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Volunteering for the Unexpected
Isn’t it weird how when you’re trying really hard to do something it doesn’t work and then when you stop thinking about it, you do your best?
I’d been dreading last Saturday’s shift (as you know) because it was on an important night for me — Halloween. Plus I really hadn’t gotten the hang of the Volunteer thing. But strangely, Halloween in the ER became more important to me than I thought, but not in a way I would’ve expected. Read the rest of this entry »
In Recovery from ER Hell
- OD’d Mime on the stretcher
- Zombie with a bloody earlobe
- Barfing trick or treaters
- Unlucky Moped-crashing Harry Potter
- Old man with chest pains…
Oh shit — that was Mira‘s Grandfather.
Last night — Halloween in the ER — was the scariest Halloween ever. Read the rest of this entry »
Fake or Real, it’s All Bloody
Unfortunately since no one else wants to volunteer on Halloween (shocker, right?) I get stuck with the Saturday 9PM to 1AM shift. So sadly this year I’ll be dressing as an…
A N N O Y E D V O L U N T E E R!
funny for Halloween; not funny for ER
It’s a hella scary outfit — when I see myself in a reflection, it totally freaks me out!
What’s even more scary is Read the rest of this entry »
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VOLUNTEER TRAINING… (I Never Volunteered For!)
this manual is giving me nightmares already
Stuck all day sitting in this stuffy fluorescent hospital classroom for 8+ hours, drinking burnt coffee, listening to this over-the-top pep talk by the hospital volunteer supervisor, Charlayne who’s beyond gung and way too ho.
She started the volunteer program at GLAM (made sure we know we can’t evah call it that) and she’s very very very (yes very) passionate about it.
We sat forever and my butt bones still hurt from that chair. Read the rest of this entry »
Community Service Recasts Me
Volunteering is great. For some people.
But this is really messed up.
It wasn’t even my idea.
And it’s my career that gets hurt.
Just because of some sleeze and a slow news day, I’m screwed.
lady judge who killed my career looked like this, only not
I’m probably not allowed to say anything about the judge but I know when I’m being used as an example and she did and this sucks. I got hard time.
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