This is the second promised post for the day.

I've been asked to appear on tomorrows the BBC Five Live morning programme, presented by Victoria Derbyshire. Essentially it is for the same sort of thing that I went on radio Scotland for - to talk about being an 'unofficial employee blogger'.

My 'bit' will be on around 10AM.

Also appearing on the programme will be Richard Allen, a Liberal Democrat MP and Spokesman on Information Technology. He is also a visiting lecturer at the Oxford Internet Institute. I've read some of his blog, and it seems that, for a politician, he has his head screwed on correctly. I'm hoping he will be in the same studio as me, so I can have a chat to him afterwards.

I suspect that I'll be able to break out the old notes that I made - except that this time I'll do my best to remember what it is I actually do for a living.

I'll also try to mention "Free Mojtaba and Arash Day" which is tomorrow, and kind of puts the recent 'sackings due to blogging' incidents into context. There are thought to be at least 20 Iranian bloggers in prison at the moment.

I was hoping that the radio piece might be more about how mainstream media is starting to become frightened of the apparent power of the Blogosphere to hold what they publish to account. Given the recent resignation of Eason Jordan and the discovery by bloggers that 'Jeff Gannon', was a right wing stooge involved in gay Internet porn. Not that there is a problem with gay porn, just that the American right-wing are rather upset at homosexuality.

But it seems that this won't be the topic of discussion, which isn't a problem as if there is one thing I can talk about it's about bogging as an employee. It it based, if you couldn't guess on the recent Waterstones firing, (Who has since got a better job, possibly due to his blogging) and people like'Dooce' and Queen of the Sky.

Still no offers from daytime telly though...

UPDATE: The producer of the show saw this and emailied me to explain why the piece wasn't about how blogging affects mainstream media. Good reasons as well, although he did seem surprised that I blogged this within half an hour of talking on the phone to him.

This will be the first of two posts today, the later one will follow when I have more details on an upcoming project. Meanwhile this one is being written at insomnia o'clock.

I was supposed to be at work on Saturday, and I'm supposed to be on night shifts this week, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to do them - you see I am an injured little EMT for the moment.

But please, no need for sympathy, because it was all my own fault.

A couple of days ago, when I was working night-shifts, I got called to what would later turn out to be a homeless heroin user, who had pain in - guess it - his injection site. I mentioned this job in passing on last Tuesday's post. What I didn't tell you was that - while my ninja breaking and entering skills were useful in gaining access to the patient, I needed to replace the padlock. So I leaned over the gate, and it was either this, or the pair of scissors that I have in my shirt pocket but one of my ribs got broken.

So it's been painful - but I've broken ribs before (my famous 'diving on a bandage' experience, plus my 'wind up a drunk until he hits you' moment). So I'm pretty used to what happens - I get pain, I ignore pain, it gets better.

Unfortunately, on Friday I helped a crew carry a lump heavy patient down a couple of flights of stairs (not the patients fault, he wasn't fat so much, but instead just 'extra-large'). Well it appears that I put a bit too much strain on the rib - and it's now more painful than when I originally broke it. Now - this shouldn't be a problem on the RRU, as you seldom have to lift patients, but unfortunately the bags that you have to carry into the patient's homes are heavy. I don't know how much they weigh (perhaps that will be a project for a later date), but I think it will delay my healing.

Pain I can deal with (I just wince a bit, but act manly and ignore it, or dose myself up on painkillers), but doing stuff that will slow the healing process is not a wise thing to do. So I'm taking some time off sick. It's not something I enjoy doing, if only because I get bored at home, but in the long run I think it'll be the best thing for me to do.

I expect I'll get a phone call from work in the morning to ask what is wrong with me, and I'll tell them. Then I suppose they will ask if I filled out an 'adverse incident' form, which I didn't as it was my own silly fault. Then they might offer counselling - but they normally wait until you return to work for that.

It's a bad time to go sick, as we are desperate to get our ORCON times up to standard (ORCON is the percentage of emergency calls we get to within eight minutes - I may just have mentioned it previously...) So I am feeling a bit guilty, but if I have real troubles in just putting my seatbelt on, then I think I need a little time to recuperate.

The real shame is that I am going to be missing some night shifts - which are the ones I really enjoy.