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Wednesday, 22 October 2008

  • Hello again, just me, hope I didn't startle you. I had a few minutes before work so I thought I'd pop in and say hi. Today I took a biopharmaceutics exam (and can now start studying scary Medicinal Chemistry for Monday), went to a PPA meeting and got convinced to join because it sounds like a worthwhile organization (and most of them are not), and am going to drop in on ISO's Continents Night, featuring island countries, because a friend of mine is in charge of it.

    In exciting news, I will have something fun to do other than hand out candy on Halloween for the first time ever! Mike's going to be in Chicago presenting a very impressive paper at a very impressive computer-y conference, and Kim will be at her first-ever screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, so I was at loose ends until Alla and I hatched a plan. We're going to have a fall party, involving some mead I got awhile ago (that comes with spices for mulling!) apples, candy apples, pumpkin things, and non-horror movies (think Nightmare Before Christmas). So this will be great--people I like, hanging out in a not-getting-hammered way!

    Finally, right now I'm in a public computer lab and the girl one seat away has on headphones and is *blasting* poor quality electronica. And swiveling in her chair and bobbing up and down. Honestly, at the volume this is playing, she might as well just skip the headphones. It's not that I'm a crabby old person or anything, but I just don't like the sound of tinny-crap-clubbin' music.

Sunday, 07 September 2008

Saturday, 06 September 2008

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    When You Are Engulfed in Flames
    By David Sedaris
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    Every time I write something on this site, it's like starting a fresh New Years' resolution.  It'll last a week if I'm diligent, but after that, all bets are off.  That being said, I figured I might as well clean things up a bit around here and make yet another good faith effort.

    I didn't check the date of my last entry before I started this, but I imagine it was around the beginning of the summer.  Since then, I left my cozy nest at University Hospitals to begin Year Four of Six at Duquesne (holy crap, this would be my senior year already, if not for the whole 6 year program thing).  It was an interesting summer that left me feeling a bit at a loss--the average staff pharmacist doesn't seem to do a whole lot, although this does depend on how much effort you put into the job.  I wonder why I so badly need to find a job that demands everything I have at every second. 

    My apartment is lovely, and if I can swipe a camera I'll try to include some pictures.  If you happen to live in the area, drop by to see it because I don't think pictures will do it justice.

    Goals for this school year:
    1.  Start bellydancing again
    2.  Try yoga
    3.  Be better about running every day
    4.  Make it out to Your Inner Vagabond
    5.  See the inside of Epiphany Church because the hype has been building since my freshman year
    6.  Be good at art (which I am starting this semester...if anything good comes out of it I'll put it up here)

Saturday, 17 May 2008

  • Out of school for, what, 17 days now.  In that space of time I have worked a week with Walgreens and started a new job at University Hospitals.  Here's a rundown of my typical workday now:

    4:45 am--Roll out of bed to shower
    4:55 am--Stumble out of shower and into scrubs (feels like getting back into pajamas)
    5:00 am--Try to appear human
    5:07 am--Grab lunch from fridge, Nalgene from counter, book from underneath the hall table, and throw into Duquesne University School of Pharmacy bag; grab purse and check for work ID
    5:15 am--Into the car, buckle seat belt
    5:50 am--Arrive at work
    5:54 am--Clock in
    6:00 am--Begin work and begin coffee consumption

    I won't bore you with the details of what I do from 6:00 AM until 2:30, when I'm done.  Suffice it to say that for this first week they've had me in unit dose, so I pull the meds when the orders come through and run them to my designated floor every hour, on the hour, wending my way past the many carts that fill the secret underground tunnels and hallways of University Hospitals.  It is huge down there and most of the passages below ground look identical.  But Rachel, you say, do you work in the basement?  No.

    I work in the sub-basement.  So much of my day is spent below the basement.

    I like the job so far and the people I work with are nice, plus getting out of work at 2:30 is cool.  Not like I get to enjoy that, because I ride home with my dad so I stay until 5:30 anyway.   I hope they'll move me onto IVs soon--as of now, hospital work is not what I thought it would be.  But then again, I'm functioning as a tech, and a trained monkey could do this job just as well as me. 

    Hopefully I'll get to see what a pharmacist other than the one staffing the main inpatient pharmacy (the sub-basement one) gets to do, because if that's all there is, I may have just lost my career goal. 

Sunday, 30 March 2008

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