It is currently about 10 minutes before 1 am. I just got home from work. It was a very, very bad shift. One of the things that makes this shift so excruciating is that I have to be back at work at 9 am. This has happened on several weekends, but is made worse this weekend by the loss of a very precious hour. If I am complaining about such a short turnaround, why am I wasting precious sleeping time blogging, you might wonder. It is quite usual to need at least five to fifteen minutes after getting home to unwind before I can fall asleep. This is especially true after having such a bad shift. This turnaround is so shady that my coworker who would otherwise have to do the same took a vacation day just to avoid it. That means that I'll have to work tomorrow's already coming way too soon shift with a fill-in which always makes it more difficult. I am dreading it like no other.
As to the actual shift tonight. . . I consider myself a very competent person. Additionally, I have lived in several places without a car in which I was dependent upon public transportation. I am very able to figure this stuff out. Or so I thought. It was my responsibility to take 5 girls via the bus to a Walmart about 2 miles away - on a bus line that requires no transfers and seemingly no difficulties. Not so. Things went very wrong. Long story short -we did not get to Walmart by bus, after about an hour and a half of trying. To make matters worse, as I am trying to fix the problem with staff, my cell phone died. We then witnessed a head-on collision. It was a fiasco. But the whole trip wasn't a complete loss. I think I bestowed a great lesson on my girls - how to roll with the punches. This is a skill many of them struggle with, but they handled it beautifully. They are now ready for traveling by train in Europe.
I'm not sure this post is going to be very coherent, and I'm currently lacking the skills to edit it. Sorry.
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