It has been a long, tiring week, and Friday cannot come soon enough

I started a new aspect of my job today that replaced a minor thing I did and expanded my work in terms of time. So, for four hours or so a day I do library stuff--interlibrary loans, cataloguing, literature reviews, shelving, administration, etc., etc. For the other four hours I deal with insurance companies and doctors' offices regarding referrals, put in data entry sheets, reconcile items put in by the system, and once a month do an audit. So whereas I used to be somewhat bored and didn't have enough to do, now I am quite busy. That's not bad, of course, but it makes it somewhat challenging to get everything that needs to be done, especially because so much of it is time-sensitive, as it relates to revenue and billing. I think I've gone beyond the simple data entry I was doing at first by quite a bit.

But I do enjoy it. Well, except for dealing with phone message systems for the insurance companies in the (sometimes) vain attempt to reach a real person. Anyway, I hope you'll understand if, after being on a computer all day, I don't always blog very long when I come home. Normally I don't mind, but today I think I'll keep it short. I'm going to go take my contacts out and change into my sleep shirt. Maybe I'll watch something while folding the laundry.

Six eyes?

The part of my job that isn't being a librarian involves various forms of data entry and dealing with papers that have tiny numbers on them. I have bifocal glasses and contacts, but I find my contacts especially blur a bit as the day progresses, and my glasses are one or two prescriptions behind. I'm not sure how good or bad it is for my eyes, but I found a 2-for-1 deal at Rite Aid on Foster Grant readers and decided to get them, so hopefully they'll tide me over until I can get new glasses in January. So there's eyes, plus contacts, plus reading glasses. Here's hoping it helps.