One week until Wedding. My pager is officially off and I am not dealing with anything, as of 4:30 PST today. Crazy people who are not related to me by blood or impending marriage are hereby instructed to go bother someone else until September 30th.

Me? Panicking? Stressful and grumpy? Nonsense! Weddings are fun and happy times! Really!

In other news, these are pictures of cats in a box.


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• Finally has medical license. Can write prescriptions for random strangers now. Temptation to pay for wedding by writing a few scripts for oxycodone is quite strong.
  
• Seattle continues to be excellent, minus one annoying heat wave. We've been seeing less of it, because pretty much all our free time is now consumed by stupid wedding planning.
  
• Cat ( Read more... )

Well, two, actually. We're at the point of deciding on the wedding bands, and we're torn, so we are asking teh Internets for opinions.

Candidate #1 is a titanium with wood inlay. The samples we've seen look a lot better than the Web picture, but here's a rough idea:


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We had a bit of an adventure this afternoon. I was relaxing on the lawn and sipping a rosemary lemonade and reading comic books while contemplating other recreation. Life was good. And then, we saw the cats poking their heads out the door. Now, I've had a theory for a while that the way to keep the kitties from running away is to condition them to ( Read more... )

Between internship and wedding planning, we've unsurprisingly been a bit busy. So far, internship's not too bad. I still get to go home by 5 unless I'm "short call", and even that sends me home around 6. First day of actual call will be Sunday, 8am-6pm shift. Even that's not too bad -- our inpatient unit looks like it'll either be full or have one ( Read more... )

An hour ago, a parade of lesbians marched past my front door.

Now, we are drinking $4 Red Hook and listening to "Seattle's only transgender 80s cover band".

I love this town.

The official guide to What To Do In Residency is the "UWMC PRON".

You are investigating wedding venues. The facility coordinator tells you that she thinks it'd be better if your event finished before the party one floor below begins, because she's worried about that party causing too much noise. When asked what exactly is one floor down, you are told "it's a zombie film festival".

This is:

A. Bad, and should ( Read more... )

Very good weekend. We have FINALLY gotten all our boxes unpacked, and freecycle is an excellent method for getting used moving supplies out of one's house. We also:

• Had dinner with my former research advisor and her (adorable) kids.
  
• Wandered around two potential wedding sites and identified a couple others to call.
  
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