Im no infomercial psychic, but I see myself getting dumped in 3...2...

Today, I was stabbed in the neck with a practice 2PAM injector. It was revenge for me spraying somebody's head with intubation lube. Which was revenge for squirting a different dummy lube on my shoulder. Which is pretty standard for passing time during EMS week ( Read more... )

Lauren's been the most normal girl I could have possibly imagined. Her vanilla non-reactive demeanor does not clash with mine the way I prefer, and believe good chemistry should. But that being the height of my complaints, I really have nothing to complain about ( Read more... )

16 days left until we graduate from the orientation/training phase, and then we get on the line. It cant come fast enough. At this point, I honestly have no idea how people work a 40 hour, 5 day-a-week with any sense of permanence. It made me want to stick my head down the garbage disposal when I did it before. It makes me want to do it now ( Read more... )

The day after Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday of the year, I picked up the St. Pete Times to read the headlines of fights breaking out in Walmart over discounted cheap shit. I read about lines forming in the middle of the night, out into the parking lot, and wrapping around other stores. People bringing patio chairs, sleeping bags and tents, ( Read more... )

I got a letter in the mail today with a New York paramedic card.

Three weeks on the job, and the prospects for new ones are only getting more interesting...

Today I have sported a mind numbing headache, as Ive been seething from a mood that started when I woke up this morning from a dream I had last night. But thats another story ( Read more... )

Yesterday all of us new hires took a little road trip to Orlando to use ( Read more... )

My new job, three years in the making is now two weeks old. It seems so long ago when I think of the first phone calls I made from my desk in Jacksonville in the filthy casting yard on the side of I-95. I still wear a hard-hat. The new ones shaped a little different, black instead of white, but still serves a similar purpose. I knew when I put ( Read more... )

I drove a fire engine today.

At some point, I hope I have 5 minutes to write about this whole experience.