2008-04-09 : Squeamish about POOP!
Just waiting on some pizza to be delivered. For a second, I felt like I couldn't talk or read the numbers correctly off L's credit card and then I thought "Is this the beginning of a stroke?" but that is just me being neurotic and I feel tired and when I feel tired my brain and my mouth don't feel like always synchronizing.

I am still looking for a job. I sent out resumes today..one is a Naturopath looking for a part-time receptionist/office person. I love alternative medicine and as long as the pay was decent I could manage on part-time. That would be cool.

I also applied to be a receptionist at "Glasses are Gorgeous" (ok..not the real name) and they seemed to indicate they'd teach the right candidate, so I'm up for learning about optometry.

I also applied on-line for a medical billing position-ish thingie at THE BIG HOSPITAL/AFFILIATED CLINICS in town...doubt I'll hear back from them. I don't know why I even think that. Applying for jobs makes my self esteem total shit for some reason. Oh well. It could be worse...LIKE ON MONDAY!!

I got hired on at HOME FOR THE MEMORY IMPAIRED AND SHIT STAINED and I worked a full shift on Monday (even getting up too fucking early so I could start at 7 am)...I mostly shadowed a care giver (ie: nurse getting paid the same as someone flipping burgers) and we escorted the folks (whom I feel sorry for and who depress me and who are mostly out of their fucking minds, though it isn't their fault cuz they have dementia or Alzheimer's) into the dining hall for breakfast. That wasn't so bad. Neither were the sweeties that would hug me (as SHE was changing their diapers...I had it good!) or the older guy that seemed really with it at lunch that complimented me on my "pretty red hair" (he was talking to his buddy next to him about my hair..I felt super sexy..ha ha!)..But for the life of me, there is no well in HELL I could ever get used to (or even attempt it once) shoving suppositories up people's asses or sticking a gloved finger up their asses to see if there was anything fecal up there, OR changing their diapers, wiping their nether regions (this sounds horrible, but the nether regions of a 85-year-old man or woman are so disturbingly SCARY and ugly...it gave me the heebie jeebies. I know we'll all look like that one day, but ...damn, don't let anybody put me in one of those homes. Just kill me first..really, do it.

There was one lady that kept shouting "Free Disneyland" (she thought the government had closed it down) and there was a feisty old man that was pissed off cuz he didn't get seconds for lunch. He called the cook "fatso" and then called my trainer "fatso" as she attempted to get him out of the lunch room and back to his room since he started saying things like "You are all fucking FIRED." He continued that tirade as two care givers dance/walked (they were speed walking, he was too weak physically to do much) him back to his room. He was all about the "I OWN THIS FUCKING PLACE" and the like. I wonder how he treated his family and employees when he was out in the real world? Scary. Rumor has it that a little later he went into somebody else's room and started riffling through this other man's stuff and the guy was like "hey buddy..that's my stuff. GET OUT OF HERE" and Mr "I OWN THIS FUCKING PLACE" wouldn't leave so the other man proceeded to punch him, knocking him out cold (which isn't funny, but IS HILARIOUS, actually..though it isn't right to laugh..yea right...so sue me!) So, old guys fighting..wish I would have actually seen that.

Anyways, I knew by the end of my shift that I could NEVER do that job (for $8.00 per hour) and so I called (from the bar..ha ha) and let the office manager know that the job wasn't for me, that I couldn't deal with the feces and that I wouldn't be back. She understood. I think she gets those calls several times a day, actually!

So, that was my shortest job EVER (and the most challenging, disgusting and exhausting AND low paying one as well)...

I'd rather work at McDonald's than go back to that place!!

Gotta go..pizza.