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Family, Life
Zoe the scientist
She sees Joel’s new red-ink pen that has a reddish grip. “Is this pink?” Joel: Well, it’s actually red, but I can see why you might think that. “I think it’s pink. Can I try it out?” I have never been so proud. She has a hypothesis, and she wants to test it. “Oh, it’s […]
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Family, General, Life, School, Work
Resourceful
07.28.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsZoe had a diversity/international celebration at school today. The request was that each child dress in a representative ethnic costume for a parade and bring a dish for everyone to sample. It’s a great idea. Until we remembered that we’re white. We (w)racked our brains for the better part of a week to come up […]
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Family, Life, School, Work
I lost 10 pounds in 2 weeks on the MS3 plan. Ask me how!
07.14.11 | Permalink | 3 CommentsSooooo hi. Life on the wards. My first rotation is internal medicine at the county hospital. My team was on call the very first day. It was a harrowing, soul-sucking, what-the-eff-have-I-gotten-myself-into 30 hours and I was 99% certain I would not return for another minute of it. But I did. And after that day, I […]
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Baby, Family, General, Health, Life, School, Work
Clumsy
Here’s what just happened: A curly-headed blur zoomed past me as I carried the dog’s full bowl of water to his tray. Zoe, don’t run with a pen, please. It’s dangerous. “It’s not a pen, and anyway I was skipping with it. It’s my pencils.” ALRIGHT WELL WHATEVER YOU’RE RUNNING WITH STOP IT AND WALK […]
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Family, Life, School
One week to go!
So. It’s quiet around here. The Girl and her Dad-O took off for cooler temperatures and more entertaining people last week, leaving me with a wide open schedule to take this test prep by the horns. I finished the Doctors in Training Step 1 review course (15 days, 3 lectures per day) and am reading […]
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Family, Life, School
Days go by…
05.08.11 | Permalink | 4 CommentsFirst, Happy Mother’s Day to all the awesome Mamas everywhere! Mine is the bomb dizzle, of course. 🙂 Raising the munchkins is quite a job, and I’m grateful to the Moms in my life for who they are and what they mean to me, and I’m so glad to be Zoe’s Mom. Full disclosure: she’s […]
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Family, Life, Pets
The Vet
04.08.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsOn the way home from school today, Zoe and I were talking about many things, among which is Chief’s upcoming check-up at the vet. I said, “Chief is going to visit his doctor on Tuesday – do you want to come with me?” She said she did and went on to talk all about how […]
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Family, Life
Girly night
04.04.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsDaddy-O is at a meeting tonight, so Zoe and I have had a very fun girls’ night in. We made dinner, played games, drew pictures, scrubbed the kitchen floor and tidied the apartment, ate strawberries and greek yogurt, and discussed what we will be when we grow up (Zoe will be a ballerina; I will […]
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Baby, Family, Health, Life
Teleos and teratomata
We have a new niece, and she is gorgeous. 🙂 I got to hold her, and I suppose it’s safe from 271 miles away to admit that anyone other than family would have to fight me with a weapon to surrender her because holding newborns is definitely in my top three activities. Not sure what […]
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Family, Life
Grumbles and change
03.10.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThis morning sucked. It wasn’t that much different than any other morning, particularly a Tuesday or Thursday morning, but today was extra distressing – first world problem sorts of things. Thursdays Zoe has dance class around 9:30 AM, and Joel has class at 10 AM. It probably doesn’t need saying that we are always late […]
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