I have been feeling nostaglic for my blog. November is especially wistful because of all of the years that I did NaBloPoMo. Of course, nostalgia quickly passed when I discovered that it no longer cross-posts to my other blogs and I have to update it, which will break all of my plugins. 

But I’m here. And it’s now November.

1) I’m mostly on facebook these days. While there are many, many things that I find annoying about facebook, I do appreciate the dialogue that it fosters. I belong to something like 50 different groups (that vary in their activity and my activity; I’m probably active in less than 10), mostly Mormon and politics related. I’ve made many friends through facebook that has almost made up for the alienation from my extended family for my political beliefs. 

2) I went (mostly) sugar free for the month of October as a challenge to myself because I tend to have an addictive personality. I may have forgotten that October is the start of the heaven known as pumpkin everything. Getting to finally eat my pumpkin macaron and dark chocolate pumpkin spice caramel (curse you, Trader Joes!) was utter bliss tonight. Also pumpkin spice M&Ms are delightful, but caramel apple milky way bites are (shockingly) even better. 

3) I’m working with a new neurosurgeon at the hospital (he started 2 weeks ago). His micromanaging is beyond aggravating. Plus his decisions aren’t based on any kind of evidence based decision. The nurses are frustrated. I’m frustrated and trying to remember that transitions cause growing pains for all of us. One more day. 

4) I am still finding the transition to attending physician to be … disconcerting, even a year later. But there is something truly satisfying about evaluating the decisions you’ve made and realizing that they were good ones. 

5) I am so excited for the extra hour of sleep tonight, you all have no idea.