Ok, so yeah. I always promise I’m going to post more and I never do, so I’m not going to do it this time.

I mentioned in my last post that I was moving to New York. Well, I’ve been here for about 3 1/2 months now. What can I say? Everything costs twice as much, I’m broke all of the time, and I don’t know anybody…

And I still love it here.

NYC is one of the best places to people watch; one of my favorite past times. I still think it’s cool that I can head down to Times Square and just sit at a table, literally ON Broadway (they finally got rid of those cheap lawn chairs a while back), and just read a book and watch the tourists gawking at the tall buildings and advertisements.

I spend some of my time off in the subway busking; playing music (for me specifically, the Irish flute, and tin whistle) to make some spare cash. It’s a quick way to make a buck, and I usually don’t get moved on by a cop. (That only happened once, during rush hour, which I’ve since learned doesn’t pay well anyway.)

As far as pharmacy goes, there isn’t much to tell. For the first couple of months that my new store was open, I was spending half of my time floating at other stores. HR at my new store goofed and hired two technicians for a 1-tech store. Thankfully (for me anyway) the other tech didn’t work out, so I get to work full time at my store now. Of course, since I’m at a very slow store (we finally did 200 scripts in one week just last week), I’m running out of things to pass my time with.

About the only bit of drama I’ve had was at one of  the other stores I was floating at; I opened that morning and was filling scripts in the workflow that I was used to. Later in the morning, two other techs (with much less experience than me) came in and completely disrupted the workflow and undid about 2 hours of work (It’s a busy store). One of them literally yelled at me for not doing things “their” way; So I just left. Not the best way to handle things for sure, but I left my store in Virginia to get away from that kind of drama, so I just figured I wasn’t going to put myself through it here.

Otherwise, it’s just been the usual; clueless doctors and nurses, patients that refuse to listen to you. (“This can’t be the same vitamin; It comes in a green bottle.” “Yes, ma’am; we have a different manufacturer here.”) Nothing much worth posting about. I guess I’ll try and post some on my non-pharmacy experiences here in New York. But, considering I’m broke most of the time, I don’t really do much except people watch and play music on the subway.

Anyway, I hope that gets anyone who’s interested up to date. Ciao.