YAY!!
I am so excited! I got more work at SJI! it isn't the job I originally applied for, which was outreach coordinator but I will be coordinating registration and helping to expand MediCal and EAPC billing. This is very exciting to me b/c I love SJI. I was a bit disappointed b/c I won't be coordinating outreach but it was really too many hours for me to handle. This is much more doable and Pimpsdown was so great about it. She told me that she totally would have hired me if she thought it would work with my crazy schedule but she could see that it would only drive me and SJI crazy. It makes me feel so good. I have never really felt like I had recognition for the work that I do so it was really nice to hear that from her. It also reinforced how much I adore her; I am soooo glad that she is running SJI now. The only thing I asked was that they make my title sound way more vastly powerful than the actual work so my resume would look fab. I officially start on 10/21! Maybe this way i can pay down some debt and go see my Mom :) I also went and got a PAP today for the first time in WAY too long. It is embarassing to admit how long, but I finally went and the NP I saw (at Kaiser Oakland) was SOOO nice. She even hugged me at the end. She didn't say anything about losing weight but did admonish me about taking my BP meds which is completely reasonable healthcare-worker-nagging IMHO. Which reminds me that a few of us are planning a mini summit on applying harm reduction to the so-called "obesity epidemic", to me it is a natural fit...On a sadder note my little brother called me today from MI to say that one of his friends died of an OD, it makes me doubly sad knowing that I have naloxone in my house right now that I could have sent him to give to his friend which would have saved his life.