As usual, my car is filled. It still amazes me how much I have accumulated over the past year. Would it surprise any of you to know that I have an entire bag that is filled with shoes?
Well a pretty chaotic week has ended and new week has begun. And thank goodness for that. I've moved again (what else is new?) and so far it was been....a complete disaster. Let me go back to the beginning.
Clear roads, grey skies. Should have known there was drama on the horizon.
I was all set to finish up my short 6 week contract at Albany Medical Center. I can't lie, I enjoyed the unit, hated the hours and was lucky I did not have that much free time because well.......I found Albany a little boring. Anyway, I had received and excepted a great offer at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH or Mass General.....it will be written like that for the rest of this post) in Boston. I think a lot of you know that I love Boston and always have since my first visit here back in 2006 while I was working in Vermont. I was very excited to finally get a chance to move here. However, Mass General had a different idea. They decided last minute that my services were not needed and canceled my contract.....3 days before I was set to start (that would be late on a Friday afternoon). Didn't realize that hospitals could do that they were really only required to pay me for 4 weeks (also let me point out that there were 7 other travel nurses who were in the exact same position). So my 13 week contract turned into a 4 week contract but so late on a Friday afternoon there was little I could do except finish packing my car, work my last shift at Albany and then move to Boston.
Another state to add to my "places I have lived" list.
My adventure continued as I arrived at my apartment to find that I could not live in it. I was quite excited to live in a real apartment again after almost a year in studio apartments and a hotel room however it quickly became apparent that the previous tenant had a dog....who was not house broken. The stains in the carpet were obvious and the smell horrendous. Of course this is now Sunday and once again not much I could do except grab some stuff and head to the nearest hotel for the night.
Downtown Boston.....from my new, temporary home. The blimp you can see is hovering over Fenway Park. I took this Opening Day.
Everyone at the hospital was really nice to me. They all felt so bad about it (even though it was not them who cancelled anything) which made things even more irritating because the hospital would be really nice to work at. But the all mighty dollar always wins out and if the budget says I'm not needed then I have to go somewhere else.
Not really sure about this picture......just found it interesting watching all the planes overhead.
Back to my apartment, turns out cleaning the carpets again did not solve the problem, they were going to need replacing. Since my contract is so short it was decided that they would just move me back into the Extended-stay America again. Now I have no pictures this time because it is basically the same as the last one, but a little bit bigger (with a king sized bed I might add) and a little bit newer. The Internet is super slow (I had hallucinations that it was faster, but it is obviously not). It is basically in the middle of nowhere though so it is a 30 minute train ride into Boston. On a positive note I can be in Rhode Island in less than an hour.
The traffic heading to and from Rhode Island. Remind me never to make the drive at this time of day.
I found this just above the hotel. It was actually a nice, quiet spot to hang out.
Anyway, that has been my move to the Boston area. Not at all what I had planned but for now, I'm just gonna run with it.
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