January 2009
Barf-fest, anyone?
Oh my god. Why won’t she stop? Oh my god. This lady in the lobby has been upchucking into a little pink bin for the past twenty minutes while her humongous Hispanic family (there are about twenty of them!) hovers around her. She won’t even go down to the ER because apparently, she doesn’t want to wait. Instead, she’d rather sit up here in the nice hospital lobby and...
Hospital
5:10 PM It’s Monday afternoon, which means I’m spending two hours volunteering at the hospital. I settle comfortably in my high swivel chair behind the information/front desk, smiling pleasantly at the hospital visitors. I click eagerly onto the Mozilla Firefox icon and wait expectantly for the home-screen to pop up, but when it does, my smile freezes and I feel like I’m...