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  • Oct. 7th, 2009 at 11:28 AM
bear butt
Seems I keep writing these types of posts. My assistant from my last job, the woman I spent 60-70 hours a week with for 4 years, was just found dead in her apartment. We are assuming it was a heart attack since she had undergone a quadruple by-pass a few years ago, but we don't know yet. She was a good friend. She will be missed.

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a brief announcement

  • Oct. 5th, 2009 at 9:27 AM
pet me
We interrupt my panic about my thesis with this brief announcement

after sitting second row center at my first Bra.di Car.lile concert (did you know she performs barefoot?) I am in lust. Her music is nice and all, but DAMN, in person she is soooo hot.

we now return to our previously scheduled thesis panic

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Missing in action

  • Sep. 22nd, 2009 at 6:03 PM
otter122
I will be a little hard to find for the next 34 days, 5 hours and 54 minutes. I will return after I defend my thesis.

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Holy cr@p!

  • Sep. 14th, 2009 at 3:10 PM
otter122

I was expecting to defend my thesis in Dec. turns out it will have to be in Oct.
Pardon me while I shit myself

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Well that was a nice surprise!

  • Sep. 14th, 2009 at 7:47 AM
Walsh glasses
Last Friday I went to a conference on research ethics with a few folks from our IRB. During one of the breaks, I got invited to be ON the IRB. I thought it was pretty cool. I know the job sucks, but it looks darn good on a CV!

My lack of posting lately is due to being in a funk I just can't shake. I think that being back on the college campus every week where I was the most miserable I have ever been, isn't helping. only 13 more weeks of class to go! Somebody shoot me.

what next?

  • Aug. 25th, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Walsh glasses
2 hours ago I find out the patient we removed a liver tumor from last week dropped dead Sunday from an unrelated condition.
1 hour ago while in the sugical ICU, I see a friend in one of the beds. She was fine on Friday. Tomorrow she is having a brain tumor removed.

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attitude adjustment

  • Aug. 25th, 2009 at 10:09 AM
otter w/Bud
So, I haven’t been posting much lately. I’d like to say it’s been because I have been so busy having fun, but alas, that is not the reason. I don’t know if it’s peri-menopause , depression, or that I really am just a moody bitch, but all I seem to be able to spew lately is negative cranky crap and there doesn’t seem much point in doing that .

So here is a list of happy things;
I have a job
I have a home
I have a loving partner (who is a GREAT kisser and spoils me rotten)
I have a dog who loves me
I have new horse friends who let me brush them and snuggle them
I have at least 80% functioning body parts (my own) on any given day
My little co-coordinator is a hoot
Beer
Otters
Polar Bears
Ducks
Squirrels (yes Syd, both kinds)
Naughty Ravens and Crows
Doggie paws that smell like corn chips
Throwing garden slugs into Evil Neighbor’s yard (yes, I am juvenile)
Watching the tiny newborns get discharged from the hospital every afternoon

Ok, well that made me feel a bit better.

the slaughter continues

  • Aug. 20th, 2009 at 10:43 AM
oh no bear
another one of my fish was murdered yesterday in the tank. After questioning all the witnesses...nobody saw nuthin.

teen from hell

  • Aug. 5th, 2009 at 8:20 AM
Walsh glasses
Ok, I have given her a little time. I still hate having to supervise a freakin teen at my job. I did not sign up to run a fukking daycare. I do not wish to have contact with humans between the ages of 5 and 25 unless they belong to someone I care about, or they are exceptionally bright or funny (I have a 19 year old intern right now named Mike, who I absolutely adore. He is more mature than most 30 year olds I know). This high school girl I have is about 11 emotionally, and VERY VERY disturbed. It is clear that she has psychiatric issues (as evidenced by her frequent statements "I have to keep my headphones on so I don't get angry." and "even the rave party in my head doesn't make this fun."). I would love to have her evaluated by psych, but how do you do that when she's not a patient? She'll be here 2 more weeks, one of us will be in lock-down by then.


disclaimer: I have several short friends in Atlanta who are apparently children, although after discussions with them I tend to believe they are just very short grown ups. Even if they didn't belong to people I care about, I would still like them cuz they are way cool.

You have GOT to be kidding!

  • Jul. 20th, 2009 at 5:24 PM
otter122

I had 4 really crappy days off (too fatigued to get off the couch), I am driving to Nova Scotia on Sat and am nowhere near ready, when I got to work this morning the head of our practice dumped a high school junior on me for a month. What the hell? I DO NOT LIKE TEENS!!!!!! I do not have time to babysit! She can't help with anything because she is not old enough to be certified in research on humans. I didn't sign up to be a wet-nurse! I guess her Dad is a friend of our dept. head so I get stuck doing the f^ing favor! This sucks royally!

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Things I have learned as of late

  • Jul. 14th, 2009 at 8:48 AM
Walsh glasses
1. My mood becomes far more stable if I take the freakin medication on a regular basis.
2. A partner who feels guilty about getting 'goofy' on too much wine the day before will not bring up the spat we had the day before.
3. I have developed an addiction to downloading music I can't afford onto my i.Phone.
4. Over-ripe tomatoes don't bounce (no, it was not thrown)
5. My dog is incapable of letting the neighbor's dog pass our house without going completely ape-shit.
6. It is "all fun and games until someone puts an eye out" just like mom said (not mine, a patient's)
7. Those face shields we wear in the O.R. really are necessary.
8. Blood from an artery can shoot incredibly far if the blood pressure is high enough.
9. A patient can lose an incredible amount of blood and still recover well.
10. Raw eggs don't bounce either.

uh... what do YOU think?

  • Jul. 13th, 2009 at 3:45 PM
amazingly
I need some help here...

if a person (after too many glasses of wine) invites half the neighborhood (OK, 4 people) over for a BBQ the very next night, but is then too hung-over to be up to it...
who should make the calls to cancel????????

tiff... squabble...fight?

  • Jul. 13th, 2009 at 10:45 AM
play like a girl
Well I am not sure what category it would fit into, but yesterday we had one. We have had frighteningly few of them in our 8 years together so I am not sure what it was. I have never been with anyone where even in the middle of a fight I knew I wasn't leaving the relationship and neither was she, we were just 'having it out'. Every relationship I have been in before, a fight always lead to me contemplating leaving, or being afraid the other person would. It was strange. I headed off to the store after it so I could cool down and not say anything stupid. Yesterday was supposed to be date night so she called me after about 30 minutes and said "Yesterday I made reservations for us to go to (insert my favorite restaurant), would you still like to go, or are you still too mad at me?" I felt like stewing a bit longer but we had time before our reservation so I agreed to go. Later we changed our minds but not due to the fight, we just didn't feel like changing out of our shorts and tee shirts.
It was an odd day.

The world lost another great one

  • Jul. 10th, 2009 at 11:59 AM
paws up
I just found out that my dear friend Robert Jeffries (Dr. Bob!) has died. Dr. Bob is the world's greatest Arctic botanist. He even has plants that he discovered named after him. I spent 6 summers working in the far North with Bob (I studied critters, he studied their food). We dodged many a Polar Bear together, and darn near didn't get away once. He was brilliant, gentle, and as funny as they come. I will miss him terribly.
I think a Marmite butty is in order.
Paws up Bob, paws up.

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too funny not to repeat

  • Jul. 10th, 2009 at 11:18 AM
pet me
I just left a case in the O.R. where a new surgical intern was learning the ropes. The patient was already asleep and the intern was trying to insert a catheter into the patient's pen*s. He was holding the 'member' with two fingers and trying to push this huge tube up it and the surgeon yell "grab it like it's yours, not like it's your bunk-mate's at boyscout camp!"

Thank you!

  • Jul. 8th, 2009 at 5:24 PM
otter122

It seems the train gods read my tweets. Today was the day they put the baby powder scent in all the trains and train stations. They do it once or twice a year.

My GF has a board meeting tonight so I treated myself to chicken tikka Marsala and a kingfisher beer in grand central. This day is looking up

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New ad

  • Jul. 2nd, 2009 at 1:37 PM
otter122

This is the new coating they put on the subway shuttle today, it's an ad for some new show

I love it when they do this, it makes the ride more interesting. The faces in the windows are part of the ad, not real people

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