AM haiku

Despite baleen whales
beneath the nurture of waves
even algae blooms

Webcomics are good as therapy some days, I swear.

I feel very grown up after admitting a serious mistake, when I could easily have pretended it never happened.  Do what's right despite the consequences, you might say.  Sometimes (usually, I'd wager) it works out best to just be up-front about things.  Gotta make that instinctual, in all areas of life.

more 6am to 2:15pm shifts this week.  Had a good 40 hours last week, and this week it'll be, probably, 42 or so.  I think the normal morning person had some kind of surgery, and that is why she is gone another 5 days.  12 days of 8 hours a day at work...this actually approaches a full time job!  If it wasn't the 6am shift, I could probably handle this all the time.  But 6am plus a full capacity hospital and every family having to wait an extra 3 hours (aka, everyone is PO'd all the time, including the doctors) makes it more stress than is worth what I'm being paid. 
Admittedly, I've never seen the hospital at 95% capacity for a full week, like it was last week, but if it is normally this busy, I would honestly rather just work at pizza hut. 
I think I'd really like to have a job that would make use of my education.  Every job I've had so far really doesn't require a college education, but just a cool head and lots of vigilance. 
I do know this though, I would never want to be a surgeon.  9.5 hour surgeries, some of these doctors have. Aya.  Ok, next time you go to the doctor, if the doc isn't super friendly or super attentive, imagine a job in which a single mistake potentially results in either someone's health or quality of life being serious adversely affected.  If most mistakes lead to super awful terribles for a patient, imagine trying to be super good at what you do 100% of the time, and then imagine trying to be happy about it to people on top of that.  That's my impression of what it takes to be a friendly surgeon.  So I get the impression that a lot of them just focus on the "good surgeon" part, and not the bedside manner aspect.  Those that manage both get brownie points.