The gym I've been attending since I've been back home fired the woman I became fast friends with over the past few weeks. Just when she and I were beginning to develop an actual rapport with each other, now she's gone. I knew it was probably a matter of time before she did get the ax, since I discovered by talking to her that the management seems to fire as many people as it can for the most trivial of reasons. I'm not sure what happened precisely to cost her her job but I knew she had frequently been in trouble. I'm sure she was probably expecting it anytime. My sympathy goes out to her and anyone else who works there. It seems to me as though the people who own the place have impossible standards. I wonder if I should continue supporting the place with my money.
I worked a job with a boss like that. His hypocrisy was incredible. He demanded we work ourselves sick but eventually he lost his job because his higher ups discovered that he was cooking the time sheets, making it appear that he was present and working when he was actually working a second job. Pretty good racket, I suppose, if you have the balls to try it. Until they caught him he was getting paid for only half the work he was actually doing.
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Tomorrow I have to get a lithium level drawn. If it didn't require me driving downtown again, having to park in a parking deck, waiting for what could likely be almost an hour, and having to interrupt the rest of my day as a result, I wouldn't mind it so much.
My psychiatrist was a little snippy today. The DC psychiatrist seems to have done a better job than he did in assigning a new regimen. She asserted firmly from the beginning that she didn't think I'd get manic on Parnate so long as I was simultaneously prescribed a high dose of Lithium. Her assumption proved to be true. The only problem with being on such a high dose of Lithium is that it's very easy to get toxic. It requires me to continue drinking two to three liters of water a day and avoiding ibuprofen and Aleve altogether.
I worked a job with a boss like that. His hypocrisy was incredible. He demanded we work ourselves sick but eventually he lost his job because his higher ups discovered that he was cooking the time sheets, making it appear that he was present and working when he was actually working a second job. Pretty good racket, I suppose, if you have the balls to try it. Until they caught him he was getting paid for only half the work he was actually doing.
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Tomorrow I have to get a lithium level drawn. If it didn't require me driving downtown again, having to park in a parking deck, waiting for what could likely be almost an hour, and having to interrupt the rest of my day as a result, I wouldn't mind it so much.
My psychiatrist was a little snippy today. The DC psychiatrist seems to have done a better job than he did in assigning a new regimen. She asserted firmly from the beginning that she didn't think I'd get manic on Parnate so long as I was simultaneously prescribed a high dose of Lithium. Her assumption proved to be true. The only problem with being on such a high dose of Lithium is that it's very easy to get toxic. It requires me to continue drinking two to three liters of water a day and avoiding ibuprofen and Aleve altogether.
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Ibuprofen could kill me next time. I won't have it in my house.