It snowed AGAIN from 0600 until 1400 today. It didn't stick, which is the only reason I wasn't looking for an entire bottle of Ativan to put me out of my misery. But, in order to maintain my tenuous grip on my sanity, I'm going to purge everything out of my cerebral cortex except the image of where I will be in 56 short days:




The pool with a view of the BEACH!




Whooo doggies!

Friday Silliness

I'm not a huge Will Ferrell fan because, let's face it, a lot of his stuff is derivative and overused. It's more or less the same character in a different suit. But I will admit that he has flashes of genius and I believe this clip is one of those flashes. This song has always personified my thoughts on the matter and I'm impressed by Ferrell's a cappella chops. Not to mention some bitchin' harmony by Paul Rudd, Steve Carrell and the dude in the hat.

Pacific Northwest Springtime Running

You should see the dog.

Happy Birthday Captain Kirk

In celebration of William Shatner's 78th birthday, I give you one of my favorite Star Trek episodes, "Spock's Brain," condensed into 4 minutes. I think they say "Spock's brain" about 58 million times. It also includes the classic line "Brain and brain! What is brain?!?" Uttered by a woman, of course. Go Gene Rodenberry, you misogynistic genius, you!

Huh. This may be referring to "evil speaking." That was not my first thought on seeing this. The Word of Life Church needs some advisors. And I'm going to hell.

(Ruthlessly stolen from Crummy Church Signs)

You know what we need? A federal law mandating an application process, IQ test and a license before one can reproduce. That's all I'm sayin'!

How's this for a change? When you are my clinical director and have actually said to the House Mouse when we were drowning in patients "I'm not competent to work the floor, " do not tell me we are overstaffed when there is not a bed to be had on the unit, the antepartum unit, triage, recovery room, or the three bed induction clinic. I somehow feel that if you are a clinical director you should be the most competent person on the floor, and if you feel you are not, then get some reorientation until you are at least minimally competent. Do not tell me how to do my job if you cannot actually DO MY JOB! When you have staff members that have sat down for the first time 7 hours into their shift, perhaps you shouldn't call patients in to be induced. If you ever were on the floor, you would understand what WORK FLOW is. And an anesthesiologist, who has worked here for over a year and is on the floor several times a month, wouldn't have to ask a nurse, "Who is that woman at the desk?"

It's been a rough week. And there is a Percocet with my name on it.



I want this life..where do I go for a reassignment?