Start of the week, not sure if it's good....or bad?

Well, apparenty we're starting off the first full week of 2009 with a bang tonight, as an hour into my shift, I took a call from a gentleman in Moosup. It went a little something like this:

Erik: "911, what's your emergency?"

Gentleman: "Yes, I live on Snake Meadow Hill Rd. in Moosup. I just heard a vehicle go past my house at a very fast rate of speed, proceeded by a huge bang. I'd like to talk to the Plainfield Police." Obviously he couldn't see or confirm an accident, so calls like that get transferred to the appropriate police department to investigate.

So I transferred the call to PPD for them to check it out, and waited for the callback from the police requesting services. In the meantime, my partner, who is familliar with the town of Plainfield said calmly, "Someone went down the hill, blew the stop sign and went into the huge stone wall that the guy across the street put up to protect his house."

Two minutes later, sure enough, "We need an ambulance to...", so we dispatch Moosup Fire and Moosup/Plainfield ambulance and sure enough, "Car 294 to QV, we have one car into a stone wall, one patient for transport, minor injuries."

Luckily, it wasn't a serious call, and it's been a decent start to the shift. I also found out when I came in, about my overtime shifts. Our supervisor would email out the schedule in microsoft excel format with open shifts highlighted. The old way they they distributed the overtime was by emails and alpha-numeric pages sent to the part-timers throughout the month, and any leftovers were given to full-timers by seniority rotation. Our supervisor finally realized it was taking a lot of effort to fill shifts, so he finally switched it to "everyone email in their availability for the open shifts with any preferences before the 1st of the month."

So I email all of the shifts I'm available for back to him, minus the weekends I have Hayleigh, and just wait to see what I get. I figured I wouldn't get that many this month, because of the overtime and holidays I've worked the past two months. Well, I was mistaken. Four overtime shifts including eve's tomorrow for a double, and a "holiday worked" shift on Martin Luther King Day! I'm honestly worried about tax time, as I'm not sure if I'll get a big tax refund check, or who knows, I may need to pay into the government seeing that I've probably worked enough overtime this past year to put me into another tax bracket... LMAO