some days are just like that

and so it was monday - not quite as crazy as last week, but crazy nonetheless.

from the south unit windows, we watched the drug dogs and officers go through an employees truck.  all the white shirts were standing around (white shirts are the upper echelon - lieutenants and captains), overseeing it all.

later, as i was walking past control center 1, the officer there stopped me and told me what was going on.  seems another officer had found "a green leafy substance" on one of the guard towers, and it tested postive as cannibis.  and so, all the officers who manned that tower last week were being searched.  i sure hope twinkles wasn't the culprit.

one of the nurses came over sometime later and said - did you hear about the big escape plan?  seems three inmates pitched horse shoes at the fence until the fence was worn enough to pull up, and they had planned their escape for the past weekend.  somehow, the plot was discovered (probably ratted out by an inmate who wanted to go but wasn't invited), and all three are locked down in seg.  the public is safe.

even later, my phone rang - it was the admin officer asking me to come over to the admin building to do some filing...

i don't work for the prison where i'm stationed...it's the satellite unit for the hospital that employs me in the medical department.  and so i said - let me transfer you to the supervisor.  if it's ok with her, i'll be right over!

god bless ava.  she said NO.  no.  NO.  and when ava says NO, everybody listens.

and so i had to make a trip to the hospital that employs me.  the physicians' secretary asked - so are you ready to come back to us?  the past two weeks flashed in front of my eyes and i said resoundingly - YES, i am.  but i didn't mean it. at that time. she winked at me on my way out and said - don't worry, i'm working on it!

and even later, ava tracked me down to change something in the computer - an appointment for a seg inmate.  he's being shipped out to ICON.  so i asked why...and she said, because - you remember all those days he was soaking his feet in front of the nurses station and your office?  he was masturbating.

jesus help us.  i believe i can speak for the nurses when i say this as well as for myself - i'm tired of being some convicts fantasy girl.

and even later, it came to my attention thatthe new health department is opening in a nearby town.  am i applying?

Danged straight i am.