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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
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6:55 pm
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| Saturday, January 10th, 2009
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3:43 pm - At the Hospital on a Snowy Day (A Memory of Xmas)
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It's snowing again.
The snow that came on the holidays - Xmas eve - was so beautiful. So few people were at work, so the hospital was quiet. Not quite a skeleton crew, because, after all, how small can it get at a major hospital, but as close as a Level I Trauma Center is going to get. No one visiting, no tours of med students clogging the main arteries, no business meetings in the rooms off those halls, no construction crews on the Cancer Center or hauling materials for it through the atrium. Usually it's so full, and so busy it's unbelievable that the sick get any rest. The atrium was dim as the snow covered the big windows and I think the fountain must have been turned off, a noisy white dandelion puffball silenced to its shell, the silent brass star at its heart.
The snow was getting so deep they were shutting down the shuttles, so I was leaving early to catch the last one. Crossing the bridges between buildings, you could look outside and see the nothing. The missing ambulances, the missing food carts, and no-one double parked. If something had happened and the overhead pager went off, everyone would have jumped. It was so, so quiet.
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| Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
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12:59 am
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| Monday, October 15th, 2007
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11:51 pm - Likes and Dislikes
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I think the boy's making fun of me for watchin' musical theater on the You Tube.
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