happiness

i got to work and found this in the fridge. it was providing an impenetrable forcefield to protect a chocolate eclair that clearly had my name on it

it made me laugh and laugh. and again on and off during the remainder of my shift

(how did she know i like lolcats? and chocolate eclairs? princess fiona, you should be on csi. hope your birthday was as grand as it could be working nights)

my shift which had an hour overtime due to the extreme busyness. now, that wouldn't feel like such a hardship if you normally finished at 1700, but i got to sashay out of the health factory at midnight. it puts a serious crimp in the afterwork timetable which is focussed on drinking vino and falling prey to the charms of the interweb but attempting to be in bed by a reasonable hour (ie 1am) so as not to fall prey to day/night reversal

it's lucky i am blessed with being awesome

things that don't make you feel like a grown up at work:

when your boss calls you "dear" despite the fact that 0.4FTE you're on the same designated senior scale

when your patients call you "the sweetest little girl" (har har, "if they only knew", i hear you say) - i don't understand what about my presentation of myself today prompted 3 separate patients to say words to this effect to me. i mean, i wasn't even wearing that funny hair clip

things that do make you feel like a grown up a work:

making a dying man comfortable

holding the man's hand as he dies because you're the only one there with him

telling his family that he has died

telling the family (who are all 20 - 30 year older than you) what to do now

giving the man his last bath and saying goodbye to him

do you know what?

I do love my job. and i love it because i am good at it

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