Gina Bean!

My test is Thursday and Friday?!?  I haven’t even opened a book yet!  (only a mild exaggeration…) Perhaps I should stop being hobbity and try being studious instead.  Wish me luck!

The dog is very, very scared of laundry baskets.  She freaks out when she sees them, she runs away from them, she even barks at them.  If it put one down in the doorway, she’ll whine instead of trying to push it out of the way. Surely this has nothing to do with me chasing [...]

I love lazy Saturdays at the house.  I’ve done very little that could be actually considered productive today and it’s been one of my best days in a long time.  Even Moira, who’s normally so aloof, sort of hung out with Evan and me today.  It’s like a dream come true! And I’m already sleepy.  [...]

We left for our intern retreat yesterday after enjoying some lunch in Bricktown and I found out to my surprise that Turner Falls is just a little over an hour away.  Our car got to the cabin without too much trouble (but still later than Scott and Katherine) so Jasmine, Kelly, and I picked out [...]

From The Onion, 98% of Babies Manic-Depressive: A new study published in The Journal Of Pediatric Medicine found that a shocking 98 percent of all infants suffer from bipolar disorder. “The majority of our subjects, regardless of size, sex, or race, exhibited extreme mood swings, often crying one minute and then giggling playfully the next,” [...]

Tomorrow, after seeing my patients and some introspective stuff, we interns will head out to lunch and then go on to Turner Falls for our two day, one night retreat.  I wasn’t really feeling excited about it until today, but now I find I’m looking forward to packing up a few things and heading out [...]

I initially woke up this morning at my regular time, around 5:30am or so.  I was wide awake and hungry, and since Evan was too, it wasn’t too hard to convince him to go grab some breakfast at Jimmy’s Egg.  They don’t open til 6am though, so I figured I’d lay around a little bit [...]

Evan and I apprehensively bought Moira a new bed not too long ago.  I say apprehensively because in the past, she had a habit of finding the seams in all her beds and stuffed toys and systematically destroying her stuff (she had this poor little stuffed lion that lasted about 5 minutes; we turned around [...]

Our program looks like it’ll have a lot of good interns coming in next year.  I hope they’re prepared for how mean we all plan on being to them.  I mean, I know that I’m starting to feel pretty tired, so I won’t want to work very much at all if I can help it [...]

No matter how much or how little sleep I get while on call, I need to remind myself to take a nap after I get home.  I mean seriously…why did I stay awake until now?!?  My eyes are watering from all the yawning, I can’t think straight, and my head keeps drifting off to the [...]

After I go home tomorrow around noon, I will only have one call left in the PICU.  I’ve been pleasantly surprised this month to find that I’m really enjoying myself, but the level of acuity is starting to wear on me a bit.  As much as I enjoy procedures and seeing the really sick kids [...]

Earlier in the month, I ran into Misty and Maureen and we decided we should all grab sushi together some day.  We picked a random day in the month (not totally random…a Wednesday for Sushi Neko’s buy one, get one free california roll before 5pm), we put it in our calendars, and then I promptly [...]

Adrienne brought her label maker to work last week and I had to go out and buy one of my own later that day.  It’s awesome!  I carry it around with me all the time, looking for things to label.  I’ve even said I’m going to label Moira, but for some reason Evan won’t go [...]