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Congrats to everyone who has successfully completed another year of college and everyone who is close to completing a successful year of college! :) As for me, one more day of classes and three finals and that's the end of this crazy year. Then on to summer classes! Physics I, physics II, human A&P I and human A&P II. Hopefully physics won't keeeell me. Or my grades. Eesh.
Four more months and I'm done at Fam D! Woot woot! I can't believe I've been there for almost a year already. Insane. Money is nice, but could there seriously be a more mundane and sleep-inducing job ever? Ugh. I have figured out that I'm gonna have to do something about money in the fall, though, or I will be having issues with the whole being able to buy food and not starving to death thing. Stupid need to eat. Whose brilliant idea was that? Thinking about maybe donating eggs...gotta look more into that, though. I don't want to screw up my body permanently just for a couple thousand dollars. Maybe wouldn't so much be worth it. Good thing I love research. :)
My eye is killing me. Every once in awhile it'll do this to me. I went to the doctor back in high school for the same problem and he said it was probably just an eyelash growing in funny that kept poking me in the eye. It doesn't really feel like an eyelash, though. It feels like a pinching pain on the side of my eye closest to my nose, kind of in or under the eyelid, and it feels better when I put pressure or cold on it. Maybe a tear duct or muscle issue? This is the second day in a row it's been bothering me. If it's not better by Monday, I'll go see the doctor and try to get it resolved, cuz not only does it hurt, it's freaking annoying.
Speaking of doctors, I just finished reading this amazing book called "How Doctors Think" by Jerome Groopman, M.D. He wrote it as a guideline to patients in their interactions with their doctors, to be aware that doctors are not infallible gods of medicine and that pertinent questions can help open the doctor's eyes to other possible problems or methods of treatment that he or she may have not considered before. I thought it was interesting also for me, though, because of my career plan to become a doctor. It was interesting to me to find out what biases doctors use to come to conclusions in terms of diagnostics or treatment plans, and I think it will be helpful when I'm in medical school so that I will remember that doctors don't always have the answers and that it is not the sign of a good doctor to either make something up just to have a diagnosis, or to simply say that nothing is wrong just because he or she hasn't found anything physically wrong. I really think that anyone who is planning to go into medicine, as well as anyone who has interests in better communication with their doctor, should read this book, because it's very insightful.
*Adam, your entry about going to the ER and dealing with that jerk of a doctor who wouldn't change treatment methods was so in line with what this guy was saying in his book - I think you especially would benefit from reading it. It's so dumb that he wouldn't listen to the nurse and try to think of a different treatment - if it hadn't worked before, why keep trying it?*
In other news, today's my dad's birthday and we're having some people out for dinner later. That should be fun. I also have a chem test on Monday that I CANNOT fail, so pretty much I need to go study for that between now and people arriving, in case I have to work tomorrow. I really hope I don't. I've worked every Sunday pretty much for the past month and a half, with the exception of Easter because we were closed, and I'm getting pretty tired of never getting Sundays off. On the plus side, Nicole and I have been switching off Fridays so that it's not the same person every time who has to be there at 6 in the morning. Last semester, when our truck day was Monday instead of Thursday, I was scheduled every Tuesday at 6 am for about 14 or 15 weeks in a row. So not cool. But now I'm starting to worry that Sunday is becoming my new Tuesday. Ugh. And Tracy got fired a couple weeks ago, so we're minus a store manager and a manager from another store has been making up our schedules, but they keep not getting done until Saturday, and the new week starts on Sunday, so we're starting to get sick of barely getting a day's notice on the new schedule. Luckily, though, she's been staying in line with my and Nicole's school schedules. I was really concerned we were going to get scheduled during classes and such, and that would have made me very upset. Apparently she really likes me and thinks I'm an excellent worker, though. EVERYBODY seems to think that. It mystifies me. I mean, I don't do anything special; I just figure if I'm getting paid, I might as well do my job. But apparently this other manager thinks I'm a better employee than a certain other employee and has decided that on the day or two per week that she comes in to watch our store, that she'd like me to be scheduled with her. *shrug* I just wish the higher-ups would think the same things of me - if they had, I would've been assistant manager back in the fall, but no, our district manager doesn't want anyone being assistant manager who has another job, including school, outside of Family Dollar. So despite my alleged outstanding performance as an employee, I have no hope for advancement whilst I still remain a student. JERKS. I don't even care about the money part, I just want the advancement for my resume and for my sense of pride and accomplishment, but it looks like I'm gonna be stuck with writing "EMPLOYEE" for four months last summer and then 16 more months by this August. Four months shy of two years and no movement. Jerky jerk jerk jerks.
Four more months and I'm done at Fam D! Woot woot! I can't believe I've been there for almost a year already. Insane. Money is nice, but could there seriously be a more mundane and sleep-inducing job ever? Ugh. I have figured out that I'm gonna have to do something about money in the fall, though, or I will be having issues with the whole being able to buy food and not starving to death thing. Stupid need to eat. Whose brilliant idea was that? Thinking about maybe donating eggs...gotta look more into that, though. I don't want to screw up my body permanently just for a couple thousand dollars. Maybe wouldn't so much be worth it. Good thing I love research. :)
My eye is killing me. Every once in awhile it'll do this to me. I went to the doctor back in high school for the same problem and he said it was probably just an eyelash growing in funny that kept poking me in the eye. It doesn't really feel like an eyelash, though. It feels like a pinching pain on the side of my eye closest to my nose, kind of in or under the eyelid, and it feels better when I put pressure or cold on it. Maybe a tear duct or muscle issue? This is the second day in a row it's been bothering me. If it's not better by Monday, I'll go see the doctor and try to get it resolved, cuz not only does it hurt, it's freaking annoying.
Speaking of doctors, I just finished reading this amazing book called "How Doctors Think" by Jerome Groopman, M.D. He wrote it as a guideline to patients in their interactions with their doctors, to be aware that doctors are not infallible gods of medicine and that pertinent questions can help open the doctor's eyes to other possible problems or methods of treatment that he or she may have not considered before. I thought it was interesting also for me, though, because of my career plan to become a doctor. It was interesting to me to find out what biases doctors use to come to conclusions in terms of diagnostics or treatment plans, and I think it will be helpful when I'm in medical school so that I will remember that doctors don't always have the answers and that it is not the sign of a good doctor to either make something up just to have a diagnosis, or to simply say that nothing is wrong just because he or she hasn't found anything physically wrong. I really think that anyone who is planning to go into medicine, as well as anyone who has interests in better communication with their doctor, should read this book, because it's very insightful.
*Adam, your entry about going to the ER and dealing with that jerk of a doctor who wouldn't change treatment methods was so in line with what this guy was saying in his book - I think you especially would benefit from reading it. It's so dumb that he wouldn't listen to the nurse and try to think of a different treatment - if it hadn't worked before, why keep trying it?*
In other news, today's my dad's birthday and we're having some people out for dinner later. That should be fun. I also have a chem test on Monday that I CANNOT fail, so pretty much I need to go study for that between now and people arriving, in case I have to work tomorrow. I really hope I don't. I've worked every Sunday pretty much for the past month and a half, with the exception of Easter because we were closed, and I'm getting pretty tired of never getting Sundays off. On the plus side, Nicole and I have been switching off Fridays so that it's not the same person every time who has to be there at 6 in the morning. Last semester, when our truck day was Monday instead of Thursday, I was scheduled every Tuesday at 6 am for about 14 or 15 weeks in a row. So not cool. But now I'm starting to worry that Sunday is becoming my new Tuesday. Ugh. And Tracy got fired a couple weeks ago, so we're minus a store manager and a manager from another store has been making up our schedules, but they keep not getting done until Saturday, and the new week starts on Sunday, so we're starting to get sick of barely getting a day's notice on the new schedule. Luckily, though, she's been staying in line with my and Nicole's school schedules. I was really concerned we were going to get scheduled during classes and such, and that would have made me very upset. Apparently she really likes me and thinks I'm an excellent worker, though. EVERYBODY seems to think that. It mystifies me. I mean, I don't do anything special; I just figure if I'm getting paid, I might as well do my job. But apparently this other manager thinks I'm a better employee than a certain other employee and has decided that on the day or two per week that she comes in to watch our store, that she'd like me to be scheduled with her. *shrug* I just wish the higher-ups would think the same things of me - if they had, I would've been assistant manager back in the fall, but no, our district manager doesn't want anyone being assistant manager who has another job, including school, outside of Family Dollar. So despite my alleged outstanding performance as an employee, I have no hope for advancement whilst I still remain a student. JERKS. I don't even care about the money part, I just want the advancement for my resume and for my sense of pride and accomplishment, but it looks like I'm gonna be stuck with writing "EMPLOYEE" for four months last summer and then 16 more months by this August. Four months shy of two years and no movement. Jerky jerk jerk jerks.