time and a half

hoo! what's next? here's how my mind works. all this week, except sunday, i got to work at 5:45am, which is 1.25 hours earlier than my scheduled time. overtime is encouraged these days because we're behind on our minutes/lines/whatever. i don't mind working a bit extra; i like the job, i like the cash. so i was thinking, i work 1.25 hours of overtime all four days (monday, tuesday, wednesday, and thursday - you're welcome), that comes to 5 hours of overtime for the week. (i didn't go in early on sunday because there wasn't a clerk working and i didn't want to shoulder all the telephone responsiblities - what's groovy about my job is i sit there with headphones on and don't have to talk to anyone!)

getting up early has always been easy for me. my alarm is set for 5am but all this week and last i woke up at 4:30. my internal clock is on the money. only, well, night before last i didn't sleep so well (rachel weisz plagued my dreams), so last night i was especially tired. boy did i sleep well last night! i slept right until 4:55 and i might have slept longer (right to the alarm!) had kara not woken me.

so i was a touch late. but i felt like i had to get to work at 5:45. obviously i didn't have to, because i'm not actually due until 7, but having the tidy 5 hours of overtime appealed so much that i rushed this morning. i took what some would consider an insufficient shower, washing merely the vitals and hopping out.

of course it snowed last night (?!) and there was ice on my car. i did an insufficient scraping job, which was perhaps even more foolish than the abortive shower, but i made it to work safely - and on time! that is to say, 1.25 hours early.

i was pleased. my 5 hours of overtime for the week was cinched. then, wouldn't you know, my last report of the day was a 30-minute orthopedic surgery report (status post pedestrian versus car) that took me a heck of a long time to do, and i didn't finish until 3:45, 15 minutes after my scheduled departure time. so much for my 5 hours. bah! now it's 5.25 hours. i'm ruined.

and, yeah, that 30-minute report was the longest i've ever done. comminuted fractures of the humerus, ulna, and pelvis; a full-thickness avulsion over the tib-fib; and a medial malleolus fracture. if you're a pedestrian and you see a car coming, i recommend getting out of the way.

... anyway ...

my sister jennifer and her husband rick are coming over tomorrow. they live in ohio. i'm excited; i haven't seen them in a long time. they stay until tuesday. unfortunately kara works the weekend but we both have monday off. we'll have a little visit.

and there's a new film out called "ultraviolet" that i'm sure is totally stupid but i actually wouldn't mind seeing it because of (forgive me) this.