Overrated
it’s 3:46pm, outside the sun is glaring a scalding 38degrees but i wouldnt be able to tell you much more about what is goingo n outside because today is my first day at work. That’s right folks, Anisha finally got her butt into gear and now has a job. Okay so it’s just 6 weeks of random jobs around the lab but i get paid so there is some sort of an incentive there. After a hasty jog from my new home ( yes, i still havent gotten over the fact that i now live in a house with ony 2 other ppl as opposed to a room with 35 other ppl sharing my kitchen and tv lounge!) to catch the bus at 9:05 this morning i managed to get into the labs at 9:35am. Just 15 mitues late for my first day on the job. While it’s not the best impression to make, for a person who woke up at 8:35, it’s not a bad effort. Anyway, the morning was pretty alright, we had a meeting…you know the general my name is…and i am working so and so’s lab intro thingo. After that things kinda went downhill, to the point where i started to fall asleep at my desk. Oh yeah, i forgot to mention that i have a desk and i get a set of keys ( i feel quite important!). I managed to have a chat with some of the otehrs who are doing a summer scholarship and and also the other staff members are pretty cool although they all have jobs and well, i was jobless. When i say i had nothing to do i am NOT kidding. I managed to read my wayt hru an honours thesis, which i will be assisting with and then i did nothing. I sat and i looked around the little office. Seriously, all there is to see is white walls and awful grey cabintate/shelf things which are stacked with yellow manilla folders and rubbish. It was all rather disappointing and quite frankly i am dreading the next couple of days if this is what it’s going to be like. I had so little to do that i even managed to plait my hair ( in those tiny single braids) and unravel it 3 times and read the ingredients and energy information on my bag of lollies abt 50 times! I am about this close to banging my head against a wall in the hopes that it might be more entertaining than just sitting around. Ofcourse now that i am here ranting and raving about it, hopefully time will pass a little more quickly and by the time i get back upstairs it will be only 30 minutes to go before i can go home! At this time i am just thinking that $200 is NOT enough compensation for this shit and that it’s gonna take alot more cold hard cash to get me thru the trauma of today!
On a happier note, i mght get to watch a cardioversion procedure tomorrow. For those of you who might not know what that is, let me explain. You know how in the movies whent he dude goes into cardiac arrest they pull out the paddles and someone shouts “Charge to 150″ then they go ” CLEAR” and then BZZT they shock the guy to get his heart going?? Wellt hat’s pretty mh what cardioversion is except that it’s some mangey looking chinese doctor instead of sexy george clooney playing the Doctor’s role. Cardioversion is pretty much used to correct atrial fibrillation, a condition of the heart which can cause heart attack and stroke if clots form within the chambers of the heart.
Right so now that i have successfully wasted 20minutes writing this post i might head over to facebook and leave a couple of random wall posts there.
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