Tuesday, August 01, 2006

(Halfway to the) Weekend Update

The good news: My 8.5 hour day turned into a 12 hour day yesterday, but I still left the hospital happy. I love my team, and even though I have some really tough patients, I have some really great ones too. I think this will be a good month.

The bad news: I made my 4th trip to a dentist in 4.5 weeks. She thinks I'm going to need a root canal on at least one tooth, but she doesn't do them. The specialist's latest appointment is a 2:15 PM. I work until at least 3 PM every day. I have an appointment for next Tuesday for an "evaluation with possible procedure;" I never thought I'd be this desperate to get out of work. ;)

The sad news: My brother is moving to New York this week for law school. Even though we rarely talk and only see each other about 3-4 times per year, it still makes me sad to know that he's going to be so far away. My parents and sister are driving up to New York with him to help him move his stuff in a few days. I really wish I could be with them.

The random news: I need to get caught up on my DVR. I DVR-ed about 5 hours of my favorite Food Network show "Good Eats" (yay, Alton!) on Saturday while I was in the ER, and now it's just sitting there taking up space.

The dumb blonde news: By law, everything I sign at the hospital must have the letters "M.D." after my name. I've gotten so much into the habit of writing them behind my name that at the dentist today, I started to sign my receipt with those initials. I'd gotten the "M" out before I realized I didn't need to sign that like it was an order in a chart. Oops.

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