Finally
I have been looking forward to this time with much excitement and anticipation for several weeks now, and not just because of the aforementioned vacation. No, what has really gotten me stoked is that I am no longer a fulltime employee at the hospital where I work.
I will return after our vacation to the same position, Spanish Interpreter, but only part time, in the evenings. Classes begin August 18th, and orientation, both for school and for new TAs, begins on August 10th. I am equally excited about starting school again as I am about the fact that I no longer will be working my day job full time.
Don't get me wrong, I like interpreting, but the institution that is my employer, and many of the other staff that are there, I do not necessarily like.
Yesterday was a very routine day, with no fanfare for my last full-time day. This was partly by my design; only my fellow interpreters (and presumably other staff in our department), and a very select few others knew that yesterday was my last full-time day.
I will definitely not miss working days. There are many departments that will not be open when I will be working nights and also many people I can't stand that won't be there at night, and I am very glad. In particular there is one co-worker who has always been a total bitch (and I know it's not "just me" who thinks this because everyone that I've ever talked with about her agrees) that I will be absolutely ecstatic that I will almost never see her. Yesterday at work my terse interactions with her only confirmed everything that I think about her.
I realize that once school is in full swing, I will likely go completely crazy with all the work, and still having to work part time (in addition to being a TA!) But I totally look forward to it, and having an increased work load, but one by my choosing and on my terms, does not in any way dampen my enthusiasm.
On a completely unrelated topic: I'm listening (and sporadically watching) the documentary Bush's Brain on the Sundance Channel. It too is a conformation for me, that Karl Rove is an insidious, manipulative, lying asshole, and that Bush II is a fucking moron controlled by others.
I will return after our vacation to the same position, Spanish Interpreter, but only part time, in the evenings. Classes begin August 18th, and orientation, both for school and for new TAs, begins on August 10th. I am equally excited about starting school again as I am about the fact that I no longer will be working my day job full time.
Don't get me wrong, I like interpreting, but the institution that is my employer, and many of the other staff that are there, I do not necessarily like.
Yesterday was a very routine day, with no fanfare for my last full-time day. This was partly by my design; only my fellow interpreters (and presumably other staff in our department), and a very select few others knew that yesterday was my last full-time day.
I will definitely not miss working days. There are many departments that will not be open when I will be working nights and also many people I can't stand that won't be there at night, and I am very glad. In particular there is one co-worker who has always been a total bitch (and I know it's not "just me" who thinks this because everyone that I've ever talked with about her agrees) that I will be absolutely ecstatic that I will almost never see her. Yesterday at work my terse interactions with her only confirmed everything that I think about her.
I realize that once school is in full swing, I will likely go completely crazy with all the work, and still having to work part time (in addition to being a TA!) But I totally look forward to it, and having an increased work load, but one by my choosing and on my terms, does not in any way dampen my enthusiasm.
On a completely unrelated topic: I'm listening (and sporadically watching) the documentary Bush's Brain on the Sundance Channel. It too is a conformation for me, that Karl Rove is an insidious, manipulative, lying asshole, and that Bush II is a fucking moron controlled by others.
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