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Haven't been making any money, either, dammit.

I've been back and forth to bed, tossed and turned and gave up on it three times....

And haven't got called once. On a Saturday night, heh. Who'd'a thunk it?

Nice thunderstorm passed by about an hour ago... got hit heavy north of here, we got sprinkles. Lotsa lightning and thunder, though. Love that lightning and thunder!

And yeah, I really liked Friday's haiku, so much that I decided to not write another one last night....

Yeah, and you believe that too, don'tcha?

12:21...
I got maybe two hours of sleep... and one dream worth mentioning....

In the dream, every time that I would pick up the telephone to call someone, I got the administrator.

After the second time, she told me if I kept irritating her, she was gonna fire me.

So I picked up the phone to call transportation to get a patient down... and there she was again!

So she sent a lawyer down to fire me, a youngish woman who obviously didn't relish the job. Oddly, she didn't bring security (all friends of mine) but they were watching.

And she decided to not fire me, and I don't know what happened next, but I had patients to do, so I just kept working....

I woke up just after that, of course, and I told Karen about the dream and then finally went into a pretty sound sleep... for about an hour, anyway.

And I got the first call about 09:15, but I've only been in once. Lovely day, it's been so far... about 70°F and sunshiny.

Thinking about the dream, it was triggered by three things: 1)long-term employees have been getting fired lately at an alarming rate; 2)My name wasn't on the bulletin board for the awards ceremony, but there were a coupla others there that I recognized... and they were hired a year later, I realized. And 3) I had almost run into the administrator in the hallway on Friday, I was looking to my left with a patient and she was coming from the right, and I didn't see her....

15:41...
I finally got outta there about 14:50... it's been a long day. The in-patient that I couldn't do this morning 'cause she ate breakfast... she ate her lunch, too, so that exam was punted to the evening guy.

And I have been remiss in not mentioning that Rob of creekbed.org (http://creekbed.org/bandh/journal.htm) has started a new journal. I was very disappointed a few weeks ago when he announced that he was ending his journal, which I always enjoyed. He hadn't been updating it much lately, and I can understand getting tired of doing something... it makes it seem like work, y'know? But! He's updating daily! I really like that in a journal... more entertainment for me... And you, too!

Speaking of being entertaining,... I feel that I haven't been doing much of that lately. I'll get back to it some day soon, I hope. In the meantime, you'll have to put up with what I've got, sorry.

Actually, my readership has been dropping for the last 18 months or so... I keep telling myself that's 'cause there are so many more journals out there now, and even some blogs... but I know that I'm just blowing smoke. I'm just going through a period where I'm not writing very interestingly any more. It's still fun, but after ten years, the thrill is gone, y'know?

regardless, I'm going to keep it up for as long as it remains fun, and I can't do it any other way but daily, so that's what it'll be.

And tomorrow... tomorrow, I'll officially be middle-aged. Yep, 60. That means that I'm planning on living to be 120, right? So right now, I'm in the middle. Not a real bad place to be, heh.

It kinda amazes me that nobody who was born before 1896 is still alive... that didn't used to be so long ago, it seemed like, when I was a kid... 50 years ago.

And now it's 17:30 or so, and I've had about six hours of sleep over the last 72 hours, so I think that I'll go to bed. Kinda odd, I never think about catching up on sleep by going to bed early, only by sleeping late. Except for tonight, anyway.