Residency day -7 (aka Orientation day 1), and cat questions
1. Orientation started today. Turns out that I'm one of the only ones who actually read the book, so ha. Sadly, I am incapable of spouting off things like the A-a gradient equation even though I read it, so when Dr. Franz asked us for it I was not able to ameliorate the pin-drop sound in the room.
Good ThingsBad ThingsMy friends are thereI hate testing scenariosThe other people seem nice tooI felt dumb for part of todayAt least it's not Night FloatI HAVE ICU TO START AGH ICU IS Q3!!!!
2. For the record--I will be starting my intern year with a month of ICU. This is a bad thing. ICU is Q3, which means "on from 5:30am-7pm one day, on from 5:30am-10am the following day, day off, lather rinse repeat." At least, people tell me I should get there at like 5:30 or 6 for this rotation. Dr. Franz, one of the triumvirate which run the ICU, will be there for 1/4 of my weeks. Franz intimidates me like whoa. She's the dominant personality to end all others, and not, I think, in a good way. This is like throwing the baby into the deep end of the pool.
Also if I have to be on call on Sunday, I'm gonna have to figure something out because the bus starts running at like 9am on Sundays. On all other rotations I only have one Sunday a month so it's no big, but on this one maybe it is?
At least if I get one month of ICU out of the way right away then there's only six more weeks of it this year. Am I happy about that?
3. DEAR FLIST WHAT OWNS CATS:
You guys. My poor kitty is going to hate me for this month of Q3!
Good ThingsBad ThingsMy friends are thereI hate testing scenariosThe other people seem nice tooI felt dumb for part of todayAt least it's not Night FloatI HAVE ICU TO START AGH ICU IS Q3!!!!
2. For the record--I will be starting my intern year with a month of ICU. This is a bad thing. ICU is Q3, which means "on from 5:30am-7pm one day, on from 5:30am-10am the following day, day off, lather rinse repeat." At least, people tell me I should get there at like 5:30 or 6 for this rotation. Dr. Franz, one of the triumvirate which run the ICU, will be there for 1/4 of my weeks. Franz intimidates me like whoa. She's the dominant personality to end all others, and not, I think, in a good way. This is like throwing the baby into the deep end of the pool.
Also if I have to be on call on Sunday, I'm gonna have to figure something out because the bus starts running at like 9am on Sundays. On all other rotations I only have one Sunday a month so it's no big, but on this one maybe it is?
At least if I get one month of ICU out of the way right away then there's only six more weeks of it this year. Am I happy about that?
3. DEAR FLIST WHAT OWNS CATS:
You guys. My poor kitty is going to hate me for this month of Q3!
- How do I get him switched to a free feeding system? I had him all set to be fed at 6 and 6, which works for every rotation EXCEPT THIS ONE.
- lanning is mailing me a window perch, so he will have that, and he likes the other windows and has found some other things in my apt to climb on. But I thought I would have more time to get him trees/perches and stuff. They haven't paid me yet; I dunno what I can afford right now. WHAT ELSE CAN I DO TO TRY AND MAKE SURE HE DOESN'T DIE OF BOREDOM WHILE I'M ON FRICKIN Q3 CALL? He's been happy so far--I don't want him to develop a behavioral problem because I was gone for 10 of 30 days.
- Help?