y'all, BK wednesdays started in 1998 and continued pretty uninterrupted until my move back to TX in 2010. To be able to start them back up again? it is joy.

I should start bringing my own lunch 3-4 times a week, just like I should start only drinking work coffee. I could probably save enough to put in my attic stairs access in a few month.

ita, I'm sorry you needed the neuro to be such a hero, but glad someone was when it was called for.

I'm doing pretty well on drinking only work coffee. It probably saves me $20 a month, but it's satisfying beyond that.

And I need to come up with two more references. I can not even think about that right now, too close to tears.

Ooh, attic stairs are on my wishlist for the house.

We could be your references, -t. If that is your real name.....

I technically only get a half hour for lunch, which basically means I eat at my desk. Everything takes about 10 minutes to walk to, including the cafeteria. Our cafeteria does deliver, though, which I am doing today. We also have a food cart in our building, but it is only open until 1 pm.

Gah, too much going on. I went for a long run this morning and didn't even get to shower before a recruiter called and I spent an hour on the phone with her, durign which two family members called about travel arrangements. Edited the obituary, ordered the catering, ordered the mass cards (Mom collected mass cards like nobody's business and would have been totalled pissed if we didn't get them for her), called an electrician, read the obit to Dad over the phone because he couldn't get into his gmail again.

Can I go back to bed yet?

Crawl under those covers, Consuela.

Was the recruiting call a good lead?

Consuela, you need a real vacation soon, with massages and good food and lots of sleep and sunshine.

So I just went downstairs/outside to smoke, and there is a huge white sign with red letters announcing that this office is available for lease. I hate this place so much.

I'm supposed to provide feedback on my new job description and responsibilities, and I keep drawing a blank. I don't want to shoot back a "looks good to me!" for lack of braiiiins.

Neuro hero! Yeah, that's what he is. And the neuro attending apologised on behalf of UCLA for such reflexive poor treatment--both medically and personally.

Now that I'm calmer--the (very nice) doctor said she felt uncomfortable with the 6mg dose. Which is...fine, you're uncomfortable. But you fucking well know that giving me 1mg, waiting 3 hours and then giving me one more is less than a bandaid, and is just CYA so I can't claim I wasn't treated. But the doctor told me one thing (we'll get the case worker to get you something tonight or tomorrow) and the case worker another (the doctor's will treat the immediate problem, and I will re-organise your ongoing care). And when I told the first nurse, he asked what I expected him to do. TELL THEM THEY HAVE A FUNDAMENTAL DISCONNECT BEEYOTCH. Then another, clippier nurse, hands me discharge paperwork, and I said I wouldn't go until someone explained the immediate solution to the problem. He told me to go wait in the foyer, and the social worker will come talk to me, and is shooing me out. But there's discharge medicine they need to put in the portacath, but Nurse Snippy-of-course-we-communicate said someone had told him it didn't need doing.

I actually yelled (which isn't combative in context--he walked off in the middle of my sentence0 OH NO IS THAT MISCOMMUNICATION???

Nurse What Me, however, tells me explicitly that the social worker will not talk to me, I should just go. So that was 8:30PM.

Neuro Hero was calling me as I let myself into my apartment, and talked me back into the hospital at that point, which was a fucking miracle. He didn't fulfill his timeliness I'm-not-allowed-to-promise-things part of the promise, but he did get me 6 milligrams of the painkiller, which is the first time I've gotten that here in years, never mind 2 doses.

-t. I'm in your business and I'm not the only one. What do you need to highlight? Snappy coordination? Keen sense of wit and bullshit? I can go anywhere with this. And I'm not your only "colleague" here either.

I wonder--is it current (what's the name for this decade? I forgot we weren't in the oughties no more.. [sadface]) etiquette that you could reach out to one of the people who's endorsed you for something on LinkedIn to provide a reference? At least as a starting point.

Big up to LinkedIn for pushing that system like they do. I'm assuming they're getting closer and closer to background noise, but I like the feeling of being endorsed, and I think it's more relevant than trying to find me on FaceBook

Consuela, I am in awe.. Sheer awe. I would hire you for anything, but I'd never be able to challenge you adequately.

this is what I fundamentally don't get. I know intellectually that people respond differently to different medicine and dosage levels.

I am not a doctor.

So why can't they put aside the discomfort at dosage levels and fucking give you what has worked and what is in your notes?

I'm supposed to provide feedback on my new job description and responsibilities, and I keep drawing a blank. I don't want to shoot back a "looks good to me!" for lack of braiiiins.

I'm sure that your "looks good to me" will be taken as evidence of the competence of the people who wrote the description, not as lack of brains on your part. People like being right.