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jcd1013GUESS WHAT??
I am done with call, done with working weekends until June!!! That's right, baby! Two whole months of no every-fourth-night (or third, really) call, normal sleep (if I'd ever go to bed), no discharge summaries (behind by 10 now. Did about 6 of them today), no "only four days off a month." SWEET.
My last call was on the 31st, and it was brutal. 5 patients, essential after midnight. Because it's the end of the month, I should have been done and gone by 7, but I was three patients behind by 4 in the morning, and falling asleep in my chair. I was there until 10, and by the time I crawled home, absolutely collasped into bed. I didn't wake up until 9 that night. I know that there are amazing people, who come home post call, take an hour nap and spend the rest of the frollicking. I really wanna know their secret.
I almost posted that night that I was quitting residency and going to go work as a pharmaceutical consultant, as an April's Fool joke.... but at the time, it was too close to the truth. There are times when I hate what I do. Hate the long hours, the lack of sleep, the inability to have a normal life. And then when I get pages that state roughly that I'm a horrible person for leaving rounds early (!!! I shouldn't have been at rounds at all! I was nice to stay and actually present a patient, because I knew him best!) and *cry* not updating the patient list, this desire to run away is amplified (I wish I could caulk those to April Fool's jokes, sadly, I think that these particular persons do not possess that kind of humor. My comrades from last month, oh yes (I'd have done the same to them, the little rascals), but not these ones.
Enough with that. I'm happy now. Today, I spent working on discharge summaries and reading articles in between critiquing the new Dr. Who season, as we have no patients on the hematology/oncology service right now. Not that I mind being bored for once! Oh, and I also bought rose bushes and blueberry, raspberry (I don't think all of my raspberry bushes made it through the winter. :( ), bosenberry, and grapes bushes, and strawberry and asparagus bulbs, so I'm so excited to be planting a garden! Ah, my friends, spring is here!
Besides YouTube, how is everybody (ie... the four of you on my flist) watching Dr. Who? Waiting until it shows in your neck of the woods? I did try to do torrents, but my connection is way too slow. It was going to take something like 6 hours to download one hour, I decided it wasn't worth it. You Tube's fast and it was there, right after it aired, so that's a plus. I can deal with the fuzzy screen.
In any case, yay! New season!!
I'm going to miss Rose. I miss her already. But I like Martha. As I think Ali pointed out sometime last year, it was Rose whose eyes we saw things through, who made it possible for us to understand what we were experiencing. While I loved the Doctor/Rose (both docs) relationship/romance, there's still so much that I want to know about the Doctor, that I'm okay with him having a new companion that can help us figure him out.
And once Jack comes back, maybe the little flirtations will find a new target. :)
The Doctor is still fantastic. Love the hair. The fluffy look is definitely a must. Loved his Ben Franklin speech ("perhaps a consult to psychiatry is in order?" Perfect). Loved the bunions. And I loved that he's still mourning Rose. She hasn't been forgotten, and while, really, she was just a small part of his 900 years, she really made an impression. And I'm glad that the series won't entirely forget her either.
I like Martha. I do. I thought her taking charge in the hospital was a very good start of her character (although here's hoping that the doctor has a better handle on the "time" portion of the TARDIS, or else Martha's going to find herself not in medical school any more). Family may be a little bit much, but they'll probably grow. And I can't blame her for flirting with the Doc... if I was on that ship, I'd be wanting a repeat kiss as well!
I liked that it was a mirror of the first time Rose met the Doctor. The same series, and yet how far they've come.
Just out of curiosity, how much of London really speaks the Cockney dialect?
The plot was a little weak. Okay, I'm always super hypercritical about medicine/hospital shows, and while this wasn't horrible, it wasn't as accurate as it could be. For example.... taking a hospital to the moon is the best place to be if there's an oxygen crunch, because virtually every single room has it hooked up AND there's portable O2 in the basement that I'm sure you could grab in a pinch as well. Don't tell me that they ran out in an hour--the hospital supply O2 for 24 hours!
The genetic transfer? Eh. He could have accomplished the same thing by kissing her forehead, or licking her cheek.
All in all, a great time. But I don't think I'm rushing out for Doctor/Martha icons, and I don't think that I'll be adding Season 3 to my DVD collection (you never know though)
Have clinic tomorrow morning (ugh.... I'm behind about 15 clinic notes as well), so I'd better get to bed. Tomorrow I start studying for Step 3 of my boards. Seems just like yesterday I was studying for Step 1. *gets all nostalgic* Not.
I am done with call, done with working weekends until June!!! That's right, baby! Two whole months of no every-fourth-night (or third, really) call, normal sleep (if I'd ever go to bed), no discharge summaries (behind by 10 now. Did about 6 of them today), no "only four days off a month." SWEET.
My last call was on the 31st, and it was brutal. 5 patients, essential after midnight. Because it's the end of the month, I should have been done and gone by 7, but I was three patients behind by 4 in the morning, and falling asleep in my chair. I was there until 10, and by the time I crawled home, absolutely collasped into bed. I didn't wake up until 9 that night. I know that there are amazing people, who come home post call, take an hour nap and spend the rest of the frollicking. I really wanna know their secret.
I almost posted that night that I was quitting residency and going to go work as a pharmaceutical consultant, as an April's Fool joke.... but at the time, it was too close to the truth. There are times when I hate what I do. Hate the long hours, the lack of sleep, the inability to have a normal life. And then when I get pages that state roughly that I'm a horrible person for leaving rounds early (!!! I shouldn't have been at rounds at all! I was nice to stay and actually present a patient, because I knew him best!) and *cry* not updating the patient list, this desire to run away is amplified (I wish I could caulk those to April Fool's jokes, sadly, I think that these particular persons do not possess that kind of humor. My comrades from last month, oh yes (I'd have done the same to them, the little rascals), but not these ones.
Enough with that. I'm happy now. Today, I spent working on discharge summaries and reading articles in between critiquing the new Dr. Who season, as we have no patients on the hematology/oncology service right now. Not that I mind being bored for once! Oh, and I also bought rose bushes and blueberry, raspberry (I don't think all of my raspberry bushes made it through the winter. :( ), bosenberry, and grapes bushes, and strawberry and asparagus bulbs, so I'm so excited to be planting a garden! Ah, my friends, spring is here!
Besides YouTube, how is everybody (ie... the four of you on my flist) watching Dr. Who? Waiting until it shows in your neck of the woods? I did try to do torrents, but my connection is way too slow. It was going to take something like 6 hours to download one hour, I decided it wasn't worth it. You Tube's fast and it was there, right after it aired, so that's a plus. I can deal with the fuzzy screen.
In any case, yay! New season!!
I'm going to miss Rose. I miss her already. But I like Martha. As I think Ali pointed out sometime last year, it was Rose whose eyes we saw things through, who made it possible for us to understand what we were experiencing. While I loved the Doctor/Rose (both docs) relationship/romance, there's still so much that I want to know about the Doctor, that I'm okay with him having a new companion that can help us figure him out.
And once Jack comes back, maybe the little flirtations will find a new target. :)
The Doctor is still fantastic. Love the hair. The fluffy look is definitely a must. Loved his Ben Franklin speech ("perhaps a consult to psychiatry is in order?" Perfect). Loved the bunions. And I loved that he's still mourning Rose. She hasn't been forgotten, and while, really, she was just a small part of his 900 years, she really made an impression. And I'm glad that the series won't entirely forget her either.
I like Martha. I do. I thought her taking charge in the hospital was a very good start of her character (although here's hoping that the doctor has a better handle on the "time" portion of the TARDIS, or else Martha's going to find herself not in medical school any more). Family may be a little bit much, but they'll probably grow. And I can't blame her for flirting with the Doc... if I was on that ship, I'd be wanting a repeat kiss as well!
I liked that it was a mirror of the first time Rose met the Doctor. The same series, and yet how far they've come.
Just out of curiosity, how much of London really speaks the Cockney dialect?
The plot was a little weak. Okay, I'm always super hypercritical about medicine/hospital shows, and while this wasn't horrible, it wasn't as accurate as it could be. For example.... taking a hospital to the moon is the best place to be if there's an oxygen crunch, because virtually every single room has it hooked up AND there's portable O2 in the basement that I'm sure you could grab in a pinch as well. Don't tell me that they ran out in an hour--the hospital supply O2 for 24 hours!
The genetic transfer? Eh. He could have accomplished the same thing by kissing her forehead, or licking her cheek.
All in all, a great time. But I don't think I'm rushing out for Doctor/Martha icons, and I don't think that I'll be adding Season 3 to my DVD collection (you never know though)
Have clinic tomorrow morning (ugh.... I'm behind about 15 clinic notes as well), so I'd better get to bed. Tomorrow I start studying for Step 3 of my boards. Seems just like yesterday I was studying for Step 1. *gets all nostalgic* Not.
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Date: 2007-04-03 07:23 am (UTC)*HUGS*
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Date: 2007-04-04 11:59 pm (UTC)Ellie, I've missed you so much too. I was reading over some of our old old conversations that I had saved, and just missing talking to you. :( How are things going with you? How's your puppy? I hope things are well, I really do. We should try to find sometime when we could chat again...
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Date: 2007-04-03 07:53 am (UTC)Don't know if you've heard but here's some good news: http://www.moviehole.net/news/20070403_anderson_talks_xfiles_sequel.html
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Date: 2007-04-05 12:00 am (UTC)Thanks for the support.
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Date: 2007-04-03 09:05 am (UTC)And have fun gardening. I hope the raspberries are tougher than you think!
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Date: 2007-04-05 12:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-04 12:53 pm (UTC)Must finish S2 so I can watch the new episodes!