Daydream Believer

You know how, in the Avengers comics, anything made by Stark Industries has the prefix Stark, as in StarkPhone? It occurred to me that if this was the case with companies such as Apple, we would have the JobsPhone. And then I giggled for about an hour.

JobsPod.

I have got all the germs. Really, poorly people should not be allowed to come to A&E and make the doctors poorly. What's the world coming to?

New job is going well - I'm starting to settle in and not feel quite so out of my depth all the time. Major trauma still frightens me, but I haven't done my ATLS (advanced trauma life support) course yet, so I think I'll feel better when I've done that. And I have done many cool things like stitching up people's heads and injecting nerve blocks into their legs (for broken hips) and removing items from ears. It's amazing how many items get into ears.

In other news - I haven't wanted to say too much for fear of jinxing it, but we're so nearly there now - Alan and I are buying a house! It's a little cottage, converted from a barn, in north Nottinghamshire, and I am in love with it. It has exposed beams and a big kitchen and a log burning stove and a big garden with chickens and ducks and geese. The geese hate me - every time I go to look at the place they stretch their necks at me and go 'OOOOOOOOOOONNNNNKKKK' in an ominous manner. I have named them Atilla and Genghis.

I start teaching at the med school next week, which is really odd. I've been on a few induction days, the latest being yesterday, and it's so strange to call my old tutors by their first names and be allowed to make tea in the staff kitchen. I remember thinking when I was a med student that the clinical educators knew everything; I totally hero-worshipped them. It turns out (if they're anything like me) that this was not the case. It's all in the presentation, I suppose, and in good preparation. Although currently my presentation is jet lagged (from finishing night shifts) and snotty. The glamour is unbearable.

Right, I don't think I'm going to get back to sleep, so I might go and drink a cup of tea with my dad. Alan and I are staying in Nottingham for a few days as I've got some time off and he works here now (as a psychiatry specialist trainee) so it saves him the commute and means I get to see my kitty ♥.

How are all of you?

Avengers sequel squee!

That is all.

PSA first - my phone is inexplicably not working! It will do everything but calls and texts. This is going to be a bugger tomorrow when I am on call. Anyway, if you want me, tweet or email (my phone still alerts me to tweets so they work a bit like texts). Edit - it seems to have been a problem with the O2 network, and (touch wood) it appears to be fixed....

Yesterday's positivity: I succeeded in managing a difficult on-call with my registrar at a clinic on the other side of the county, and still got home just about on time. This job has definitely improved my organisational skills, which is a really good thing as that's always been something I've struggled with a bit.
Also, I had a lovely long sleep when I got home :-)

Today's positivity: Nobody bleeped me for a whole hour this morning, so I curled up on the comfy seats in the hospital Costa and caught up on emails and paperwork. There may have been a latte involved; it was very nice.
Also, this evening, I have discovered last.fm, about a century after everybody else in the world. It is suggesting some good stuff and some odd stuff, but I am enjoying it.

And a very happy 4th July to my American friends! Happy.... fireworks, or whatever you do :-)

( 4th July )

In an idea stolen from the lovely igotaplan, I'm going to try to post something positive for every day in July, however small. I may do several days at once, but I'll try to cover all the days.

( So without further ado.... )

I am very sunburned. This will be extremely embarrassing in my dermatology clinic tomorrow.

I have been to see choccy_mouse and we have been singing a lot. alan_mcleod is threatening to put me in the garden if I do not stop singing Wild Rover, which will now be in my head forever. I am currently whispering it very quietly, with the occasional outburst of "NO NAY NEVER".

I'm sorry I've been missing in action for what seems like forever! I have been so busy, and have come home and slept every evening rather than updating my lj.
I have a job with slightly more reasonable hours now, though, and am beginning to try to be sociable again.

To which end: is anyone in Coventry free to go out on Saturday? I finally have a weekend off, and I thought I might go visiting. Dinner and drinks sound appealing to anyone?