I am yet again exhausted, for a variety of reasons.

However, I have A LOT about which I should discuss before I go to bed tonight. I have some Lady Grey tea in my system, so that should help me stay awake long enough to get this out and to finish putting together some organizing thoughts for my Spanish oral tomorrow (YIKES!).

I basically worked on my oral all day, learning more about Hugo Chavez than I every cared to learn about him, how is paranoia came about mostly after the coup attempt against him and that he's basically the reason that gas prices will pretty much always be high. I think I'll do pretty well, but maybe go a little overboard on the time. Hopefully not too much. I think I can get everything in in 7 minutes, however this experience makes me wish that I had not volunteered to go in the first day because this has really made me see that my Spanish skills need some refinement.

Suffice it to say, my birthday was spent doing a variety of things I never really wanted to do.

However, today I did get new pants (which I suppose I kind of needed), socks, jackets, and THE VIRGIN QUEEN. Hawt. I absolutely love that movie because it's the closest out of all the accounts of Elizabeth I've seen, to the historical events and how Elizabeth handled them. Hellen Mirren had good acting as Elizabeth, and caught the somewhat unstable nature of Elizabeth, but the Masterpiece Theatre is much closer to fact.

So my boss. I said I would mention things, but it's honestly not that much. I just wanted to say that I'm disappointed that he cared more about his French conversation stuff than the German classes that had orientation on Friday. It's really sad to know that he's not too big on the multi-tasking aspect of this job. I sometimes feel that I have to do things I should not have to do to make sure that everything that he forgets to look at is done right. A couple of times he's forgotten to turn in our pay slips on time, and the whole set up of the place is additional evidence to the difficulties he has with certain things. He's great a certain thigns of course, like trying to promote an awareness of the center, getting people to come in, getting an ASL tutor, and getting all of the technology stuff taken care of, but there was all the little things that I've had to handle that I probably should not have had to do (like essentially assume orientation responsibilities).

I don't know.

My other "boss" at Memorial, is technically the morning charge nurse, but she's never there when I get there, so my real boss is the evening charge nurse. One of my responsibilities is to post the patients for the next Monday so that when people start coming in on Monday, all the early patients have someplace to go. In order to post the board, I need room assignments for all the patients, which is the job of the charge nurse for Monday, to make sure is done (if that sentence made sense). Well, two weeks ago, no one did it, so I did. Even though I'm not supposed to. And I know the basic philosophy behind assigning the rooms, and the evening charge nurse said I did it right. Anyways, how a hospital works is that when someone doesn't do their job, you let them know. So I left the nurse a note saying that I should not have to do her job in somewhat more diplomatic words. Apparently, when she found that note, she threw a fit, erased everything I had done, and replaced it in some order that made no sense to anyone.
Next time it happens, I'm not updating the board at all and they can have chaos on Monday.

Anyways, I have survived the first week of classes.