Work's going to be interesting this month.

First and foremost, my boss is taking a 6 to 8 week medical leave. She's the VP, and the source of a lot of the special projects I end up having to do at the last minute, so an extended absence will mean a lot less work on my end.

Secondly, our Director of Employment is leaving later this month, to take a position in a hospital in Pasadena. So, instead of our normal managerial staff of one VP and two directors, that leaves us with one director for the immediate future.

Thirdly, our file clerk got fed up and turned in his resignation today, effective immediately. Granted, he was on contract from a temp agency, but that's still one less person until someone can train the new file clerk how to handle things. Which isn't as easy as it may sound.

Fourth, our benefits coordinator is on a three-week break, in Ohio. She's the one who handles enrollment for benefits and all that stuff, which is a pretty big thing around here, so her being out means a lot less traffic in the office and collateral visits to my office.

Frighteningly enough, I'm almost all caught up on my work and have just a bit more to do on an outstanding project with medical records. I've been wanting to re-do our Access database with licensure tracking for a while now, and this may give me the time I need to finally get to that. As it stands, it was essentially an Excel spreadsheet that I inherited when I started doing the IS stuff here, and have been tweaking to make it rnu better for the last two and a half years. I'm sick of it. It needs to be re-written.

Oh. Okay, I have free time until the 22nd, at which point the database conversion project I've been working on for the last five months goes live. With any luck, it'll change over cleanly, and there'll be a minumum of fix-ups and patches afterwards. Knowing our luck here, though, it'll probably black out everything up through Bartstow.

We're just that good. :)