Head Nurse

(With Friend Rat Wrangler looking over my shoulder, asking "Beer or caffeine? Beer or caffeine?") At the bar, watching "Tyran...

When I was a little kid, little enough that my own name came out of my mouth as Mawguk (and doesn't that sound like Cthulu's handmai...

Ignore the picture. The song is good. Sonnets: Unrealities III ee cummings it is at moments after i have dreamed of the rare entertainment o...

I'm goin' in. Can't let those bastards scare me off. Dammit.

I woke up this afternoon two hours early with a horrible case of stomach cramps. I dread going in to work this evening. It's not just th...

Artichokes on sale, ten for ten bucks, at the local grocery store. Walking into that grocery store at 5:30 ack emma and hearing Bare Naked L...

Max, being awesome.

I work with a triad of jerks. All are members of that traditionally oppressed and demoralized class, the middle-class white male. All vote s...

(In that I am a beginner at working nights) So: you just got your first assignment as a nurse, to work nights. Holy crapping monkeys, you sa...

And I mean Nowheresville. "Where's Brokeneck?" asked my colleague. "Somewhere," I said, checking Google Maps, "...

The Rat, damn her eyes, brought me a bottle of Bisignano's Italian Dressing hot off the plane from Iowa. She's got me hooked. What I...

It's raining. Make some popovers. Make sure you bake them long enough, or they'll end up as Flopovers. Mix: Two eggs One cup milk A ...

Actually, let's call this Rules For Everybody. Auntie Jo has some bones to pick. Number One: I do not intimidate well. Please don't ...

I had a nursing student following me tonight. As I've said before, I love me some nursing students. I always feel bad when I ask them to...

Dear Doctor Dipwad: If I call you several times in the course of a night, warning you about subtle neurological changes that your patient is...

2:39 am and I can't sleep. Night shift is completely messing up both my circadian rhythms and my typing. I wake up at odd times, I fall ...

This has been One Of Those Weeks. The level of Stupid has gotten to the point that, if somebody doesn't do something soon, the Stupid wi...

There's a point, driving east in West Texas, where the long series of ridges vanishes into the horizon. On an overcast day, you can'...