What is going on today???  Everything fell apart.  All at once ( Read more... )

I just had the roughest haircut evar.  The stylist just manhandled me, slapping me around and tugging my hair in the most hamfisted of ways.  And then she dinked into my skull with her combs and clippers.  I was most thankful that my brain was encased in bone as it would've likely had a trimming too.  I think she was sick or had allergies as she ( Read more... )

i find it hard to get excited anymore.  perhaps it's from finally becoming jaded or from burnout or from years of trying for zen detachment finally taking effect.  but when i do become aroused, i want to jump in full bore and see it to the very end and experience all the beautiful, scary, sad and ugly twists in between ( Read more... )

after the recent brush with death, the call gods had mercy.  i was actually able to take a nap--an increasingly rare occurrence on call and between 3am and 6am, i was able to chill a bit.  i awoke quite sore but thankful: thankful to be alive and thankful for a respite from the storm that is the er ( Read more... )

i just wiped out on my bike.

the weather was nice and superrice and i decided to take a ride into the country.  it is harder to do these days what with greedy developers casting suburban sprawl at odds with greedier resource companies planting gas wells across the landscape.  when i first moved to this area, it was nothing but cow pastures and rolling ( Read more... )

I spent the entire day doing nothing but sitting in bed, watching TV, reading digg articles, and only getting up to stuff my face with pizza and cobbler.  I felt delighted and bored senseless at the same time.  I didn't even go out last night and instead fell asleep haphazardly with mail and other detritus strewn around me ( Read more... )

everybody strap in, it's going to be a bumpy night.

I know now why physician morbidity and suicide rates are so high.

I wish you could go on rounds with me ( Read more... )