Nilknarf News

I had retired kinda early last night, shortly before 22:00, and, with the help of a nice backrub, I was asleep almost immediately.

So I had about 45 minutes of good sleep before my cell phone rang.

Even though I was on call, I had thought that I was relatively safe, but when I heard the voice on the phone, I knew that I was very wrong about that. It was the new temp tech, and he had traded with the gal who knows how to o CTs. And he doesn't. Great, just great.

So I went in to the hospital and it was kinda drizzling. Did the single patient and when I came out, it was raining pretty good. I ran into some really heavy rain on my way home, but no thunder.

And of course I couldn't go to sleep. I didn't even try, just messed around on the web until I felt sleepy, about 01:00.

The cell phone rang again at 04:15 or something like that. I was, of course, sound asleep, but I roused up and took my pills, deciding that I wouldn't come back home... I'd eat breakfast at the hospital, I haven't done that for a while.

I got the patient done, a fellow who'd been allegedly assaulted, and sent the film off to the radiologist and then I clocked out... now I have to find some coffee, or go over to the ER and make some.

Then I'll see how the day goes with four hours of sleep....

19:13...
Well, the day wasn't too bad... it was pretty busy, and we're still a tech short, and I really didn't have time to feel sorry for myself. Unfortunately, nobody else had time to feel sorry for me either.

One of the ultrasound girls had a birthday, and there were brownies to be had. And I avoided having one for ages and ages, and then when I had one it was... not a big deal. It was an OK brownie, as these things go, but when I weighed the carbs that I had to sacrifice to get there, it wasn't worth it. At all.

The only thing that I would really feel like using that much karma on is a mint dream... it's been well over a month since I had one of those.

Maybe my food preferences *are* changing for the better, heh.

And it feels good, feeling my clothes get looser on me as the weeks go by. Pretty soon I'll be back in *regular* large shirts!

Karen and I went out to the outback tonight, and I ordered my steak medium, and it was pretty blah. I also ordered steamed veggies instead of the baked potato, and they were excellent... really strange (good strange) flavor there, I can't quite put my finger on it....

So anyhoo, it's 19:32 and I'm gonna hit the sack right quick. 05:30 comes awfully early, and I have a dentist appointment at 07:00 in the morning.