I haven't been here much lately. I start a new job next week and I am so looking forward to the new job.

I have so many mixed emotions going all over the place. On a certain level I will be so glad to be out of the toxic office I have been working in for four and a half years. On the other hand I know how to do my job here, despite the negativity. There is a lot of new stuff I have to learn for my new job. I will miss friends and patients I know at the old job. But I so want to be successful at my new job. I remember having those same feelings when I left the job I had at a dry cleaner's to work at my present job. Then later I wished I had never left the dry cleaner's. I took a job doing something that I think I would love because it involves history. And I love history.

I will be driving a large vehicle so I have to get my health in better order. I barely passed my DOT physical because my blood pressure was too high. I have also been having chest pains which increase in severity when my blood pressure goes up. I have an appointment at the doctor's office tomorrow. The Junior manager at our office is angry with me for going to the doctor and I think she is angry with me for leaving.

I know I will leave a short-handed office even more short-handed. However, I could not let a good job opportunity pass. It has been a somewhat stressful week trying to tie up loose ends on my old job while studying material for the new job. I will be glad when all the transition is over.