Hello all!

things are a little slow at work today, and I decided to write a quick blog. I should be hearing from Penn about the pre-health program today. At the end of my interview on Monday my interviewer told me 2-3 days. From what I understand, though, they are experiencing a huge influx of applications for this and other programs this year (pre-health applications are up 30-40%!!), so things might take longer than normal.

Still chomping at the bit a little. I mean, who can blame me?

Things have been weird at work. The fund that we pay most of our expenses from, like participant payment and our reimbursement for travel, has been in deficit since early May. Of course no one thought to alert us of the fact officially until last Friday (6/2). So supplies that we requested in order to perform some very fundamental functions of our jobs, like tubes for the blood draws, are almost used up. I actually had to scrounge through some of the tubes already prepared for my Manchester session next Monday in order to have tubes for the remaining 8 women in the session. Now we are using only 5 tubes instead of the usual 6, because I skimmed one from each packet in order to have enough tubes for everyone. Luckily, Dr. Price was able to find some fund to use to pay for our reimbursements and the phone bill. As this study is winding down this summer, it is not a huge surprise that the money is low, but this is kind of ridiculous. Who knows what will happen in the next few weeks. My job is secure until the end of July/beginning of August when I was preparing to quit anyway (secure as far as I know) . I already felt this way before, but now even more so: as many good experiences I have had at this job, I am happy to leave!!

Otherwise things are pretty quiet. The weather has been cool and rainy, but I kind of like it this way. When it's hot it's muggy, and I was spoiled by the weekend of zero humidity in death valley. Which reminds me, I need to post some pictures now that the computer at home is up and running. Like I said, I will be going up to Manchester, NH again this Monday, but it is unknown if I will be making another trip there or anywhere else for this job any time soon.

all from me for now.

love,
H
- posted by H @ 6/08/2006 12:54:00 PM