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Dreadful Nonsense

"I've read your blog. it's really funny. you should write a column." - Jon Ronson

I'd never considered it before, and this is the sixth year in a row that I've returned to work in some capacity in the hospital I'm currently working in, but it's a very odd thing to be working in a building that has it's own chapel where mass is performed twice a day, and the Eucharist is on display for all to see. My current office is located at the end of the corridor outside the day patient's ward, and exactly six doors down from the chapel, and the wards I'm being clerk for are located the next floor up, so that means I get to pass by the chapel about twenty times a day, what with my various wanderings. This in turn means that I could be blessing myself up to forty times a day, if I felt the need to. Given the last few days, I think I could do with a bit of a boost, superstitious, religious or otherwise. My conundrum lies in the thought that, as a confirmed atheist but having been brought up in a very catholic country, I believe simultaneously that absolutely nothing would come of this, and that God (who doesn't exist) would be angry at me for thinking he doesn't exist, and wasting his holy water nonetheless on my non believing forehead, chest, left shoulder and right shoulder, and would smite me down with great vengeance and furious anger.

The job today went well, surprisingly so. This may well be down to the fact that I came in half an hour late (I travel in with the man who runs the hospital - my after - and so if we're a touch late there is absolutely no one to chastise us except him, and he doesn't mind). I then had physiotherapy for an hour from 11am to 12pm, which involved a lot of lying on a bed and having the evil madam pressing down on my back, but was strangely relaxing afterwards. Then I wandered around the grounds for 30 minutes of my lunch break in the rain singing Snow Patrol songs with ne'er a soul in sight. Finally, I spent the afternoon doing half work and half study of OU books on the development of language, and more specifically the forms of communication used by honey bees.

All in all, I could very much do this job for a little while, because it's one of those jobs where you can get away with a lot of meandering, and no one will question you if you're carrying a chart of some kind, walking with a purpose and swinging a set of keys.


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