Roll on Wednesday. It’ll mean I finish this silly stretch of consecutive nights on call. Then it’s 6 nights left which includes a weekend, and finito!
Spoke to Caro today, long time no speak to. Spent a large amount of money doing so (£20?) – so much for Skype being cheaper than using my mobile. That’s calling her mobile obviously – she neglected to tell me she had a landline now. Though to be fair, £20 over 6 months is probably fair.
Our kitchen has been invaded by students! Most noisily too. As it’s 10.30 and this corridor is full of staff who are either on call or working shifts, and since I am a grumpy old woman at times, I pointed this out to them. Now they are quiet(er) but are still in the kitchen and I’ve just discovered I am hungry and want to make some toast, but when your kitchen is a box room and there are 4 students in it (that you’ve just told off) I’ll have to wait…
Further reinforced today was that although me and Caro tried our hardest not to talk about work we kept returning to the subject – mostly because we both work to the exclusion of a life that we have nothing else to talk about. This is perhaps reflected in my blog too – what did I do today? Went to a seminar, then went back to bed and dozed (worked overnight so playing catch-up since there was nothing to do at work. Not a great story for a blog! I did go to a retirement do today – head honcho (honchette?) is sort of leaving (she sort of left 6 months ago but is still involved, and will remain involved after she leaves today) and it was quite interesting hearing about her career – her career has spanned 40 years and she’s risen to one of the top positions and is highly respected, yet she’s an approachable typical landrover driving horse and dog lover who’s very well “nice”, as one of the speakers at the do said.
Then I went back to my room, talked to Mum and Caro, played on the net and told off some students. Might watch some telly (and eventually have some toast) to round off the day. Gosh what a riveting day!
