Technicolor Dreams: February 2006

The Art of Freeloading...

On an intern's salary.....how do you afford a dainty four course meal??

Free din din a la Drug reps of "Novartis" baby!!

Play by play commentary:

#1- Keep an open network of informants who will immediately call you upon hearing of the event.
#2- Dress up at least semi formal so it doesn't look as if you jumped outta bed specifically for your night's dinner.
#3- Call up other friends/interns so you know you will at least have good conversation over there.
#4- Tuck away all pride into the glove compartment of your car before entering restaurant.
#5- You remind yourself that the other interns and even attendings are there for the same reason!
#6- Learn the art of nodding and shaking your head in tune to the long boring drone of a lecture you are only pretending to listen to.
#7- Order up a storm! Bruchetta, Calimari, Ribeye, Tiramisu...etc. You only deserve the best of course!
#8- Try not to get up and waddle out immediately upon finishing the meal. There was another reason you were here!
#9- Check to see if there are any "parting gifts"....who can't use another couple pens, or notepads!
#10- Push back the pestering thoughts in the back of your mind that this is why and how drugs become so damn EXPENSIVE and unattainable to low income patients!

Never underestimate the powers of being...

**Queen** for a day!

Have bath run for you to soak away your troubles,
then have the remaining stress massaged and kneaded out.

Men take notice!
At this point of utter relaxation,
it is possible to extricate nearly anything out of your partner.
Learn how to give a girl a Mani-Pedi...
and you'll be allowed to roam around doing WHATEVER you please afterwards!

A flock of Docs....

...is a rare sight. Organzing anything complicated or intricate is nearly impossible since someone is always "on call", "post call", "pre call"...or just plain worn out!

If you are lucky to get them in one room, and that's a big "IF", be prepared for the time of your life! Docs love to discuss Medicine, medicine and more MEDICINE! If not ranting about Medicine, then complaining about how their life sucks, they have no life, or that their lives have passed them by in the blink of an eye.

A doc amongst others is fine.
But....within a group of docs be prepared for a night of:

Boring and monotonous conversation.
Bitching about their lifestyle.
Tiredness and Grumpyness.

That is why we've vowed to be friends with people of any other professions besides Medicine.
Gas station clerks, Walmart workers, Big Lots employee's ....we're looking for you!

Happy Valentines Day!!!

How and why do we let this day overwhelm and get the better of us?

Just call me a hopeless romantic ;)

We had a record breaking Noreaster today.
In Hartford it measured about 21 inches of snow.

Sigh! I found this snow to be particularly interesting...
and I caught a couple snowflakes floating down.

This is the kinda snow you want to roll around in......
A winter wonderland indeed!!

My Man's a babe

......and wanted to help me do some cleaning around the house.
He told me he'd clean the toilet and tub and to take it easy.

Bless his heart....he ended up cleaning the toilet, the ground, the bathroom rugs, the outside carpet and anything else in the vicinity.

**For those wondering how he managed this.........He tried using half a roll of toilet paper to clean the toilet and then flush it down all at once. The toilet retaliated by vomiting all over our bathroom floor!

The Steelers won.

I think.

Yay?

This was my first Superbowl party.
Needless to say, I was clueless about the rules of the game,
and who was playing against whom.

My advice to my brotha's and sistah's out there
who also dont care much for this sport......
NEVER ask a group of guys if this game has an umpire or goalie!!

(On a sidenote, football players resemble Teletubbies!!)
Oh and is that padding they're wearing on their backsides??