what's today?... middle of the week, sometime, I think... yesterday was a blur (and a blurry entry for yesterday very well could follow this one, maybe tomorrow, but one never knows as time bends to the will of the writer (I am definitely influenced by Stephen King's Dark Tower series these days as book five, Wolves of the Calla has arrived and I am devouring it (slowly, take your time, dear reader) the last two nights at work... unfortunately, I must attend some daytime meetings and trainings so I am struggling to stay alert (though the LPN is up to her power trips again, which raises everybody's blood pressure... insecure and immature people who live on pretenses and negativity just do not handle positivity well, but I'll just be me and I'll keep trying to provoke an argument I suppose) and reading is a great sleep inducer when I am tired, so tonight and tomorrow night may be more challenging... but I shall enjoy the slow read all the more...

meanwhile, in case you are interested in the work-related nonsense in the parentheses above, I shall vent a bit and therein provide some details... for the past half a year or so the LPN (who, I'm reluctantly concluding, is is a negative energy vortex that demands that everyone around her feed her all the attention in the space) has been trying to subvert my relationships with my co-workers and encourage me to transfer off the unit... she apparently doesn't like me, but is a master at two-faced smiles and social pretense, so she fools some people, mostly those who do not work directly with her or younger, more impressionable staff... others see through it and laugh at her... she probably does not like the fact that I see through it and work directly on the unit each night... for the last three months, a day or two before the monthly meeting with the manager, she has set up a confrontation and presented the confrontation as an on-going problem to our manager... she tried it again last night (the next manager's meeting is tomorrow)...

LPN: I want the process to change, do it my way.
US: why?
LPN: because I want it this way.
US: what is wrong with the way we are doing it?
LPN: I am not going to argue with you.
US: we don't want to argue, we just want to know what is wrong with the way we are doing it, since it has worked well for years and your way will not work as well.
LPN: if you have a problem doing it my way, I have no problem writing you up.
US: will you answer our question?
LPN (walking away): I am not arguing with you.
US: if you won't answer a question, will you address the fact that your way violates hospital policy?
LPN: (no response, she's walked away)

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