04:02 - 20.03.07
healer
My youngest came home very sick from his oldest brother's home on Sunday. They escorted my oldest son's partner and some of the children to the movie The Bridge to Terebithia, but my oldest had to get to work and my youngest just didn't feel well enough to sit through the production. He was very ill last night so it was 5 in the am this morning before I crawled into bed. Having worked in the rehabilitation ward at the one hospital and having raised six very active sons, I usually don't get too fussed about sickness, but I was worried about him going into a serious full blown lung infection. The newspapers are all warning about a virulent form of th Staphylococcus Aureus virus going round. It is a form of the one that killed Jim Henson some years ago. That virus is something that would be as dangerous for me as for him, I think. Enlightened self-interest dictated that I do everything I could think of to head off worse trouble while it was still possible to do so. It was also apparent this morning that the virus or bacterium had gone down into his lungs by today. He had bouts of anger that had nothing to do with anything going on around him. In the hospital that sort of behaviour coupled with a high degree of restlessness or anxiety was usually interpreted as a sign of respiratory distress. He talked with his boss and agreed that the best choice for him for today was to go visit a doctor.
The phone rang a few hours after I had finally managed to get to bed. It was one of my co-workers/friends who had agreed to provide me with a letter of reference for my job searches. She won't be easily available for the next month or so, so she wanted to put something on paper rather than trying to play tag with a potential employer, you see. She had asked me to draft the letter for her and we had spent several days emailing back and forth with revisions until we were both satisfied with the outcome. It was a very interesting exercise. I enjoy writing as you know, dear diary, and I am used to revising reports for clients, editors and supervisors when required. Collaborative writing like this letter is quite different and enjoyable too.
I have started posting my resume to different potential employers but I am finding that process a bit frustrating. I realise that the intent of the standardised format for each company is to expedite the application process so that each applicant is on the same page for them but ignores those of us who have had anything but a normal work history. My resume is structured very carefully to reflect honestly who I worked for and what I did chronologically so that gaps between different types of consulting assignments make sense with out having to resort to some sort of spreadsheet. Most of the portals allow one to only enter full time or part time work. To try and reflect that one was working through a placement agency so that one might have two company names and two or three supervisors for each assignmet was nearly impossible in some of the the sites. It was also difficult to input wages since most are set up for a monthly or yearly salary rather than an hourly rate. Sigh. Guess I should just be glad that those sites are available but I don't want any miscommunication to make it appear I am not being forthright when it is really a function of their standardisation attempts. Most of the sites don't allow for a free form comments section either so that one can clarify what the problem is. Oh well.
Time for bed now though I think. Today was spent looking after my youngest, research, housework, and posting in between to various employers and I suspect tomorrow might be a repeat performance. We'll see.
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