Saturday, November 22, 2008

Liar Liar

Look at me being a liar already. So it's Saturday and not Wednesday, but here's another post. I'm closing in on the end of the Sedaris book. I'm doing a good job of staying focused and reading at least a little bit every day, but I keep getting interrupted (Car and Driver, Popular Science). The universe is a cruel mistress.

Work is still okay. I'm going to go in for a little bit today even though I don't have to. I'm nearly caught up, which will be nice until I discover something I haven't been doing and am then behind again. So it goes.

On a positive note, my English is improving. My boss is very formal in everything that he does, and has been hounding every aspect of my speech from grammar to word choice. I'm digging up some of the triple word score words that I know and breaking bad habits like saying "No problem" in response to everything as if I were from the Sudan. I like speaking intelligently but I've had no forum to do so since high school debate, so I've fallen into the traps that everybody else falls into on a day to day basis. Okay, that's all for now.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Work

I've been working my behind off. It sucks that Virginia is a first year medical resident as I really have nobody to complain to, but I've been pulling 55 hour weeks for the last three weeks and it isn't all that fun. I'm starting to get the hang of my new job, and I feel less and less like I'm screwing up something important every day, which is nice. My coworkers are cool and seem to like me even though periodic lack of professionalism seems to catch them off guard in such a buttoned-down branch. I'll post more tomorrow, I promise. I have to work in seven hours so I need to catch some beauty rest. Hope all is well with you and thank you for still checking. I promise I won't have any month lapses for awhile.