At the hospital: Keep out of light. Store in the dark.
Between here and there: Mini-self storage. For clones gone wrong?
On one of the instruments: a circle with a line through it, crossing out…an elephant? No elephants near the vitamin D machine, please! Upon closer inspection, the elephant turned out to be a pacemaker. This makes [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Seen Out and About: signs that made me laugh
Posted in Clinicals, Small Moments on 28 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Monday Madness – Small Moments
Posted in Small Moments on 27 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Discussing a co-worker’s upcoming GRE. She laments, “And the vocabulary! Who uses all those words anyway?”
I blush. “Me. I use those words.” Not an hour later, I use the word litigious in a sentence without even thinking about it. She blinks.
“Wow. You really do.”
Best sign of the day: Warning! Flammable. Keep Flame Away.
For people [...]
Small Moments: From the Floors
Posted in Clinicals, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Small Moments, Thankfulness on 24 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A nearly casual question about a book in the windowsill led to a heartbreaking story of love and loss. The storyteller thanked us for listening, but really it was the two of us who should have done the thanking.
Stopping in the hallway between two rooms, preparing supplies. Between the monitor beeps and the call bells, [...]
This Must Come First
Posted in Clinicals, Growing on 22 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I can be hypercritical. Don’t be so surprised. Just watch me in a room with a speaker and see the things I write down. Watch me write down things after I’ve given a lecture. This is what I do. It is something I am good at. Watching, questioning, making improvements, making cuts.
I am not here [...]
Not Sleeping in the Needles
Posted in Clinicals, School on 20 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So far, school has been contained between the hours of seven and three-thirty. This is good. It will no doubt change as we move into the full lecture schedule next week, but I have been grateful for the respite. For the time to go slowly, absorbing my surroundings.
There is a church in need of a [...]
Saturday Morning at the Palace
Posted in Small Moments, Thankfulness on 11 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It does seem like a palace. To live in a room three times the size of my room back home. To have a closet. A dining room. Porches galore.
The morning light wakes me early, the best sort of alarm clock. I wonder what waking here will be like in the winter. When people hear I’ve [...]
Overheard: Passing by an office
Posted in Overheard on 10 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Woman: I wonder if turtles get depressed. They just look depressed, y’know?
Out of Quarantine
Posted in Clinicals, Thankfulness on 8 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Newsflash everyone: I do not have tuberculosis.
