gosh, don’t you wanna fight evil?
I’ve hated clinics since I was a med student–I learned very early on that the place where I thrive, where I fit, is the hospital, and the 20 minute focused visits where I’m supposed to address the reason that the patient is there as well as any other issues that invariably crop up (social issues, always social issues) make me crazy.
Granted, my visits with a patient in the hospital usually are as short, if not shorter (ie, morning rounds: “Hi Mr So and so, how did you sleep? Breathing better? Any overnight issues? Okay, well, let me just listen to your heart/squeeze my fingers/press on your belly. I still haven’t seen your latest labs/images, but I’ll be reviewing them this morning and the whole team will be by to see you later this morning. Oh, probably around 10 or so. Hmm, I’m not sure when you’re going home, it depends on if the labs/images are improving. Work hard with physical therapy today. Any questions? Okay, I’ll see you later. Have a good morning!”), but the overall effect of seeing them day after day, discussing the case for hours with the team, looking at labs and images and making changes then to the plan, etc… It all makes it seem like there is a much more comprehensive rapport that develops over the 3-4 (or 10) days that they’re there in the hospital.
So, anyway. I’m doing outpatient clinics for the next two months (well, we’re down to 5 weeks now). And I had been dreading it. Okay, besides the weekends off, the 8 to 5 hours, the no call, dreading it. Strangely, I’ve really enjoyed the month so far. I’ve worked in the Allergy clinic, in the Cardiac Arrhythmia clinic, learned how to do PFTs, worked in the VA emergency room, in urgent care. And it’s actually been fun. It’s definitely better when you have a little more control on what goes on with the patient.
Oh, and the half days off… Brilliant.
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Because of the half days and free weekends, I’ve almost got a social life back. I went to the movies on Friday night (Hellboy, was rather unimpressed, which surprised me, because I had heard such good things about it. Sean Means, my personal movie reviewer *cough* gave it 4 stars! We have never parted company in opinions before. What is the world coming to?), on Saturday, I volunteered at a nursing home playing Bingo with the inhabitants; I was the announcer of the numbers and gave out prizes such as a stuffed purple poodle, that I craved myself.
A friend came by later that night and we made microwave cakes and complained about the shortage of dateable guys in our ward. There’s a large group of us who are older and getting slightly bitter (more than slightly in my case), that these guys, who are our age, are only dating the 18-19 year olds, if they’re even doing that. We’re thinking about starting a support group, because like it or not, the chances of us dating and getting married get smaller every year, and it’s a hard realization. I think it’s just hitting me now, the fact that I’ll be 30 in just a few short, short months. Bah.
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CuteIntern is still freaking adorable (although no longer an intern *sniff*). While commiserating with him about the should-have-expected-it ending of Dr. Horrible, he told me to check out a new show. A new show on ABC Family. A new, extremely campy, yet somewhat witty show on ABC Family, entitled “The MIddleman” which should should be checked out by everybody. I had to search everywhere for a streaming video (they lie about the season being available at ABC Family) so if anybody is interested, I can send you the link. It’s extremely campy, I don’t think I can emphasize that enough and it’s exactly why I think some of you will enjoy it. Seriously, take the pseudoscience alieny feeling of Doctor Who, add a good dose of insanity ala Red Dwarf, splash it with the chattiness of Gilmore Girls, and then spoof it all on turbo, and you’ve got the show.
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I’m having an X-Files party tomorrow to get ready for the new movie. I’m so excited, yo! We’re going to be watching a couple of our favorite old episodes and then the old movie. Hmm, which ones would you pick?
I’ve been very, very good about avoid spoilers and reviews, so I haven’t heard if the new movie is good or not. I don’t care. It’s been 10 years since I watched the first one and became an instant X-Files fan. Ten years since I lived and breathed X-Files, watching the new eppys with Sus on Sunday and all the reruns on FX whenever I could catch them, collected action figures (shut up), cut my hair like Dana Scully. I’ve lost my XF callouses though… I used to be hardened enough that I could watch even the most disturbing episode (Home, anybody?), and not flinch (too much). Now, I’m a wuss; I’m going to be whimpering and cowering in the theaters. I. Can’t. Wait.
Please, make it good, Chris Carter. I’ve cursed your name and doubted you since the series ended. You had over 5 years to get it right.
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My all-time favorite X-Files episode is “Post-Modern Prometheus.” The combination of black and white and a Cher soundtrack gets me every time. The Christmas episode with Lily Tomlin and Ed Asner was also fab.
Also, The Middleman is awesome (am watching it as I type this). I do need to see the first four eps, as I foolishly did not watch them.
And I’ll be 31 in less than a month, and I am still horribly single, so, yeah…I get that.
I’ve tracked down every version of “Walking in Memphis” that I can find because of that episode.
You can find episodes here. You do have to download a codex for video and/or audio, but so far, I haven’t had any other problems with it. Besides the dialog being slightly off from the picture in the first 3 episodes, but it’s bearable, it runs and isn’t slower than molasses.
I’ll be 31 in less than a month, and I am still horribly single, so, yeah…I get that.
Yep. I can be so happily single, but I still have that craving for “the other half” and it’s really getting hard facing the fact that I’m unlikely to get it…
I know.
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Yep. I can be so happily single, but I still have that craving for “the other half” and it’s really getting hard facing the fact that I’m unlikely to get it…
Yeah, that’s the real conundrum. I’m really happy with my life right now (which is something that I didn’t have for such a long time), so my motivation to go out and find The One is often low. But at the same time, I’ve always wanted to be a mom, and I know if I don’t get proactive soon, I could miss my chance.
*sigh*
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Oh! And I also loved “Small Potatoes,” mostly for the Star Wars references. 🙂
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My personal faves? May be a bit random. Besides the Darrin Morgan ones, which are all funny as hell…
Irresistable, Revelations, Pusher, Momento Mori, Arcadia, The Unnatural, The Sixth Extinction (by itself… and only because Scully just looks so fabulous here), Orison, all things, Per Manum (quite possibly more of a shippy episode in many ways than Momento Mori).
Oh, and given that I love Cher, I do have it. 🙂 In fact, I think I bought it after that ep aired, even though I prefer the Marc Cohn original.
I think the only one on your list that I’m not particularly fond of is all things. I like the Moby music, I like the opening and closing scenes, but other than that, not so much.
I’ll squeal and sing along to any version that plays. 🙂
Interesting – is it the Eastern spirituality, or just that it’s very different from a typical X-File?
It’s more that it felt like GIllian Anderson, rather than Scully. Especially the affair with her teacher. Just hated that. Scully’s always been a spiritual person, so I could buy the exploration of her faith in other ways… it just didn’t seem to have much resolution or purpose in her character arc. I felt that there were other episodes (Beyond the Sea) that used her spirituality and the balance between that and her belief in science much better.
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I’m still smarting from the horrific way CC ended the series. I lived for that show–I still have my action figures (and Barbie and Ken as Scully and Mulder), I still have some of the seasons on DVD (still too expensive to keep buying, though, and then there’s the bitterness). I played the computer game AND the videogame. I was an OBSSE member, even.
But I can’t bring myself to be excited about the movie, even if Billy Connolly is in it. I just don’t trust CC, or Spotsy for that matter. I hope it’s good; I hope I’m wrong. But I’m not expecting anything.
Oh yes, oh yes. I get you. I have never had an obsession quite like XF (DW is nothing compared to the overwhelming love and devotion that I gave that show). I stopped watching season 8, caught a few episodes of season 9 and that was it. Was rather blaise and bored about the finale.
I hope it’s good. They’ve had years to work on a script (and years for CC’s ego to get bigger, which was the primary problem in the first place, that he got so absorbed into his mythlogy that he forgot how to tell a story). And right now, I’ m really concerned that, like we saw with Billie Piper (at least I thought so in Turn Left, she got better after that), that both Duchovney and Andersen have forgotten how to play M&S and the characterization and acting will be off.
I LOVE YOUR ICON. I just thought you should know.
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They’ve had years to work on a script
I’m worried, though, that his prose has only gotten more purple in that time–the clips I’ve seen haven’t bolstered my confidence any.
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principia_coh made it–it’s totally snaggable. 🙂
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It doesn’t come out here until the 1st, so I will be avoiding your LJ with every ounce of my being. I’m spoiler free, and through some miracle of nature, I intend to keep it that way.
I promise you, no reviews, no hints (not in mood or LJ cut text), no nothing outside of an LJ cut, so if you can restrain yourself from clicking, my journal should be fairly safe. But I have no self-control, so I understand if you avoid me entirely.
How are you feeling about the whole thing? Excited? Nervous?
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I wish I could come to your X-Files party!!
I’d become pretty wimpy too since tXF ended but I’ve put in new callouses with strategic Supernatural and Bones viewing 😉