I saw the most cutest thing ever on my drive home last night. There was a Mama Deer at the side of the road, with twin baby spotted fawns both nursing! Their little heads were bobbing with happiness and hunger, making their enormous ears flop around ridiculously. I loved seeing it, though it made me sad because if these babies are so nonchalant ( Read more... )

What is it with me and the insomnia lately? I woke up at two, and am now wide awake. I have written several emails, some of which were on the topics that were keeping me awake so that maybe I'll get it off my mind and be able to rest, but here I am, still awake. What do you people do to go back to sleep? It's late enough already that benedryl ( Read more... )

So, it's a beautiful day for a run. Sunny, warm but not too hot, nice and dry, and I've got a nice early start. Training plan says 18 miles today, and I'm ready! Or so I think. Testing a suggested alternative to the water/energy gel combination that I usually go with, which is to say sips of Gatorade every quarter mile. I should have known I ( Read more... )

So we had a really fun weekend, got a lot of good hangout time with family and friends. Pirates was great fun, not such a good movie as the first one, but a satisfying sequel. vulgarbarbarian, wife Ingrid, Astrida, katieledge, and my own cousin Kate and her honey all got together for some parts of Satuday beaching and pubbing, and then Sunday we had the addition of renospalace and chaosvizier ( Read more... )

We had the most freakin' cool thunderstorm plus hail that I have ever seen last night! I was out for a walk, and I knew the rain was coming, but I was really enjoying the lightening and thunder in the distance. Got caught in the torrential downpour about 2 blocks from home, so I stayed out on the porch to watch it come down. The rain was really ( Read more... )

Oh, how I hate insomnia. I got woken up at 2:45 by someone in early, early, early not even sure she was in labor, and never got back to sleep. I laid in bed for a long time, wishing for sleep but obsessing over all this work crap, planning my next race, thinking of world travelling, COULD NOT get back to sleep. Finally at 5, I got up and had ( Read more... )

Oh, what will I be when I grow up?? I don't really ever want to grow up, so maybe that's a bad way to look at it. I am seriously entertaining other job descriptions. I doubt I'll leave the realm of women's health, though running coffee shop sounds like a good new challenge too. Or maybe a bar. I'm thinking some about health policy, foreign ( Read more... )

So I thought we were moving toward a resolution with all this crap with my job, we have a super-secret meeting this afternoon with the guy in charge at the hospital to try and hammer things out. Then I found out that the midwife who founded our practice is moving up her semi-retirment from March '08 to March '07, she won't be doing deliveries ( Read more... )

Oh, the third of July. Why must you be on a Monday? I was off the weekend. I am off tomorrow. But today, office hours. Can you imagine how many people actually want to come for their women's health care visits on the 4th of July long weekend? I thought not, because the number approaches zero. I hauled my ass from my folks' peaceful farm ( Read more... )

I have got myself the bestest macBook ever. His name is Blip.