This morning I took a bus to an appointment at the teaching hospital near Perth. I had to be there at 9:45 so the Scientist dropped me off at the bus station where I caught a direct bus. Although the temperature wasn’t really all that low, it sure felt cold this morning. The bus trip was mostly uneventful and I arrived about twenty five minutes early. I went ahead and signed in at the clinic since there was little else to do. I’d barely sat down when I was called back to sit in the corridor outside the office. It was pretty quiet when I arrived but that was soon to change.

Some patients had been there long before I arrived and were still waiting. One man nearly walked out and another woman wasn’t able to be seen because something was missing from her file and they had to wait for the medical records department to send it through. She was very upset by the time she went in, just before me. Both had been there for appointments scheduled for 8:30 am. Having experienced a lengthy delay in the past (due to an admin. error), I came prepared for a long wait. I used my pda to continue reading Great Expectations. My only concern was that the battery would conk out early and I didn’t have a spare. Fortunately I was called in before this occurred.