Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy 4th of July. I'm planning on going down to my mom's later today. I think she is planning on cooking up some hamburgers and hot dogs and other stuff like that. I'm bringing down the cups, plates, and soda. It should be a good time. My sisters' friends (2 sisters and a younger brother) and their parents are coming over. There is going to be more kids than adults. Yikes!! I think they'll find ways to easily entertain themselves.
I made a playlist on my mp3 player (birthday gift from Jim *grin*) and thinking i will bring it down with my computer speakers and set it up. I'm a little nervous about doing that, since its still new and I haven't gotten much of a chance to play with it yet. I think it will be ok though.
I'm hoping Walmart won't be a mad house, when I go there later. I think I want to pick up strawberries to make the strawberry pie dessert. I hope it will have enough time to set before having dessert. I think I should ask the girls if they want me to pick up anything else to while I'm at it. I don't think mom really planned anything for dessert. I'll probably need to pick up ice too.
Well I should really get my butt in gear. Happy 4th everyone.
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I got a new computer for Christmas, so I'm finally into 21st century technology. *grin* Now I'm looking forward to buying an mp3 player to use when I'm out walking and probably running in the near future. I have to figure out what I want first... oh and probably some time down the line a digital camera, although I don't know how much use I will get out of that, since I'm not much of a picture taker.
So that's it for now.
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| 2003-02-23 22:31 |
| New Car |
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As of Friday, I am now a proud owner of a Honda Civic EX 4 dr. =)
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I was just reading back a few entries and saw the not about my call from Carl about the "Double" Date. Well.. we went out last weekend to Red Lobster, and then to the mall. And then to Best Buy and Barnes And Noble, then back to the mall to go see a movie. I had a lot of fun. The conversation was really good too. It felt good to get a chance to hang out with people my own age. =)
Jim and I have made lunch plans for this afternoon. So it should be fun. I just feel a little nervous, but not as bad as last week. I wish I didn't have to be so nervous about these things.
Work has been going good, and this past week was really quiet and I was actually a little bored a few times. Weird.
I've been sticking with going to walking class it's a lot of fun. I've also started to do the walking tapes I have. I just got a weight lifting video, and some others too. I liked the weight one. I've done it twice already, and enjoy the feeling I feel after I'm done doing it. But that seems very normal for me, when I was in better shape. I always enjoyed being in the weight room and working on the weight machines more than doing some aerobic exercise.
Two weeks from now is the Heart, Run, Walk athon in Utica. I wanted to participate this year, but a cousin is having her baby shower at the same time as the walk. My mom can't make it to the shower so I would like to go for both of us. I'm kind of bummed about the walk thing. I wanted to do it more for in honor of my uncle, than for any thing else. I know that Loretta is going to do it, so I will have to pledge for her.
Hmmm... guess that's about it.
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| 2003-01-08 20:25 |
| oh my.. |
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| radney foster - everyday angel |
Today we had the service engineer from hp come to look at our color printer. He's come here before to fix a few things so I know that he's basically an all business kind of guy. So I show him the printer. And he works on it for awhile and then comes back to me and says that we have to call so and so in the IS dept. So I do that, but I only get his voice mail. I leave a message. Tom's in hurry to find someone so a little while later I call over to the help desk, and I get the help desk answering machine. Oh my this isn't good. So a minute or two after that he calls over to the help desk and says, "Loretta, I need to get a person to talk about the printer in the back" So she decides to put him through to someone but they aren't available. So then she decides to put him through to Jim M-. He looks at me and says, "Do you know Jim M-?" I said, "Yes." Just like I had said about the pervious person he asked about. I felt like I had to elaborate so I said, "Yeah, he's short and has dark hair." He looks at me and says, "Well I guess you like those tall guys. Loosening your mouth could get you in trouble." I sat there stunned for a second, I was so embarrassed. Then I said, "I'm keeping quiet. I plead the fifth." So that was the end of it, so I thought. But since Jim M- took our call he decided to come over and have a look at the network, just in case there was anything funny going on there. Well he come back by my desk about 15 minutes or so after Tom, the service engineer, made those comments to me. I was still embarrassed, and I think still a little red in the face. I just wanted to hide, but I didn't want Jim M- to think it was because of him, especially since he's the Jim that is going out with Loretta, Carl, and I. I felt so bad.
Tom has to come back tom., because it wasn't something to do with the network, it has to do with the print server. I guess this one has finally bit the dust. So I had to place a service call with HP about that one, so he'll have the part and be back tom. He was excited about the test print pages and wanted to take them to put in his notebook.Tom was saying he's never seen a printer like that before. It's a really old thermal color printer that only prints 2 pages a minute, and has 600x600 dpi printing capabilities. I was reading that part in the user manual when I placed the first call to hp, and I couldn't help but get a good chuckle from that. Well, I guess that's what you get working for a not for profit org. We keep all the old crap and make sure everything is on contract. =) I'll be happy not to see Tom again for awhile, because it always means that something is really wrong and I'm not getting any work done.
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The answer to that question is no. But I did get my license on the 9th of December. The driving coach and I arrived early and we drove around getting the last minute practice in, and him giving me last minute pointers. We were headed to the start of the test area, and he said this right turn and the next right turn are the last part of the test. So we get there and wait awhile. The guy arrives and off we go, I take a right at the light, and then a left at the next light. I was "meeting the traffic" (as the coach would say) as I was waiting to turn, and I ended up going to far and the turn was too wide. And of course the tester tells me that right after that happens and I'm like great. Then we went a few blocks, and did a parallel park, then we came back the few blocks we went. All the sudden I realized we were at the point where I would be making the two right turns and it was over. I got a little panicky thinking I did something really wrong to be done this quickly, and I didn't do a three point turn (which for me is more difficult than the parallel park). So he's there saying something and printing out this ticket of my results and has me signs it and says there you past. I think I was still in shock. The driving coach comes over and we're headed back, and he says what's wrong. I said something about I can't believe that was it. Then I got onto explain that I didn't even get to do a three point turn. And he says to me, "Well he must of thought you were a good driver." Meanwhile, I'm thinking yeah right. =) So that's over. I'm still not sure when I'm going to get a car, I thought I would get one in Feb maybe, but now I think I'll just wait until more of winter is over. Besides the money I pay out for a month of riding the bus, would be less than the money that I would pay in gas for a month.
So here's an interesting story of what's happening lately besides work and more work. I got a call about a month ago from a friend of mine Carl who works at the hospital. I was curious about the message but I just thought it was about work since he works in the IS dept or to congratulate me since it was a day or two after I took the test. (I'm still not sure if he knows or not) So I returned his call. I was worried for a few days after that because I hadn't heard from him, and thought maybe something seriously was wrong. Well yesterday, I got a message from him explaining that he was getting back to the message I had left him. (at first I was thinking what message) Then he went on to explain that a few of us would like to go out, well actually Lorretta (his gf), and I and Jim. But we don't want to make Jim feel like he's the third wheel, and we want to invite you to go out with us. After listening to that I laughed and said to myself, well Gee Thanks for making me feel ten times better about myself, you know me being there only because they don't want Jim to feel like a third wheel. So I thought about it for awhile and thought ok, at least its a chance to go some where with some friends. So I called him back and left him a message saying, ok, I'll go.. but I was too nervous to say my stipulations like not making me sound that desperate that we need someone else to come, so I don't feel like a third wheel. Or to say I hope I'm not being set up. I get a call from him this morning at 8 and he says geeze is the only time I talk to you at 8 in the morning, and then saying that he got my message. The thought was to go out to a nice restaurant like Red Lobster. So I say, "ok sounds great." He said, "I'll let you know when were going." I felt like saying what in another month?? ;P This whole situation is funny, cuz its been many months since the last time I talked to Carl. It's nice to be thought of, and asked by one of your "shy" friends to go some where.
I just hope that expectations aren't set too high, because I'm not thinking of this as a double date, I don't want to date, and I'm not really interested in dating. Also Carl said to me in his message yesterday, "you know Jim M-" And I didn't say to him that I only know of Jim M-, because he's the one who puts out the emails about the patient record system being down for routine maintenance and such. I did see him over where we are one time and happened to see the name on his name badge, but I've never been formally introduced to him. It's going to be weird going out to dinner with three people that I don't know any of them that well. I'm already getting performance anxiety.. ;P I hope they have good drinks on the menu, wherever we do decide to go. ;P
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| 2002-10-30 20:51 |
| Whohooo |
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| travis tritt - it's a great day to be alive |
Hehehe... I just got back from walking exercise class. It was fun, but then again I know I have a twisted mind. =) I remembered to bring my weights so it was a little challenging. The instructor from a Monday class was there, she said a little bit about her program, it's a bit more challenging. I think I'm gonna check it out on Monday.
Friday, Guilia, Paul, Patrick, and I went to the Gardner Conference in Auburn, New York. We played name the artist on the way there and back. I had the country music side, mostly to myself since no one else listens to that. I also had the 90s and todays tones, but I wasn't very good at those at all. Paul and I were on a team and he said, "She'll get all the drug induced 90s bands." Needless to say I never felt more embarrassed to be in the know with the music. Of course, a song by Godsmack had to come on, and I said, "Oh that's Godsmack!" Needless to say I got a few looks for that. I'm sorry guys I didn't name the band. I suppose the ultimate worse would be having the NIN song "Closer" come on, needless to say in that situation I wouldn't reveal who it was. Also when Paul was on my team he was guessing at some of the country artists that I couldn't think of, and he mentions this one and that one. And I pipe up saying, "NO, no" The next thing I heard was, "Shut up your on my team this time." *giggle* We have to play honest don't we??? The conference was interesting too, it was mostly graduate students presenting their papers that have a statistical nature. The one that all 4 of us went to was one on what should be taught in an Introductory Statistics course, if theory should be taught or if it should be a practical approach. It was quite the discussion. Guilia said that it depends on the student, and an RIT prof, from the College of Engineering, piped in to agree with her. I tend to support that opinion, but what do I know??
During the Social Hour, we went for a walk out to the lake, so I missed meeting the RIT prof and one of his colleagues, who looked familiar. Then we came back for a really nice dinner, and then headed home. It was a great time.
Ohh... on Sat. went driving with Mom. I was really nervous considering what has happened before when I have driven with her. (I came up over a curb and came within a foot or two of a building, going down a street that narrows from two lanes to one way.) I think she has forgiven me by now for giving her that scare, but there was always tension when I drove with her after that. Lately she had been saying you got to go to lessons. She wasn't going to teach me. My step-father wouldn't let us take my mom's newer car. He said, "I don't want to hear anything if anything happens to that car." I don't think I would either since my mom just got the car a little more than a month ago. So we got into the old car, with the really bad transmission, touchy gas pedal, and a soft front tire. The transmission was running so fast I thought I was going to fast until it kicked into gear around 30. We ended up making it to Wally World ok, which is only the next town over. We made it back ok too, but it was harder for me cuz it was so dark out by the time we left.
Other than that not much else going on.
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| 2002-10-21 22:32 |
| Hmm.... |
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| awake |
| rascal flatts - while you loved me |
It's been way too long since I've updated here. There hasn't been a whole lot going on though. Same ol' Same ol', I guess.
Around the last time I updated was when we went on our retreat for NYCAMH. That was a lot of fun, and just what I needed. We stayed at a conference center on a lake, my room looked out onto the lake. It was so beautiful. The one thing that spoiled it for us, was the extremely rude bartender. I got to play 3 games of bowling, and I was my consistent in the 70s score. *pout* The last game I played with some people who weren't good bowlers and they even beat me. Ah well. I had fun though. I got to know a lot of the people better. Most of them I don't get to see on even a weekly basis. I've been over there a lot lately to print out scannable forms and scan in forms from another study in there media closet where the stuff is stored. I get picked on for what kind of trouble did I get in to work in the closet. And I've had a few people say, "Nice to see your out of the closet" or very similar statements, and I just have to laugh, most people don't mean it in that way.
The county's contract with the bus company that has been doing it is up, so the county put out bid notices to renew the contract. Another bus company is going to be doing the routes, but on a more limited basis. Meaning that I will be at work at 7, but I'll be leaving at 4. So I guess that's good, but I'm still not looking forward to it. Getting up early isn't my cup of tea, although I won't be staying the extra hour and 20 minutes Monday through Thursday, that I am now. (get in at 8 leave around 6:20)
The thing that kicked me into gear about drving and getting a car, was the dentist appointment I had a few weeks ago. My mom had dropped me off at the office, because she had a few errands to run. I was suppose to know before hand if I needed to take an antibiotic or not, because of my heart murmur. I got there and one of the dental hygienist asked me about it, and I said I think it was ok. So she calls my new doc to find out that she hadn't gotten back the results from my echocardiogram, and that she wasn't going to make a recommendation. So then the girl had to call my old doctor, well he wasn't at his office. So she had to call back the new doc, and she said to give me the prescription anyway, it wasn't going to hurt anything either way. So I get the script and told I have to come back later for an appointment, and get the script filled. Luckily, getting the script filled wasn't too bad of an ordeal since Walmart wasn't too far of a walk away, but I had to call my mom and tell her I had to come back for a latter appointment. I didn't have her cell phone number, so I had to call home and leave a message, hoping she'd stop home before coming back to the dentist. Well she didn't and she ended up waiting there awhile before going in and asking where I was. She comes back later when I'm at the second appointment. Afterwards, she says to me I told you about sending those medical records for the old doc to the new doc, and asking the old doc about your heart murmur. And you know that the old doc, isn't at his office on Mon, Wed, and Friday afternoons because he's at the Nursing Home. No, I didn't know that. I wanted to tell her, how the hell am I suppose to remember that, I haven't worked at the Nursing Home in almost two years! Yesh.
So the past two weeks I've been taking driving lessons, and I'm looking forward to going this Sat. I've told a few people at work. They all knew, because Paul, my boss had came out before the start of one meeting asking anyone to take me out driving. Then the next week Patrick and I were running late for a meeting at the NYCAMH offices in the next town over, and he gets on the phone and says something like I'm gonna make knowing how to drive safely to work part of your yearly evaluation. He didn't sound like he was kidding either. I've had my review since then and it wasn't on there or even mentioned. Paul's humor is sometimes hard to swallow. My boss, Paul is the only one that doesn't know yet. I was going to tell him today, when we were to meet about the surveys that I was printing scannable forms for last week, but I was overshadowed by the Sweedes being here. The sweedes are here to talk about Cardiac stuff, not sure what it all means or is about. Paul is doing his Swedish English. It's too weird to hear.
I'm also looking forward to going to see RIT Hockey kick butt, when they come this way to play Utica College. I'm disappointed I didn't go see them last year, when it was Utica's first year of hockey. It's nice that we have at least a college hockey team in this area. There was talk earlier in the year about the Hockey team from Binghamton coming here. It would have been nice, but the deal didn't go through. There isn't even a baseball team here anymore. Unfortunately for me, the sports fans in the office are not hockey fans. Hopefully, I can change their minds, but probably not.
I'm looking forward to leaving work early Wed. to go to a walking exercise class that's being held at the school cafeteria. I hope it's fun, and I hope I get to meet some nice people, even if they are a lot older than I am. I haven't been treating myself lately. I've been good and not drank more than a glass of soda in a week. Of course that was made easier, by the fact that my stomach gets painfully gassy if I drink too much. I haven't bought cookies in two weeks either. Although, I did get a candy bar twice last week, which I usually don't do.
This weekend was my sister Bethany's 14th birthday, so my mom and I took her out to lunch, although strangely enough I ended up paying for everyone. How does that happen??? Good thing I had some cash on me. We went over to Walmart to get her some clothes. Then on our way over to the CD section, we happen to stop and look at sheets. So I ended up getting her these cute jersey cotton leopard print sheets, instead of money for her birthday. In the CD section I went on a binge. I got Racal Flatts self titled CD, Diamond Rio's Completely, and Faith Hill's Cry CD. Faith's CD has some Brittany Spears pop type songs than I care for, but the CD is growing on me. We didn't find the Eminen CD she wanted at Walmart, so we headed over to Kmart to look for it there, unfortunately they had the CD there. My step-father, saw the CD on the table when we got back and said great just the kind of music that we need here. I still remember him making comments like that and others when I played music like that when I was younger. Meanwhile, my mom actually has the radio in her car on the Lite radio station. I still remember she hated it when I changed the stations on her, when I was younger. She just wanted to listen to country. *shrug* I don't know what's up with that.
Guess that's about it. =) Night.
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Work has been constant stress for the past week or more. I was just talking to the statistician that is still at work now, and was at work over the weekend. (Of course, he was gone training for a data collection during working hours today) I was able to get out of the training, because I had a doctors appointment in the afternoon. Which means I get out of the training for tom. too. =) Hehehe... I miss out on getting to know more about a few people, that are working temporarily on this project, like Nan's son Mike. Damn.
I was a bit surprised to find out at my appointment that I have high blood pressure. She wants my to check it every week, and exercise more. Bummer. She did say that the exercising would help out with all the stress. I know she's right about that, I've experienced feeling relief from working out. But like she said I have to find something I'm not going to get bored with, which has happened with the walking regime. Anyway, I'm willing to try some new things, and see what happens.
After finding out I was sexual active, she asked when was the last time? And what automatically spews out of my mouth, "It's been too long." We both laughed.
Nan was right, I do really like her for a doc. I'm glad I decided to go to the clinic in this town instead of the one in Cooperstown.
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Lynae isn't working down at the Cooper one day a week anymore. I miss getting to see her and talk to her. She did stop by for a few minutes today, to hand over some more forms to be entered. It was nice to talk to her for a few minutes.
Work has been driving me crazy. Tom. another student starts his internship and the boss mentioned jokingly to me something about showing him how to use sas and that kind of stuff. OH yeah. I hate doing that crap. I've been working with Paul the last few days with our health census cancer data. It's been frustrating trying to get everything straight.
I've been working a lot on the same ol' stuff.
I met Nan's two sons Mike and Corey this past week. Corey definitely the jokester. Mike seemed kind of subdued, but then again I only saw him for a second or two as Nan introduced us. She talks a lot about her kids (her 2 sons and her daughter) so it was nice to finally met all of them.
My family and I went to Penn. the weekend before last. It turned out better than I expected with all of us sharing one hotel room. The reunion we went to was interesting too. I guess it's the first one in 64 years. So no one really felt like family except our family. My aunt, uncle, and cousins from DC were up. I haven't seen them since 96. There son's my sister Bethany's age so it was interesting to see him at 13 versus the last time I saw him. And I think his sister Kate was only a toddler. I think that was the best part of the trip seeing them.
We only got to go shopping at the Ames while we were there. And I bought a table lamp that I really like, and hope to make it a part of my decor when I change my living room around when I move. I moved my bookcase out of the living room. It looks a lot less cluttered in here. Yeah! I think I pulled a muscle doing it though. I've decided to move stuff around, because I'm not moving when my lease ends next month. It's just too much work to do, and not having many days off yet I'll be rushing between moving and working. I also get a chance to feel out all the different areas around here and hopefully find a place I really like.
I've been looking at houses recently through a few of the local realtors I found a really nice house I liked in Oneonta near Hartwick College. I don't really think I'll buy a house anytime soon, but I really like looking to see what's available. I'm pretty sure I want to go on further with my education, so I'll need to use any saved up money for that.
ah well. time to sit down and watch some TV.
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Lynae isn't working down at the Cooper one day a week anymore. I miss getting to see her and talk to her. She did stop by for a few minutes today, to hand over some more forms to be entered. It was nice to talk to her for a few minutes.
Work has been driving me crazy. Tom. another student starts his internship and the boss mentioned jokingly to me something about showing him how to use sas and that kind of stuff. OH yeah. I hate doing that crap. I've been working with Paul the last few days with our health census cancer data. It's been frustrating trying to get everything straight.
I've been working a lot on the same ol' stuff.
I met Nan's two sons Mike and Corey this past week. Corey definitely the jokester. Mike seemed kind of subdued, but then again I only saw him for a second or two as Nan introduced us. She talks a lot about her kids (her 2 sons and her daughter) so it was nice to finally met all of them.
My family and I went to Penn. the weekend before last. It turned out better than I expected with all of us sharing one hotel room. The reunion we went to was interesting too. I guess it's the first one in 64 years. So no one really felt like family except our family. My aunt, uncle, and cousins from DC were up. I haven't seen them since 96. There son's my sister Bethany's age so it was interesting to see him at 13 versus the last time I saw him. And I think his sister Kate was only a toddler. I think that was the best part of the trip seeing them.
We only got to go shopping at the Ames while we were there. And I bought a table lamp that I really like, and hope to make it a part of my decor when I change my living room around when I move. I moved my bookcase out of the living room. It looks a lot less cluttered in here. Yeah! I think I pulled a muscle doing it though. I've decided to move stuff around, because I'm not moving when my lease ends next month. It's just too much work to do, and not having many days off yet I'll be rushing between moving and working. I also get a chance to feel out all the different areas around here and hopefully find a place I really like.
I've been looking at houses recently through a few of the local realtors I found a really nice house I liked in Oneonta near Hartwick College. I don't really think I'll buy a house anytime soon, but I really like looking to see what's available. I'm pretty sure I want to go on further with my education, so I'll need to use any saved up money for that.
ah well. time to sit down and watch some TV.
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| 2002-08-28 20:44 |
| Soo... |
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This song has been stuck in my head for two days despite listening to many other songs the past few days.
The One: Gary Allan.
No rush, though I need your touch,
I won't rush your heart.
Until you feel on solid ground,
Until your strength is found.
Girl,
I'll fill those canyons in your soul,
Like a river, lead you home.
And I'll walk a step behind,
In the shadows, so you shine.
Just ask it will be done,
And I will prove my love,
Until you're sure that I'm the one.
Somebody else was here before.
He treated you unkind.
And broken wings need time to heal,
Before a heart can fly.
Girl,
I'll fill those canyons in your soul,
Like a river, lead you home.
And I'll walk a step behind,
In the shadows, so you shine.
Just ask it will be done,
And I will prove my love,
Until you're sure that I'm the one.
Trust in me,
And you will find a heart so true.
All I want to do is give the best of me to you,
And stand beside you.
Just ask it will be done,
And I will prove my love,
Until you're sure that I'm the one.
So fitting for the moment. There's one CD I'll need to get. =)
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| 2002-08-12 22:49 |
| Hmm... |
| Public |
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| Metallica (for once) |
So I checked out my Morpheus account yesterday just looking for one song. Needless to say I couldn't get connected. All I wanted was the new song by Aerosmith called "Girls of Summer". I had seen the video vary briefly the other day, on VH1 and wanted to check out the song. Of course, I hadn't been on there in months, since I generally buy the CDs I want, which hasn't been too many, and just thought the one ad every 10 seconds was a bit too much when trying to download something. Ah well.
I had much more to say, but I'm too tired. =(
Hopefully, I'll get sometime to write it down tom.
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Sunday night was the worst night of sleep I've had in months. I had two terrible dreams that something horribly bad was happening to me. Then I woke up both times trying to remember what the hell happened in the dreams. I hated not knowing. I did remember bits and pieces of one of them around 9 or so in the morning.
Then on Tuesday morning I wake up sweaty and grumpy. Agh. Then I spent most of the day standing around in the Media Room over at NYCAMH, which is about the size of a walk in closet. I had to bring in a desk fan from someone else's desk, since it's so stuffy in the room as well. Then I'm down to my last 50 print outs the printer decides to say it's out of cyan toner. So I had to go searching around the building for Steve, but I couldn't find him. Then I talked to Guilia, and she said that Glenis (??? don't know how to spell it.) knows how to do it. We got the toner in their fine, but after the printer went through its warm up and calibration it said that one of the senors were too high. So we go to wipe out the inside of the printer, when we closed the drawer it went through the whole thing again just to give us the message again. It took us three tries and then it finally decided to cooperate. The thing is at that time I only had 15 forms left to do, and I had already put the fan away. So it was a little bit unbearable. Boy was I glad when the day was over.
Today, I was happy to sit at my desk and do work. It turned out not to be to bad of a day, although I woke up feeling very irritable. The only problem is that my boss and I still don't understand why our backup program doesn't work like it's suppose to. I had talked to the Tech Support at DEC/Compaq/Hp or whatever name we want to call ourselves now. She seemed like she would be helpful. So I had emailed her the backup program and what it prints on the screen as it goes through as it runs. And she asked me about a few things, but hasn't got back to me about the problem. So I spent sometime with a test copy of the backup program and playing with the part that doesn't work. I moved some statements around and it seemed to work. But there is one purge of a disk drive that doesn't seem to work, although it will tell you that it didn't have anything to purge on that disk drive there is a file that does need to be purged on that disk drive. Agh. I don't know. Hopefully, it will be figured out soon.
So, I get home tonight and my neighbor across the hall said the furniture guys are coming tonight. So they would need to come up my stairway. So the guys got here, and they couldn't get the couches through my doorways. So they were taking them back down after trying for 20 minutes or more. And the guy says to me "Hey. How you doing?" I look at him, thinking he looks very familiar, maybe from high school somewhere. At the same time he was saying, "I was band with you.", I said, "You look familiar from somewhere." And I still couldn't remember who he was, then he says, "I'm Jeff Young." Oh yeah, I remember him. He was in band with me he was in seventh or eighth grade when I was a senior. I was surprised that he recognized me a lot sooner than I did. I don't think that I have changed in looks too much since high school though, except some more weight, unfortunately.
Hmmmm.... sadly I'm getting caught up in this big brother show... OH NO not again. I watched the first season and now this one. There had to be something better on, but I couldn't help but watch it. I'm getting my news magazine fix in and watching 48 hours, pretty interesting story.
I shall be going. =)
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| 2002-07-15 22:20 |
| Agh. |
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Just feeling very blah the past few days. Didn't get much of anything done over the weekend. Not much going on.
The boss was back from vacation today. I thought the day may be busier than it was, but it wasn't too bad. The people out abstracting charts for the cardiac registry have killed there second zip drive, so now they are working off of paper again. The boss wasn't too happy with that. I still don't really see what he has against them. I thought that they have been doing a good job with abstracting charts, even though they did have a rough start. *shrug* Probably more of a political thing than I realize it is.
Hmmm... one good thing that did happen that Nan gave me a pedometer that someone was handing out at the women's health fair that she was a part of on Saturday. I was happy about that. It was awesome that she thought about me. Of course, she knows I walk a lot. I haven't been out walking in about 3 days or so. I'm excited about getting to use it. The pedometer only measures the number of strides though, but I think from that I can figure out how far I've walked. I was surprised to find that from my office to the hospital is around 3 quarters of a mile.
Well I'm way too tired and headed to bed. Night.
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Saturday, 6-29, we had a family wedding to go to. It was really nice. I wore a dress for the first time in a long time. I felt really pretty. I got stuck with the isle seat so all the guys in the bridal party saw me on the way down to the alter. At one point I felt like I was going to fall into the isle, cuz I wanted my mom to have a good view too. Ya know, her being her being the shorter one. Agh well. Some of the guys in the bridal party were kind of cute. The wedding was interesting, because they had the priest there in his church, and they had the pastor from the church that Kim goes to. It was like who could out do the other on sermon. Of course this carried over to the reception where both of them were invited to speak. Quite interesting. We went up to my Uncle Tony's house, which is up the street from the church, after the wedding, for a bite to eat and to talk to each other. The reception wasn't until 6:30, and I think the wedding ended around 2 or so.
The reception was really nice, and was at the local Radison. My uncle (Ron) was sitting at our table with his girlfriend, he ended up calling me little rich girl more than once. The first time it was kind of cute and humorous. The next time it wasn't as funny. Calling me a rich girl implies to me that it was easy for me to go from the low income status my family is in to what I am now, which is middle class, but it wasn't easy. (A lot of the depression I felt after I got out of college, was the thought that I was always going to be low class, and never find a job in my field. It was really hard not to feel that way, especially when going on interviews) It took a lot of hard work. And I can't help it he left his wife with two almost grown boys to take care of, and now has him and his girlfriend, and her two younger kids to take care of. You lie in the bed you make.
The reception went well after that, although most of the music the DJs played was 70s disco type music. *shrug* Tony and his wife are in their late 20s or early 30s, I don't know where the desire to have DJs that play 70s music came to be. When it came to catching the bouquet and garter, this teenaged kid that was in the bridal party caught the garter. They made him give it up. They ended up giving it to the best man. Then there was a twist the DJs had three props in a bag that he had to pick from before putting the garter on. One was a blindfold, the other was a switch - meaning she would put the garter on him, and the third that he picked was the handcuffs. He had to put the garter on without using his hands. *giggle* Then the DJs were egging him on the further it goes up the better the marriage will be for the bride and groom. He got pretty far. Later in the night a girl he must of known, was taking off his tux jacket, vest and shirt. I thought for sure that she was going to ripe the buttons off the way she was going at his shirt. He was probably the cutest of the bridal party. He was about 6', thin, had blondish red hair and wore glasses. He had that smart cute look, I could go for. Then there was another guy at the reception that looked cute too. He reminded me of someone that I went to high school with, but I don't think it was him. But I do remember him looking over at our table a few times. Not sure what that was about.
The past week has been brutally hot and *humid*. The fourth was about as bad. I came down to my parents to have a cookout, and we decided we still needed to go to Walmart. We all piled in the car, I roamed the store for so long that I got called over the loud speaker saying my party was waiting at the front desk. Hehehe.... I ended up getting this cheesy soap dish with fish one it for my bathroom. I also picked up Tim McGraw's Set the Circus Down CD. (I swear this area is having an affect on me. How did I get into listening to so much country music. I still like to listen to other music though.) I also looked at saddles for the bike, but wasn't enthusiastic about what I saw, I rather buy a good seat for my bike.
So our cookout went really well. I made sure that the homeless kitty that's been hanging around didn't go into our house. She is so cute. I wanted to take her home. My mom was saying that the girls were going to have to go to my grandmother's the next day. I felt guilty for a minute, but I wasn't going to let out that I took the next day off. Not a word was said. I ended up having a very quiet day the next day, I thought I was going to go down to Cooperstown to check out the gym in town, but I didn't make it down there. I did end up going for about a 5 mile walk though. Surprisingly, I wasn't hurting too bad after that. That walk was probably the longest I've taken since I have been here.
Saturday, I went down to the parents to do laundry and get some grocery shopping done. My mom had told me that the local Animal Shelter's vehicle was at the neighbor's across the street. I'm guessing they took that kitty that didn't belong to anyone. *sniffle* I really liked that kitty. Oh well. On our way back my step-father and I, saw some of the fireworks they had going on over the lake. It was nice, we started to go down the road on one side of the lake, but it just seemed to full of cars to find a good place to park, so we ended up turning around and heading back to my apartment. I wasn't really that interested in seeing fireworks anyway.
Yesterday, I went out for supposedly short half hour walk. Well I ended up going for an hour, and completing roughly 4 miles. While I was walking down one of the streets that turns into a road, I saw this guy give this girl in a vehicle behind him directions to somewhere as I was trying to walk past. So she goes on her marry way, and I guess he did too. Then about 2 or 3 minutes later I hear someone in a vehicle saying do you need a ride somewhere? And I'm thinking there wasn't anyone walking behind me, cuz it didn't sound like he was talking to me. Then the guy, who turns out to be the same guy who gave the girl the directions, comes up closer to me and asks me again. I said, "No, I'm fine thanks." I wasn't sure what to think of the offer. He seemed like a harmless person, who's probably my age or a little younger, and he did just give directions to that one girl, maybe he's one of those do gooders. *shrug* Then my mind thinks of all the horrible things that could be it. Which made me glad I didn't say, "Yes." I wasn't headed anywhere anyway I was on my walk. I ended up walking a lot further than I thought I would. I found out that behind the farm that I thought I heard gun shots from is a sportsman's club, hence my earlier hesitations for going further up the road on previous trips. I did make it to the top of the hilly road, but still couldn't tell where I was in relation to the other roads I know in the area.
Coming back to work today was a bit of a drag, but it was nice to see that Patrick made it in ok, and seemed to be doing ok, despite pulling muscles in his back. My boss was really worried about him when he called in to me on Wed. and said he wasn't coming into work, he was tired. I tried to tell my boss that with the house and all that going on things were stressful with him and not to worry. He made me go look for his phone number, and keep him updated on how he was doing. I had to call Nan who was on Vacation (at home) to ask her where her phone list is, then she tell's me it won't do any good he just moved into his house. D'oh. She took it upon herself to call up the local phone companies to see if we could trace down his number, but we ended up not finding it. She did say that she was going in the area where Patrick and his wife moved in, and said that she would swing by. I said, "No, No, You don't have to do that!" I don't know if she ended up doing it or not. So my boss ends up pulling Nancy W. and I in when he got back from his morning meetings to see how we were doing. Of course, we're two people who don't like to be put on the spot. The only thing I could say was that it was manageable. He seemed ok with that response, and left us to go back to work.
I got an employee survey done, for one of the Hospital's in our system, it looks just like the one a professional company did for the hospital a few years ago. I feel all proud of myself. Now, hopefully the bubble form will work with our scanner. I guess I'm going to have fun later in the week or next week, when I test it out. Tom, I have to print a few copies on the laser printer. Hopefully I won't have to much trouble printing on both sides of the paper.
Time for bed.
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| 2002-06-28 19:21 |
| What a month... |
| Public |
| happy |
| Sexy Kenny Chesney with The Good Stuff |
Last Friday was my birthday. I didn't make anyone aware in the office and most people were out that day anyway. So the day went by without notice, thankfully. Then I get home to call mom, cuz she said that we were going out to dinner to celebrate my birthday and my sister, Bethany graduating from 6th grade. I tell her that I had to make an appointment with the Bassett doc that is my primary care provider, and she yells at me saying that I didn't have to do that. All I had to do was call the doc that I had been seeing and ask him. I just didn't feel right about doing that though, since technically he isn't my doctor. Anyway, my appointment is not for another 3 months! That was the earliest I could be seen. And the secretary was kind of bitchy about it, asking why I just didn't go to the clinic where I work. I could see her point, but I figured if I ever get sick it will most likely be before I go to work, and I would rather go some place closer to home, not closer to work. Agh. I hope the doc treats me better than she did. So I filled my mom in about that, and told her I had to reschedule my dentist appointment for after my doctor's appointment, cuz I need to know if I have to take an antibiotic or not before I go to the dentist, since I have a heart murmur. And she gets all mad again. And says I set that appointment up on my day off, and so on. She didn't even give me a second to explain that when I rescheduled I made sure it was on her day off. Agh. So we figured out that she was coming to pick me up after that, and while I was waiting I just cried. I was hating my mom for a few minutes there. She made it up here ok, and we got home. Then she says that it was too late to go to dinner, so she didn't think that she was going to go, cuz she was going to go into work from 11pm to 7 am. Agh. But she decided she would in the end. She also gave me a corsage for my birthday. I said, "oh thanks." Then she says, "Do you want me to put it on you?" I said, "No, that's all right." I don't think her feelings were to hurt that I didn't wear it to dinner. I would have felt to goofy with it on.
The rest of the weekend went ok. Then on Monday, while I was at work Nan came in saying she was hurt and told me sorry I missed your birthday. Which I think started the frenzy around the office, cuz no one knew it was my birthday on Friday. So about an hour later Guilia's student Nate comes around taking orders for Chinese at first I thought it was because we were so into finishing this grant up that is going out on the 1st. But then I heard Guilia remind Nate to ask everyone even the people in the back that don't work on this grant. I think hmmm... Then I start to think well today is Nancy W. birthday, so it's probably for her birthday. I give Nate my order. I think again why didn't he ask me for money, then I hear him take some other people's orders, and didn't ask them for money. I think to myself ok, he'll ask everyone for it later. So I'm sitting at another desk, cuz I needed to use the Internet connection there. Paul gave Nate money and said here I'm paying for these two. So then I knew, that they were doing lunch for me and Nancy. Hehehe.. and they thought they were going to get away with surprising me. So Nate comes back with the food in what seems like eternity, and I come over to get mine, and Nancy W. says Happy Birthday this is for you. And I say no wait a minute this is for you. This woman is way too humble. We almost got away without having to hear everyone sing Happy Birthday, but they did. It was nice. I got a nice card too. Patrick, the statistician, and my partner in crime, so to speak, said in the card don't let your birthday go unnoticed. I think about it for a sec... and I think he's somewhat right. But I always seem to have bad birthday experiences so I like just having it like any other day. *shrug*
I've been out bicycling a few times this week and last, and it feels so good to go out and bike. I need to get a better seat for my bike though. I saw some gel ones over to walmart. I think I might pick one up tom. I also think I need to have my seat raised just about a 1/2 inch. I've come to see though that a lot of the roads around here are very hilly and not really for beginners, but I'm still sticking with it. I left work early yesterday, hoping to get a ride in before it rained but I didn't. I got one in today though. I'm hoping with the change in seat I might be able to go everyday, instead of every other day. I don't know. I'll see though.
Ohh.. as for work it has been very quiet the last two weeks or so. Strangely quiet at that. I've had time to go for a nice 20 minute or so walk during lunch. It's been very nice. The only thing bad about it is that Patrick has been under a lot of pressure first with the grant that is going out on the first, then a doc at the hospital who wants to submit some of her research she did recently for a grant to a journal. The woman is never very clear on what she wants, and sometimes is very difficult to deal with. Then the secretary that is putting the paper together for her, won't make tables of the analysis for Patrick. She wants him to put them together then send them to her. I don't see what her problem is with that, all she has to do is insert a table into the word document and type the numbers in. I'm sure Patrick's output is clear enough with every table having a title, that she wouldn't even have to think. Agh. I just don't get it. He also had a closing on a house he and his wife just bought. They were hoping to move this weekend, but it doesn't look like they will find a moving truck for the weekend. I should have asked him if I could help him with anything, cuz I could have put the table together if he wanted me too. Hmmm....
Oh this weekend, My mom, step-father, and I are going to my cousin Tony's wedding. It should be interesting. There is a good chance that I'll get to see some of my real father's side of the family, since they are related through marriage to my cousin Tony (who's my step-father's cousin). *giggle* How back woods is that. ;P My mom and I went to the mall last Saturday, to pick out something to wear, I didn't think I would find anything, but I did end up find pants and a nice shirt at Eddie Bauer. The pants need to shortened a little though. I also got the dress in the mail that I had ordered online from Eddie Bauer. So I'm not sure which outfit I will be wearing, but I'm betting it's something from Eddie Bauer. ;P I think the last thing I need to get is a pair of sandals to wear, that are more comfortable than the ones I already have, hopefully.
Hmmm.... and my sisters' computer is still here at my apartment. Still have no idea when my mom is going to take it home with her.
And boy has it been hot and sticky here.....
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work has been very busy. We have students to do internships for the summer, so it's kind of interesting. Nice to see some new faces around the office. Had a power outage at work over the weekend and ended up not having a phone system running come Monday morning. Then Nan and Nancy both had family emergencies, so Nancy left me in charge of answering the phones, which is very time consuming without having the automated system to be able to get to someones extension when calling in. (So all incoming calls had to go to someone first and they had to transfer them, but you also had to make sure that the person they were calling about was there to take a call, because the voice mail system wasn't working either.) I thought about protesting and saying this isn't a part of my job description, but I knew it wouldn't get me too far. (Especially, with the boss not in his office.) I was glad when Doris came in, and said that she would take over for the rest of the day.
Today, was an adventure in finding out if the Scantron that we have works or not with the forms that were made for one project. To Steve's surprise and mine it did end up working out for that form. He was a bit upset cuz he was looking at how the form for that study was set up and the one he put together, to compare, and couldn't see much difference. Apparently, he spent many hours getting this thing straightened out and talked to their tech support.
Matt (who had my job before me) is suppose to be coming down next wed. so we can sit down and look at it, and see why the other forms won't work. Which I think will be really nice. Matt recently lost his job at the company he was working for in Rochester. I guess the company decided to pack it up. I'm not exactly sure what that all means.
My friend Sara used to work there to, but I guess she is no longer working there either. I feel bad because I didn't keep in touch with her and now I might have a hard time getting back in touch with her. I guess its a lesson learned though. It did prompt me to write to some other friends to see what they were up to. My friend John wrote me back rather quickly, which was a bit surprising. And of course he has that way of always putting a smile on my face. Of course, I try to do the same but I don't think I'm as successful.
My mom came up Monday to drop off my younger sisters' new computer. She is leaving it here for now since there isn't room right now at home. We do have trash pickup on Monday, so some things like the chair the cats shredded the upholstery on when they scratched at it will be gone. My mom has asked me quite a few times to come down to help out. I don't mind it too much I just hope it doesn't turn into something that goes on for the whole weekend. She told me we got some things in the shed, some in the back room, some in the living room, and stuff in the attic. Seems to me that it will take a lot of time. I just wish that it wasn't her and I doing it all, but I know nobody else is going to help us. Ah well.
Ohhh.... while she was here setting up the computer to see if it worked before leaving it here, she told me, Ohhh.... I've seen so and so online a lot lately. Which prompted me to ask online or away online. She says online. Part of me feels like I wish she hadn't told me, cuz I'm now wondering why so and so is online more, and trying to figure out if I should really be talking to that person or not. Hmmm... such is life I guess.
This thunderstorm we're having is pretty cool. I felt the floor shake with the rumble of the thunder. I'm glad it's raining, cuz it was so damn humid earlier today. I came back from the hospital to my office, which is about a 10 minute walk and my whole back was sweaty.
Good night.
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| 2002-04-30 21:55 |
| Agh. |
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| will smith - summertime |
Work seems to be going smoother these days. I went to talk to my boss about something that he had asked me to do. And after I told him what was going on. He told me, "That's the way to communicate with me. Keep the lines open." I looked at him like what psycho babble have you been reading and I'm not 2. I know how to communicate when I have to. What a crazy crazy man sometimes.
Hmmm... that was the weird thing of the day. I wonder what he's going to be doing now that the health census '99 paper is going out. Probably, bug the hell out of Patrick and I. There's the grant proposal that Paul and Patrick will be working on. I'll probably get shoved in the mix somewhere.
Ohhh... yesterday, Paul came to me asked me if I for sure wanted Julie (one of the data clerks) to work another day for us, instead of NYCAMH. Of course, I do, we need the help. *shrug*
I feel bad for Patrick he had to combine these two data sets into one, and the questions were different from one year to the other, so he had to do a lot of manipulation of the data. That wasn't even the first part of the problem. The first part was that the pilot data was located somewhere else on the system, cuz someone else was managing the project at that time. Then we come back to last years forms, and see that one file has 235 records the other 255 and we couldn't figure out the discrepancy. Then all the sudden there were 8 forms that were never entered since the forms came in late. We resolved the 255, apparently someone added it to a copy they had of the database and put it on the system. I'm not sure what Patrick finally decided to do with the 8 forms. We couldn't come up with a consensus on that one.
Meanwhile, life has been feeling very lonely here. *pout* I just want someone to watch movies with and talk about life, doesn't seem like too much to ask. *shrug* I suffer these days though, feeling less of a woman. (I can't really explain the feeling to well.) I guess it's mostly just the feeling of being unattractive. One of the last times I felt this way, I had really short boy cut hair cut. I'm happy now to have my shoulder length blondish brown hair, that I don't do anything special with, back again.
I guess it being easier to find a CD I like, than finding a pair a pants or shirt, maybe part of the problem. I wear the same things day in and day out. Very Boring.
Ohhh... anyway. I bought Kenny Chesney's New CD, and I was listening to it kind of thinking about things that happened in the past, and on comes a song called "A Lot of Things Different" Needless to say it struck a nerve. There are a lot of things I could have done different. I'm surprised that it hit me hard. I wasn't really thinking too much about relationships more about things I wish I had done earlier, or things I didn't do that I wish I did. Of course, then it got me thinking how would things be different if that one piece of life was different. It's hard to imagine that. Of course, the "relationship" song was the one before "I remember".
Hehee... I suppose I need to listen to happier music. =)
ok... went through a handful or more of mp3s to finally get to happier songs, that aren't about love.
Travis Tritt - Great Day to Be Alive
Reel Big Fish - Sellout
Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beat
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (I used to love Boy George, in my younger days...)
Yeah, what an eclectic collection.
Ohhh... cool The Attach On Taliban Clip. *giggle*
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I just finished watching mtv's show icon which was on Aerosmith, one of my favorite all time bands. I missed the beginning of it, and only caught the show when I was flipping through the channels. Hearing their music brings back a lot of memories..... both good and bad. I still remember writing in my high school yearbook for my what I saw in the future for myself, I start humming Aerosmith songs and sometime later in life I get to play flute next to the band. (Errr... something like that. I can't remember my words exactly. That was so long ago.) Aerosmith was my "rebellion". I grew up listening to country and I remember being in junior high and wanting to listen and like what all the other "popular" kids were listening too. Needless to say I couldn't get into most of the groups that they were into, but when I heard Aerosmith's Angel, hard rock really clicked for me, and I was hooked on Aerosmith.
I would have to say that Angel was my favorite song off of Permanent Vacation. Then came the Pump Album, which is hard to chose what would be a favorite song on that one, it's a tie between What It Takes and Janie's Got a Gun. (Pink performed that song on the show, and I really didn't like her take on the song. Let alone looking at her almost falling out of her skirt, how appealing??? ) On the Get a Grip CD it would be Amazing, simply because its incredible how a song can change your life around, and that one was it. On the Nine Lives CD there are a bunch of songs that have their own appeal to me so it is really hard to say there. I would have to put Full Circle and Ain't that a Bitch at the top. And on Just Push Play the songs type seem to mix across categories (not all hard rock.) so it's hard to say there, and of course that is probably my least favorite CD. So I don't listen to it all that often.
One good memory - I had the yearbook theme my senior year be Living on the Edge.... which was somewhat difficult to create a theme all the way through using the title. I remember a group of the seniors (my classmates) were disappointed with the theme of the yearbook, and even went on to complain that it was the seventh and eighth graders were making the decision about the title of their yearbook. And my response and the clubs was well you should of joined the yearbook club, and you would have gotten to put your two cents in. It seems funny at the time, cuz we were trying to come up with a list of the top five or six titles, and all the sudden that song came to mind. I wrote a really good opening and closing to the yearbook too. So I have had some of my work published. *giggle*
And the bad one I remember isn't really that bad at all... and is a really long story.... One that I can't remember all the pieces of it this late at night.
Work......
Lately, work has been feeling like it is defeating me. On the other hand everything gets done at some point, all though the time frame might be a week or more later.
There are some things I need to catch up on. The 2 people abstracting charts for our cardiac registry need help. And I think that I should spend a half day with them helping them enter them and making them feel comfortable entering the data, And fix any bugs in the program. What's frustrating is that these issues should have been resolved before now, but before this point there was a third person who was data entering the paper forms that were made up for the abstraction. My boss has told me that situation can no longer take place and that person was taken off the study. The chart abstractions are suppose to be entered on the computer as they go along, not transcribed on paper then put into the computer. The two left on the study now, are 2 people that aren't too happy to have to have the computer in the mix. Such is life.
Lynae was over for a meeting with our group, and Julie (one of the Project Coordinators over at NYCAMH) calls over to our office to tell Lynae to call one of the Health Center Supervisors that they are working with on there study and tell the Supervisor that Guilia and Paul would be out tom. morning to get the rest of the charts abstracted. She looks at me and says why couldn't she just pick up the phone and do it herself. It seemed very silly. And I feel frustrated hearing that, cuz she is basically dumping the dirty work on Lynae's shoulders. I wish there was something I could do about the situation, but I can't at this point. The only thing I think I can do is wait until Lynae has her 6 months in with them, and then start bugging Paul about getting our Research Assistant. And then Lynae would be able to transfer to our department. I really don't know how that is going to be taken, cuz that would be very political. And I'm not sure if it would be ok with Paul to hire her or not. And I can't think of a way to present a hypothetical situation so it doesn't seem like I'm asking about this situation that could get very controversial.
Aghhh... it's too hot to go to sleep.... =( but I'm gonna try to get some sleep.
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