Another Day At The Pharmacy

Trust me, if you work in a pharmacy (or any health-related job) you are bound to witness some massively classic situations. They range from annoying to downright hilarious. The most frequent one involves being accused of losing someone's prescription and I must learn to keep a straight face when people pronounce drug names wrong. 

The staff don't help the 'being serious' problem either: half an hour this morning consisted of making suggestive and perhaps slightly vulgar jokes about Rolf Harris' recent charges...obviously there weren't any customers around! 

However, it's the interesting and funny things that keep me satisfied with working in a pharmacy. It breaks up the monotony of constantly dispensing and doesn't lead me to dread the job! There's nothing more satisfying than helping someone to solve a problem, especially when they show some gratitude, and even when they don't it's still a pretty nice feeling! 

Bank Holiday

Isn't it funny how when there's minimal structure to your life, the days just kind of blend into one and you have no idea what day or date it is?! This is me at the moment. I couldn't tell you what date it is today without looking at my laptop. It probably isn't helped by the presence of the World's most mundane assignment, which I'm currently trying to slave through. 

Along with the assignment, I've been frantically trying to sort out some finance things so that NS&I don't keep on sending me God knows how many forms through the post every week. I haven't been able to ride my horse either because the farrier couldn't shoe her last week. First World problems. 

However, along with all these annoying things, I have managed to finally set in stone my future life/career plans. Grad entry medicine is my main goal, so my action plan now is to ace my degree (surely knowing loads about drugs can only be a good thing for med school?!), increase my experience portfolio and just suck up the fact that it's going to be at least 2 more years until  can finally go to med school. In my opinion, I feel that having more life experience and a related degree under my belt will prepare me for medical school a lot more than going straight there after A levels. 

Anyway, I'm off downstairs to munch on some banoffee pie (diet will start tomorrow!) and wind down!