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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
I just checked weatherunderground again... and I think they’re backing off the prediction a little. The big low pressure area is coming ashore up on Vancouver Island. I wonder if the big winds aren’t going to be on the coast and more north of here. North of Seattle.
Well, I’d love it if it doesn’t get big... :~)
Ermkay...I just finally figured out what you meant by “this weekend”.
Need more coffee.
And I wish *I* had a day off. :-\
What do I do here again?
Nap?
No kidding.
We dropped into the write-in on sunday and I felt much better. You and Jen and Lil’ are making me feel slack about my wimpy word count. But most of the people there were in much worse shape.
You write software and I write requirements. Or is that backwards?
When I was working for the Scouts we called it the "Cotton Death Dance." My one, true hypothermia case was a kid who got caught in a hailstorm in his cotton sweat pants and shirt. It was vey scary for a while, there.
Good morning!
Well, for the first time in many years, I worked 24 out of 36 hours.
I didn’t even do that very often before I went on sabbatical!
Saturday dang near killed me, it was so hard. Nine “just shy of ICU” type patients. I’m talking central lines, trachs... Talk about being thrown into the fire. Also, had a charge nurse that never smiled and every other word was the F word. It was hell on earth but I got it done.
Yesterday made up for it. I had a wonderful private duty hospice case...supportive family, comfortable surroundings. I felt like I did a good job. Almost ashamed to get paid for it.
Almost. I’ll clear about $500 for this weekend.
Wow. Good money for good work, then. ((hugs))
I didn’t hit our write-in, primarily because our ML is starting straight off by not actually reserving a room at the write-in location, so they moved the time to a time I couldn’t get there ‘cause of church. This is par for the course for her.
Not to mention that she doesn’t just let people write and discuss their stories at write-ins. Nooooo, we have to play stupid word games and try to stuff themed paragraphs into our stories. *rolls eyes* I absolutely loved the FoCo crew and the write-ins there. Makes me homesick. *snif* They were awesome.
As for my word count, browsing NaNo forums makes me feel both better and worse. Some folks finished about a week ago...some (unless they just haven’t updated word counts) are only at a few thousand. So there’s that.
Got in about 1200 words this morning, though it’s not transcribed yet. And that brings my manuscript past the 50 page mark. I love that stack of paper... Way cool.
Ookay...it is most definitely a very blustery day out there...
At least it’s light, though.
A hat is also a good temperature regulator, especially in cold weather. If you're getting warm, take it off. When you start feeling a bit chilled, put it back on.
I keep a wool watch cap in a pocket of every winter coat, just in case. And some wool gloves, for the same reason. My hands are very susceptible to cold.
Yeah - we’re getting some wonky power flunctuations... I really don’t want to shut my computer down till I have to though. When my honey leaves, you’ll be the only people I can fret to!
Ya know, I get real suspicious of folks who have those super hugh word counts. Some people are past 100K already, they hit 50K on day 3. I think they’re either unemployed or prone to exaggeration. I mean, I’m as prepared as I’ve ever been and making better progress than I ever have, but it is still a slog. It took all day yesterday to get my 4K, granted I had basic life requirements and took a break to put the last round on the afghan border, but still. Given 4-5K a day, and this being day 12, a 48K-60K wordcount would be credible, 100K... not so much. Not accusing anyone of anything... just sayin’ is all.
14 year old girls have absolutely prodigious powers of generating lots and lots of crap. They seem to have a lot of spare time and angst.
Right. The thing is, I was orientating at the place that was so hard. Wasn’t supposed to take patients, just shadow a nurse. Basically, the nurse I was shadowing was an LPN, and once she found out I was an RN she took the day off.
I didn’t really mind, because I felt like I was thrown into the fire and could get out if I really needed to. I was kinda proud I could still hold my own. But the sour faced “effing” charge nurse at one point said she was just going to go ahead and assign me two patients. That woulda meant no getting out, so I protested, saying my agency told me I would have 12 hours of orientation before being assigned patients. She said in the meanest voice “Well, you better get used to it because you’ll have 8-10 patients when you come back.”
I just smiled, because I have a choice whether I go back or not and there is no way I’m going back to that place. It was filthy, poorly and unprofessionally run, and dangerous.
There were two core staff there, the night I worked and all the rest was agency. That tells you that they can’t hire and keep help, so they have to resort to hiring agency nurses. It’s different if there is one or two agency nurses filling in, but to have mainly agency is a big red flag.
The whole day started off with me sitting in the report room waiting to get report and the charge nurse coming in and telling me “Get up, you can’t sit there.”
As I was walking out the door that evening in my mind I was telling them to...well, you can guess.
;-)
Of course. You were thinking they should ‘have a nice day’.
;-D
Does this up my word count?
mine
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