Changes

This has been a week of change at work. We have the yearly influx of students coming to our clinic from Pima Community College. We are taking 3 new students this year, one more than last year. And as always, we have one student from Pima Medical Institute. Their students are terrible, for the most part. I don't know why that is, but I think it has a lot to do with the faculty at that school. When I was the clinical instructor at St. Joseph's Hospital, they would always send me their worst students. And they were pretty bad! Lazy, with a capital L and full of attitude! The ones they send to CIC are not as bad, but they aren't that great either! First day impressions of the new PCC group are positive. One of the 2nd years, Yessenia, I already know from St. Joseph's. She works there as a tech assistant and became one of my students shortly before I left. She is a hard worker with a great attitude. The other 2nd year student, Randy, is an older gentleman, who seems like he will do well also. I found out yesterday that he is a Mormon......wait until he finds out that I am gay!! It should be interesting having him in our mix because we talk very graphic and raunchy at work. Nothing is off limits and we will not change things because of his presence. He will have to deal.....we probably will moderate our discussions to some degree because of him. It will be fun to see what happens.......The third student is a brand new 1st year who doesn't know how to take any x-rays. Those are my favorite because I can mold them to be the kind of tech I want them to be (a good one!). Her name is Karlene and I already like her and can tell she will excel in this field. So many new faces and personalities. It's quite a change.......Then we have our Russian PMI student, who nobody likes. Her accent is so thick you can't understand half of what she says and imagine the poor patients who have to follow her directions! She is graduating in one month and is not qualified to be a technologist at this point. It's kind of scary that she will be employed somewhere and on her own. She is in love with me, by the way! She hasn't figured out that I am gay yet......I think she's a little dense also. She made a big mistake recently when she came up behind me and put her hands on my hips and pressed her body into mine. I was like, "What the fuck?!?!". She's always touching me and is clearly enthralled with me......who wouldn't be?! She took it too far though and got reprimanded for invading people's personal space. She tried to deny it at first (there were 5 witnesses to the incident). Then she tried to say that that is how people show friendliness in her country. Well, bitch, you are in the USA now and you don't touchy without an invitation!! We joke that now she will have the KGB after me! Such drama!!