The most efficient clinic ever

[pensnest]

Yesterday, I had my flu jab. I haven't bothered in previous years, but as a diabetic I get letters inviting me to have one, and this time I thought perhaps I'd better.

Arrived at the surgery at ten in the morning, with book in handbag, anticipating a long and tiresome wait.

Thirty seconds at most in the queue to reach the receptionists and have my name crossed off their gigantic list. Then I was invited to join the queue round the corner...

...where I was waved straight into the nearest consulting room, where a nurse was ready. Quick swipe of the arm, a couple of necessary questions, prickle on arm, all done.

If I hadn't been asked to stay in the waiting room for quarter of an hour just to make sure I didn't feel queasy, I could have been out of there at 10.03am. Amazing!


Oh, that programme I laboured over? It printed up beautifully and was much complimented. And, due to huge numbers of people buying tickets on the door, we ran out. Sigh.

Comments

[solariana.livejournal.com]

I'd almost swear Doctors, Dentists and all associated staff members in the US are taught in school to make ALL patients wait at least 15 minutes past their scheduled appointment. And for no appointment, add another 15 minutes to an hour.

[pensnest]

My local surgery has really smartened up its act with regard to appointments—it seems to be easier to get one, and reasonably on time, for the last several times I've been in.

The flu clinic, though, was well-nigh miraculous!

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the program being complimented!! A shame it ran out but that's the kind of thing that happens.

[pensnest]

Yeah, we have a formula which usually works out quite well, so many programmes per so many audience members, but people buy their tickets so late these days—when I ordered the programmes we'd sold fewer than 200 tickets, but it ended up doing over 350. Which is good...

Also, icon!! Oh, my, those pictures.

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

Lance's really making some inspiring photoshoots these days!

BTW I remember that you wrote somewhere that just about the only thing you used Word for these days was to get a word count on stories. A couple of weeks ago I was looking for something else on the Apple Downloads site and found this incredibly nifty Word Counter Widget. Now that I've used it for a while I can definitely say that I'm very happy with it. (I use it to I calculate story length for recs.)

[pensnest]

Thanks for the widget - I've never got into the habit of using widgets, but I have collected this one and shall try to remember to use it.

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

congratulations on getting the program to such a high standard, despite all the handicaps :D

And hurray for the good drs experience.

[pensnest]

The formatting, once I'd stopped freaking out, was quite fun to do - but really, if I'd had the material sooner, it could certainly have been better. Ah well.

My arm is a little bit sore, but it's probably worth it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lisalisa_/]

OMG, your header is to die for. Anyway, hi I'm new. I've read your comments in mutual friends LJs and I thought I'd see if you wanted to be friends. Common interests include NSYNC, Jane Austen and musicals. I need more musical lovers on my flist. Let me know. Plus, I can't wait to check out your fic. From your bio, it sounds intriguing. The more explicit the better, I say. ;-)

[pensnest]

Hi! Yep, I'm rather pleased with the header, myself. Don't they look smug! (There's a story featuring Lance and Alan Cumming here which might be a good place to start if you're looking for smut.)

Anyone who likes Nsync, Jane Austen and musicals definitely ought to be on my friends list, so, welcome!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Go you on getting the programme done well!

[pensnest]

I quite enjoy page layout stuff. Used to have hours of fun with PageMaker, despite its irritating habit of crashing randomly. Once I'd learned to save *every* change, I was okay! InDesign isn't nearly as friendly, but still quite interesting to do.