On the official first day of the last vacation of my second year of residency, I ( Read more... )

It was sunny today so I took some pictures.


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Last day (and last 10 minutes, EST) of NaBloWhatNow!

Presentation went very well this morning. It helps when you're talking about autism and the new screening recommendations and the guy that wrote the damn recommendations is on our faculty and was at conference this morning. Wicked ( Read more... )

I've decided to skip my endocrine selective tomorrow afternoon and take a mental health half-day. I have vacation in seven (7!) work days but I feel like I need a day to Get Shit Done. I'm going to take pictures of the front of the house (with all its snow-covered landscape glory) and of the dining room, which may or may not have a mini-blind ( Read more... )

I realized today I only have two more weeks until my next vacation. That doesn't suck. Therefore, I made a bunch of doctor's appointments and one for a haircut for that week. I also hope we will be in line to hang some sheetrock in the downstairs room ( Read more... )

Today was the perfect day to make chili. I used this recipe and it came out damn tasty. I made it a lot spicier than the recipe calls for, though ( Read more... )

Not sure if it was the weather today, but I felt physically and mentally drained all day. I considered skipping my endocrine selective this afternoon and going home to take a nap but my guilty conscience got the better of me ( Read more... )

Biiiig mistake taking triage calls this morning. I was busy as all get out from 8 until 12:30 today. They were the typical run-o'-the-mill calls: barfing all night, snotty noses, needing this med called in, etc. I encountered some painfully, um, simple parents (including the one mom that couldn't describe to me what her 1-month-old's poop looked ( Read more... )

I jinxed myself big time at work today. It was about 3:30 this afternoon and I was sitting at the chief desk mulling over what I'm doing the rest of the week and I said, "I might actually bounce out of here early tonight ( Read more... )

I hate my old car. It went in for an oil change, inspection and new tires today. As Chris and I were driving to Wegmans to get some food tonight, we noticed a rubbing noise. The front passenger side tire is rubbing against something in the front end when the wheels are turned leftward. Great. Now it gets to go back to the shop. The upside is ( Read more... )