This Is Me!

As Funny as It Gets

A Repost: I MISSED MIRIAM’S INVOCATION. Thanks to an FB friend who posted the prayer in her status. I really couldn’t help but laugh. She’s really a tough act to follow, and i guess nobody in the Senate dared or will ever dare to cross her path. here it is.

I don’t ask, oh Lord, that life may be a pleasant road for me
But I’m terminally bored, the Corona trial is devoid of cerebral colloquy

… I don’t ask that prosecutor Niel Tupas modulate his bedroom voice
But may he stop declaiming and start making sense

Or go to Bermuda Triangle and get lost while scuba-diving
Anyway, Frank Drilon can take care of everything for them

I don’t ask that the defense go easy on the prosecution
But Atty Cuevas should stop copying my hair

I don’t ask that we speak in British Ilonggo
But I agree with Sen Lapid that we must speak in Filipino

So if we want to call the Chief Justice carabao, let’s not say carabao
With an overwhelming preponderance of evidence, say kalabaw

I don’t ask that Sen Enrile remind me that I’m a lady
I may be younger than the Penal Code, but I have sharper memory

If strength shall falter and noses shall bleed
Say the act of contrition and shoot yourselves

But may the presiding officer stop mumbling in Latin
That legal language is as outdated and abstruse as he is

Above all, nobody should make epal during the trial, I pray
After all, I’m the author of Anti-epal Bill. Ako na. Me already.

Going on Night Duty

After 3 days of being on off duty, I am finding it hard for me to get myself psyched-up for the forthcoming duty tonight.  Seeing that the last duty shift I was in was more chaotic and hectic, I was in all honesty not looking forward to another one of those.

But then again, considering where and what my workplace is, the word “toxic” comes with the territory 24/7.  So I say, what do you expect?  Just suck it up and enjoy the onslaught!

But seriously, working nights can have its advantages too.  See, if people suddenly decide that they can wait another few hours and bring their sick in the morning, the ER can sometimes be a place of calm and people can go about doing their work without the frenetic pace.  But that is a picture most of us in this area of the hospital wishes were more often, but instead it is always the opposite.

In my experience, its not the patients nor the doctors that can make our lives a little bit on the erring side.  Its those darned “folks” of the patients,  who are the bane of every nurse in the area.  The obstinate, the “know-it-all”, the plain dumb as a door-knob, or worse the uncaring parent.  I even had the misfortune of witnessing an “air-head” of a mother slap the heck out of her sick 8 month old baby, just because the kid would not stop crying, and she was too pre-occupied with her own comfort.  You would not believe the expletives this woman was spewing!  Not to mention those demanding instant service, especially when the whole area is filled to the hilt and there are only 2 nurses and one doctor to attend to the rest of them.

But hey, these are all part and parcel of what we signed up for when we got our degrees, passed the board exams and raised our right hand to solemnly swear to be nurses.  

It takes so much patience and lots of holding back, and taking deep breaths before going about what needs to be done.  Not to mention a genuine love for the profession and vocation that is nursing. 

Sigh, I wish my off duties were longer! But wait, if I have longer off duties, then I might just be out of a job, uhuhuhuh! Not a good thing to be in especially these days, heheheheheheheheheheh.  

Oh well, I just have to make sure I catch at least 3-4 hours of sleep before I begin my 7pm to 7am shift!

ENDING MY 4 DAY OFF FROM WORK

I got off work Sunday morning as I was coming from a 12 hour night shift from work.  Was a bit tired, but by then my body clock has reset and I was awake…  fully awake, with some moments or rather lapses of lividity.  After lunc time though, despite super human effort to remain awake, I succumbed to the much needed rest my body was screaming for.  Around 5:30 in the afternoon, my good friend Erik texted to inform me, we were having dinner and movie night with my two other friend, Ace and Chris.  So Kung Fu Panda it was on 3-D, and I have to say I did enjoy it immensely.  Not to mention the company of these four people (who also happened to be former students of mine) was quite enjoyable. My weekend went great so to speak.  

The next couple 3 days were more like on “TOTAL REST MODE”!  I did not get out of the house,  all I did was sleep, cook meals, enjoy lazing around and yes, being constantly online.  I mean, unlike before where I usually end up going out and hanging out with some people I knew, I really made an effort to just hang in there and yeah, chill!  Boy, was it relaxing or what!

Tonight, am sleeping early.  I got work tomorrow and I plan to get out of the house as early so i can prepare my work early as well.