Today marks my return to the land of cubicles. My neurosurgeon released me to light duty (read: don’t lift a server and rip your sutures out) which shouldn’t be too bad, since I sit in a chair most of the day.

I was pretty happy about it this morning. Sitting at home is very boring. I’m not so sure how happy I am now though.

My back is killing me, and I was prepping the checklist for whomever was assigned to work the graveyard shift tonight. I checked the group calendar and found out that the lucky sap who gets to come back at 2am to monitor the servers is…. ME?!?

Fuck… this about sucks! All I want to do is go home and lie down and I have to come back and work the friggin’ graveyard shift?

My wife pretty much summed it up:

• “you could call your neuro-surgeon and have them recant your work release. You are suppossed to be healing, not working yourself into the ground!!!!”

Blah.

** UPDATE **

I spoke to my boss about this. Apparently, I’m still on the schedule, but won’t be pulling graveyard any time soon. Someone else will be doing those shifts until I’m well enough to do them myself.

*sniff*

I wub her!