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This sucks. It really does. Essentially, it’s the weekend. But at any time, at any moment between 7AM and 7PM, that phone could ring and it could be people at work saying I have to come in to do a case. If called in, you could be there an hour, you could be there 12. You can’t sleep in because what are you going to do if the phone rings at 7 with someone saying you have to be there? You have 30 minutes to get there and I’m not leaving this house in my pajamas.
The day is spent trying to be busy at home because too much mental power is used up stressing over what could happen if they called NOW, no wait, NOW. If you’re out and you can’t hear the cell due to street noise or whatever, you’re in deep trouble. I can’t be out with all that on my mind, so I stay home, jumping at every sudden sound and trying to get work done but at the same time thinking I can’t do anything that I can’t leave in media res or anything that would take too long to get out of. I don’t want to be yelled at for getting there late. I spend the day rehearsing which route I should take to get there in a short a time period as possible. I got up at 6 today and got dressed and then tried to sleep on the couch. I think I slept for less than an hour. This is after a grueling 5 day workweek. The worst part of all this is, you don’t get a day off. 12 hours call both Saturday and Sunday and then I have to be there early Monday morning just like any other Monday and go through the whole week until I hit the weekend on the other side of that when I can finally, hopefully, rest.
Posted on February 4th, 2006 under Life • 
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