| In brief |
[Jul. 23rd, 2011|06:38 am] |
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Ed shift today. Hail the munchkins! They seem to have forgotten to place my name on the future roster, though. Are they trying to tell me something?
Also; my sugar beets are growing well. And I have eating-size turnips! Must make stew. The taties are mulched and productive, the silverbeet and spinach are thriving and the beetroot is not dying.
Win!
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| Grumbling herein |
[Jun. 24th, 2011|06:40 am] |
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Yesterday started out so well... And yet it ended as a bit of a waste of makeup :(
Got up on time, made it to the meeting on time. Wore a new pair of backseam stockings (pretty!). Good mood, nice clothes, feeling happy.
Laddered the stockings in about one hour :(
First patient was a shoe-horned in 'urgent' case. As I was taking the history, the mum was acting more and more obtrusively. Which is odd; normally the overinvested parents have kids who don't have organic pathology, but this child was sent through from another clinician with a solid medical diagnosis. Then I looked at the scans with the 'obvious' changes... Nary a one. Normal teenager's skeleton. Overinterpretation of images by someone who didn't appreciate the norm for this age group. *Oh dear*. How do you explain this one to a family who've spent massive time and money trying to 'fix' the wrong problem? Then clinic ran massively overtime. Normally I get to have lunch with my boy on a Thursday, or if not I go to San Churros. Instead I got a call to see a kid in the ED. So off I trotted. No time for special lunch Thursday.
The afternoon clinic went as smoothly as possible, but became marred when my period showed up a little early. Neatly explained the tummy rumbles. Subsequent PMT kicked in with a vengeance, and I went home at 6 with a grievance against the world. To find dinner cooked (yay!). However, D then decided that we urgently needed to clean the house (why?). Not what I'd planned for my grumpy time.
Bleach session over, I flopped on the couch. And promptly had my superior paraspinal muscles go into spasm. Instant headache. Took half an hour of heat, hot shower, stretching etc to calm it down. At that stage I wrote off the day and went to bed...
Woken by return of headache with a vengeance at five this morning. Couldn't muster the co-ordination to do anything about it for an hour.
Bah.
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| Wedding preparations |
[Jun. 20th, 2011|07:20 am] |
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| | happy | ] |
Yay!
Found entertainers (bah! Speeches, my foot). This is going to be fun :)
Figured out hairstyle; sort of loose, floppy bun, with mild Jane Austin overtones and a headband. Trust me, looks pretty. Added bonus, I can do it very easily. No hairdresser required (last one I went to spent half the session trying to convince me that I really needed to cut my hair short).
I really ought to get on with the invitations...
On the other hand, figured out my Swancon constume for next year. Priorities skewed.
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| Again with the airports |
[May. 19th, 2011|03:17 pm] |
I don't know what's gotten into me recently. I've done more significant flying in the last year than in the thirty preceeding it. Last year it was because I was in Hedland, and wanted to see friends, family and other half occasionally. This year, it's conferences.
Just finished up the annual ARA scientific conference; had two days at the end for the paediatric splinter group meeting. I think I can take it as a marker of improving educational level that *this* year I understood what they were getting at most of the time. Admittedly, there were still a few "huh?" moments. I also got to present a section this year. I rather think I babbled, mostly.
*sigh*
Oh well.
I also just found out that another friend is having a severe attack of life sucking. *Hugs*
On the plus side, I made a new friend in Brisbane. I don't think she's a dreamwidth afficionado yet, though.
I shall continue sitting here, at another airport.
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| Hong Kong update |
[Apr. 16th, 2011|09:43 pm] |
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| | Hong Kong | ] |
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| |  sleepy | ] |
I take back the comment about less edible; food here is niiiice :) Just had a meal which included peking duck and proper, home-made custard. Not in the same dish, in case you were wondering.
Feeling very tired; possibly a consequence of the long plane trip. More likely due to taking a casual walk yesterday up to the ladies market (conservative estimate of 4km away, given that I wandered around a lot, looking at the parks). I had a moment of unreality somewhere in there, when I realised that I was sitting in a Japanese resteraunt in Hong Kong, on a conference about lysosomal storage disorders (note the acronym), having just meandered through a park which included Australian birds in the aviary. Life is odd at times.
Have been meeting new people, and learning much. Now heading bed-wards for the land of nod. Tomorrow, tea!
And Thursday, the rest of the world.
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| Conference Surprise! |
[Apr. 14th, 2011|12:14 pm] |
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Which is a bit like chicken surprise, but less edible. Didn't really forsee myself heading overseas to a conference on lysosomal storage disorders, and yet, here I go! Off to Hong Kong!
Maybe. The flight has been delayed for nearly an hour so far. We'll see.
Updates as appropriate :)
NB: OMG they've put me in business class! Unfamilar territory.
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| Ay. Woe is me. |
[Mar. 22nd, 2011|08:58 pm] |
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| | home | ] |
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| | sore | ] |
Well. In the ongoing battle between gardener and cooch-grass, this round goes to the weeds.
My back is killing me. The fact that it is my own sweet fault for not using the correct posture doesn't help. The fact that as I was weeding, I actually thought, 'This is a bad position to weed in. My back is going to be sore tomorrow' really doesn't help.
*Sigh*
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| The infrequent update |
[Mar. 20th, 2011|06:46 am] |
So... last year for St Patrick's day, I was in Port Hedland with a stinker of a cold. This year, I was in Perth. With the start of a cold; and this was ignored. One thing I discovered (to my amusement) was that my prospective father in law was talking cheerfully to an old family friend about the fact that his son was going to marry an Irish woman. It's funny because this also represented the Swiss consul gossiping to the Irish consul.
On a sadder note; the Irish consul for Perth has announced his retirement :(. Michael can't retire! He's only 80! And his presence will be missed. He is always dignified, polite, meticulous and good humoured. Not to mention efficient and effective.I think I've known him since I was a pipsqueak.
Yesterday marked the end of one of the busiest months of my life. I should comment that it was rendered full by an astonishing variety of events, rather than by a single thing. Most notably, D's brother's wedding to K (pretty, pretty!). But also St Patrick's day functions, concerts, dress shopping with my foster sister, family visits, work... you name it.
For the last two day I've also had a set of two migraines. Yay, cluster headaches. On the other hand, the aura is really quite pretty (once you've already had the aspirin, and are waiting for what may come). I'm hoping against a train of three.
Today I plan to go for a walk, do some gardening and some dress making. Possibly vacuum the house. I can almost guarantee that this plan will fall through somehow. But it'd be nice to hope! Maybe I'll have some dim sum.
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| and come to rest at last |
[Feb. 5th, 2011|09:26 pm] |
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Wow! Long week.
Ten days, for a start. Not the longest ever (about twenty, I think), but bad enough. That it started with four ICU night shifts, seamlessly merged into my first week as a fellow and ended as an emergency department senior reg is the bit that made it tricky. Three different jobs in the one span of work!
Whee!
But! First week in my chosen career path fun! It's going to take me a while to get used to the idea of not running madly every second of the day. To become accustomed to having time for lunch every day. Not very long, mind you. One week will do it :)
And I just got home. Feeling tired, sore and accomplished. Need to be up in time for coffee with the radio crew. Should probably go to bed.
Before I do; nice sight I saw on the way home. Driving past a house, I happened to notice that there were a bunch of kids in the front yard playing on the trampoline by the light from the front door. It looked like fun :)
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