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feeling better. current song: working overtime by new order. it's new and tasty. who's that over there? looks like he don't care almost lost his mind working too much overtime gotta get out every night city gates are open wide gotta get away from here take that car and push that gear he don't need no one he's a rising sun he won't shed no tears got no time to break down here - hey he going nowhere fast just a piece of dirty trash all alone by himself he don't need nobody else walking down the street so much going on people everywhere look at him but they don't care see that world out there? make it go away you can't change his mind too much working overtime hey, overtime, overtime he crossed that picket line in trouble all the time where did it all go wrong? house music all night long all those girls out there looking for the one do they really care? could they just be having fun? he did all he could tried to get it right somewhere he went wrong too much working overtime hey, overtime, overtime at any rate, today wasn't so bad, except for the fact that i'm a total fucking n00b and i kept messing up little shit and looking like an ass. but it's ok, it's all stuff i'll get the hang of with time. you know, like unhooking the o2 from the truck before trying to pull the cot out, or asking the stupid nurses at the death farm for a face sheet when they haven't given you one. i'm sure billing will have a heart attack when they actually have to do some work tomorrow. this is me, feeling pity. ok, so now that the pity party is over, i'll go on. yeah, so, i think that i can handle this. it was just that one patient i had last night who was a transfer from luke's down to some death farm in ottawa. he was ancient: freaking methusela was in the back of my rig. 94, i think. dnr cc. wicked bad pneumonia cough. he's going within the week, i'm sure of it. i just didn't want him to go in my rig. that's no fun, no fun at all...i'm sure that i would have freaked out seeing as there would be absloutely nothing that i could have done except assist respirations until he stopped breathing on his own, and then, you know - watch him die. i tell you what, i'm not fucking croaking in some metal box on wheels with embittered medcrap employees hovering over me. flaming car crash. call the coroner - she's dead on scene. in fact, with my next check i might in fact go get dnr tatooed on my chest. maybe i'll even get it in that fancy lettering that all the gangstaz get their babies' mommas' names in. it'll be hot, don't you think? so, unit 12 esta no mas, and eric and i are the new 17. and we get sent out of town at the end of our shift every day. it's not so bad if we're going to get off on time (like today) but totally blew when we got off an hour late (like yesterday). i think that dispatch and their 5-year-old-mr-plus-add-brains forgot that we get off at 7 now, and not 8 like eric was. whatever, don't care. need the money, and being able to take our sweet time getting home is nice. if anyone who works with us has noticed, unit 17 has been taking a lot more runs and playing a lot less radio games - yeah, that's us. no need to thank us for going to get all the regulars to/from dialysis. i assure you that we (and by we i mean i) love taking nothing but pick up/drop off mundane runs. i'm being completely serious - it means that i get to practice writing reports on easy runs, and i get used to how everything works without worrying about screwing up with the patient so much. it also means that i get to do what i was born to do, which is take blood pressures and even maybe break out the band-aids. dick would be so proud. speaking of dicks, i found out where the letcherous old substitute teacher who tried to get in my pants when i was 15 works now. he's at the muo dialysis clinic. i'm 99.999% sure it was him - i can only pray he didn't recognize me. i don't really want to talk to him about the kid he fathered with a girl i graduated with. oh, yeah ladies - he's a keeper. at any rate, in suprisingly eloquent language; i'm out like the fat kid at dodgeball. nighty night, my droogies. ~*~ immediate yesterday. ~*~ divination. ~*~ get your own guestbook here |
