I experienced a long, stressful, difficult low-self-esteem week at work today. Principally, this was occasioned by the even more unusually high number of nurse's visits we've had to do relative to the number of working nurses than in other recent weeks.

But generally, this was the week when everything went wrong. It got to the point by Thursday when everytime I heard 'Chris?' from the next room over (from my supervisor), I cringed, knowing it would be something else I forgot to get done, forgot not to get done, did wrong, etc. I'll say, too, that my supervisor's extra-stressed-out-ness contributed to my own. Several times, in sheer frustration I just completely shut down for about five minutes.

In the end, I finally got done this evening. An hour or two of over time is nice on occasion, but doing it every day gets truly old. I definitely hit mini-burnout before I finally left at 7:40 this evening. With a weekend to recharge and many patients going off service next week, one hopes things will return to normal.

At any rate, I hope I get to recharge this weekend. Between car repairs, ordering, stocking, pricing, etc., the inventory for the festival next weekend, picking up the dry cleaning, paying the electric bill, cleaning the house, helping my mom with her computer, helping Mason's mom's friend with her computer, updating the business Web site, sending out the business e-mail update, reading my online homework, doing school research at the library, doing dishes, emptying more boxes in the office, contacting friends in the Bay Area and making arrangements to meet and/or stay, processing and mailing orders, depositing money in the bank, grocery shopping, etc., I doubt I'll much time for leisurely recliining. But if I do, I know what I'll be listening to ... (entry on that to follow)!