GexTheLizard's blog

Ok, so 2 of my good friends are about to get married tomorrow. Avoiding the whole "they're too young" etc argument, I'd normally be happy for them for being happy together and all that jazz, but I feel just awful for the poor guy instead. I don't think he knows what he's gotten himself into.

If anyone's ever seen the show Bridezillas that's probably something to the effect of what's happened with this girl (I've never seen said show so I can only assume), but she pretty much went from being a fairly nice, friendly person to a crazy jealous bitch faster than she could get her ring sized. I find it absolutely insane that the guy's actually stuck it out for the year or so that they've been engaged - were I him I'd have been out of there ASAP, and really have to wonder if it's just stress that got to the chick (doubt it) or if now that she's got the rock she's just showing her true colors.
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There's little I dislike more than being bored at work. I don't see why anyone envies the fact that I have down time at work and am therefore able to go on Neoseeker at 3am, play solitaire, etc. It's boring, I like it when it's busy especially if it's an acute patient like we has a few days ago that I'm busy with.

Anywho it's a slowish night tonight, and in lieu of better things to do I'm posting here. I managed to get into a car accident the other day and my car's now out of commission, which gave me the motivation to get my bike fixed so I have at least some kind of transportation. I did so, and it cost me about $100 but it's well worth it to have transportation that's faster (and in my area, safer) than walking, and is reliable. Still don't have an estimate on how much the car's gonna cost me, but the radiator, core support, and hood all need replacing. Quite a number on my car c
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Ahhh it's 4:30 in the morning. Glorious time of day, 4am. There's so little to do some nights, some nights I'm very very busy right now. Today, obviously, I happen to not be so busy, mostly because I had tonight off. So today's blog post is the top 10 things to do in the wee hours of the morning:

#10 - Go for a Run
This is generally a bad idea. Going for a run, or going to the park, at 2 in the morning, is just asking to get raped, shanked, etc. Very shitty idea, unless you like high crackwhores chasing after you yelling "where's my money, bitch?" You don't even have to try to barter any kind of service for them to behave in such a way. In the Soviet Hood, whores crack you! But then again, maybe running isn't a bad idea. Keeps you in practice if you ever need to. Not that crackwhores can run very fast.

#9 - Clean your Car
Again, another shitty idea for the late night. For very si
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Well, I got to go to the (regular) psych unit the other night at work. That was... interesting, to say the least. First of all, everything is locked on that unit. Everything. There are literally 6 sets of doors that are locked from both directions between the patient beds and the actual exit. Since it was my first time there and I obviously don't normally work there, I didn't have a badge to let me into the units. I followed a couple of people who did, and actually ended up getting trapped between two of the doors in a small hallway with no way of getting out until I just pounded on the door for a while and someone let me in. Later on, I found out that I was supposed to stop by the front desk next to the elevators and get a badge and set of keys. D'oh.

Also, the behavioral unit is very very nice. Except it has no TV, no pens, no pencils, no computers available to the patients (th
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Well, learn something new every day I suppose.

I'm Gex, 18 y/o F, presently working in a hospital on nursing staff though I'm trained as an EMT, a bit over half done with paramedic, and want to get back on the ambulance pretty much as soon as I get a chance. Love my job either way though, and my jobs are pretty much my life. More on my other jobs later. I've lived in Minnesota most of my life, though I was living in New Hampshire for a few months at the beginning of this year until the very end of March. Long story there. Another time. I'm planning on moving back out of state in another year or so mostly to pursue my career as an EMT/eventually paramedic, and will probably be moving to either Texas, North Carolina, or back to New Hampshire. Preferably one of the former two.

Anywho, presently I'm working on a few projects and have had a rather extended break from 2 of them. Normally
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