Recruitment

as far as I know, although the coincidence is startling) and then across Lassen National Forest to Redding. It only takes half a day and I leave very early, so I can meet up with Susan for late lunch before the evening shift. We share a butter chicken pizza: an interesting twisting of both Indian food and Pizza that I had never had before, which elicited memories of both.

“You aren’t in Trinity! Congratulations!”

“Very funny… This county is literally one foot away from Trinity, and we have just as many trees. The only difference is there are a lot more people in the Redding area. Which includes everyone in eastern Trinity. Those on the western side of Trinity might go to Eureka: if I was stationed there, I would at least get a nice view of the ocean. So, no congratulations warranted or appreciated.” [[TODO]]

RECRUITMENT

The enlistment rate is surprisingly high probably more to dreams than the likely future. The vampire I recruit have a large number of desires, and a strong (but apparently suppressed) desire to fill those desires. I described a future they can fashion to match their own needs. Some vampires want more control of their lives in a way no classic employment relationship could manage: they want to control their own bodies and be their own boss. Some are fine as employees, but feel the dialysis clinics re taking advantage of them as a kind of slave labor — ok, more like a Relentless.com worker — and they want to have more control of the employment relationship. Potentially even unionizing. And other vampires think the dialysis clinics are doing a bad job in serving patients, and want to either fix them or compete with them. The patients these vampires want to serve varied: some were targeting