Spike re-surfaces after a month's abscence from life

November 19th, 2007 (12:51 am)

Tags: screencaps, slash, work

current location: studio
current mood: calm
current song: dead can dance

Honestly, I've been doing nothing but working on my career. Hence my abscence from any lists or anything. Sheeit, I'm so out of touch it hurts.

Why did this happen? Well, actually mixed circumstances, good and bad. The boss who drove me nuts gave notice. And lots of people in the nursing department left or were fired due to some bad blood coming to a head (sad but it happens in healthcare; we're all drama addicts, and so there are personality clashes). It didn't effect me personally, but we were working pretty thin to make sure our folks still got the best care possible.

And then-- someone up there likes me! -- the person who is now my new boss is the one co-worker, who, when I saw her car in the parking lot, I knew that my day would be that much easier 'coz she was there.

Did that make sense? I'm sorry; my brain is still fried. You see, with the change of personnel, this new boss and I had to work extra shifts, crazy shifts and split shifts and any other kind of shift in order to keep the department together. We worked hard and kept our folks happy and safe, and now I'm tired but very very very happy.

For the last month, I did nothing more than work, sleep and eat until just a week ago when my vacation started, and then it took me this long to recover. I spent a week in my pajamas reading Wodehouse and eating chocolate chip cookies and now emerge a rested and wiser Spike.

I am now in the middle of the first two-week vacation I have had in my adult life, and finally, once again, able to crawl back into myself and get back in touch with my online buddies to whom I sincerely apologize, particularly all the good folks at Holmesslash. I have been slogging about four or five weeks' worth of posts, laughing and crying, and I will try to comment on what I've missed, but no doubt I'll miss someone's stuff.

So as an apology to my fellow slashers, I offer a few more screencap scenarios. Some are good, some are lame, some can only be dismissed as the imaginings of a deranged mind.

I'm not sure if I've got that one quite right yet. However, the next two are completely shameless:

Yeh, I'm just twisted, I know. And this one just doesn't make any sense at all:

And while I'm sharing pix, here's some artsy shots, taken sometime during the flurry of shift changes. These are all literally in my back yard. Yeah, I'm in Vermont, where the trees are fucking fluorescent. We do FOLIAGE, dammit!

I'll post more once I get this up. Explorer is acting strange.

Comments

Posted by: daylyn (

daylyn)

Posted at: November 19th, 2007 07:11 am (UTC)

Welcome back! Glad things have worked out/calmed down at work. And you're on vacation! Woo Hoo!

I'll do the thing with the pipe.

*snort* *snicker* *okay, outright love*

Enjoy your time off (you earned it!). Ooh, and pretty foliage.

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Posted by: spikejem (

spikejem)

Posted at: November 20th, 2007 09:24 pm (UTC)

Yeah, the pipe one's my favorite, too.

And there's more foliage coming in next post!

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Posted by: Elina (

elina_elsu)

Posted at: November 19th, 2007 08:04 am (UTC)

Wu-hey! Yay! :DDDD

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Posted by: spikejem (

spikejem)

Posted at: November 20th, 2007 09:26 pm (UTC)

Thanks -- glad you liked.

hey, your icon looks like it was screencapped from a few moments before or after the pipe one! How'd you get the lens flare? Was it added in photoshop, or is it on the film?

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Posted by: Elina (

elina_elsu)

Posted at: November 21st, 2007 07:18 am (UTC)

I added it in photoshop at the same time with the text :D

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Posted by: Curried Goat (

derien)

Posted at: November 19th, 2007 11:16 am (UTC)

(sad but it happens in healthcare; we're all drama addicts, and so there are personality clashes).

Doesn't bode well for me. I'm contemplating going into nursing, but I have no patience with drama. Ah well, at least, as eor points out, the reason why there can suddenly be almost no staff is that everyone can always find another job.

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Posted by: spikejem (

spikejem)

Posted at: November 20th, 2007 09:28 pm (UTC)

Oh, don't let my bitching about my fellow staff members dissuade you from nursing -- we NEED nurses!

But we do get into drama. Something about the "caregiver" personality type, I suppose. And for all the drama, there's lots of love, too.

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Posted by: Sherlock (

sherlock2040)

Posted at: November 19th, 2007 12:06 pm (UTC)

YAY! The return of Spike :D

Love the screen caps, teeheeee :D!!!

(also, Happy Birthday :) what would you like to happen to Holmes and Watson?)

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Posted by: spikejem (

spikejem)

Posted at: November 20th, 2007 09:30 pm (UTC)

Well, since you're asking, I think getting the boys drunk -- and your particular brand of silly -- in honor of my natal festivities would be completely wonderful!

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Posted by: Sherlock (

sherlock2040)

Posted at: November 21st, 2007 12:03 am (UTC)

Okie :)

*starts plotting*

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Posted by: ree_rhea (

ree_rhea)

Posted at: November 19th, 2007 02:07 pm (UTC)

welcome back! glad that things are settling down for you, definitly missed your presence in Holmesslash.
Totally understand how you felt about your new boss. It's the best when you can work under someone that you like.
keep slogging thru those posts!

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Posted by: spikejem (

spikejem)

Posted at: November 20th, 2007 09:31 pm (UTC)

Thanks -- glad to hear I was missed; there were some great Friday Fives in there.

New boss is nice, and so is the rest of (what's left of) our team -- I had to go in and visit today, just 'coz I missed my ladies and gents so much!

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Posted by: happy_lizard (

happy_lizard)

Posted at: November 19th, 2007 02:23 pm (UTC)

Welcome back! And Happy Birthday, too!

Love the screen caps especially the 2nd one. (I can so see Holmes smelling Watson's hair.)

I work in Healthcare too and understand perfectly about the drama. Some people thrive on it. I told my boss that if she leaves, I'm going with her because working in a high stress job is not worth it if you don't get along with your boss.
You should be proud of yourself for doing a great job and keeing your patients safe and happy.

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Posted by: spikejem (

spikejem)

Posted at: November 20th, 2007 09:33 pm (UTC)

Thanks -- y'know, if you'd told me twenty years ago that I'd be working in my field, I would have split my sides laughing. Now I can't imagine my life without the vocation. Good to have good boss, yes!

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Posted by: daylyn (

daylyn)

Posted at: November 20th, 2007 05:55 am (UTC)