Damn You, Cold Season!

So I have a cold, in which my head feels like a bowling ball. (Stupid sinuses!) For some reason, in the week following my having a flu vaccine, it always seems to wreck enough havoc on my immune system for me to catch this kind of crappy bug.

My dearest wishes at this moment would be for the following:
1) my bed blankets to wrap myself in
2) my PJs
3) a cup of herbal tea
4) my kitty to snuggle with
5) a long nap

Instead, I'm:
1) sitting at my desk chair
2) in my work clothes
3) with a cup of water
4) I'm snuggling with my computer
5) I have to go in an important meeting!

Not quite what I crave. LOL

I'm Having One of Those Days...

This has just been an all-around crappy day. I got up in a fairly good mood, but everything since then has contributed in making me grumpy as all hell. I came in to work around 7:15 to get a jump on all the writing I have to do. I start reading the comments my supervisor had left on a document. That left me highly irritated since basically what she wrote was the exact opposite of what she told me to do last week. After that, I start looking for testing material for the patient I was to see today, and not only one but TWO tests that belong to my service have gone missing. I have sent out a very nice email appeal for the borrower to return the material. We nicely loan our material to others, but I am seriously going to start locking up my stuff if this keeps happening. I need these things to do my job!

Then, I was working with a patient who kept crying during testing. She was so tense, it was unbelievable. Basically, I felt like I was kicking a puppy for about 3 hours, which is not a good feeling. Plus, people in the hallways around my testing room were being loud and were an additional irritant.

Now, it is 2:30, and I'm finally having lunch. My officemate is doing his weekly calls to his patients so he is speaking really loud on the phone because so many patients are hard-of-hearing.

Do you think a head can literally explode?

My Laptop Is The Biggest Pain In The Ass

My laptop is yet again having fits. This time, the screen has decided to stop working. I swear to God, it wants me to throw it out of the window. Argh.

Anyway, to improve my mood, I went on YouTube and found this:



So funny! Bringing sexy back! Michael and Dwight are bringing on something, that's for sure... LOL

Yay For Molecular Biology!

Scientists discover a key protein in the reproduction of the influenza virus. How interesting is that? I'm always so impressed when steps like that are made. Hopefully, it will mean more efficacious protection against the flu! :)

TV, Why Do You Make Me Sad?

I watch very few dramas and comedies on TV, and I now remember why. Dear God, I can't take the angst! On last night's episode of The Office, the Scranton and Stamford branches merged, and Michael is now in charge of them all so that means more friends for him, which makes him so happy! Ha! He even made a welcoming video called Lazy Scranton, based on the SNL clip Lazy Sunday. Hilarious. One of the new employees, Andy, played by Ed Helms of The Daily Show, is the ultimate suck-up, which gets oh so much under Dwight's skin. That was all great.

They are trying to kill me with the Pam and Jim relationship though. Pam was so happy to have Jim back in Scranton, because she finally broke up her engagement and seemed ready to start something with Jim. He was being distant most of the day (he got rejected by her before so it was understandable to be on his guard.) At the end of the episode, Jim announced to Pam he was dating someone else! Kill me. This is like the Mulder & Scully dynamic but at least 10 times worst. LOL The new girl in Jim's life, another employee from Stamford who got transferred with him, has no idea what went down with Pam so it should be fun when that blows out in the open.

Anyway, this made me so sad because:

1) A comedy shouldn't be bumming me out.
2) I can't believe I care enough about fictional characters to be feeling sad about their fate (they are NOT REAL!)
3) Seriously, I don't want them to hate each other. It is not fun to watch.
4) I don't think I can tolerate another Mulder/Scully or Ross/Rachel type of relationship again. Because, by the end, I didn't really care what happened to those 2 couples. It had dragged on so long that I wasn't too fond of them anymore.

Let's hope Jim and Pam make up sooner than later. Otherwise, I'll be weeping in my corner. LOL

People's Sexiest Man Alive

So People is the dorkiest, most suck-up celebrity magazine out there, but damn if they didn't pick my man, George Clooney, as the Sexiest Man Alive 2006. Good pick! Plus, they put my TV boyfriend, John Krasinski, in the top 15! (Although The Office is some serious angst these days, and is killing me a bit!) Plus, there is Johnny Depp. And Taye Diggs. And Jake Gyllenhaal. And Rodrigo Santoro. And Eric Mabius. Man, that is A LOT of pretty!

I've Joined The New Blogger

We can now lock posts and such... Interesting. I'll have to look around more. I just hope it works right.

So I haven't been around in a while. Life has been pretty crazy recently, and I've been too tired to blog. How lame of me. I've been seeing some really interesting patients, and I am just learning a whole lot. I am very happy even though I am working all the time. Overall, life is good, and I feel I am where I am supposed to be.

I met some patients I know I'll never forget. I work in a Jewish hospital, and from time to time, we get Holocaust survivors. (Of course, they are not as numerous as they used to be.) I had a patient a little while ago, who told me all about his life in concentration camps. I know I'll never forget that. I actually got home that night and cried, because there is just something about the pain in his eyes that is indescribable. He was the nicest man, who has survived the worst things possible, and I was so sad to see he couldn't get peace of mind in the twilight of his life. A lot of survivors start to reexperience memories from the war more acutely in their later years when people around them start dying again and they start experiencing loss.

Anyway, those are the big things, but life is mostly a lot of minutae. I bought Christmas decorations over the weekend, and have started hanging it up. There is nothing that makes me quite as happy as Christmas decorations. I bought some blue cascading lights that I've put in my living room window. So pretty. I've also started decorating my tree, but it is a work in progress that I'm not quite satisfied with yet.

Last thing... Today was municipal election day in Toronto so I got to go vote. How exciting! Mind you, it is important because the city keeps doing things such as pulling apart one of the main roads to improve the transit system (good, if a hassle for now), but is going to redestroy it in 2 years to put electric cables underground instead of doing it all at the same time (stupid!). So yeah, it is important to vote.

I promise to try to update more regularly! Kisses and hugs to all! :)