The awards went as expected last night: someone else got it.  More importantly, that particular doc parks on the other side of the hospital, in the another parking garage.  YES.  My precious slab of concrete is once more free from the clutches of its current master ( Read more... )

i'm going to my hospital's holiday party tonight.  the food is fair, but there's an open bar and really, that's all that matters.  even more important than that, they'll announce the physician of the year tonight too.  the winner receives their choice of parking spots for a year.  i could care less about winning but i want my parking spot back ( Read more... )

Well, it was a disaster as I thought. No one listened to me until it was too late. Oh well ( Read more... )

the last several weeks have been a whirlwind of change. both personal and professional final common pathways have come or will come online soon. i am entering the end-game of many scenarios begun many many moons ago. it is both exciting and stressful at once ( Read more... )

I am now on VACAY OF SORTS and not a moment too soon!  This week was shaping up to be one best spent away from patients.  Thanks to serendipity, I happen to ask off for the rest of it ( Read more... )

Hurricane Ike is supposed to arrive in D/FW sometime today. I say it's about time. There's been a heaviness in the air and it's been as humid as an armpit here. Animals have been acting strange and people have been too. There have been lines at the gas stations near my house and I have to wonder why? In the event of evacuation, probably the ( Read more... )

I've been up since 4AM, I was thinking of things I had to do today: initiate the endgame, call checkmate, bring the thunder...but I was denied. I'll have to save it until tomorrow. I hope I can sleep some tonight.

I used to like Fall. I liked cooler temperature, the change in attitude, the start of the school year and and the coming of Halloween. Mind you, I'm a Summer baby, so I liked that too, but there was something about Fall and its savory palette that appealed too ( Read more... )

For the third anniversary of Katrina, Mother Nature gives us...Gustave.  I'm back on call tomorrow and and cringing at the thought of what might unfold.  It took a disaster of epic proportions to get my to don my spurs and reenter the rodeo; I wonder what this one will do ( Read more... )

K is so cute; she's got in her head that she wants to learn French--even though she despises them politically and sometimes socially. She went out and bought a "Rosetta Stone" and some other language lesson books/Cd's and everything. Every day she asks me what the word or phrase for "X" is but my French is a bit rusty and mostly she's asking for ( Read more... )