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Jul. 16th, 2013 01:10 pmOn the way back from dinner on Friday, I inadvertently imported an inch-long grapevine beetle into my apartment (it hit me in the eyebrow and when I got indoors, I found it hanging onto my shirt). The Hairy Beasts cornered it in the bedroom at 4:00 Saturday morning, but my getting up to fetch a container and a piece of cardboard distracted them and they lost it. Last night I found it again, and promptly reintroduced it to the Great Outdoors. I could have been nicer about it, because I pretty much flung it out a second story window, but I suspect it was responsible for the sensation of something crawling up my arm at 2:00 on Sunday morning (although I didn't see what it was; it was a "wake up flailing arm around" situation). I didn't even know we had grapevine beetles in Boston. Live and learn, I guess.
Speaking of learning, apparently I shouldn't take online training courses first thing in the morning. HSDM requires a HIPAA course (even though I won't have access to patient information) and an information security course to be taken and passed before I start over there, and I took both today before my coffee kicked in, so I had to take the quiz at the end of each course twice in order to pass them (passing is 100%, and I clicked on the wrong thing at least once each). But I did pass them both, so now I can stop thinking about that.
There are some other things I'm going to love not thinking about, for sure. If I were staying, I'd be lobbying fiercely for the new online annual appointments system to automatically refuse any application in which the start date on the cover sheet and the start date on the nominating letter are different. (It can't actually do that because the letter will be an uploaded PDF or Word document, but I'd be lobbying for a big bright red notice somewhere before you hit the Submit button that says "CHECK START/END DATES ON ALL DOCUMENTS".) It's going to save somebody a headache someday.
I can't hardly wait for Saturday. I hope this time they mean it when they say "thunderstorms", but I'll settle for "weather that doesn't make the cats glare at me".
Speaking of learning, apparently I shouldn't take online training courses first thing in the morning. HSDM requires a HIPAA course (even though I won't have access to patient information) and an information security course to be taken and passed before I start over there, and I took both today before my coffee kicked in, so I had to take the quiz at the end of each course twice in order to pass them (passing is 100%, and I clicked on the wrong thing at least once each). But I did pass them both, so now I can stop thinking about that.
There are some other things I'm going to love not thinking about, for sure. If I were staying, I'd be lobbying fiercely for the new online annual appointments system to automatically refuse any application in which the start date on the cover sheet and the start date on the nominating letter are different. (It can't actually do that because the letter will be an uploaded PDF or Word document, but I'd be lobbying for a big bright red notice somewhere before you hit the Submit button that says "CHECK START/END DATES ON ALL DOCUMENTS".) It's going to save somebody a headache someday.
I can't hardly wait for Saturday. I hope this time they mean it when they say "thunderstorms", but I'll settle for "weather that doesn't make the cats glare at me".
