My watch says it’s 11.32pm on Thursday night and I’m at my desk in the practice, with the office door open.
It reminds me of a year ago in this massive building with no one else in it, but that was during the day.
I should be at home asleep, having fallen that way half way through the early stages of Lord of The Flies by William Golding, as I mimic the book that my son is reading in English, that I read all those years ago.
My wife should be beside me, my son down the corridor asleep and my youngest daughter further down and around the bend of the corridor and my other daughter in Birmingham.
When I wake up I should be able to hear my dog snoring but I’m still sat here at my desk grinding through patient admin and letters for extraordinary and fascinating, complicated dental implant and restorative cases, the numbers of which I’ve never seen before.
I’m sat here because there has been no space in the last four days to touch any of the first three days of clinical work, partly because of the fourth day of teaching and another full day of teaching today.
Sometimes it goes that way and what you try to squeeze into your life is too much for the time available and sometimes (rarely for me) it’s the other way around.
I can tell you this though, it beats packing the shelfs in Tesco’s on a night shift and even getting out of your bed in the middle of the night to walk about 3/4 of a mile through the vast, massive Queens Medical Centre to stitch up someones face, who’s p*ssed out of their head and doesn’t want to be seen my a scotsman (done both of those).
One of the benefits of being sat here is I can take a break for a few minutes and discover something brilliant on YouTube that I heard on the radio tonight, which is a piano session from Radio 1 of Phoebe Bridgers x Arlo Parks and their piano cover of Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead.
The link is here.
It’s completely beautiful and will stop you in your tracks if you click it.
A little gift from me for a Friday.
“If I could be who you wanted all the time”.
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