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squeefulfish) wrote2009-02-22 01:40 am
squeefulfish) wrote2009-02-22 01:40 am
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Well, I didn't make it to the march thanks to a slightly dicky tummy. But I reckon at 70-100,000 one of me wouldn't have made a huge difference. I'm just going to have to exclude all the possible triggers and then slowly re-introduce them one by one to see what happens. How terribly methodical. Tummy, not union related.
Got a bottle of tasty enough merlot from someone for looking after her kid for a while. I do like barter, always did prefer it for this sort of thing. Babysitting is far more fun when there's a tasty carrot at the end. Now I know where I've been hiding my sharkey lever corkscrew, life is even better. (In my toiletries basket, for some reason.)
Contemplating some summer stuff, not so much where to go as what to do. Care assistant work is nice and lucrative and hasn't been hit too badly with cutbacks so far. Also need to focus on actual school work, that dissertation isn't going anywhere, even if the length is decreasing with every draft of the guidelines. Currently down to 8,000 words. That's going to be a challenge to keep to. I know who I want as my supervisor, but will be finding out in the next couple of weeks who it actually is. I hope I made it obvious enough from my submission who it should be. All my talk of woman-midwife relationship is very in keeping with a certain sociologist's interest.
Late shift Monday, finishing 8-9ish, then back on to earlies for the rest of the week. Just about starting to know my way round the department and while there are many things I want to change about it they're the sort of things that can't be changed without significant expense. (Staffing levels, buildings...)
Oooh, I did my first booking history by myself, on my own, alone on Weds! Hope I didn't flamingo it up, but once I'd convinced the incredibly slow 'puter to co-operate (the lag is atrocious) it went well. There was quite a lot of "are you alright in there, you're taking a long time" because I took more than 10 minutes in total with her. Sod it, supernumerary, I'm going to enjoy my time there. And because I haven't bounced enough, 91% on pharmacology. Go me!
I've a 300 word thing due Friday about refusal of consent. Pretend case we've been allocated is a woman whose cervix has dilated to 3cm, foetal heart slows to 90bpm (normal 110-160) and doesn't recover, section proposed by obs, woman refuses. That pesky Constitution keeps getting in my way. Article 43.3.3, how I hate you right now. Pesky equal right to life, pesky diminished capacity for consent (in law) of woman due to pregnancy and pain! Pesky Irish law. Pesky high standards that I set myself!
Got a bottle of tasty enough merlot from someone for looking after her kid for a while. I do like barter, always did prefer it for this sort of thing. Babysitting is far more fun when there's a tasty carrot at the end. Now I know where I've been hiding my sharkey lever corkscrew, life is even better. (In my toiletries basket, for some reason.)
Contemplating some summer stuff, not so much where to go as what to do. Care assistant work is nice and lucrative and hasn't been hit too badly with cutbacks so far. Also need to focus on actual school work, that dissertation isn't going anywhere, even if the length is decreasing with every draft of the guidelines. Currently down to 8,000 words. That's going to be a challenge to keep to. I know who I want as my supervisor, but will be finding out in the next couple of weeks who it actually is. I hope I made it obvious enough from my submission who it should be. All my talk of woman-midwife relationship is very in keeping with a certain sociologist's interest.
Late shift Monday, finishing 8-9ish, then back on to earlies for the rest of the week. Just about starting to know my way round the department and while there are many things I want to change about it they're the sort of things that can't be changed without significant expense. (Staffing levels, buildings...)
Oooh, I did my first booking history by myself, on my own, alone on Weds! Hope I didn't flamingo it up, but once I'd convinced the incredibly slow 'puter to co-operate (the lag is atrocious) it went well. There was quite a lot of "are you alright in there, you're taking a long time" because I took more than 10 minutes in total with her. Sod it, supernumerary, I'm going to enjoy my time there. And because I haven't bounced enough, 91% on pharmacology. Go me!
I've a 300 word thing due Friday about refusal of consent. Pretend case we've been allocated is a woman whose cervix has dilated to 3cm, foetal heart slows to 90bpm (normal 110-160) and doesn't recover, section proposed by obs, woman refuses. That pesky Constitution keeps getting in my way. Article 43.3.3, how I hate you right now. Pesky equal right to life, pesky diminished capacity for consent (in law) of woman due to pregnancy and pain! Pesky Irish law. Pesky high standards that I set myself!