In Other News:
Chart assembly oddly hypnotizing. Am able to spend hours doing it and not notice the time go by. I think it's mostly because I see the same stuff over and over--I'm doing the easiest kind of chart assembly. "This goes in correspondance behind the orange sheet, this goes in lab work, this goes in pathology, this is a telephone call..." I also spent part of the day finding the loose sheets for the next days' charts, which is the most tedious thing imaginable, since it's very slow and there's no real way to make it any faster. Gah.
It alarms me, at times, how old-fashioned our department is run. Dictations are done on the computer, and charts are ordered on a computer that prints out the slips (and we can check appointment schedules on the computer)--but other than that, everything is run similar to an old fashioned library, really--where you had to write your name down on the card and all that.
I have so much crap to do and not any time in which to do it. Sleep seems to be the thing that gets killed first, which really, really blows. Anyone who tells me that it must be nice to get off at four pm because I have more daytime to do stuff, is insane. Because, really, let's think about this: assuming I'm at work nine hours, that it's a 45-minute commute each way, and that I'm aiming for eight hours' sleep--I spend the same amount of time every day awake and not at work, no matter when my workday begins and ends. Getting off at four pm just means I have to be in bed by NINE pm so I can get up at five am. I have more daylight, but still the same amount of free time. Oy freakin' vey.
This icon still gives me the giggles. Goddamn.
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