Why I shouldn't watch the TV:
If I didn't watch TV then I wouldn't know that there is currently a tornado something (watch/warning) for Clay county. Which I have to drive through on my way home. So I can't responsibly drive home until after 11:45, when the watch/warning expires. If I didn't watch TV then I wouldn't know this and could leave at any time I wanted. And if i happened to come across a tornado I could just drive away and hopefully all would be fine and I would have an awesome story to tell.
So now I have to finish getting ready to leave so that I can leave.
I need a
flickr pro account.
First I should say that I was at Shands-Jacksonville at 5:30 this morning so I've been up since 3:30
A.M.Today I did my shadowing. It was pretty cool. I shadowed a 3rd year on surgery rotation. I thought it was a lot better than my first shadowing not that there was anything wrong with the first time, this was just more interesting. This 3rd year would probably make an excellent professor, and he said he has an academic rotation with us next year so we will get to see for sure. All of the med-students there on rotations thought he was awesome and doing a great job and had all these wonderful things to say about his, so it was cool to know that the info he was giving us was good, but since he is a 3rd year he actually has had classes up until last month when his rotations started so, I already knew that his classmates respected him. When we first got there we sat and looked up labs and meds for a little while, then we rounded. Which was cool because we got to see what med students do, and I got to see how the pharmacy student and pharmacist are integrated into the team. Then we walked around some more and then we changed into scrubs. Which was confusing for me. We were walking and he was explaining about scrubbing in and everything and then we get to these locker rooms and I was like, "what? Oh, we're doing this now?" And then we get into the locker room and Jen and I just look at each other like okay, what now? But there was a lady in there who helped us figure out how the scrubs were arranged and get into some. Jen's scrub top was way to big, and he pant legs had all these crazy pleats in them from folding so the legs of them were like accordian pleated. My top was okay, but the bottoms were too big, not way to big just not quite right, and they have no waist in them, even when you tie them so if they are a little loose and you are wearing them on your hips you have to keep an eye on them or your pants are going to fall down. I had to keep re-tying them. Then we went put on booties and a hair net thing and got a face sheild. And right after we put them on we found out that it was running late, so we walked around some in our hair net and booties and I felt like a lunch lady. Then they decided we should go look in on a breast resection. Which was cool. Even when I was thinking I would go to med school I knew that surgery probably wouldn't be my thing, but it was interesting to watch. We got in right at the end, when we were in there they removed this big piece of breast tissue, it was really more from the arm pit because they were doing some lymph nodes, but it was interested to see this big open cavity that they had made and how much room was in there. There wasn't much loose blood at all, I think it was probably because it was toward the end and they had probably spent a lot of time at the beginning cleaning it out of the field. And right before we left we watched them put in a couple internnal stitches. Then we left there. Originally we were supposed to see a removal of a pretty severe melanoma (at least that was what I heard) but Jen needed to watch lectures and really so did I, and since they still had to clean up the operating room before they could get started I knew it would be a while and I had lectures to watch too so I decided not to stay. I probably should have just to see the whole thing, but I was also really tired. So I left when Jen did. All in all it was really cool to see and I'm glad to got to go. The 3rd year kept asking us questions, which we really didn't know, but he was patient and he helped up to reason out the answer until we could get it or it was absolutely obvious that we were hopeless. I learned that if you are going to give PCA (patient controlled analgesia) you also must give diphenhydramine (benadryl-for itching), a motillity agent (for constipation, which I knew), and a mu antagonist (which I had no idea and took a lot of guidance and him practically telling me the answer before I was able to shout it out). The only thing I noticed was that no one but the anesthesiologist speaks loudy enough to really hear. You have to strain to hear everything else that it going on.
Isn't this sad?
I don't even get a zero.
At the risk of being cliché I'm going to wish everyone a Happy St. Patty's Day in green. Apparently there is a BIG party in Savannah that like everyone else in the world knows about but me. Jenn is planning to go this weekend, and she kept telling me I should go up. But I can't, because, you know, it would be a terrible waste of money to fail school at this point, or at any further for that matter. Anyway, I didn't know this until yesterday when someone at school mentioned that next year they will try to go up for the celebration and it was confirmed today. I'm not sure how I got this far in life without knowing this. It seems to be common knowledge. So, if your in Savannah or anywhere else for that matter then Happy St. Patrick's day!
Today while I was at school studying for an exam the person next to me's phone rang and when he answered it it was SO LOUD. But that's not the point. The point is it was someone in our class, and I swear to God whoever it was was drunk. At least they sounded completely drunk on the phone, everyone talks on the phone in there, and I usually can completely tune it out but the slurring caught my attention. I didn't notice any drunk people in class, maybe they decided it wasn't worth it to take an exam while wasted?
Today, yesterday, whatever, I drove BACK to Jacksonville. From Homosassa. When I was just outside of Ocala, after picking up dinner, I passed someone I go to school with. The first time he passed I wasn't paying enough attention to his car to notice him, the only thing I was thinking was, "you're in my way." But the next time I did pay attention because I wanted to glare at the person who was in my way. And I saw his reflection in his rear-view mirror before I got even with him. For whatever reason I thought it was hilarious. We stopped even at a stop light in Citra, or one of those other ridiculous towns on 301 (whose sole purpose is to SLOW ME DOWN). But the light only stayed long enough to for us to say "hey, you going back to school?." I don't know why this is so odd to me. There are several of us that drive back and forth pretty often, and everyone who lives in g'ville drives 301 every time we have class. It's really amazing we all don't see each other more often. We should start a club. We'll call it the "Please let the police of Waldo be more concerned with something other than my car club." Or the "We drive through more hick towns a week than you know exist club." Maybe the "There's nothing to see here so move out of my way club."
Today is my 2 year blogaversary. I've been doing this for 2 years. Which I think is pretty cool. Not that I ever go back and read my archives, but maybe someday I will and remember things that I forgot had happened. Maybe.
Its "you're welcome" not "your welcome." I wonder how long I've been spelling it wrong? I know the difference between you're and your, but I don't think I ever thought about it as a phrase. Until just a second ago in an IM. I wrote it, and sent it, and then it dawned on me. So I wonder how often I've spelled it wrong in situations other than IMs where things are often misspelled and the misspellings are accepted and even expected.
How much do you LOVE this template? I love it. So, once again, I'll get all those links soon...again. Maybe I'll stick with this one for a while. Anyway, I found it
here. And it is designed by
Richa Avasthi.
I played texas hold'em tonight, because what's more fun than ignoring the bazillion and a half thousand lectures I need to watch? My little icon is the one with the brown haired girl with the bobbed hair but with the red yahoo hat. I'm not very good at all. Basically I sit at the table and fold every hand. I did manage to get four of a kind. 8s. Someone even asked who had the 8. And I told them. I don't think they totally believed me. But I won. I won about 2 hands the entire time I played. Someone sent me a message.
Someone: hi
Me: yo (because hi was just to normal)
S: I like you
Me: Because I fold practically every hand?
S: Because uuuur sexy
Me: It's the hat right?
S: yes
Me: I knew that yellow y would make a statement
S: [something about blue moon]
S: [some word that I can't remember]
Me: What's that?
S: band
Me: Does it have a clarinet?
S: nope
Me: Well, I just can't get behind a band without a clarinet
S: haaaa
There was also a pretty pretty cool person at the table who kept me company. For whatever reason it seems like everyone has to comment on the Blue Moon thing. I had no idea it would be such a big thing when I picked out the screenname. 6 years ago in case you missed the last post.
I've been a member of yahoo since right after we got online. I've had the same e-mail account since New Years Eve 1998. That's 6 years on 1 account. I have others of course, but for everything but school that is still my primary account. I don't think many other people can say that. Of course, I get a LOT of junk mail. I have the bulk box set up and I don't ever even look at it. Since I have like bazillion bytes of space these days and it deletes my bulk mail often enough not to put me over I just don't bother with it. I also don't read the majority of the mail that comes to my inbox, for the most part it is all stuff I either solicit or stuff for stuff that I signed up for but didn't check whatever box was necessary to get them to not send me anything. I don't delete that either. I'm only at 30% at this point. Which is pretty good in my opinion considering that for the majority of my yahoo membership I lived with that message at the top of my e-mail telling me I was nearing capacity. I guess eventually it will fill up with all the messages I have in my inbox I will need to delete them, and because of the bazillion bytes I do have it will take a long time and I will hate myself for it, but in the mean time it is very nice, and I really appreciate the large byte-age.
I'm back to school. I think spring break zoomed by at light speed, and so far that seems to be the general consensus among my peers. But now it's back to the daily grind. They 3rd, year that I'm supposed to shadow this month while he is on rotation came into the office today so I got to ask him what he is doing. He is on a surgery rotation. Which means its even worse that I originally thought. They round at 6am. He goes in at 5. in. the. MORNING. He said I could round or watch a surgery or watch him review charts or whatever. I told him I would rather not round. But we'll see what our schedules can do. Do you know what time I would have to get up to round at 6am? I would have to leave at 5:30, so I would have to get up at 4:30, and probably 4, since I have to wear dress clothes, because I'm supposed to look all professional. There have been more days this semester that I've seen 4am from the other side of the day than I've seen 8am as a morning time. I'm not sure I could start my day there. I'm actually really pretty sure that it wouldn't be possible. But I think a surgery might be pretty cool. He said he has even got to participate a couple times, and he's only been on rotation 1 week. Nothing big, but he got to hold irrigation stuffs. Which I think is probably a pretty cool experience, especially for a pharmacy student.
That's it.
In case you were wondering I could totally
pass 8th grade math. 10 out of 10 baby! I've done absolutely nothing fun this week. Just sat around and soaked up the nothing to do-ness. Which is not technically true because I know that I
do need to watch some lectures. I had wanted to spend some time in my hammock, but it's a little
chilly out, and I'm afraid I will hang myself in it and no one will be home to save me.
I have a
flickr account. But I only have like 10 pictures in it right now. Maybe I'll add a couple more tonight. Nothing exciting though, it's just a new toy to play with. I think everyone with a digital camera should have one, and if you have one you should tell me about it so I can look at your pictures. I made Jenn one, but I don't know if she will use it. My only problem is I can't figure out how to change the order of the pictures. So if you know how, could you let me know?
And while we are on the subject of things everyone should have, I think everyone should have a blog too. You don't have to know html, you can just do a generic one from
blogger, or I think
diaryland has a pretty easy to use one, but I've never used it. And you can always do a
search for html to find out how to change some little things, that's how I figured it out.
