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[Video opens to Jim sitting at his desk, he looks well groomed and comfortable, and opens by shooting a cheerful smile out at you] Does anyone have any recommendations for self medicating insomnia? [He holds up two small capsules so you can see them.] I've been taking Melatonin, since I'm guessing the infirmary was concerned about proscribing me benzodiazapines (which is a pretty valid concern, by the way, I wouldn't really want to be on them either). It was a very professional first course of action.
[He rolls the two pills in his hands, then places them down on the desk.] The problem is that it's a course of action running up against about twenty-eight years of conditioning, and I... am not entirely certain how much longer I can keep hiding the decline in my hand eye coordination on kitchen shifts. [He lifts his left hand, and there are little cuts of various depths lining one side of it, little wounds from a knife gone awry while slicing vegetables. He smiles and gives a helpless little shrug, such are the joys of gradual sleep deprivation.]
I'm starting to worry about this effecting my health, so right now I'd try more or less anything. [He reaches forward to switch off the camera, then pauses, smiles again.] Oh, and don't bother to reply with video. I still broadcast in it because it puts people at ease to being able to read body language, but I covered my screen up the day I get here, and I almost never look at it.
[He rolls the two pills in his hands, then places them down on the desk.] The problem is that it's a course of action running up against about twenty-eight years of conditioning, and I... am not entirely certain how much longer I can keep hiding the decline in my hand eye coordination on kitchen shifts. [He lifts his left hand, and there are little cuts of various depths lining one side of it, little wounds from a knife gone awry while slicing vegetables. He smiles and gives a helpless little shrug, such are the joys of gradual sleep deprivation.]
I'm starting to worry about this effecting my health, so right now I'd try more or less anything. [He reaches forward to switch off the camera, then pauses, smiles again.] Oh, and don't bother to reply with video. I still broadcast in it because it puts people at ease to being able to read body language, but I covered my screen up the day I get here, and I almost never look at it.