Post-Grampians

I was back to work the next day and boy, my legs felt like jelly. My calves were aching badly, probably not as bad as those who made it to the top of the mountain, but yeah, it wasn't a good day to work...

Wanted to call in sick, but I felt bad.

My parents also arrived in Melbourne and TY and I brought them and my sis to the Japanese Stone Grill place. Good thing they liked it.

Supposed to be off on Monday and I thought "OK, this is the day I should just chill and say I'm busy and not go to work if they do call". In fact, one of my colleagues ended up calling me saying she was sick and wanted me to do her late shift at Ch 9, so I told her I can't because I had plans (initially I had dinner plans with my parents but it was cancelled cause my sis couldn't make it). Then 15 minutes after, my boss called and told me that one of my other colleagues at the main office is sick and needs me to fill in. I again said I have plans, but she was desperate and said "Can you perhaps do a short shift?" So eventually I gave in... cause two people are on leave and two people are sick... and I guess the $$ is good and it can go towards my savings for uni... The bad thing is that because I worked on Monday, it would mean that I'll have worked 8 days straight - next day off is Sunday. Some of my colleagues are saying what will my boss do without me? I'm not sure either... it's pretty tough to replace my position in a way... Not to be proud, but there are lots of people being trained up, and it would take them a while to get to my level. In fact, there's only me and two other colleagues who learnt the skill of speech c-a-p-t-i-o-n-i-n-g really fast, like we started around the same time and are doing the same stuff. But depends on an individual really. And for speech c-a-p-t-i-o-n-i-n-g, you either get it or you don't. Some people are really good at it and a lot aren't... It's pretty tough to pass the speech test and there are stages. In fact, lots of people fail in the first stage, and usually don't continue until after a bit more practice. Also some people who just don't continue at all because they're quite frustrated with the whole speech c-a-p-t-i-o-n-i-n-g training...

Besides all of that, had my eyes checked today and am trying on a new moisturised contacts for the cracked surface skin of my cornea (remember how I had that quite bad before? It's not as bad this time.. Still there, but not that bad. I thought it would have been bad cause I seem to have increased blurness when I look at the comp. But no, it's not that bad, so no need to worry). The new contacts are in fact quite comfy, but more expensive... so see how it goes.