Kevin's Watch

If he milks it for more than five or six weeks, talk to your supervisor. That's about the limit for abdominal surgery.

I'm more worried about him being forced to do things he shouldn't before he's fully recovered. He's in the same boat I am - full bank of sick days that he isn't allowed to use. And I don't know how much I can protect him, as I don't know the nature of the surgery or what his actual limitations are. He had the same surgery last year, and ended up with a bad infection, though I don't know the cause. Lack of basic communication is so frustrating, as is the fact that there is no one else capable of doing our jobs, and they have no contingency plans for us being sick or taking any time off for anything.

I am taking Monday, though. I may regret it, but I will regret it on Tuesday. I will not spend all weekend thinking about everything that's going to fall apart. (I feel like I should be writing that 100 times on a chalkboard or something.)

Feel free to start a Mallory's game for it.

ABC Disasters Sorus Will Have to Fix Tuesday?

deer of the dawn wrote:Speaking of awards. Every year there is recognition for teachers who are leaving the school. I begin my tenth year teaching there this August. I have never seen them recognize people who stay, and there are several who have been there much longer than I have. I said something years ago about it, but it being my 10th year it would look "somehow" (as they say in Nigeria) if I spoke up now. Oh well....

I hope they recognize your anniversary, but if they don't, you should totally do something special for yourself anyway.

Sorus wrote:ABC Disasters Sorus Will Have to Fix Tuesday?

Sure. Or ABC Things We're Not Looking Forward to Fixing?

I considered something along those lines, but in my case, it might be a tad redundant with ABC of things you don't want to post about and ABC of things you would like to say at work.

And besides, I'm not thinking about work this weekend. Noott thiiiinking abooout wooooork. Totally not thinking about work. Not even a little.



Was that convincing?

Suuuuuure.

Sorus wrote:I feel like I should be writing that 100 times on a chalkboard or something.

ABCs of References Only Understood By Those of a Certain Age

Where I did primary, a favorite disciplinary sentence was cleaning the erasers. I apparently was allergic to chalkdust, but that got no slack cut. Yes, it was a different time...

Arrived back home yesterday. Had a good trip; the highlight was probably the Flam railway on Thursday. Oslo was good too (though I didn't have time to see everything I wanted to).

Welcome back Murrin. I've always felt one big advantage of living in the UK is the ease of travel to Europe and surrounds. Where I am is damned far from practically everywhere.

10 years Deer? Sheesh.

Hope you're having a good day off Sorus. (How can you not be allowed to use your sick leave if you're sick? Surely that's illegal?)

Ah, Monday...still, there's a public holiday mid-June, so I've taken off the rest of that week. Need to use last year's leave, because it only carries over for 1 year.

--A

The gall stones have gone, and the gall bladder, and not before time. Apparently the gall bladder had thin walls, was distended, and the stones were palpable. I had the op on Thursday afternoon and was out of hospital by early Friday afternoon. The waterproof dressings came off today and all four incisions (I had 3 plus a drain) are healing up nicely. I'm now a nice pink/yellow colour (the pink stuff they put on you before they operate plus bruising). C is doing all my bending and stretching for me, and I've had no actual pain, just some discomfort, except when I cough, which I don't do much now.

So - today is the first day of the rest of my life. I've given up one big job with the family history Society, just have a short powerpoint presentation to prepare for my President's Address at the AGM on Saturday, and then I'm going to get on with my own Family History!!

Glad all went well, Io!

Glad you had a good time, Murrin. Vacations are never long enough...

Deer, I too hope they do something cool for your 10th anniversary. And I totally get the thing about it being tacky to benefit from a brand-new program yourself.

Today was a holiday here. I spent the weekend inside, mostly, and wrote 15k words over the three days. Of course, now it's Monday night, I have to go to work tomorrow, and I kind of don't feel like I had a holiday weekend. But there's only so much I can do...

Glad to hear it Io.

Yeah Ali...sometimes holidays are as much work as work is.

--A

Sorus wrote:

deer of the dawn wrote:Speaking of awards. Every year there is recognition for teachers who are leaving the school. I begin my tenth year teaching there this August. I have never seen them recognize people who stay, and there are several who have been there much longer than I have. I said something years ago about it, but it being my 10th year it would look "somehow" (as they say in Nigeria) if I spoke up now. Oh well....

I hope they recognize your anniversary, but if they don't, you should totally do something special for yourself anyway.

Fantastic idea!! I also just lost ten lbs.!! Party time, excellent!!

Now, if there were only something to do in this nowhere town!

Well, Stag of the dawn and I are planning a ten-day vacation. We never EVER took ten days off in our lives. And we will stay in a hotel on a beach the WHOLE time, and NOT visit relatives or any other stuff he always tries to stuff into our days off and ends up consuming time and energy we don't have. Sorry, I am just about as grouchy as the day is long, I could just bite somebody.

Sorry. It was well-intended.

Well, today was predictable. I think I made it through the ABC Disaster list at least twice, with the possible exception of X. Made it home without biting anyone, and managed to run into my neighbor, who spent over an hour explaining his latest conspiracy theory, which was basically that the Aztecs (or was it the Mayans? or both?) were aliens, who destroyed themselves (or each other?) in a nuclear war and the survivors are now in control of the government. Too many years in customer service. I can nod along with anything and look like I am interested and paying attention.

Don't let them steal your time open-endedly. You won't be getting more to replace what they take. Set internal limits and know how to disengage without being brusque.

I'm good at that when I'm working, but you haven't met my neighbor. It isn't even vaguely possible to get a word in edgewise. Besides, I got an interesting, uh, story out of it.

uh, say no more...

"Hey look man, I gotta go...next time huh?"

Yeah...easier said than done, I know.

Wednesday...thus do our lives leak away...

--A