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Today has been a productive day!
I had a doctor's appointment at 9:45am, which I arrived early for because I had to do new patient intake information and stuff even though I'd been there once before. The thing is, that "once before" visit -- which was also the last time I went to a doctor for any reason -- was in 2003, and that was just to get a prescription renewal for my antidepressants. Once I was off Celexa I never returned. I had no health insurance, you see, so I gambled that nothing catastrophic in terms of injury or disease would strike me down. As it happened, I won that gamble, but it was not what I'd call a viable long-term plan.
So anyway, where was I? Right, I went to see a doctor this morning and got a basic physical. I also got a flu shot and a Tdap vaccine (tetanus, diptheria, and pertussis aka whooping cough) while I was there, because you're supposed to get a tetanus booster every decade or so, and when you spend all day dealing with the unwashed public (often literally unwashed, in my case), having some protection against the flu is a GOOD IDEA. (It also stops me from becoming a transmission vector myself. *bright smile*)
After that, I stopped and got a haircut at my usual place -- I needed one within a week or two anyway and I hate getting up early to get downtown before work, so I figured I might as well get that done while I was already up and downtown. And then I bought a bagel and killed time in the back room of the smoke shop until my shift started at noon. (I ended up staying half an hour late to finish a particular monthly maintenance task, but I know that one always runs long so I make sure to do it on days when I'm the 5/6pm person instead of when I'm the closer, so the only person whose schedule I delay is myself. Courtesy! Occasionally I have it!)
Speaking of the smoke shop. AS, the new hire, is working out well so far. He's a little overly thorough in some tasks -- for example, straightening magazines on the shelves shouldn't take more than five minutes, unless something is drastically screwed up, in which case it still shouldn't take more than ten -- but that is better than overly slapdash. Also it turns out that PB has not been promoted to fulltime at his new job as fast as he'd been promised, so he will probably be picking up one or two shifts a week with us to fill the gap. This is good, because it gives PM more flexibility when writing our schedules, reduces the strain on JM and MS, and gives us more backup in case of unexpected crises. Yay!
I had a doctor's appointment at 9:45am, which I arrived early for because I had to do new patient intake information and stuff even though I'd been there once before. The thing is, that "once before" visit -- which was also the last time I went to a doctor for any reason -- was in 2003, and that was just to get a prescription renewal for my antidepressants. Once I was off Celexa I never returned. I had no health insurance, you see, so I gambled that nothing catastrophic in terms of injury or disease would strike me down. As it happened, I won that gamble, but it was not what I'd call a viable long-term plan.
So anyway, where was I? Right, I went to see a doctor this morning and got a basic physical. I also got a flu shot and a Tdap vaccine (tetanus, diptheria, and pertussis aka whooping cough) while I was there, because you're supposed to get a tetanus booster every decade or so, and when you spend all day dealing with the unwashed public (often literally unwashed, in my case), having some protection against the flu is a GOOD IDEA. (It also stops me from becoming a transmission vector myself. *bright smile*)
After that, I stopped and got a haircut at my usual place -- I needed one within a week or two anyway and I hate getting up early to get downtown before work, so I figured I might as well get that done while I was already up and downtown. And then I bought a bagel and killed time in the back room of the smoke shop until my shift started at noon. (I ended up staying half an hour late to finish a particular monthly maintenance task, but I know that one always runs long so I make sure to do it on days when I'm the 5/6pm person instead of when I'm the closer, so the only person whose schedule I delay is myself. Courtesy! Occasionally I have it!)
Speaking of the smoke shop. AS, the new hire, is working out well so far. He's a little overly thorough in some tasks -- for example, straightening magazines on the shelves shouldn't take more than five minutes, unless something is drastically screwed up, in which case it still shouldn't take more than ten -- but that is better than overly slapdash. Also it turns out that PB has not been promoted to fulltime at his new job as fast as he'd been promised, so he will probably be picking up one or two shifts a week with us to fill the gap. This is good, because it gives PM more flexibility when writing our schedules, reduces the strain on JM and MS, and gives us more backup in case of unexpected crises. Yay!