Day 64 - Last Day of Work

Today was my last day of work. Finally. I have loved working here, and I am actually sad to leave. Although I am ready to get home and have a life again. We went out to lunch today with Denise, Carrie, Shelley, Julia, and Jessica. They gave me gifts and it was really sweet. I bought Denise a baby gift earlier in the week and I gave that to her today as I was leaving. Apparently it was her first baby gift and she cried. Then she cried again when she walked me out. My newsletter is being printed now and they are going to send me copied when it is all done.

I came home tonight, and finished packing. Tomorrow I am going to wake up whenever then drive north. No rush. Time to relax.

Day 63 - Week Six, Thursday

This morning was a nightmare. Even though I got to sleep in, it was still not too great. I went to Delray to work today instead of Good Sam, and that is a half hour shorter drive than going to Good Sam. I got there ad as usual the little old ladies at the front desk wouldnt let me in. I have my Tenet badge and everything, but they wont let me pass. I always I have to stand there for about 10 minutes trying to get a hold of Julia to come and get me from the other side of the campus. Its ridiculous. Anyways, once I got inside Delray I went to the Heart Walk kick off breakfast, where I saw bob Krieger and he saud "Oh hello there Kate! Good morning!" Fuck. I cant remember if I wrote about this, but I saw him at the Jacksonville airport a few weeks ago and assumed he didnt recognize me and I blew him off. Apparently he did. So THAT was awkward.

After that I just sat around Julia's office with nothing to do, and I texted Jessica and I ended up being rescued by her and Shelley. I was supposed to meet them for lunch in Delray, but first I had to go and get some pictures developed for Julia. I went to 4 different CVS and Walgreens stores trying to find a place that could do one hour from one of the CD/card reader machines. Finally I found a place, but everyone that worked there was an asshole, AND it was pouring rain. So I was in full fledged bitch mode. When I finally figured all of that out I went to meet up with Jessica and Shelley. At Subway. Shoot me. All they said was "Subway on Jog Rd." So I got there, and apparently there are 2 Subways on Jog Rd. By the time I got to the other place I was so stressed and angry I was near tears. Jessica didnt realize just how frazzles I was until I sat down with my drink, which was full of ice. Her face was priceless. She knows about my deep set aversion to ice, and at that moment she knew my day was a wreck. So fixed my drink for me, then made plans for me to go back to Delray and get my stuff and tag along with her and Shelley for the afternoon meeting with physicians. That was so much better. We got my stuff and went to Starbucks, and I calmed down and enjoyed my afternoon.

Tonight I did nothing but watch Clueless for the first time ever. I fail at life, basically.

Day 62 - Week Six, Wednesday

Today was work. Usual. Then Jessica and I went out to dinner and shopping in Boca. I am going to miss her so much when I leave. She is adorable.

Although, I realized something very odd about myself this morning as I was blow drying my hair. Its one of things that I do all the time, and I am aware of it, but not AWARE aware. Whenever I am drying my hair, or taking a shower, or stuck in traffic, I find myself saying the same word over and over in my head, with different inflections each time: canapes. "Caaanapes. Canahhpes. Canapayyyys." I have a problem.

Day 61 - Week Six, Tuesday

Honestly, nothing happened today. At all. My ceiling leaked. I ate a grilled cheese for lunch. I wore pants. The End.

Day 60 - Jenn, Work (Week Six, Monday)

This morning Jenn and I woke up and went to get breakfast in West Palm at the Chickfila near Good Sam. Then I went to work. And that was that.


(650): the ice cream truck is coming omgomg
(1-650): dude, it's 2 am.
(650): but its COMING

Day 58 - Week Five... Saturday?

I had to get up early this morning and work from West Palm. The health fair was today and I volunteered to do that. It was pretty boring, and Dr. Addo only gave physicals to about 7 kids. So for the most part I sat around that played the Sims today.

After I left the health fair I went to Home Depot to buy some flower seeds for a DH Mission, but they were sold out. How can you sell out of flower seeds? I didn’t think that was possible. So instead I went to Lowes, got some seeds and finally made it home. On my way I had to get gas and I stopped at every single gas station but they were all packed. I was going to run out of gas, and I was in the ghetto No good. Eventually I got gas and made it back. Once I got back I cleaned the kitchen and my bathroom and took a nap. I fell asleep around 3, and I didn’t wake up until 8. Thank god I woke up. Right when I woke up and saw the time I texted Jenn to ask where she was and she was bout to turn on my street. I ran downstairs and waited for her, and one of the valet guys was standing on the corner smoking, and watching me bounce from foot to foot waiting on Jenn. When she finally got there I was helping her out of the car and he said in very broken English, “Is this your best friend?” which is a weird thing to ask someone in general. He continues to creep me out.

Anyways, Jenn and I went straight to Mangoes for dinner, and that was delicious. Afterward we walked down to the Riverfront and saw Bruno. I am the type of person that is difficult to offend, and thank god for that. Otherwise I would have left after the first 5 minutes of this movie. It was hilarious. I never saw Borat, I don’t intend to. Bruno was so funny. We left the theater and it was raining, so we tried to huddle underneath the umbrella and run at the same time. It ended up making me run like a sideways hunchback and Jenn was doing some weird sideways crab walk. It was the funniest thing. We were running and yelling and laughing and almost getting run over until we realized it wasn’t really raining and all of our hooplah was really unnecessary. We were passing the parking garage by the museum and we saw the ice cream truck drive by. We both got really excited, then realized “Wait, it is midnight downtown Fort Lauderdale. Why would there be an ice cream truck?” there was a guy and a girl in the truck so we just figured that they were on a date. That would be a weird date. We rounded the corner and then the music started playing. I literally threw my umbrella out of excitement. We turned back around and got ice cream and happily walked back to the apartment.

Day 57 - Week Five, Friday

This morning started off terribly. Although I got to sleep in, it was still miserable. I rolled out of bed about an hour and a half after I usually am supposed to, and then Jenn called. She said that she has to work tomorrow so she can’t come down anymore. Ugh. I was about to cry. But then she said that she may be able to get Monday morning off from the UPS store so she could just come down after work on Saturday then leave Monday morning. So ended up getting Monday morning off so she is going to do that.

I worked out of Delray today and that was a nice change of pace. I took pictures of the hospital and staff for the website and newsletter and then Julia let me leave early. At like, 1. So I put my afternoon to good use. I went to Kinko’s and CVS and got some stuff ready to get some David Horvitz missions done. I did a bunch today, and those are posted at KateListensToDavid.blogspot.com.

I came home this evening after walking around Las Olas for a few hours, gross and sweaty, and I played Pokémon for a good few hours. I am about to go to bed, since I have to work tomorrow, even though it is Saturday. Blah.

Day 56 - Week Five, Thursday

I did nothing of interest today at work. I don’t think.

Tonight Jessica and I met up at the museum in Fort Lauderdale. There was some lecture going on about art and the human body in relation to bodybuilding, so there were all these seriously built people walking around the museum tonight. Jessica used to work at the gym at Nova so surprisingly she knew some of them. It was nice walking around the museum, and then we went down to Mangoes and had dinner. I have never been there, but I walk past it a lot. Plus, the band that I booked for the physician’s gala in October plays there every Saturday night. Tomorrow Jenn is coming. So excited!

Day 55 - Week Five, Wednesday

Today was a nice change of pace. I have followed David Horvitz's blog for a while, and today I started working on a few of the tasks that he posts. His tumblr is davidhorvitz.tumblr.com. I made another blogspot to post everything I complete: katelistenstodavid.blogspot.com

I went to CVS and got my film from yesterday developed from the film was ruined. I wanted to cry. Otherwise I did nothing else but go to Publix and address envelopes.

Day 54 - Week Five, Tuesday

Today was just as uneventful as yesterday. At work I spent 3 hours watching an HTML training video which was pointless. Jenn and I both have HTML memorized from our days of making awesome webpages. Right.

The whole time I was watching I was playing Pokemon.

I came home and took a walk down Las Olas to the larger homes with the yachts. I took my camera with a new roll of film and that was nice. Talked to Lauren on my way there and Emma my way back.

I came home, and I played Pokemon.

Day 53 - Week Five, Monday

Today is Monday. Today I worked. Today I ate. Today I watched a movie. The End.

Day 48 - Week Four, Wednesday

Today was finally a break from freezing and working on the newsletter. I went to Century Village today and worked there. Century Village is basically an old folks city. It reminds me of the Jerry Seinfeld thing about old folks homes. “Why do they have security? Are people stealing old people? Are old people escaping?” Century Village had some intense security.

The woman I worked with had basically zero computer skills, so she had me remaking fliers and stuff all morning. Apparently each flier or sign took her hours to make, and I was able to remake them in less than five minutes. So My day was spent re-doing her work. We went to lunch then to Goodwill. I went to Goodwill as part of my workday. Perfection. We got a bunch of tea cups and saucers because they are having a funky tea party next week and wanted to get all mismatched tea cups and saucers.

After work I went to Boca Town Center and returned some stuff, then met up with Jessica and we went to Cheesecake Factory for dinner then shopping. She got a bunch of new work clothes and I just got a huge sweater. It is the comfiest thing ever.

Day 47 - Week Four, Tuesday

Another lame day of freezing in my office while working on the newsletter. I went to Publix after work and got some dinner. It was yet again packed with attractive men. I love going to the downtown Publix right after work. My dinner tonight was a turkey sub, raspberry tea, and a tub of raspberries. It was perhaps the most perfect dinner.

Day 46 - Week Four, Monday

Today was work as usual. I kept working on the newsletter and froze to death in my office. The ushe. Tonight Marsha and I went out to dinner to this place right across the street called Samba Room. It was amazing. I had the most delicious skirt steak I have ever had. And that was my day. The End.

Day 43 - Week Three, Friday

Last night was amazing. Right after I left work I went back to the apartment, hanged, and left to go to the museum. I got in free and there was no one there at all. Amazing combination. They had a contemporary art exhibit, which left me in the most amazing mood possible. They had Sally Mann, Barbara Kruger, Banksy, Judd, Hirst, Rauschenberg, and so much more. I was shocked by the Banksy piece. I would never expect to see something like that in a non-major museum. It was half of a phone booth surrounded by rubble. The first time I passed by there, there were about 5 or 6 security guards just loitering and following me around because there was nothing else for them to do. I went into another wing and shook them off, and when I came back, there was no one around the Banksy piece. I wanted to steal a rock from the rubble so bad. It would definitely not be missed, there were thousands. But there were security cameras all over the place. Ugh I want a Banksy rock. I wasn’t even allowed to take pictures. As I was leaving I asked about the Banksy piece, and the woman kept calling him “Banksky.” People tend to do that a lot for some reason and I don’t understand. There is one “K.” Not that hard to pronounce this two syllable word. I left with a few books, of course.

As I was leaving I called Ashley and told her about it, and I got to talk to her for a while, which was nice. I have been trying to call her for weeks and finally she answered her phone. As I was talking to her I drove down Las Olas and drove around the beach area or a bit, then went to Cheesecake Factory and picked up some dinner.

Today at work was boring. I honestly can’t remember what I did. Nothing important, obviously. I did get the majority of the newsletter cleared, and I am happy about that. This afternoon right after I left Good Sam I drove home. The drive was long and boring, and most importantly uneventful. Right when I got home Jenn came over and just sat around while I cleaned my room. It is a wreck. Why is it that when you are cleaning you must first make a much bigger mess than when you started? I hate that.

Day 42 - Week Three, Thursday

This morning started out awesome. I didn’t have to deal with drying my hair or anything this morning and I had nothing to do, AND I didn’t have to be in West Palm until 9:00 so I didn’t even get out of bed until 7:15. Usually I leave well before Marsha but this morning when I heard her yell and tell me that she was leaving, I was still in bed. I went with Denise and Julia to a meeting with an advertising company. They are called the Boner Group, but pronounce it the Bonner Group. The sign on their door looked like it said “Boner Big Group.” Basically I just stood there and laughed until Denise got there.



I obviously have the maturity of a 13 year old boy.

When we got back to Good Sam I had a conference call with a woman in Dallas who is charge of a branch of social media networking out there. I sat on the call for a half hour, and she never came. Then around 12:15 Denise comes in and asked why I hadn’t called in. I didn’t think about the time change. Fail. We are talking tomorrow instead. All afternoon I worked on the newsletter, and Carrie and I found a way to print it. It looks awesome and I am so stoked.

I am going to try to go to the museum today instead. It doesn’t close until 8. Leaving work now.

Day 41 - Week Three, Wednesday

Woke up late this morning for the first time since being here. I usually leave at 7:30 and I woke up at 7:40. I was supposed to go to a meeting with Denise and the CEO and I missed it. That’s just awesome. Today at work was pretty boring. I honestly cant even remember what I did. Oh, I watched a Cath Lab procedure and that was interesting. I had no clue what was going on though so I didn’t get much out of it. I was so tired I fell asleep watching it. Only I could manage to do that.

This afternoon I left work and drove staight to Gardens to go to the mall there. I wondered around, went to Nordstroms, exchanged one of the dresses I bought, and did some shopping. My appointment at the Apple store was for 7:30, so I arrived at 7:15 and checked in. I got a case and whatnot for my phone, and around 7:35, a woman comes up to the Genius bar and is like, “Hi I have an appointment for iPhone at 7:15.” And they guy checked her in. I was so angry. I get there 15 minutes early, she gets there 20 minutes late, and they take her before me. And she took forever. Finally my phone got fixed, and I just got it swapped for a new one, which works awesome. Well, it woks how it is supposed to. I ate dinner at Chickfila and went home.
When I got back Marsha was already back, since her flight was early. We talked for a bit and then she went to bed. I am about to go to bed and it is only 11:00. Awesome.

Day 40 - OR DAY! Slash worst day imaginable

Today was OR day. I woke up early and got to Good Sam at like 7:30. I meandered about and finally found where I was supposed to be going. I met with a woman who paired me up with this nurse, who was really sweet. He was big and fluffy and flamboyant. Basically my favorite kind of person. There was another girl there who I think was about 16 or 17, and she is the daughter of the CEO. Jason took us all around the OR floor and showed us how everything works from the cleaning of the tools to the end where they have to be cleaned again. It was really interesting seeing how the actually hospital runs instead of seeing just the business side. He got us all suited up, with scrubs and masks and hats and everything. I looked quite ridiculous. It is impossible to look thin in scrubs. I ended up looking like a large green whale. With a mask. The first surgery we were going to watch was a knee surgery. I hate knees. Hate. Them. The second Jason said this my knees both felt so uncomfortable and I had goose bumps. I prefer to think that knees don’t actually exist, and I think that the world would be better off if we are all knee-less. Anyways, he took is in the OR and sat us down. He forced me to sit down because I was already feeling faint. The doctor came in and he was so old. I immediately felt uncomfortable on behalf of the patient. She had been crying and nervous. I would be gotten up and left had I seen the surgeon. The actual procedure was really interesting. I was freaked out at first but then got used to it. He inserted a little camera into her knee through one tiny hole, then through another hole on the other side of the kneecap he inserted a long tool. Just with these two little holes he was able to remove the majority of the arthritis from her knee. It was amazing. I have decided that arthritis looks like cotton candy.

After this we planned our afternoons. The other girl was going to watch a cataract surgery and I was going to eat. Jason gave me the option of going to a hernia repair surgery or a rectal tumor exam. Guess which one I chose. Hint: not the rectal tumor exam. On my way downstairs to eat I stopped to find Denise, who wasn’t around. But then I saw Jeremy and I was going down the stairs and he blew right past me. I stopped him and asked where Denise was and he just looked at me for a minute, confused. Then he realized it was me. In scrubs. Looking ridiculous. Then he laughed at me.

After I ate I went back to the OR and met up with Jason for the hernia repair. The other girl and Jason weren’t there this time so I was horribly bored during the prep. I was sitting at the woman’s feet, and I got a crystal clear view of when they inserted the catheter. I will have nightmares. The actual surgery was the same as the knee, with the tool and the scope. Although they had to actually cut into her to repair it. I couldn’t see anything, I could just hear the squishy sound effects. That, combined with boredom, make me just get up and leave.

I came back downastairs and Denise told me to just leave for the day. I decided it was a good time to go and try to get my phone fixed, even though I have an appointment at Apple tomorrow night. I just needed to sync it to make it work. I was stressing because my phone wasn’t working and Granny Franny was in surgery and I had no way for my mom to contact me without a working phone. So I left Good Sam and drove down to the Boca Town center to go to Apple and return some other things. I went straight to Apple, and the jerk at the door just wasn’t letting people into the store. And he gave no reason whatsoever. Just, “no.” that right there set the mood for the rest of my day. I went to go return some shorts and I was a complete bitch to the sales girl and I just didn’t care. I stopped by Nordstrom’s to return something and look for a blouse for work, and I got sucked into the BP department. I left with 3 dresses and that all amazing, and that improved my mood a bit. I headed back to Las Olas, because I wanted to go to the museum and to a movie since Marsha hasn’t been in town for a few days, and I didn’t want to spend the afternoon alone in the apartment. I got back to the building, changed into one of my new dresses, and tried to sync my phone. Didn’t work. It was like 3:15 and the museum closed at 5, so I thought I would make a quick trip to the AT&T store. Three AT&T stores later the guys just tells me that my phone is corrupted, and I just need a new one. I ended up going to Best Buy and bought a crappy AT&T GO Phone so I could at least call my mom to see if Granny was out of surgery. Which she is, and she is doing great. By this time, I was soaked because of the storm, and it was past 5:00 and I had missed the movie. I was in the worst mood imaginable all day long.

So now I am sitting in one of the comfy theater chairs and watching the worst movie I have ever seen on Disney. Dadnapped. Don’t waste your time.

Day 39 - Week Three, Monday

This morning I went to Delray because Denise is out of the office. I did the inventory with this old lady who has volunteered at the hospital for like 20 years. We were in this huge closet with hundreds of random things to count. Each time I said, “Oh this is cool” Carolyn would be like, “You like it? Its yours!” I ended up leaving with a huge bag of loot with shirts, a thermos, a flask, and even a briefcase. It’s awesome. Then I just sat in an office and did pretty much nothing. Later in the afternoon I went to the regional office and sat in on a social media-networking meeting. I am unnecessarily excited about that. They are going to be looking for someone to outsource to upkeep the twitter and facebook accounts for each hospital and they are already talking about hiring me. I pray I get that job, because I can do it from school. I left for the day after the meetings and had nothing to do all night.

Day 36 - Week Two, Friday

Hoorah it is Friday! And I had an alright day at work. I started off at Good Sam, as usual and pretty much did nothing. No one was around so I just worked on designing the template for the newsletter. I went to the regional office around noon for lunch, and I get there and everyone is all sitting in this one huge room in a circle. When you walk off of the elevator you are basically in the doorway of the room, and I scampered down the hall in a panic. I went to Craig's office but he wasn't in there so I called him, and he was in the room with all the people and he was like, "come on in!" And I was like nooo thank you. He came out and got me and brought me inside. Everyone was eating lunch but I passed on that. I drank my tea really fast right before I left Good Sam and it was making me have stabbing pains in my stomach and that was not comfortable. After everyone ate, the secretary passed out googly eyes, which had me really confused, then pieces of paper to everyone. Then I realized what was happening. We were playing Bingo. I was called to come over to go to the regional office to sit in on a meeting, and really we just played Bingo. After I lost miserably with Craig laughing at me the whole time, he let me leave early.

Once Marsha and I got to the airport this afternoon we were cutting it really close. I had to wait in this super long security line, and I was surely going to miss my flight. Marsha got to go ahead in the VIP line. I got to the first woman to whom you show your boarding pass and ID before you get into the hug long line and she looked at me and said, "You know what? You just go on ahead with that group and pretend like you are with them," and pointed to the completely empty line over on the side. I thanked her, then ran on, only to discover the people I was supposed to be "with" were 5 obese black grandmothers in wheelchairs. Awesome.

On the flight we had to sit next to the most annoying child on the planet. She said down and the first thing she said was, "I talk alot!" I knew we were screwed. She went on and on about her vacation, and her family, and her "tuba diving" experience. It was terrible. I pretended to be asleep while she was talking to me then I actually fell asleep.

My mom picked us up at the airport, and we went to dinner then I came home and went out with Jenn. We went to Target, Steamworks, Kickbacks, Casbah and now I am exhausted. It is almost 2:00 and I am normally fast asleep by this point. Tomorrow I am going to the beach with Evan, then TSI. I am so stoked about TSI. I am going to get a Joose for the first time ever. Crunk. I may die, after watching 2 of them make Jared blackout. IT will be a good day.