Oxford blues

[cebby]

I went to the lie-berry in town this evening and borrowed a couple of books. I've just started one but had to take a break because it's nearly making me cry. It's really not supposed to do that. It's about a junior doctor in Oxford that diagnoses one of his patients (on level seven!) with bubonic plague. It's making me sad because of its

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[ifeelbetter]

DUDE. Those shoes kick some serious ass. I mean it. Who thinks of these things? There's somebody in the world RIGHT NOW who came up with the idea to have half a giraffe on one shoe and half on the other. Genius, pure and undiluted.

Also -- you are, and always have been, my hero. I think TV shows should be made of your job. Now all you need to do is have a love-hate relationship with a secretly wealthy patient who is magically cured through your hard work and marries you and turns you into a princess.

Perhaps I should have specified -- I, apparently, want your life to be a soap opera.

My crazy medical question of the moment: Can thumbs grow more crooked as time goes by? Why would they do that?

[cebby]

It is a bit like a soap opera sometimes. You've got the laugh-a-minute ward rounds with the overtly flirtatious registrar and then the drama of attempting to get radiology requests approved by fierce x-ray bods.

I also applaud the giraffe person. I'm going to wear them to work tomorrow :).

As for the crazy medical question du jour... umm... not really... they can change shape with conditions such as arthritis... give me the context (i.e. is this you, a gothic novel hero, or a welsh sci-fi character... ;) ) and I'll try respond with something more useful.

I diagnosed the ward clerk at work last week. I'm hoping that she went to her GP today so I can find out if I was right or not.

[ifeelbetter]

I like how cool-as-a-cucumber you are about the question du jour. You obviously are a hard dame to shock.

And I meant spontaneous sideways development in the thumb. It just looks crooked all of a sudden. :-)

Did you wear the shoes? Were they a smashing success?

Also -- Adrian Lester Hustle is back and I loved/adored/in ecstasy over it. Totally TOTALLY love that show. Oh, the glamor. Oh, the swindling. I love it.

[cebby]

I did wear them and yes they were :). Today I wore my $5 old navy butterfly shoes. I think they're the comfiest things I own after my old keds. My reg made sure to comment on them because he failed to notice the giraffes yesterday and he got told off.

[cebby]

It's "Bleak Midwinter" by Peter Millar. And it is a bit. He also doesn't know the shortest bike route between Magdalen college and the John Radcliffe... just saying...