I am not a morning person

So I started this new job. Today was my second (and last) orientation session, which started at 8am. Being that my prior job was midnight shifts (10-6) I was rather nervous about the whole pre-sunrise thing. And I am not a morning person.

Anyway, yesterday I did fine - got up early, went to orientation, then, like the smart person that I am, came home and went to bed at 7pm. Very stupid, because I woke up at 11pm and was wide awake. Finally at about 4 I was asleep again, with the alarm set for the wee hour of 6:30.

I AM a very punctual person, so when I woke up at 7:30am, I had a fit. I don't know how I do it, but I can sleep through a screeching alarm clock for an hour without even budging. It takes me about 25-30 minutes to get to my new job, so I basically threw on some clothing and ran out the door. Which is disgusting. Because I hate leaving the house like that - first of all, I was unshowered. Second, I didn't even have a chance to properly wake up.

Luckily, I had an excuse to use. My sister was having her baby this morning. And I work at the hospital. I called en route to work, and was informed by my dad that my sister was going into delivery at that very moment (by c-section - it was a breeched birth.) So I had it all ready in my mind for when I walked in late - "Sorry, my sister is having her baby RIGHT NOW and I had to go see what was going on." Anyway, nobody even CARED that I was late, and when I did finally tell them (it came up in conversation) that was the subject of the day - my sister's baby. He (Oliver Quinn Tarchoun - I have a very pessimistic view of that first name) weighed 8 pounds on the dot, and was 19 inches long. I went and saw him, but through the window. He's very cute - I guess c-section babies usually are cuter than those born via the "tunnel", at least for the first few days. Less trauma. My sister was doing fine, although sore.

Anyway, I am starting to finally get a little excited about my new job. I'm not going to be rich by any exorbitant means, but I will be making quite a bit more than I was. And being that it is a union job (Patient Access Representative in the Emergency Department - my official title) it comes with some killer benefits - free health insurance, pension, what have you. The hours I will be working will be 3-11pm, which, for an emergency room, is the busiest time of day. I can wear my choice of dress-up clothes (yikes) or scrubs (yay), so I guess I can be all fancy one week, scrubby the next. I start regular shifts on monday, but the first week I am training on AM shift (7-3pm.)

So, this weekend I will be buying a new alarm clock. Maybe two.

I just deleted someone from my friends list, because they sent a bulletin that said something along the lines of this -

"YOU HAVE 99 SECONDS TO POST THE TOWN AND STATE YOU WERE BORN IN. IF YOU IGNORE THIS MESSAGE YOU WILL LOSE SOMEONE YOU LOVE OR WHO IS CLOSE TO YOU."

I deleted that "friend", because I am superstitious as all hell, and that sort of thing just scares my pants off! And I refuse to forward junk crap like that. Seriously, if I have a bad fight with someone, I will never wear the clothes that I was wearing that day again. That is one of my own made-up superstitious theories - that maybe my clothes started the whole fight. Damn clothes! We should just go naked. I am strange.