hmmmmmmmmmmm……. yeah things ‘defo’ come to you when you don’t expect it. haha.

travel bug!
-vegas: dec 6-10
-sf/oakland/tahoe: dec 11-15
-tahoe/sf jan: 7-11
-seattle: feb 12-15
-tenessee: june
-all over europe: (hopefully) june

-the trip to sf/oakland/tahoe was a VERY last minute trip because biggestbro walter scored last minute GA tickets to MUSE/Vampire Weekend/Metric/AFI/30 secs to mars tickets! amazing! and during that weekend we may go hit the slopes in tahoe..
-Eurotrip: really wanting to make this happen but so far at a 50/50 because my potential travel buddy doesnt know if he has to take boards/start job in june. i’ve got 22 cities listed that i want to hit up, lol.

*excitement!

hm, long time no update. why? i’ve been drinking a lot and not really updating i suppose. things are different now, i’ve realized that i’m young and i need to have my fun before i lose the chance to. it’s been a long time since i’ve been truly single, so ig uess it’s time for me to really get the best out of it.

went to dallas for founder’s day for pdc for one night. it was fun going for one night lol. oh how i’ll miss it next year..or perphaps ill do the same thing i did this year – go for one night. things i have learned from this weekend: do not shit where you eat, lol.

currently as i update i’m watching man v food. i love this show but honestly it’st horrible..making adam richman eat extreme amounts of disgustingly unhealthy food for the sake of the show. i don’t know how he does it, and how he’s not dead of a heart attack or something already. poor guy…

today at work a semi-deaf lady was a bitch to me because i didn’t have a white coat on. she had what i’d like to call the white-coat syndrome. what is this? this is where customers are mean as fuck to you because they think you’re a blue collar but in secret you’re an intern that will be a white collar very soon but was just too hot to wear her white coat in the pharmacy because it was like 85 degrees in there and busy as fuck so you were running back and forth and decided not to wear it. and the minute the white coat walks by, they turn into the sweetest, perfect patient again, for the white coat only.

even worse her rx wasn’t ready because the md prescribed suspicious codeine for a young ass child and the sig was illegible, and the drug itself barely illegible so we were waiting on the doc to call back for that. why the fuck are oyu yelling at ME lady? it’s not my fucking fault.

still worse, she wanted to ring smething up with a credit card over the phone and my pharmacist wouldnt help me (..that is another story in itself) so i had to call the cashier/customer service manager over her instruction that we weren’t allowed to do credit card charges over the phone and get him to do it (this guy is the nicest person in the world), since he said we could.

after the whole fuckin bullshit was done we were takling about how rude customers were and the pharmacist didn’t think semi-deaf lady was (white coat syndrome..) and then she proceeded to tell other managers about the guy who helped me, and now he’s in trouble.

this is bullshit. when i become a staff pharmacist or pic one day i’m not fuckin filling your bullshit medications if you were mean to me as an intern/tech. you can take your happy ass elsewhere.

i miss spooning. that is all.

it’s 3:11AM, i’m still up and this morning i woke up around 7:45AM. *sigh, working 30+ hours and taking 6 hours of classes is a tough one, i don’t recommend it for any of you pharm students out there…

oh well, october has been fun thus far, and that explains why i’m last-minuting so much and lacking on sleep. so far: ACL 2009 (despite the awesome lineup i thought 2008 was more fun..), MUSE+u2 in houston (sorry but muse definitely outplayed u2 and that was with their audio all turned down too….but then again i extremely biased as MUSE is my fave band and u2 is not even on my list of bands that i like really), TX v OU weekend/reunion with the girls… and still coming up is the dirty projectors concert, more football games, and phuong’s bday/halloween.

speaking of, i have a pretty nifty costume planned for this year. i always wait til last minute and half ass my halloween costume but this time it will be good.. muhaha. i’ll post pics perhaps.

and finally…..blah.

got the htc hero on sprint and so far it’s badass. had to open a new phone line though to get it, sigh. so my old 832 number will slowly be phased out and replaced by a new 512 one.

sprint has really dirtcheap plans now that they have the unlimited mobile plan. right now, it’s $70/month for unlimited minutes to any cell phone, free nights and weekends and long distance, no roaming charges, unlimited txt msgs and data, and 1500 mins to land lines. and if i get 3-4 more people on my family plan then it will drop down to $38-$42 dollars per person for the same privileges!

now i gotta find 3-4 ppl to jump on my plan, lol. who wants a htc hero??

i feel better now after a day off frm my 8 day straight work week in the pharmacy. don’t get me wrong, i still don’t like working with that pharmacist much. but i feel better now and i’m happy to be here in austin, tx still. shopping helped perk up my mood a little today too. <3 sephora and leather jackets… :D

my mentor and some other people told me to talk to my pharmacist manager about the other staff pharmacist and i did. i just hope i didn’t sound whiny and bitchy because i’m not. i’m a hard worker and i get along with a lot of people and i take a lot of shit. i dont think any tech ever should have to put up with that kind of treatment, especially since they could easily quit and go to another pharmacy that’s short staffed.

i have to rant about work..i just have to. the store i work at now has patients that are more calm/patient than the last store i work at. however this pharmacy is pretty much a mess. we are understaffed and need another cashier because we not one but two registers + a drive thru that need to be taken care of whereas other pharmacies with my company have just one register. anyway, the point is..this store is busy. but the customers are more patient. so in the end, it’s not as bad..customer service-wise.

the BAD thing about it is one of the pharmacists that works there. she talks to us with a tone that sets off a i-want-to-quit-right-now train of thoughts in my head. she talks to us like we’re kids and don’t know anything. she sighs and freaks out as if nothing at all is getting done right. she stops us in our tasks of wahtever we’re doing at the moment (filling/inputing/working at the register) to do smething else.

i’m not going to lie. i did a misfill this weekend. not the wrong drug, but a miscount, and the counts were off by a lot. and yes, although it’s ultimately my fault, it could have easily been prevented. if that pharmacist had never interrupted me 20x and stopped me in between that 3 part prescription i could have finished filling it in a minute. instead, i would grab the bottle off the shelf, pour some off and get interrupted to take care of the register. then i’d come back , count some more, and she’d make me answer the phone. then i’d forget about it because she would make me go input prescriptions. in the end, that 3 part prescription took 10 or 15 minutes to fill when she should have just let me finish filling it and let the customer at the register hold on for an extra minute or so.

she talks shit about the entire staff when we close the doors to the pharmacy and we’re still in there cleaning up from the day’s mess alone. when it’s just the two of us, she talks about how unorganized the PIC is, how nothing gets done and how she has to get everything done, and then she rants individually about each individual tech. that irks me, because it makes me think of what she says about ME when she’s alone with another member of the staff.

so she goes and yells and freaks out when prescriptions are not ready by the time the customer gets to the register. however at the same time she tells them that the wait time is only 15-20 minutes when they drop off the prescription when in reality we have 5 other people waiting in front of them. WTF?? and then she gets all exasperated bc theyre not ready. well what the fuck lady?? tell them a more reasonable time… ugh! and i’m the one who had to deal with the impatient ones all weekend since we had no cashier.

anyway, as a person she is okay. as a pharmacist…HORRIBLE! i feel like all the techs leave because she drives them away. i never want to work with a pharmacist like her or be anything like her when i’m done with school. but i already knew that…and it feels like i’m not really learning anything new here except more confidence with counseling and how to work a drive thru.

i can’t stand working alone with her because she pulls me in 10 different directions. she tells me to do one thing, but when i start doing it she tells me to do another thing just because she begins to freak out. and it’s nothing to freak out about….it’s expected for wait times to be longer when there a pharmacy is understaffed. you just gotta let the patients know that the wait time will be longer in the first place, the end!

also i don’t think she realizes the value of a technician, cuz she treats her techs like shit. none of us like her, and none of us have loyalty to her – as in, if she left stores we wouldn’t follow her; in fact i think we’d rejoice. i know a lot of pharmacists that have technician loyalty and that’s important. it seems almost obvious that she was never a technician before and definitely treats them like they are subpar. it’s funny because my boss/manager says that she doesn’t get the same vibe/experience working with bitch pharmacist.. but she says a lot of other technicians have told her that this pharmacist is hard to work with. and i’m like hello, earth to PIC!! she’s not gonna treat you like shit! youre her colleague and boss – and she’s fake!!!!! duhhhhh.

lastly, i hate people who are fake. i hate people that are friendly on the outside just because someone has status (a white coat). example: rude customer comes back and we don’t have his rxs ready so he’s all bitchy and shit to the technicians and cashiers. then the pharmacist rings him up and he’s all smiling and making small talk with the white coat. wtf? it just shows that he’s fucking fake and feels he’s above others. fucking disgusts me.

i told my pharmacist in charge today that i cant’ work alone with the other pharmacist. i gotta watch out for my back too! now i have a misfill and i’m gtting written up because of that stupid bitch that doesn’t know how to keep her cool. why do i have to take the fall for that shit? i gotta watch my own back with people like her..bitch.

fuck, as if mondays weren’t bad enough already… :(