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Good Day, Sunshine
My boss gave me several pages of forms to fill out and have back to him by next week. He didn’t give me an exact deadline, but he said “Next week, sometime”. Hmm. Always makes me a little nervous when I know the forms are important, but I don’t have to return them for a week or so. I finished them at work, and I was late getting out, and consequently, I was unable to pay one of the bills yesterday with my paycheck. I was supposed to cash my check and pay the bill, but by the time I got to the bill pay center, the woman was already closed, even though I still had about five minutes left. Oh well. There’s always tomorrow, right? What upsets me is I did not get the forms turned back into my boss when I finished them. I brought them home. I’m not sure why I did this. I could have easily just dropped them off at his office, even if he was no longer there.
After my bill-pay fail, I picked up some Scroos for my hair-it’s gotten somewhat longer than last year, and I have had trouble with my Scruncci-these really keep my hair out of my face and eyes. 
I have a new cord for my iPhone, so it’s charging right now. I’m so happy to get it back! Apple went the extra mile and gave me a new battery, even though I didn’t especially need one.
Le bon Jour le Soleil
My boss gave me several pages of forms to fill out and have back to him by next week. He didn’t give me an exact deadline, but he said “Next week, sometime”. Hmm. Always makes me a little nervous when I know the forms are important, but I don’t have to return them for a week or so. I finished them at work, and I was late getting out, and consequently, I was unable to pay one of the bills yesterday with my paycheck. I was supposed to cash my check and pay the bill, but by the time I got to the bill pay center, the woman was already closed, even though I still had about five minutes left. Oh well. There’s always tomorrow, right? What upsets me is I did not get the forms turned back into my boss when I finished them. I brought them home. I’m not sure why I did this. I could have easily just dropped them off at his office, even if he was no longer there.
After my bill-pay fail, I picked up some Scroos for my hair-it’s gotten somewhat longer than last year, and I have had trouble with my Scruncci-these really keep my hair out of my face and eyes. I have a new cord for my iPhone, so it’s charging right now. I’m so happy to get it back! Apple went the extra mile and gave me a new battery, even though I didn’t especially need one.
Jour malade
I’m surprised I’ve made it this far. I woke up sick, I’ve been feeling ill all day. Considering “all day” is roughly three hours, it still feels like it’s been an eternity. I have chest pains. I feel like I am going to throw up at any minute. I have an appointment with Doc Dan, because my extensive tests are in, but that won’t be for another six hours. I don’t know if I can hang in that long. I have to. Working in this condition really sucks. I wish there was something I could do, but my boss told me that unless I pass out, I can’t go home. I wonder if that applies if I puke? It’s not like there’s any work to do. We’re just hanging out, doing reports, and waiting for something to come in. For the first time that I have had this job, we’re not bogged down with crime case evidence. One of my co-workers joked that we solved all the crimes in town. Right. I’m sure we did.
Think happy thoughts for me. I will get through this!
Le Premier Jour Du Reste de Ma Vie
I’ve put off posting this because I didn’t want to jinx myself, though that’s really impossible at this point.
Tomorrow I start the first day of my new job that I actually use my Ph.D at. I’ve finally finished school and made it to go on. Although I really loved piecing together corpses at the morgue, my new job is going to be somewhat smaller in scale, and what I basically started out doing in early 2006. I’ll be back making electrophoresis gels, playing with tritium, and running DNAs. I really don’t think I need a Ph.D to do any of that, mostly because I did the brunt of it when I was simply a Master’s Degreed Registered Nurse, just four years ago, and then was promoted to corpse chopper/corpse piecing, but this job will eventually lead to that and I am at an intro level. I’m starting from the ground up again. Back to square one.
Before anyone asks, yes, you have to have a strong stomach to handle dead humans. You have to have that strong will to handle what will essentially be your destination, knowing that one day, another person will be doing the same thing to you. It’s not something that I recommend people run out and get trained to do. Nursing, even working in the psych ward, watching and performing spinal taps, draining fluids, working with cancer patients, battling cancer myself, and even working in a nursing home, was never as intense and emotionally draining as cutting up the bodies of people, some of which were younger than I. If you don’t have a strong will, don’t do it. Dead bodies don’t act like the bodies in movies, they don’t act like dead animals that are used in Human Anatomy or even human cadavers in gross anatomy. These are raw, dead humans. I’m sorry if that grosses out my readers, but I think it’s important to be realistic. The money is good. Starting pay: One day/three hours grunt work: $100. Essentially, I will be working about ten hours a week for $500, which is a very good salary, but I have worked hard to get where I am today.
Wish me luck! Oh, and pray that I don’t get sick tomorrow. It’s been a long time since I’ve worked in an actual lab. :\
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