A better night, the dope was the thing. I got to work early, and we only had ten patients scheduled for the whole day. Wound up doing 35. that's about par for a Friday, although I didn't have any late patients to do for a change. A coupla days ago, Karen told me that she and Lacee were going to Wichita this today and coming back tomorrow evening. Well, the guy who is on call this weekend doesn't really like to take call, so I volunteered to take tonight for him, and to take tomorrow evening from 17:00 to 20:00 so that his kids could take him out to eat on father's day. Well, Karen decided not to go to Wichita, I think that Ric's mother was going to be visiting them, but I'm still taking the call, so Karen and I can't go out and party and get drunk. We can tomorrow after 20:00, of course, but that's a bit late for us to start partying, since we have to be asleep by 22:00.... Tooth news: it's still there, I think that the antibiotics and the tylenol are just barely keeping it at bay. I don't really feel like I'm winning here, and it worries me. If I was right about the 14-year-old in Salt Lake City, the story is taking a long time to unwind. I'm beginning to think that I might have been wrong, and that worries me... mostly for her sake, but also because I may have blown it. In much the same way that I can blow a Chief's football game... by watching it, or simply by careing what the outcome might be. I have gotten into the habit of watching CROSSFIRE in the evenings, and then just sitting there and watching other stuff on CNN or MSNBC or Fox. I need to drag myself away after the first show, the one that I'm interested in. I also need to figger out why I'm interested in x-fire. Half of the people on it really piss me off every night, especially Tucker Carlson with his bow tie and wannabe bushlike smirk. Well, they don't actually piss me off, 'cause I know that it's all acting, just like that limburger guy... nobody can be that stupid. Man, I can't believe that I really said that. Well, I didn't say it, I typed it, you know what I meant. Anyway, Karen has also wondered about my change in habits, she asked me tonight what was wrong, was the computer broke or something? Maybe, just maybe... I'm getting tired of the WWWeb. Yeah, it's got everything, for everybody. It truly does. So, my third worry in this entry... should I worry because the web bores me occasionally? I don't really think so. The web demands some sort of interaction, and lately, especially with my teeth troubles, I just want to be entertained without having to interact at all, or to even think. Is that bad? Only if it becomes a habit. So far no calls from the hospital tonight, and it's now 21:11. I've been wanting to call JD but he's working afternoons and evenings now and I've been going to bed before he even gets off work... I need to talk to him tomorrow, though, so I'll make a point to call him. And, once again, I'm gonna be asleep before 22:00....