Crashing and Burning

Today was a little busy, but not too much. The weekends are my favourite because I work from 7 AM to 4 PM and I have the whole night to do whatever I want. Usually I'll go to the bar with some people from work, or maybe I'll catch up on studying, or even work on that long forgotten paper. There were no awesome exciting trauma patients today, which is both good and bad. It's good because no one was critically hurt and bad because it means the E.R. was boring and there was no rush. When you work in the Emergency Room, you always feel an Adrenaline rush. Someone is in trouble and you need to save him or her, so in this stage of excitement your brain tells your adrenal gland to release Epinephrine, or what we call Adrenaline. It makes your heart beat so hard, and gives you that floating feeling. You can refer to me as an Adrenaline junkie. I don't care. I'm happy that my Adrenaline rush comes from helping people and not shoplifting or gambling (Who does that help?).

Today on my lunch break I went up and visited Paul, he was quite pleased to get some company. Unfortunately, Paul has no family left and has no visitors. I sat and talked to Paul about life. He told me all about his childhood and his family. Unfortunately, my 30-minute lunch wasn't enough to hear about it completely, I returned to the Emergency room for three and a half hours of continual boring medical treatments.

So, I got home at about 4:15ish, to find a message on my answering machine from Amanda. She told me that she couldn't see me anymore because I was too much into school, work obsessed, and I didn't give her enough time. She told me she was done and she was moving on to someone who could give her the attention she deserved. I didn't care. Well, I did, sort of. I wanted to keep my pledge that Paul had brainwashed into me... from his words of wisdom. However, I didn't have the chance to carry out my pledge, I feel bad about it. I called her back and tried to negotiate, but it was too late. Therefore, I'm hitting the bar tonight.