Sitting reserve

Sitting airport alert is really the only thing I don't like about this job. Four to six hours of sitting in a windowless dirty room with ten or so moody flight attendants waiting to be called for a flight... it's truly mind-numbing "work". Most time I don't end up getting called for a flight or if I do it's not anywhere fun. So when scheduling calls me for alert- instead of packing for a flight I stuff my bag with books, magazines, snacks, my ipod, computer and some headphones. I plan for this assignment the same I would plan for having to sit on an airplane for five hours. My last trip was Maui- 26 hours of laying on the beach and letting all stress drift off into the Pacific. I guess I deserve todays six hour airport alert. I don't want to get too jaded. It balances things out. But still here I sit four hours in dreaming about my Maui layover...