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20th March 2007

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Did I tell you all about the latest development in my life? No, well guess what? I had a very sweet man propose marriage to me.

He’s 91. Do you think the age difference might be too troublesome?

This is why I love being at the VA. There’s the perks of he slower pace of life, and men constantly telling you that you’re pretty. Flattery, my friends, is a heady thing. (Don’t worry, it was very quickly tempered by being called nurse after introducing myself as Dr. D****** every single morning. Bah).

My patients, for the most part, are sweet and genuinely thankful for the care that they receive. It’s like watching Miss Manners in action, why she preaches on minding your manners and saying please and thank you. Because they are more appreciative, I have more satisfaction about my job, and while I might not provide any different care in the way that I work them up or think about their issues or provide medicines, because I’m happier, they perceive that they are getting better care, so they in turn are happier, which makes me happier…

And it’s nice sleeping a little on call. Last night, I was in bed a little after midnight. My pager went off once at 6 am and I woke up at 7. That’s 7 hours of sleep. Granted, I was waking myself up every hour to make sure that I hadn’t overslept a page, but it was still rest and sleep, more than I get at the Big Hospital down the road.

And can I just say how much I love my cointerns?? I work with some fantastic, humorous, smart, fabulous people and I can’t imagine how more difficult this would be without them in my life. Someday, I’ll share the stories, someday. See, sleep makes me a big softie. 🙂

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I really can’t figure out the fascination with MySpace. Ads sprinkle every page, which have clashing, difficult to read color schemes. Loud, annoying music blares whenever you, poor sap, make the mistake of clicking on someone’s profile. And I have yet to figure out the allure of adding “comments” to each other profile, which basically turn into instant messaging tag teams, and if you happen to be a stalker a curious bystander, you have to click on all of those profiles to get the whole story.

But I have run into some old friends of mine. A classmate from high school who’s now a nurse, a fellow Access girl who just completed medical school, Sam and her husband and her sister and her mom (*g* Sam, we should just give it up and become blood sisters. We practically are.), a college roommate of my sister’s, etc. And today, one of my medical school classmates… who actually moved out here with his wife to do residency. Besides the month that I worked with Ann in the ER, I’ve barely seen her or Aaron. We live approximately 10 miles apart and it takes a webpage to reconnect us. Yep, that’s the technological world we live in.

OTOH, it is because of technology and the wonderful invention of cell phones that I had a fantastic call last night from Kenya. 🙂 That’s one way to brighten up a call night.

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  • I honestly cannot stand myspace pages which have tons of pics and descriptions etc which often even stretch out the page. Granted, I have people on my friends list who have that predicament, but I’ll reveal here that I have not been able to even look at their mainpage for more than a few seconds. It’s overwhelming.

    But, I too have found people I had lost touch with.

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