welcome to my mind ...

When I was talking to a friend yesterday about how I felt like today would be interesting, I had no idea it would start at 5:30am.

For whatever reason, I was awake at that hour, which ended up being lucky. My coworker text me saying that she had been sick all weekend and wouldn't be able to make it in today, so it would probably be best that I go in to open. Since none of the managers come in until 7, and the first set of patients starts to check in at quarter after, that's not nearly enough time to find coverage. When I took the position, I told her that I'd be fine with it, since I live so close, but this is the first time I've had to go in at 7. It's only 45 minutes earlier than I normally get there, but I felt like I'd lost so much sleep. I even just reset my alarm to 6 instead of 6:15 and dozed for another 30 minutes before I had to get up, but that didn't seem to make a difference.

We did end up getting coverage about an hour in to what would be my normal shift, so around 8:30, 8:45, but still. It was kind of a weird day. We had several people show up thinking their appointment was that day, but it wasn't. One person was off by 3 months. And then they get pissed at us... like, dude. I just check you in. I had nothing to do with you setting up this appointment. Then the program that we use to check people in crashed a few times, which messed up two patients being checked in. Luckily the docs understood and were still able to see them, but still. One person got so pissed off, I thought he was just going to leave. Like, yes dude. I came in to work today just to make your life a living hell. Fuck off.

Today was the first day since I've gotten my hair chopped that I wore contacts to work; I wore them yesterday and after a couple days of wearing them, I kind of forget that I have them in. Until my left eye starts giving me issues ... I'll probably wear them again tomorrow. It throws people off because I usually don't wear contacts to work. Staring at the computer makes my eyes super tired quite easily so I usually just wear my glasses, but with this new position, there's a lot more looking away from the screen so I'm testing out wearing them more often. It's kind of funny that I can still confuse people despite the fact that it's been over a year since I quit the security job. I'd think that people wouldn't have trouble realizing it's me anymore. It was fun when I'd be my own disguise so it's nice to know that I still kind of have that.

My coworker told me she should be well enough to go in tomorrow, but I told her to text me again if she needed me to open. As much as I like the little bit of OT, I also very much like to sleep in. I'll probably take my contacts out here within the hour and call it a fairly early night. Fingers crossed tomorrow goes more smoothly than today.

I gotta admit, though, the end of the day was better than I expected. Being forward and open about things does pay off sometimes.