Voyager » Susan

May

They are going to send me to Trinity “Please train the new guy…” and then we will send you to Trinity. Dr. A. didn’t say ‘Trinity’ when she spoke to me, but they send me wherever they need more dialysis. And I bet it is up in Trinity or somewhere in ‘True Northern’ California. I don’t want to go to Trinity. This gig is good: Menlo Park is pretty easy to get to, and I can live in Oakland and commute over the bridge. I like Oakland. My family likes Oakland. Actually, I love Oakland. Maybe they will send me to Oakland?

No, they will send me back to Bishop. Or to Oroville so I can play with the dam. Or to Palm Desert so I can play with the tortoises. Or to Trinity so I can play with the trees. That will be the pitch “Trinity is so beautiful with all the trees”. A thousand trees are beautiful… nothing but trees is Hansel-and-Gretel not beautiful. “But the committee would really appreciate it”. I am nothing but an enslaved employee… I am not even an employee given I can’t change employers. So just a slave? I definitely did not think of this when they explained the transition to me.

Mark should show up any minute now It is almost 2:00, so he needs to learn to get here earlier. The clinic needs him to learn to be regular. Voyager needs him to learn to be prompt. But for now we have plenty of time: four hours a day, three days a week, until he can do it alone. And let me go to Trinity. Maybe I should make this training take a really long time?