated with EHR files at work. Here are the five things you need to know about these EHR files (these are a type of file that erm, a certain entity, has not done incorrectly, per se, just incompletely, leaving us to do more work than we should have to do):
1) Going through these files is a two step process: prepping and then policy. I do prep.
2) There are 4000 files and more come in everyday. I can prep 30-40 a day, if I'm uninterrupted. Until yesterday only two of us were prepping them. Now there are six and a new person's starting on Monday. Five people are doing policy and they can do 25-30 a day each.
3) Before I can pass them on to the policy person, I have to "unarchive" the files which involves using a program that reminds me of DOS. I am not even kidding. When my boss trained me on doing that yesterday, I just kept laughing and she said "I know it's complicated, but you're smart! You can handle it!" and I told her "Well, yes, I probably can, I'm just laughing because this is so ridiculous. It's like learning another language or something!"
4) I now have six stacks of files on my desk/on the floor by my desk/on the walls of my cubicle that were not there two days ago. I know exactly what each stack is for but anyone else approaching my desk would think something exploded.
5) I'm doing such a great job (I've gotten two lovely compliments from both of the managers in my department) that they've decided to put even more responsibility on me in this project. Apparently, starting next week, I'm going to go through all the files that the other prep people find issues (that is, problems) on and see if I can figure them out. If I can't, there's a higher up person I can give them to, but still! No pressure! Did I mention this will involve using Mr.DOS program even more?
Also, I'm working overtime tomorrow (yes, on a Saturday).
You know the funniest part? It's been the most fun I've had at work in weeks.
I also applied for graduate school yesterday, am taking the GRE on the 30th, I may have a roommate lined up for this spring when I move to Louisville, it snowed today and yesterday, I went to the doctor Wednesday about my acid reflux and my injured left shoulder, I need to make an appointment for a test to do for my acid reflux and I have an appointment on Tuesday with a physical therapist for my shoulder. And I have a date on Sunday. What the hell, 2010?! Is this the year of the energizer bunny or something? Really, I put on my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days "go on 3 dates" as one of the things, but that was spaced out over 2.75 years! I never in a million years thought date #1 would be on day 10 of 1001! I think my brain might explode before I get to the GRE. I'm so going to bed early tonight.