Busy Transitional Day!

Again this .gif? Holy moly, we really are stuck in Groundhog Day.

Well, hopefully this is going to be the last one. I completed my COVID quarantine (did not drink any quarantinis) and completed my last night shift - for now. Hopefully I won't be covering any more of them for the remainder of this year, which ends in late June.

Finished work this morning, got clearance for my job, then went home, completed a few Hive tasks, and went to sleep for less than 3 hours. It's a busy day with a lot of plans since I'm coming back to work tomorrow, leaving me limited time to get things done!

I posted a brief to-do list on Threads right here.

Fortunately, the groceries aren't needed today, but another situation came up: one of my colleagues from last night asked if I could cover his Thursday and Friday floor shifts (for me, floors = 🤢 🤮) . This was for a conference which he knew about well in advance, thus should have asked people weeks ago, not at the last minute. Well, I've been covering shifts for several months, so this time I said I'm just not able to do it - I have to leave a little bit early those days, and it's not compatible with my schedule. I asked my colleague to search for someone else and get back to me if he's not able to find anyone (my biggest mistake!).

He never got back to me. Today, I found out from our upcoming chief that supposedly I am scheduled to cover those Thursday and Friday shifts. I told him that I never agreed to cover those shifts, and that I'd have to leave early on those days. This started a whole time-wasting routine between the chief, the person who asked me to cover, and myself. There's still no clear resolution, and I'm going to speak to the chief in person tomorrow, although most likely I will be covering the shifts. If I'm not going to be able to leave these shifts early, then I'm simply going to have to reject taking them. I've already covered enough, and I have to take care of my own personal things. Let someone else cover for a change!

Anyway, the rest of this evening is going to be finishing my extensive self-grooming (I do tend to spend far too much time on this, but it's pretty much one of the few things that makes me feel like a functional human being these days), stretch/meditation, and a small number of Hive things.

Tomorrow we begin our electives again (these are typically subspecialties of medicine with lighter work hours for residents, i.e. 8 - 4 p.m.), and it's actually going to be my first elective since July. Going 8 months without an elective is a very long time. So I'm going to spend several hours there, talk with the chief, then head home not late!

Hopefully I won't be getting called to cover after Thursday/Friday. I've seriously had enough of it. There are plenty of other residents who haven't pulled their weight, and it's time that they become a little bit more reliable. I have to put myself first.