Mun watched an old favorite show, muse is not pleased.

[privatelives]

You watch one show about a mental hospital...and you think that's appropriate storyline material for me? For us? Me getting a job for some hotshot psychiatric director in Los Angeles?

We're not crazy. Just because I'm a recovering addict, and one...okay two of us are former drug dealers, and the other one of us might have commitment issues, that doesn't make us crazy. It makes us people who made poor life choices and are probably damaged, but not mentally insane.

I mean, sometimes Gabe and Jesse make me crazy, but I don't mean it like that!

I guess I can take comfort in the fact that absolutely no one is going to remember this short-lived TV show of yours, let alone drag out a Dr. Gallagher for you to have inflicted on me. But I'm still really offended that you think the best place for me is a mental hospital.

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[getsinside]

You say it like it's a bad place to work.

wow, that's *two* people who remember this show

[privatelives]

No, just that I would be way underqualified and probably screw up a lot.

[Let's not go into her issues, or her friends' issues, or her ex-boyfriend who is working at her hospital right now. Crazy? Probably.]

I thought for her metaness here she needed a little fun lol

[getsinside]

I wouldn't know if you were or not.

Then again I'm sure there are people who think I'm not qualified for my job.

lol She probably does. She probably needs therapy.

[privatelives]

I'm a third-year nurse in a diagnostic unit. I'm not qualified and there is no other hospital that'd take me.

[Because she's totally not going to come out and say 'recovering drug addict' to a doctor. Who might then take that the very wrong way and get her fired. It's almost happened.]

[getsinside]

Never say never.

[privatelives]

You shameless optimist, you.

[getsinside]

Part of my charm?

[privatelives]

That and my mun thinks you'd be able to help me work through some of my stuff. I don't have stuff. I just have a lot of history.

[getsinside]

Well it is what I do.

[privatelives]

[She laughs softly, nodding.]

And I, um, have certain weaknesses...anyway. She thinks it would be a good change of pace for me not to work with a room full of people I have history with.

[getsinside]

Sounds like a good idea to me.

[privatelives]

You do know I know nothing about mental health.

[getsinside]

You'll learn.

[privatelives]

If you think you can deal with me, then why the hell not I guess.

[getsinside]

I absolutely can.

[privatelives]

[She smiles and offers a hand.] I should formally introduce myself. Megan Presley, Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. I normally work in diagnostics.

[getsinside]

Dr. Jack Gallagher, pleasure to meet you.

[privatelives]

Likewise. I'll, um, have to sort of fumble my way through things, but where do we start?