It's been pointed out that I have quit doing the self-portraits. Yep, but just 'cause I'm lazy, not because I lost my vanity.
Even if I did, it's not like virginity... you can get your vanity back. And other pieces of furniture, too.
Another tough night. Now I'm working (in the evenings) with people who haven't taken an x-ray in years. One of them is in the learning mode, which is OK, he stays out of my way mostly. The one last night thinks that she knows what she's doing, which makes her dangerous. Additionally, she gets in my way.
No easy answers, I guess. I think that one of the reasons that I like to work nights is that nobody is there to slow me down. When I'm working, I work hard and fast, and that's the way I like it. More break time that way, y'know. And i know that I'm not being very generous with my opinions on the other techs, but some things should become second nature in every profession. Like a cop never forgets his gun, a doc never forgets his stethescope... but I have worked with some techs lately that have to measure the distance from the tube-head to the imaging plate. I know, it takes maybe thirty seconds to do that... but those thirty seconds add up. Additionally, it's irrelevant. Geometrically, it makes no difference if it's 36 inches or 40 or 50... but they've been taught 40 inches. So it's gotta be 40 inches, not 39 or 41.
And it makes no real difference to the exposure factors either... the digital systems that we use now are very forgiving.
That's just an example of what frustrates me at work right now... other people and their ways.
Another thing that really, really bothers me, though, are people who work slowly so that they won't have to do as much work. That really burns me, especially since that work involves patients... who are waiting, patiently in some cases.
There is too much work to do to put up with such nonsense.
O'well. It's been that was a long time, and will probably always be that way. I try to not let it upset me, and most of the time I succeed.
The good news today is that I picked up the hot tub pump... the bad news is that it cost bunches, and I don't have the energy to put it in, and probably won't until next week.
More tomorrow...
Speaking of tomorrow... Friday the thirteenth and a full moon. Hopefully, all of the superstitious shitheads will stay at home in their caves hoping that lightning won't strike them...