Why I love the smell of coffee and (some) cigars but am not terribly fond of the taste.
How easy it is to convince myself that ten more minutes of sleep in the morning really WILL make my day better
The fact that everyone assumes I want to be married right now.
Miley Cyrus
Why the bus leaves my stop 5 minutes early every other day
How Colorado's public education system can suck so badly with such a high state income tax. Where is all that $ going, anyway??
Faux fur
The purpose of Braille on signs above hands’ reach
Why people in the military respond with their rank when asked what they do. Your rank doesn’t tell me what you do - and if you think I’m going to be impressed, you’re overestimating my knowledge of military hierarchy.
Denver’s weird turning lanes
People who text the word ‘Wat’. How difficult is it really to put the ‘h’ in there? Plus it reminds me of a less pleasant word.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Are You Important Right Now?
This is the way my sister answered the phone when I called yesterday - to determine if there was an actual purpose for the time that I was about to take up, or if I was going to verbalize half-developed thoughts and waste her time. If you're wondering whether or not I'm important right now, the answer is not really. I suppose the majority of my postings are that way....but just as a disclaimer, the following will be a random accumulation of stuff. Mostly because I'm just in a chill mood and have been asked for updates on life, so here we go!
Work: Great. Kinda slow with the whole training thing - standing around and watching people to get the feel for the overall flow of the lab. I won't get my own desk for a couple of months, but things should pick up soon.
Weekend: Fantastic. Went to Wyoming, saw the 'rents, partied with my cousins, attended the UW/Air Force game, visited Penney and the boys, came home and spent entirely too much money on a ski pass and related equipment (which I'm psyched about!)
Apartment: Progressing. I still have a few small improvement projects I'm working on and some organization that needs to get done, but overall it's great. Pictures to come, likely via facebook. (I know I keep saying that but I really mean it!) Internet and cable will FINALLY be hooked up this coming Saturday, so I'll be able to quit haunting the Starbucks every third day.
Generally, things are going really well. I'm happy here! I'm slowly meeting some people and that's definitely helpful as far as feeling at home is concerned. Elizabeth and Chad already have a trip out here planned - and my brother may be headed up for the SPE conference which would be awesome.
Hopefully that's enough of an update. I've got a chicken brining at home that I should probably go dry before it becomes completely preserved. Oh, and I have my first experience with RTD (the bus system) slated for tomorrow morning, so wish me luck. Hopefully it's a successful venture and I can rely on that to get back and forth between work...mostly because I refuse to pay close to 300 a year and park a quarter of a mile away from the building. It should save on gas too so that's a perk! I'm off to salvage the chicken. Buenos Noches!
Work: Great. Kinda slow with the whole training thing - standing around and watching people to get the feel for the overall flow of the lab. I won't get my own desk for a couple of months, but things should pick up soon.
Weekend: Fantastic. Went to Wyoming, saw the 'rents, partied with my cousins, attended the UW/Air Force game, visited Penney and the boys, came home and spent entirely too much money on a ski pass and related equipment (which I'm psyched about!)
Apartment: Progressing. I still have a few small improvement projects I'm working on and some organization that needs to get done, but overall it's great. Pictures to come, likely via facebook. (I know I keep saying that but I really mean it!) Internet and cable will FINALLY be hooked up this coming Saturday, so I'll be able to quit haunting the Starbucks every third day.
Generally, things are going really well. I'm happy here! I'm slowly meeting some people and that's definitely helpful as far as feeling at home is concerned. Elizabeth and Chad already have a trip out here planned - and my brother may be headed up for the SPE conference which would be awesome.
Hopefully that's enough of an update. I've got a chicken brining at home that I should probably go dry before it becomes completely preserved. Oh, and I have my first experience with RTD (the bus system) slated for tomorrow morning, so wish me luck. Hopefully it's a successful venture and I can rely on that to get back and forth between work...mostly because I refuse to pay close to 300 a year and park a quarter of a mile away from the building. It should save on gas too so that's a perk! I'm off to salvage the chicken. Buenos Noches!
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
The Children's Hospital
I can sum up this entire blog with one word - AMAZING. Let's just go ahead and face facts though; I tend to be a bit more loquacious...so I'll go ahead and do my rambling thing.
This place is AWESOME. If I'm ever reincarnated as a sick kid, I want to be stuck here. No joke. The entire hospital is more kid friendly than I ever would have imagined. They try not to stick the kids in wheelchairs. Instead, they have radio flyers with poles attached to hold on to their IV bags if necessary. You see kids being hauled around in shiny red wagons all day long. I don't know about you, but as a kid wagons were second only to a live horse as far as transportation went in my book.
The floors are separated by specialty, and are color and animal coded. For example, the first floor is the pink floor, or the butterfly floor. The third floor is the green floor, or the froggy floor. Pretty sweet, huh? By and large, the rooms are private. Each one has an Xbox 360 and a flat screen TV. Each floor has a gigantic play room fully loaded with every board game you could imagine, video gaming systems, arts and crafts supplies, blocks, the list goes on and on. It's meant to be large enough to accomodate a sick kid in bed PLUS his/her entire preK/grade school class, should they come to visit all together.
The decor of the entire hospital is unbelievable. The floors are giant tile mosaics of animals and characters and the walls are covered in children's original art. I'll put up some pictures when I get the opportunity. I haven't even begun to dig in to the awesome training the staff is given on the intricacies of child-specific healthcare. The technologies employed here are unbelievable. Unfortunately, my nasty little cold prevented me from touring the neonatal ICU, but I've unfortunately had reason to spend ample time in one before.
I've been in Allied Health training for a few years now, and it's so completely awesome to be in a room and speak with professionals who cover all disciplines from adolescent psyh to child life to radiology to research management to pathology/lab medicine. It's like I'm seeing all these aspects finally mesh together to functionally support a sick kid and their entire family from inital symptoms to completion of treatment and followup. For lack of a better expression, I'm totally stoked about the whole thing.
I was excited about my job for a lot of reasons (mostly completely unrelated to pediatric care) coming in, but knowing that I'm a part of this institution has really become a motivating factor. Today was simply overall hospital orientation. I'll get into the intricacies of the lab environment and the molecular menu tomorrow, and I'm sure I'll be just as wound up after that!
This place is AWESOME. If I'm ever reincarnated as a sick kid, I want to be stuck here. No joke. The entire hospital is more kid friendly than I ever would have imagined. They try not to stick the kids in wheelchairs. Instead, they have radio flyers with poles attached to hold on to their IV bags if necessary. You see kids being hauled around in shiny red wagons all day long. I don't know about you, but as a kid wagons were second only to a live horse as far as transportation went in my book.
The floors are separated by specialty, and are color and animal coded. For example, the first floor is the pink floor, or the butterfly floor. The third floor is the green floor, or the froggy floor. Pretty sweet, huh? By and large, the rooms are private. Each one has an Xbox 360 and a flat screen TV. Each floor has a gigantic play room fully loaded with every board game you could imagine, video gaming systems, arts and crafts supplies, blocks, the list goes on and on. It's meant to be large enough to accomodate a sick kid in bed PLUS his/her entire preK/grade school class, should they come to visit all together.
The decor of the entire hospital is unbelievable. The floors are giant tile mosaics of animals and characters and the walls are covered in children's original art. I'll put up some pictures when I get the opportunity. I haven't even begun to dig in to the awesome training the staff is given on the intricacies of child-specific healthcare. The technologies employed here are unbelievable. Unfortunately, my nasty little cold prevented me from touring the neonatal ICU, but I've unfortunately had reason to spend ample time in one before.
I've been in Allied Health training for a few years now, and it's so completely awesome to be in a room and speak with professionals who cover all disciplines from adolescent psyh to child life to radiology to research management to pathology/lab medicine. It's like I'm seeing all these aspects finally mesh together to functionally support a sick kid and their entire family from inital symptoms to completion of treatment and followup. For lack of a better expression, I'm totally stoked about the whole thing.
I was excited about my job for a lot of reasons (mostly completely unrelated to pediatric care) coming in, but knowing that I'm a part of this institution has really become a motivating factor. Today was simply overall hospital orientation. I'll get into the intricacies of the lab environment and the molecular menu tomorrow, and I'm sure I'll be just as wound up after that!
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