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Friday, September 5, 2003
08:06 p.m.
lovely layout, dear!
and speaking of, at least you're getting laid. some of us have given up all hope, you know.
i will archive when you tell me to. i will follow all your directives. call me tomorrow or something. but - i am very attached to my current layout ^__^
i think i'm developing a crush on the dreaded lady surgeon, based at least in part on pathetic gratitude that she doesn't see me as some kind of secretarial non-entity like the others do.
fetch charts.
look up bloodwork.
go to radiology and check imaging results.
call x and ask them if the y i ordered was done on z day.
i mean, i like all that exercise i get from running up&down 8 stories multiple times during the day, but i am in the surgery rotation and i've seen the inside of the OR for exactly one morning this week.
so when i (over)heard the dreaded one tell the chief that i was on "top of things" because in my frustration i ordered radiology to do the u/s they missed right now, i swear i fell in love. the chief, for his part, had a baffled "who?" look on his face. hate the chief.
in any case, am adjusting to the concept that most of this rotaion will be scutwork. in light of this, our team of intrepid clerks has decided to set up "teaching sessions" in the late afternoon on a couple days a week. "teaching sessions" after which we'd go home, of course, not return for more scut.
yup, "teaching sessions".
and those are quotations around them, yes.
Tuesday, September 2, 2003
08:08 p.m.
oh yeah.
the bitching. it begins.
1st day of gen sx. got there before 6am so i wouldn't be late, only to have residents show up after 6:30am. tried to restrain the urge to kill them for making me miss a precious 1/2 hr of sleep.
was promptly informed that for today i'm to assist in the OR of the attending whom i spend the better part of 2 weeks dreading and plotting to avoid. apparently she makes snap judgments about any clerk upon meeting them, and nothing can change her mind afterwards. as i spend the weekend cavorting with esca and shelly instead of reading up on sx, my fear was understandable.
and very misplaced. the dreaded attending, while abrupt and very blunt, turned out to be nice and understanding of the med student condition. as the rest of the team was still doing a whipple when our OR was done, she gave me some small jobs to finish up and told me to go home at 5pm if they're still in their OR.
sadly, they were finished before i could follow her suggestions. around 4pm, they gave me an ER consult, which i found a fair and good thing to do - except then they all went off to do another little OR procedure, and after that decided to round on all the handed-over pts of the attending on call, and weren't all that interested in hearing about the consult i'd done or in seeing the pt themselves.
that attending, of course, is the one i prejudged to be nice and understanding.
and like the prejudgement with the dreaded lady surgeon, i was wrong. while maintaining his nice smiley demeanor, he proceeded to drag us all around the hospital for the next 3 hrs, going so far as look up all CT scans instead of reading the reports, because he is a sadistic bastard it's a valuable teaching tool.
if it weren't for the badly decompensating ICU pt who had to be rushed to the OR right now, i'd still be there.
in fact, i think he was about to suggest that i join in for this fascinating 4-hr case, but by then i was beyond caring that he was my evaluator and bluntly informed him that i'm on call tomorrow, and was sure the clerk on call tonight would love to help him out (which is not a cruel lie, btw. he's a sx keener).
thus ended my 1st 14-hr day on the gen sx practice.
Monday, September 1, 2003
02:56 a.m.
^__^
esca visited today (yesterday, really) with bfie & bfie's friend. what a great way to de-stress after nearly sleepless on-call: eat sushi, drink bubbletea, discuss anal fistulas...
vent in great detail about various supervisors...
ah, venting is lovely. email venting just doesn't compare. why must you live so far away, dear?
gah. too tired. going to sleep.
Sunday, August 31, 2003
09:51 a.m.
post-call.
3 hrs of sleep.
would've been more like 5 hrs, but the resident wakes me up just after 6am to pre-round on the pts, so he can look good when the fellow comes in to round at 8am. pre-round. pre-fucking-round. hell, he's not my fellow. i don't have to impress him. why did he have to wake me up?
i've been stealing sugar packets from the sx lounge.
sugar packets.
i've done it twice in the past week. just went in when it was empty, and took a handful of sugar packets.
i've no idea why i'm doing this. it's utterly pointless, there's not even a real element of danger to it. possibly this is the way my subconscious is expressing its hostility to my sx rotation and its pre-sunrise rounding.
and that is why the subconscious sucks. if i'd chosen to express my conscious hostility, i'm sure i could've found better things to steal. office supplies. printing paper. milk. ng tubes. i don't know.
instead, here i am, opening individual sugar packets and dumping them into my sugar container.
medicine will drive you insane! run! run now while you still can!
Wednesday, August 27, 2003
06:17 p.m.
went to late registration today.
i blame the lack of a summer off. really, without a summer off, how can i remember registration and similar things that accompany the re-start of the schoolyear? last year we also didn't have it off, but the summer was one big elective block in between the academic units, so at least it felt somewhat vacation-like (to me, in any case. to poor esca it must've been more like a trial of friendship by olfactory torture).
but this year, it's just clerkship over and over. of course i forgot. no big deal, early in-person registration isn't terribly busy and i got it done fairly quickly, considering.
some admin people made me feel warm with delicious death-bringing rage (look, if we all need to go to financial first anyways, why make an extra long line just so everyone can be told this in fucking person? have you heard of this thing called "paper", on which one may "write" a "notice"?), and i was amused that one admin woman obliquely threatened me with criminal charges after seeing the bus pass i bought from an undergrad, but otherwise all went well.
got a "professional skills manual" in my mailbox. it lists the skills i'm expected to acquire over the course of med school. i skimmed it, thinking "oh? they were supposed to teach us this in unit 3? guess they didn't know that, either". there's a place for our preceptors to initial beside each skill. hilarious.
finishing ortho now. while i'm not in love with it as i was with urology, i don't really want it to end. i like fracture clinic, although i could do without the OR component (clerks get to hold limbs and suction. joy).
what i really don't want is gen sx to start. i don't want to wake up at 5am, every day, damn it. whinewhinewhine.
Tuesday, August 19, 2003
03:06 p.m.
i am the scrotum queen!
heh heh...yeah. i totally am. vasectomies rule ^__^
ahem. so, skipped ortho today (not like anyone knows where i am anyways) to go with urology doc and see him do vasectomies. and of course the whole "the more you do, the more they'll let you do" thing i've been told over&over again is true. i probably just ignored this advice before, as is my custom with all wisdom passed on to me -__-;;
for the first case i just watched him work and asked some questions. for the second, i tried to anticipate what he'd need, and hand it to him. and he let me put in the last stitch.
so for the 3rd one, i prepped and draped the pt while the doc was out of the room, and prepared all his instruments. next thing i know, i get to cut, fish out the cord, staple...and then once it's over he just leaves me in the room to close up by myself while he goes off to dictate or something. that's the way it went for the rest of them.
i felt so...doctor-like *^___^*
damn, i love urology. why do i have to do crappy gen sx at all ;__ ;
*********later*********
well, my very first on-call call of the entire rotation. and it's ortho. ortho! i did 2 on-calls for gen sx, and nada. i do ortho, and i get paged. that's just...wrong on so many levels.
incidentally, nice simple case, nice resident, decent hour - all good. i'm just finding it hard to believe that i've had 2 page-free gen sx calls, i guess.
Sunday, August 17, 2003
08:41 p.m.
heh heh. wasting time on-line. i've decided not to feel guilty about not being studious this weekend; i'll get enough dumped on my plate once ortho starts at 7am tomorrow.
here is something i've read while lurking around a lj community (childfree, it's a comm for people who don't have/wanna have kids, so right up my alley):
"I see nothing natural or wonderful about pregnancy..."
hah! not natural!
some people do take this not-wanting-kids thing a bit far. i mean, the human body was pretty much designed for reproduction. that's what we're here for. some of us, in our human intellect, can make the choice not to have kids. i'm one "of us". but to go so far as claim pregnancy is unnatural? look at all the hoops hetero females who don't want kids jump through.
intellect. huh.
esca's vacation is over.
~~~~~~~~~ , dear.
~~~~~~~~~ , i say!
Friday, August 15, 2003
12:33 p.m.
as of this writing, i don't know if my power is on or still off. most people i talked to got theirs back sometime at night, but i didn't.
was in hospital (naturally; where else?) when it went down yesterday, and about a minute later a code blue was called in angio. turns out it was a coincidence, but still freaky.
we had 4 exam rooms going in clinic, and only one had a window. the rest were in the core and were of course pitch black, so we had to see patients one at a time in the window room, which slowed us down significantly. finally the doc told us to do interviews in the hallway ^__^
in any case, nothing worked when i got home, and i had to think of something for dinner. since everything i have has to be either cooked (ha! who am i kidding) or microwaved, i was out of luck. thankfully i still had some oscypki, and my bread was well on its way to defrosting anyways, so i had that.
i *am* getting worried about the state of my freezer, though. that power had better come on soon.
but overall it was actually nice. "power failure across the eastern seaboard" is one hell of an excuse not to prepare a presentation on an obscure renal condition.
i did have plenty of light due to my candle infestation, and when i got sick of reading i blew them out and sky-watched for a while. it was a clear, cloudless night, and with minimal light pollution the view was quite beautiful.
i also saw people in the building next to mine walking from room to room with flashlights. kinda funny.
less funny when they came out on their balconies and started flashing them our way, since, in the safety of near-utter darkness, i was on that balcony nekkid ^__~
********later********
ok, things are looking well. got released from hospital early and assured of a good eval, and my power was on when i came home. in the spirit of conservation and good citizenship, i immediately turned the a/c on full blast.
(well, the chibis can't sweat, that gives me the right. so there).
Monday, August 11, 2003
03:47 p.m.
damn it!
am sick, for some nefarious reason. woke up in the middle of the night and vomited. went over possible reasons why, and the only thing i can think of is that sub i ate when on-call. grrrrr.
but am doubly pissed because tomorrow my doc has the whole day off. i was thinking of taking it off too, what the hell, but now i really can't. wed is academic half-day anyways, i can't afford to skip this much clinical stuff in one week.
couldn't i at least have gotten sick tomorrow? bother...
well, i'm feeling mostly ok now, except after looking through my meds i discovered some dramamine which the army gave me oh so long ago (i can't even recall why), and although it got rid of the nausea it also completely knocked me out. i'm having difficulty keeping my eyes open. stupid waste of a %#^&@ day.
Sunday, August 10, 2003
08:12 p.m.
err, yes. i too have been neglecting mine, dear. well, no time like the present.
surgery has turned out surprisingly non-hellish. this i attribute to the fact that i'm currently on surgery elective (urology), and not on the gen sx service, where i'd have my own patients and and necessity of rounding on them at 6am. this will come, in time...that time being 3 weeks from now.
til then, all i see of gen sx is the on-calls, which we're expected to do even off-service. i had one last night, and in what must surely be one for the record books, was not called once. the *other* clerk was (we're doubling up for the first 2 weeks), but still, that's just one call in a night. i could live with that ^__^
urology is, contrary to my expectations, quite fun. apart from the natural joy the medical student derives from sticking things up people's nether orifices, the doc i'm working with is nice too. and, most importantly, i feel that i'm doing actual work and helping him in whatever limited way i can. at least in clinics, since getting to hold retractors in the OR would necessitate killing one of his many residents.
but in the end, that's all i need to feel good about a rotation. the knowledge that i'm not an albatross hanging on the neck of whatever unfortunate attending's been saddled with me, to be reasonably sure i'm not making his day longer.
and vaguely (in fact, not at all really) following up on that - i've noticed, quite a while ago, that i have a much better rapport with male than with female docs. not that the latter are hostile to me, or (evaluations forbid!) i to them, it's just that i'm able to strike the right balance of subservience and collegiality with men. i may be just a lowly student trailing them in awe, but the relationship is somehow relaxed and jokey without crossing any line.
with females, on the other hand, i find it hard to get that balance. either there is too much familiarity, or (more often) it's just too formal for my liking.
it's probably my doing, not theirs. i'm just not sure why i can't have the same atmosphere with both genders.
Friday, August 1, 2003
12:41 p.m.
ER elective over. now have nice long weekend to live, before descending into the hell of surgery.
this week i did mostly night shifts, which was fine. the docs were very nice, and the cases were interesting. actually, the kind of cases and the times they came in were interesting. up until 0100, kids kept coming in with sports injuries. not teens, kids. what are they doing playing sports at that hour?
then it usually calmed down, and around 0300 another load of varied cases would arrive. it's funny how they arrive in little gluts, instead of trickling in one at a time.
after that it was quiet to around 0600, except for the odd emergency brought in by ambulance.
and i'll never understand people who have had a rash for the past 5 days, did nothing about it, then just randomly wake up and go to the ER at 0300 to have it checked out. what is wrong with humanity these days?
on wed night we had a guy with an MI, who then developed arrythmias, most notably vfib. he was defibrillated, went into sinus, his nurse asked how he was doing, he...went into vfib.
shocked again. sinus.
nurse asks how he's doing.
vfib
shocked. cardioverted.
"how are you?"
vfib
this happened 5 times before the doc forbade her to go within 6 feet of the pt. and lo&behold, he stayed in sinus ^__^;;
my friend kuba, the one who took me to prague, just got engaged! and his fiancee's name is the same as that of his brother's wife.
we were joking that they could exchange wives when it got boring, and they'd still be with the girls they legally married...name-wise, anyways ^__~
Monday, July 28, 2003
10:35 a.m.
ah! meta, you evil wench! why didn't you take me with you ;__;
well, doing ER elective now, and with lots of headaches. actual supervisor works only 3 half-days out of the entire 2 weeks i'm there, so i've had to call and pester other docs to let me tag along with them. and most were nice, but some were not, so my schedule is fantastically screwed up.
but i'm sure i'll have only fond memories of this time once i hit the hell that is the surgery rotation, with its before-6am rounds, its 1-in-3 calls, its refusal to let clerks scrub in for interesting cases (so the rumors go), and its general incompatibility with life.
and at some point i thought i'd write an account of my time in poland, but that urge seems to have passed ^__~
all i'll say is that the wedding was great, went on all night (we retired shortly after 4am, fleeing more food), the food was over-plentiful, and that polish people really know how to party. nyah.
oh yes, and that the trip to prague rocked my world.
and that i've realized that for all its pretensions to the contrary, canada has nothing that can be called "culture" after you've seen europe (or a small bit thereof, but still). i didn't always think so, i used to think europe was just filled with boring old churches my mother wanted to drag me to see, but there you have it. canada has no culture, no identity. none. it's stunningly obvious when you have something to compare.
and now i'll run. if i get into the ER a few hrs before my supervisor (it's one of her half-days), with any luck she'll think i've been there all morning and let me go at 8pm instead of at 10pm.
my life is pathetic, ne?
Monday, July 21, 2003
09:22 p.m.
i'm back~!!
...waitaminute...
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO~!!! i'm back ;__;
ok, i'm also jet-lagged to hell and i keep tuning myself out, nevermind the poor pts i had to see in ER today, so i'm just here to say i'm back (unfortunately), and that it's vastly unfair that esca has vacation now and i don't. i want her vacation!
oh, and those pigeons hatched. they are horrid, scraggly shitmachines and i can't wait for them to become pancakes under my balcony.
Friday, July 4, 2003
02:25 p.m.
off i go!
all odds&ends completed (where would i be without my lists). have left endless little notes for shelly detailing chibi care. she will hate me and my chibis when i get back, i just know it ^__^;;
this time, when i watered my balcony plant, the broody pigeon didn't fly off like before. it looked freaked out, but stayed put. according to my schedule those eggs are about ready to hatch. have left little note for shelly to look for it ^__^;;
last (half)day of radiology was great. ah, that radiologist is so damned nice. he took so much time and care writing my elective eval; too bad those comments don't make it onto the final transcripts. he took it more seriously than some of my core rotation supervisors, the lazy bastards.
ok, this is it for 2 weeks. i'm off on a well-deserved vacation, packing way too many pairs of shoes. clearly i have become - woman *oh god no*
Wednesday, July 2, 2003
11:16 a.m.
eh.
was gonna skip the afternoon academic day and do some shopping instead - the chibis need food and litter supplies, and shelly has requested a pooper scooper too. i've never bothered with one myself, but that may just be my customary inertia.
but it turns out this week's topic includes basic anatomy teaching on brain CT, and i just can't in good conscience skip that. we get little enough anatomy as it is at my school.
only 2 more days to go. am incrementally preparing myself, trying not to make the usual mistake of taking too much damned crap with me. since i only end up wearing the same thing over and over again anyways.
**********later**********
minor update, just because it's amusing. overheard at the CT lecture:
random radiology resident: "so then this surgery resident pokes his head in and says, 'all i know is, white bad, black medicine'".
senior rad resident: "yeah, that's all they really need to know".
me: *think* *thinkthink* aaahhh, that's right, black is stroke. i just learned that...10 min ago.
Tuesday, July 1, 2003
10:18 p.m.
*drool* guns...so shiny...
and i'd bet this one doesn't take hours to clean, either.
Sig Sauer P226. Greatest gun ever! Feel special.
Beautiful and reliable but can still scare the
living bejesus outta anyone.
What handgun are you?
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Monday, June 30, 2003
05:03 p.m.
funny conversation in hospital today, between the ER chief and my radiologist (who seems to be filling in for radiology chief), about CTs done after hours.
basically boiled down to:
radiologist - your nurses are mean to our techs.
ER chief - well, your techs make them wait so long with patients and miss their breaks.
rad - well, you keep sending us cases which waste our time, so our techs don't even get breaks.
ER - why do the nurses need to babysit the pts anyways? they can just walk over to you and come back here.
rad - no way, if they can walk they're not unstable. we won't do them at all.
ER - why can't the nurses bring them and the techs look after them?
rad - the techs have no time to be babysitting. and, they're not trained in resus.
ER - ok, how about we make the porters do it?
rad - hey, sounds good. are they trained in resus?
ER - hell no.
rad - whatever. porters, then.
it was just so cute, two docs trying to shove responsibility on one another's staff. although i found it heartwarming that they defended their own people.
but i have to admit, i wouldn't want to be an unstable pt after-hrs right now.
Sunday, June 29, 2003
11:57 a.m.
damn.
i worked out the brooding period, only to realize that the chicks will hatch while i'm on vacation. how is this fair? not only must i put up with pigeon shit on my balcony, now i get to miss the miracle of life too?
well, at least i'll be back by the time they start learning to nosedive into concrete fly.
Friday, June 27, 2003
04:51 p.m.
gourd! gourd!
i wanna be there.
oh. my. jeebus on a stick.
this refers to my entry from 20 june, where i, in my usual state of paranoia, wrote about not telling the admin people off (to their faces) for fucking up my ER elective, because it'd cause one of them to become my clinical supervisor in the near future and make my life hell.
and wouldn't you know it, that's what happened. i didn't realize it was the same guy, because i wrote to different addies when asking him for help re: fucked-up elective and help re: supervision on newly set-up elective with part-time supervisor, but it's the same guy.
am i glad i managed to restrain my vengeancy feelings back then. he would now be happy to work with me ^__^
gah, and i can't believe my paranoia paid off so spectacularly. in light of this clear sign, it's time to re-evaluate the knife-under-pillow concept.
or else i'm prescient. can i test this by never studying again?
Friday, June 27, 2003
04:29 p.m.
i'm now half-way through my radiology elective, with a very nice, funny radiologist who displays all the signs of being a general internist as well. damn, radiologists have to memorize harrison's? i thought all they had to know was what looked wrong on the scans.
actually, today there was no real radiology because of some weird bike race going on, which shut off almost all accesses to the hospital. i have to admit, i was looking forward to seeing all those racers dropping dead from the heat (i can only assume that's why the route is next to the hospital), but the weather broke in the night and it was actually pleasant all day.
admin has fucked up my post-vacation ER elective, set up almost 6 wks ago, causing me to seek help from my advisor for the very first time. he of course came through (with much genteel, british-like cursing of admin) and set one up with a friend of his. nothing in life being easy, she works part-time, so i have to contact some of her co-workers to see if they'll supervise me when she's away.
but i'm still not happy. i want to call admin and gloat about successfully going over their heads, except i don't want to get my new elective supervisor in trouble, as she's faculty and probably somehow within admin's reach. damn.
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
10:31 p.m.
we'll see about that...
esca love, you stay away from icy surfaces. believe me, i care only for your safety.
and damn, meta, you stay away from...err, anything that tastes good, ok?
Friday, June 20, 2003
10:31 p.m.
ah, last day of family. offerings of fruits given, carms letter secured, laundry tragically not done.
pigeon family actively building nest on balcony.
parents coming over tomorrow to help install a/c. weather progressively getting colder.
ER elective in limbo due to &$#@! admin. wishing i had the guts to tell the people responsible off to their faces instead of whining behind their backs, but unfortunately living in constant fear that this would inevitably cause at least one of them to become my clinical supervisor in the near future.
yeah, i've nothing to talk about really. i *should* be doing my laundry.
Wednesday, June 18, 2003
01:43 p.m.
&$%#@*~!! that ^$2%& pigeon laid an egg in my plant. there's a pigeon roosting on my balcony~!!
that's it. i need a netting to keep them out. this has gone too far.
welcome back to the world of blogging, dear. i'm glad your paranoia is increasing. someday, someday, it might hope to reach the exalted levels on my own.
but not yet ^__~
my family rotation is ending this week. i am teetering between relief, fear of my impending evaluation, sadness that it's over, and even more fear about asking the doc to write me a carms letter.
she is a very good doc. very into the teaching and reviewing pts with me...and somehow very good at asking the one question i don't have an answer for. i like her but i can't get an exact read on whether she would write me a good letter, perversely because she appears so involved in making sure i learn all i can. i would feel better if she didn't care so much. you can't really disappoint people if they don't care.
Friday, June 13, 2003
08:53 p.m.
*sigh*
leave anything up to the men in my family, and see if they don't manage to screw it up.
tomorrow is my mom's 50th. we are throwing her a party, surprise naturally. made much easier by the fact that she's working all day, so no need to hide food prep or anything. in any case, all dad had to do was keep her in the dark about it (and contact guests).
did he fail to keep her clueless?
well, not exactly. he kept her too clueless. in fact, he never mentioned her birthday to her. nope, not once. no attempt at subtle misdirection, like "hey hon, let's go out to celebrate your birthday". nothing. nada. nil.
so i, calling her today to scout out the situation, was on the receiving end of a somewhat bitter rant about nobody caring that it's her special day. in fact, she was so stunned at the absolute silence about it that she started to suspect something was being planned...well, at least until i mentioned that i'll come home and take her out and such.
really, dad has no notion of the concept of subtlety.
although i suppose the party really *will* be a surprise.
Tuesday, June 10, 2003
09:10 p.m.
i delivered a baby today!
ok, not really. i watched as the resident delivered a baby today. but i delivered - the placenta!
ok, not quite. i held the cord and the placenta delivered itself.
but it delivered itself into my hand, dammit. that counts!
it was less gross than i expected.
test tomorrow. not studying, not studying, tra-lalala-la-la.
Monday, June 9, 2003
03:49 p.m.
not feeling so hot, taking day off work. oh well, it's the only one in 6 weeks, i can afford it.
spend great weekend in undergrad-city, where my friend is beset on all sides by phd offers. she now spends her time jetting around the u.s. to check out the facilities of various universities, and being put up in good hotels, wined, dined, taken to gyms (ok, that one i don't understand). we had to cut our visit somewhat short because she was needed post-haste for a nasa (yes, that nasa) interview on monday. for a project connected with the mars mission. and believe it or not, that is not her first choice.
i am in awe of her. she's my age! and nasa doesn't even know i exist ;__;
anyways, staying home is somewhat boring. have test on wed, don't really want to study. tutor said we covered all relevant topics anyways. and so...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2003
10:40 p.m.
today is a good day to drink pondscum bubbletea.
no, really. i swear it's algae. and it is not what i ordered.
the bubbletea place near my house put a few new items on the memu, which weren't translated into english. feeling adventurous, i tried one of them last week, and it turned out to be some sort of yogurt-like substance similar to the fake yogurt esca fed me in korea. i loved it and so did shelly; in fact i got another one later on in the week and it was definitely a white yogurty substance.
so tonight after the movie, shelly and i decided to show this new yumminess to shelly's bfie, who in his man-like skepticism ordered his usual flavour. well, our first clue that something went drastically wrong was the color or the teas that arrived. they were...green.
olive-green.
in fact, pondscum-green.
we went to argue this to the server, as well as the fact that we didn't get pearls as requested. we said we wanted the yogurt. we called it by its number. she took the drinks back. she returned them with the pearls. she called them yogurt.
they were still green.
shelly's bfie sat there in his man-like skepticism, with his tea in hand. it was not green. he looked vaguely smug.
giving up and hoping for the best (after all, the discovery on the yogurt tea was a surprise too), we went home and tried the scummy variety.
it is algae.
i know it is. it leaves the sides of the cup covered with sliminess like the sides of a dirty aquarium. if i look close enough, i can see cells. i'm sure i see them.
it tastes like chlorophyll, with a touch of apple juice. i'm not sure i know how chlorophyll tastes like, but this is it.
i don't know why they keep the delicious yogurty tea from me. but i swear i shall rediscover it, no matter how much ground-up plantlife they stuff down my throat.
Monday, May 26, 2003
09:20 p.m.
well, well, well...
the boy is officially dating miss toronto international~!! go, she, go.
although, is she were to win miss canada international in the summer, she would have to live for a year with this creepy white trash woman and her husband up north somewhere. why the fuck does miss canada have to live in some god-forsaken place up north instead of a more central location, and why why why with some woman and her hubby? this seems gross and creepy to me.
Sunday, May 25, 2003
07:04 p.m.
well, finally got around to seeing matrix reloaded. and so i guess i'll comment on it, like millions have done before me.
naturally i found the effects spectacular, but still...i suppose i'm jaded as to movie effects. they wouldn't make me run to theatres and spend my money when i can see them on tv at home in 3 or so yrs.
i was fairly impressed by the full 15 min of previews though (WTF? tom cruise as the last samurai?)
the part about searching for the keymaker, where the wife character wanted neo to kiss her? to me that seemed contrived, almost a matter of "let's get more kissing into the movie". then again, i may just be simple-minded and metaphorically challenged. pity me.
not until the end and the explanation of the matrices did i feel the same sense of excitement as i did for the first film. and so i suppose i'll be seeing the last part in theatres too.
and damn it, i want some orgasm!cake.
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
11:03 p.m.
congratulations, meta~!!
ah, i am in family practice, and my doc is not fee per service. that means she sees less patients per day, and has time to review my charts at the end of the day (which is umm...good. yes, good...).
the fact that she has vid cams in her exam rooms to potentially tape me is good too. surely...
really, it's a great practice. she also works at a maternity center and does deliveries, which is why she has call, but not too often so it's ok. and in the morning, before clinic, we go to the hospital one block from her practice and see her new babies.
today i examined a newborn about 12hrs old. i don't think i was ever around something that young before. i was afraid i'd break it.
but they're cute at that age. too weak to cry ^__^
on a totally unrelated note, crest has come out with some tooth whitener thing to be painted onto the teeth at night. the commercial claims "it gets absorbed instantly". what, into the TEETH?? that's some shit i'd stay away from.
Monday, May 19, 2003
08:09 p.m.
happy birthday, esca~!! feel old and decrepid?
well, anime north was a lot of fun. it was the first time i volunteered, and that was good too. staff people have free snackies!
although i did find some of the staff funny. in a sad way. just seeing them performing their duties, you *know* this is the highlight of their year. the power! the responsibility! anyways...
got to share a room with meta, stelli and kenshin.
ok, her name sounded like "kenshin".
and got seriously sleep-deprived, because it's not possible to put 4 girls in a room and expect them to say "goodnight" and sleep. and i did say "goodnight". many times ^__^
great weekend, all in all. looking forward to next year and actually cosplaying again.
and look, i failed to prepare for tomorrow, when i meet my family med supervisor! go me!
Thursday, May 15, 2003
05:56 p.m.
well, last ER shift is over.
today was fun. we had a LOL who came in with weakness and dec. LOC, and she's had 2 CVA's before. so naturally that's what we worked her up for, but then i called her family doc for more info, and it turns out she may have OD'd on her pain pills...she has many pain pills.
so the ER doc had to decide if she'll be admitted, or it she could just stay in the department overnight. this is how he made his decision:
doc (taking off her oxygen mask): "mrs x, how are you feeling now?"
pt: *incomprehensive mumble*
doc (snaps mask back on, turns to us): "she failed"
boy's b-day is today. i should call.
Thursday, May 15, 2003
12:46 a.m.
well, i think the amount of blogging signifies my interest in this rotation. as opposed to the last one.
tonight i got to suture ^__^
the last time i sutured was when i and my chibis were over at esca's. and i got quite proficient in it, i thought. enough at least to do those little subdermals. but tonight i was all excited and almost shaky. well, not shaky, just not as proficient, and those were just simple interrupted.
*sigh* must get more suture practice. screw derm, i should do an ER elective.
and the doc who was on tonight told me to came in an hour later tomorrow morning to make sure i get enough sleep. such nice docs i have ^__^
i should do an elective with him! yes, i think i'll try for that.
in other news, i'm starting to suspect meta has somehow blocked my email. you wicked wench, i know where you'll be this weekend!
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
03:11 p.m.
ah. ER is going pretty well. yesterday over half my pts had hand injuries of one sort or another. hand injuries, sore throats, back pains, the occasional abdominal pain. the highlight was seeing exposed tendons. mmm...tendons...
my dear, what's going on with you? i can't call, because i get home after midnight this week. i dare not risk your wrath by waking you up.
and just because i find it funny, here's an assessment of american eating habits by a friend of mine in the nutritional research field, who just returned from a visit to iowa. and these are the eating habits of american nutritionists, mind you.
"americans eat meat, and they put cheese on their meat, and they put meat on their lettuce and they put cheese in their dessert, and they put meat in their breakfast, and they pour fat on top of it all."
kinda explains that obesity epidemic, methinks. unless they're all on the atkins diet.
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
12:19 a.m.
ah, back from my first-ever ER shift. it was definitely an adjustment, post-psych. my 1st case was a post-head trauma headache, and after doing a bang-up job of taking the history and doing the physical (yes, i even did fundoscopy. not that i could see anything, but damn if i didn't do it), i blew the whole thing on suggesting we give her pain meds and send her home.
yes, the history and exam indicated a simple tension HA. but not to suggest a CT~!! bad, bad coanteen~!!
anyways, the rest went pretty well. i saw 5 pts in total, and got more organized and faster as time went by. all in all i feel pretty good, and it was a nice range of cases. i was afraid they'd stick me in scrapes&bruises, but it appears i'll get a lot of variety.
and i can't believe the shitty on-call, dearest. i was looking forward to seeing you. i had already convinced myself that you were coming for sure ;__;
Monday, May 12, 2003
12:05 p.m.
i suppose that could be right...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2003
03:26 p.m.
in a crappy mood for some reason. well, i do have 2 tests this week, but one is that odd progress thing we write several times a year and i've never had problems with it, and the other is the psych final which was bought from the states, is not actually meant for our level, we're not expected to pass it and we won't have the results before final evals are written in any case.
i suppose i could be angry at the waste that this test really is, since i could amuse myself with making interesting m/c patterns on the answer sheet and not impact my education in any way, but i don't think that's it.
i've just been irritable since this week began. my supervisor got his resident on mon, and now i'm irritated at her too even though she's fairly nice. fuck it, i'm irritated that she gets to do the pt interviews i'd have gotten, while being glad she's doing them because i really don't want to.
also, my head hurts.
and i don't think i'm sleeping well.
a couple more complaints and i could build a case for putting me on drugs. it's really not that hard.
shelly comes today. she'll probably cheer me up.
if not, plan b is stealing benzos from the sample drawer. yay benzos.
Friday, May 2, 2003
09:24 p.m.
ah, post-call friday. finally had what amounts to a real call, one where i was actually woken up by the pager. psych has been so very slow.
of course, i was woken up to assess a guy who was drunk and pissed on someone's car, and had to listen to the junior mutter that this kind of case is a waste of time for psych, but as long as i get an encounter card out of it nothing is a waste of time for the lowly clerk ^__^
ah, but it made me miss esca's call. how was your all-medical-fields-at-once day, dear?
many classmates are having babies. i ran into some when in the hospital and they were bitching about how little time they get off, especially the father. our program didn't even want to give one lousy week to the father! how mean is that?
but funny enough, all those family people who were going to go into the most specialized fields are now considering family. heeee.
Tuesday, April 29, 2003
11:17 p.m.
O_O
oh dearest dearest shiny happy esca~!! i love it. it is so pretty and dark and filled chin iisou love. i know you share my chin iisou love~!! i know it~!!
i shall skip my early morning lessons tomorrow. they are useless and early and i know i will sleep instead. go slacking-off me.
Tuesday, April 29, 2003
10:46 p.m.
ok, i am adding an entry.
i am sorry to have missed your call. i was gorging on 2-for-1 bubbletea. i still have one in the fridge. i'll have bubbletea for breakfast. mwa-hahahahahahahaha~!!
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