Tomorrow we're going to Colorado for a five-day camping trip. I'm so happy about camping, but more about being outside and out of my daily framework of apartment-to-car-to-work-to-car-to-apartment. I'm tired of being so restrained and acceptable.

Plus, I've never been west of Wichita.

Last week the management at the nursing home where I work had all of us CNAs fill out anonymous surveys, answering questions like, "How can we decrease staff turnover?", and "What do you like and dislike about working here?" I guess they're getting tired of hiring ten new people ever other minute (that's a very precise figure). And of course, it being 6 in the morning none of us could really think of exactly what we wanted to say. But what I SHOULD have said came to me with clarity tonight, which is that people want to quit when they start to dread going to work. That's it in a nutshell. If they could manage to keep that from happening, we would probably all stay for years. I'm almost being treated like senior staff now and I've been there for all of four months.

Well, see you in a week. Eat your vegetables.


p.s. - does anyone have Kumiko or Sachiko's email address? (email it to me!)