blargh shift work;-)
So I'm home this weekend (for one time off on an actual weekend!) but naturally I got a cold from working 12 hours a day for 7 days straight last week - don't feel like actually cleaning my room just yet so it's procrastination time!
I'm in upstate NY now training at a shore based reactor facility owned by Knowls Atomic Power Laboratory (aka KAPL) - first 8 weeks was mostly class time but now we've moved In-Crew for shift work in one of the plants which consists of:
7 days noon-midnight "swings"
1.5 days off
7 days 7:30pm-7:30am "mids"
2.5 days off
7 days 7am-7pm "days"
2 days off
4 days 7am-7pm "T-week"
4 days off
Repeating until I qualify in November...
So I started in the middle of "mids" (the night shift) in the cycle at the beginning of the month - just did my first full 7 day shift of days - combined with trying to actually work out in my off time (cold swimming pool probably didn't help) my body decided to respond by getting my second big cold for the year this weekend! At least it was a weekend and I was here so I was able to do things like sleep for 17 hours since I got home yesterday afternoon, etc...
So I'm starting to feel a bit more coherent here - I cooked awesome homemade eggdrop soup early this afternoon and it was good. Lots of other hot liquids too - bummer is that my sink doesn't run very hot water on its own (nor does the shower for more than the first five minutes) so I'll need to keep up with the microwaved beverages in order to try to stay decongested;-)
And in other randomness here's my survey find of boredome for the day:
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy VII
I'm in upstate NY now training at a shore based reactor facility owned by Knowls Atomic Power Laboratory (aka KAPL) - first 8 weeks was mostly class time but now we've moved In-Crew for shift work in one of the plants which consists of:
7 days noon-midnight "swings"
1.5 days off
7 days 7:30pm-7:30am "mids"
2.5 days off
7 days 7am-7pm "days"
2 days off
4 days 7am-7pm "T-week"
4 days off
Repeating until I qualify in November...
So I started in the middle of "mids" (the night shift) in the cycle at the beginning of the month - just did my first full 7 day shift of days - combined with trying to actually work out in my off time (cold swimming pool probably didn't help) my body decided to respond by getting my second big cold for the year this weekend! At least it was a weekend and I was here so I was able to do things like sleep for 17 hours since I got home yesterday afternoon, etc...
So I'm starting to feel a bit more coherent here - I cooked awesome homemade eggdrop soup early this afternoon and it was good. Lots of other hot liquids too - bummer is that my sink doesn't run very hot water on its own (nor does the shower for more than the first five minutes) so I'll need to keep up with the microwaved beverages in order to try to stay decongested;-)
And in other randomness here's my survey find of boredome for the day:
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy VII