It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Friday, February 28
That girl who was brought into the ER last nite who had OD’d and whom we watched sleep all nite was still in room five!!!…When we reported for duty at General Hosptial (GH) no one was in the office because Crotchety Old Phil (COP) was off and Connie was in the ER watching the girl.
We’re not entirely certain what this chick’s deal is, and it’s hardly our province, and we really don’t care besides…Connie didn’t know and all that mattered was I would spend another nite watching her sleep, marking the first time I’ve spent consecutive nites with a girl in years…(Later, we used this line Hunter, who got a good laff out of it.)
Tho working by ourselves, we did not spend all our time watching the girl sleep…At 2300 we passed the watch off on ER staff to do a tour and when we returned we had our personal laptop with us because we had project work to do…We debated whether or not to do this because personal laptop time is not part of a patient watch (PW)…On the other hand, we were watching her sleep for Christ’s sake…And the ER staff certainly doesn’t care because on slow nites they’re farting around on their laptops.
At 0200 or so we went and ate and at 0400, after we supervised a blood draw on a drunk a constable brought in, we went and unlocked doors.
Where we noticed the door to suite 101 was propped open by a book…You can’t ignore this…(Actually, Hunter later advised we could ignore it because we don’t own the office building…A local management company does, and they lease everything out.)…We didn’t know that, so we dove in as if we expected to find the last work in villains in there.
We make entry and this is where a professional-grade flashlight – like ours – comes in handy because we can’t be stumbling around looking for lite switches and we can’t conduct a proper investigation in the dark because we can’t fucking see anything…As it was, it was a boring tour…Nothing was ransacked, and there weren’t any squatters, much less a dead body and exactly why the door was propped open with a book will always be a Mystery of the Medical Office Building.
Hunter also had some information on a new policy from the home office that all flex officers – like yours truly – must work at least 24 hours a week…Right now, the only requirement to keep your job is to work one shift a month…He said he had some clarification on that, that the requirement will be 16 hours a week, and we work 20, so we’re in the clear.
In DateUkrainia news, Lena is out, Julia is still in, tho contact with her was limited today…We had high hopes for Lena, the 50-year-old writer and documentarian…But they were tempered hopes because us artists/project workers are not easy to put up with because while we do fall in love, most of our heart is reserved for our work…This then means ol’ Sparrow has to put up with the same artist crap we issue…Fun stuff like having no spontaneity and not being too interested in leaving the house.
It’s a fine line…We have things we must do and to be of any use to humanity whatsoever we have to do those things…This is hard for a potential mate to accept because they, reasonably, expect and want to be in the front seat of the car with you and not relegated to the back seat…As it was tho, we were visiting her website and it turns out she is one of those who believe the virus and the vaccine are government plots, and we really don’t get along with those sorts, so we dumped her.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 0930 Friday until 1730 Friday…8.0 hours for the day and 44.5 hours for the wee, a splendid total heading into the finale, the all-you-can-get Saturday Sleep Session (SSS).
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The Diary of a Nobody is a novel. All elements are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Anything else is a coincidence.
The Diary of a Nobody was inspired by the 19th-century British novel of the same name.
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