Busy Busy Wednesday
And so today being Tech Council presentation Day I had to make sure I got all my material all done before Johnnie's class even started at 9 AM. That's because I KNEW once his classes begin, my attention was going to be on that with just a little break before his class started up again at 12:10. And then I had to figure out lunch for he and I too, knowing full well we wouldn't really have enough time to go out and get food. But first things first, Johnnie got his classes done with me paying half-attention and then we had to do his lessons. We got done by 10:30 which gave me some sliver of time to look over my agenda. I didn't care so much that it was light today. I noticed on the schedule there were back-to-back-to-back meetings for most of the attendees in that council all the way to 4:30 PM! Me included. I don't think they would mind so much if I cut out earlier than usual. I mean last month I went 10 minutes over. The good thing was that Johnnie actually chose macaroni and cheese for lunch today. He saw the one remaining box i had left which was from months ago. It's been SOOO long since i made him mac-and-cheese. It feels like he ate a lot of it when he was, oh 3 years old! Today, to my surprise, he actually wolfed it down! YES!!! And he even told me that I was such a great mac-and-cheese chef! For me it was more leftovers. I was ok, I had plenty of them. I just had to make sure I wasn't hungry since I had all these meetings to tie me up for the rest of the afternoon. I even got some steps in advance and got all the way to 5000 just so I wouldn't be too far behind when everything got done.
As far as the meeting itself, it went by quickly and uneventfully and was probably my least content-filled meeting in a while. And as I expected we got done in 45 minutes. And then after that came the OCHIN Quarterly meeting, which took more than an hour. So much so a bunch of us had to leave early because we had the regular 3:30 Wednesday huddle which was already getting moved a half hour later. I felt I contributed to the OCHIN meeting. I always do really. And by the last meeting I was all talked out. I nixed any updates, and just mostly listened. When it was all over, I had to breathe a huge sigh of relief. I got through this afternoon's slate of meetings! And got Johnnie's lessons done too. And just to get my body moving, I took Johnnie outside and played baseball with him. We hadn't done that in a really long time. But he showed no rust at all. In fact, he was belting the bell all over the grass area. And with his exercise in, we went to Panda Express Westwood. The usual destination for our Wednesday night. I was perfectly happy to chill the rest of the Wednesday night and I actually looked forward to catching up on sleep. But as it turned out the meeting slate wasn't done. I got a message from Eloisa asking me to join the 6 PM meeting with this thoracic surgeon from City of Hope talking about Health Disparities. I didn't care as long as I didn't have to do or say anything. I actually even flashed back to my dad because the speaker talked about her patients dying of COPD. Like my dad did. Anyway it felt like one of those Cedars-Sinai used to do with their providers back in the day. But they brought in food to attract those providers. Without such a carrot, none of our providers attended... which is probably why Eloisa is texting me at 6 PM asking me to log in to the Zoom call. I'll be honest I used the time to pay attention to the speaker. But I was also doing aerobics concurrently so I could get my steps in. And when I got done with the call around 7 PM NOW I was able to goof around with Johnnie. Just look at the pic of dad and soon. Goofing around alright. But really I could relax. Or maybe not... I got a message from Emma that I had 24 policies that were due for QueensCare's Board meeting next week. Sigh. This shit never ends does it? I always said my job felt more like a whole bunch of sprints now rather than a consistent, constant flow of work. And clearly this week was a sprint week. And it doesn't feel like I'm done just yet with the week. The good thing was that Eloisa also pinged me that I was about to lose vacation hours because I had reached the limit. Yep, I have a full 10 weeks of vacation unused. Not a surprise really because I hadn't gone on one in 2 years now. Time to take off a couple of days though that's for sure. I targeted the end of next week. Which means it will be a short week for me. But I still needed to finish this week's sprint first. I tried to buy myself some time but she insisted she needed to get it to Sr Ruth by Monday. Monday?? That means I have to get it done Friday and maybe even get started working on it tomorrow. I sure as heck wasn't going to work on it tonight. I need to catch up on sleep. And THAT was exactly what i did.
As far as the meeting itself, it went by quickly and uneventfully and was probably my least content-filled meeting in a while. And as I expected we got done in 45 minutes. And then after that came the OCHIN Quarterly meeting, which took more than an hour. So much so a bunch of us had to leave early because we had the regular 3:30 Wednesday huddle which was already getting moved a half hour later. I felt I contributed to the OCHIN meeting. I always do really. And by the last meeting I was all talked out. I nixed any updates, and just mostly listened. When it was all over, I had to breathe a huge sigh of relief. I got through this afternoon's slate of meetings! And got Johnnie's lessons done too. And just to get my body moving, I took Johnnie outside and played baseball with him. We hadn't done that in a really long time. But he showed no rust at all. In fact, he was belting the bell all over the grass area. And with his exercise in, we went to Panda Express Westwood. The usual destination for our Wednesday night. I was perfectly happy to chill the rest of the Wednesday night and I actually looked forward to catching up on sleep. But as it turned out the meeting slate wasn't done. I got a message from Eloisa asking me to join the 6 PM meeting with this thoracic surgeon from City of Hope talking about Health Disparities. I didn't care as long as I didn't have to do or say anything. I actually even flashed back to my dad because the speaker talked about her patients dying of COPD. Like my dad did. Anyway it felt like one of those Cedars-Sinai used to do with their providers back in the day. But they brought in food to attract those providers. Without such a carrot, none of our providers attended... which is probably why Eloisa is texting me at 6 PM asking me to log in to the Zoom call. I'll be honest I used the time to pay attention to the speaker. But I was also doing aerobics concurrently so I could get my steps in. And when I got done with the call around 7 PM NOW I was able to goof around with Johnnie. Just look at the pic of dad and soon. Goofing around alright. But really I could relax. Or maybe not... I got a message from Emma that I had 24 policies that were due for QueensCare's Board meeting next week. Sigh. This shit never ends does it? I always said my job felt more like a whole bunch of sprints now rather than a consistent, constant flow of work. And clearly this week was a sprint week. And it doesn't feel like I'm done just yet with the week. The good thing was that Eloisa also pinged me that I was about to lose vacation hours because I had reached the limit. Yep, I have a full 10 weeks of vacation unused. Not a surprise really because I hadn't gone on one in 2 years now. Time to take off a couple of days though that's for sure. I targeted the end of next week. Which means it will be a short week for me. But I still needed to finish this week's sprint first. I tried to buy myself some time but she insisted she needed to get it to Sr Ruth by Monday. Monday?? That means I have to get it done Friday and maybe even get started working on it tomorrow. I sure as heck wasn't going to work on it tonight. I need to catch up on sleep. And THAT was exactly what i did.
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