First night shift aftermath.

Thanks for the emails / SMS's / comments left encouraging me for my first night shift. Greatly, greatly appreciated.

For those that had the conversations with God, thanks for that too. While there were some minor upsets along the way (e.g. the one night shift turned out to be one night shift plus working all day Sat and Sun), the key issues/concerns I had was sorted out. It reinforced to me the importance of building relationships, spending time with people and understanding their concerns.

The most important things were sorted out. Sleepiness/tiredness is secondary; one can recover from this just by sleeping enough.

It took a few days to recover, but it was a great learning experience.

Thanks for your help.

First night shift tonight.

I tried sleeping throughout the day but only managed about an hour. I'm eating chocolate now and will get some coffee on the way to work, but a bit worried that I will not be able to last 5pm-7am on this little energy. For the praying types, if you could consider that one in your conversations with God, that would be greatly appreciated.

All other issues put on hold tonight, one issue at a time.

Later, all... will write/text/call again when I re-appear from the grave shift.

October 18, 2010

How are you?
The usual.
What's that supposed to mean? Aren't you young ones supposed to enthusiastic and excited?
The enthusiasm comes and goes.
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You can swear if you need to.
Thanks, but I try not to, and generally if possible only in my head.
Very well.
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How are you, anyway?
I'm ok.
What's wrong?
Let's talk about work. A neutral topic.

I know what is.
(Silence)
I hope it works out for you.
That means something.

It's supposed to be a good thing.

Others are telling me it is a good thing.

But I just don't feel it, there is no need. Apparently it's good if I feel there's no need, it would be a problem if there was a need. Apparently it's supposed to be an improvement. But things are good, why risk it? There's no need to add to the pile of bad memories.

Just go to work and do work, drink coffee, eat good breakfast, exercise, drink coffee, go to work, do work, drink coffee, exercise.

!#

It's already starting to cause trouble.

Scrap the idea.

October 12, 2010

It'd be really good to have some ice cream tonight. Honeycomb ice cream. Or a Mars Bar.

Flash flood warnings tonight, though. Doesn't provide great incentive to walk to Safeway to purchase any of those items.

I guess I'll just have to watch Two and a Half Men and eat an apple.

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PS. It was great having you in Melbourne, matey!! Have a safe flight, see you soon!

There's a party, and you're not invited.

I don't understand how it can be so difficult for some people to stick to something they've already agreed to. I really, really don't understand. If you know you're not going to follow through, then don't agree to it in the first place. If you genuinely thought you might, well, then you're alone on that one.

I am fed up and am not interested in apologies.

If you don't have your phone on, no one will call you. If you always say you'll turn up and but you don't, people start to see the trend. If you cry wolf enough... you know the story.

Don't expect to be invited to the next party.

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I don't dare touch my phone for fear of losing my temper. It is great to be able to communicate to the virtual world where the rules are a bit different.

October 4, 2010

Grumble time again. Sick. Been coughing my way through Sat and Sun. Decided to stay at home today mainly because I was feeling fairly dizzy and didn't feel I could drive safely. Hope to get better soon. Really grateful that I have really thoughtful housemates during this sick thing though =)

Asides from that, the weekend was pretty good. I had a guest arrive, in style, as expected. After one night, though, she decided to do accommodation elsewhere for the rest of her stay as I apparently live too far away from the city =) Rephrase, when she has finished partying it 3am in the morning, it is much more convenient to not have to walk/taxi home since trams will have finished then. Haha...

Great weather, once again. Time to do stuff outdoors! Yay.