Essence: the rose blooms, I got called @ 00:30 this morning and even though I went to bed @21:00 last night. I didn't get to sleep until about 23:00, dammit. And then I didn't get to sleep when I got home... The last time that I looked at the clock was 04:44. I did get up fairly much on time, though, and I managed to eat some cereal and still get to work 20 minutes early... Clocked in 10 minutes early, very busy day. We had a patient who arrived an hour early and expected to be done an hour early... needless to say, it didn't happen, and the lady that was with him was very upset. And we always try to work early patients in, no matter how obnoxious they might be, simply because they upset our other patients. Not to be today, though; we had patients who were here on time and deserved to be done on time, and ER patients who needed to be done. And the fact of the matter is... we're a hospital, not a clinic. Unexpected things happen in hospitals, and those things do not always allow us to keep the schedules as tight as we might wish. Life and death things happen, but this person was yelling about a relative triviality... her precious time. The patient, incidentally, wasn't complaining at all. However, we soon found out that the patient was stone deaf, even with two hearing aids. So of course he wasn't upset about his wife's tirades... he probably never even heard her. And maybe that's why she was so loud. But still, that doesn't excuse the nasty and spiteful things that she was saying to anyone who could hear. Anyway, about 15:00 I called up to get a room for the weekend... and found out that they "weren't doing that anymore." Well, damn. That was very inconvenient. O'well. One of the techs left early, and the butts were run off until about 17:00. And then when I got to the parking lots, some stupid ass had left my lights turned on all day. Deader'n a doornail. Got a jump from security, but that ended the work day on an appropriate note, heh. Goin' to bed really early, I'll probably get called around 21:00, if my luck remains the same.
The rose fades, but with our eyes
and brains, we keep it.