See, and I've read (on the internet, so you KNOW it's true!) that the "child-sized speculum" doesn't actually exist, and doctors just say they're using a smaller one so that the patient will relax.

Huh. That could be totally true. I am way gullible most of the time. Power of suggestion, baby!

Jesus! I'm surprised I didn't send that thing across the room

Snerk.

I wonder if the Guy!Bitches are hiding their eyes from all this. Though ND is apparently wishing for some sort of release from his travail.

Nothing makes ND hide his eyes. Except possibly really bad acting.

No, wait. He watches B-Movies for fun.

I return to, "Nothing makes ND hide his eyes."

She's right

Why would I hide my eyes?

My brain just protects me from my traitorous eyes by telling me those strange words you are using are just foreign words for lollipops.

And Steph, just because you didn't like the foreign lollipop you received at the doctor's office, there is no need to want to send it across the room...

Steph -become the pain-in-ass patient. Call every day,even twice.

glad to read about cbd and vw. It makes me happy.

ahead: rant

Dear boss: You approved C's vacation for one month. I do not need vague threats that you might cover some times,if you can. you approved her vacation. And yes S being pregnant and leaving in august is inconvenient-- but honestly, she will leave early if her minor complication can't be accommodated. S's boss promised S and us that some of her time will be covered - but no -- i can't predict our exact needs 6 months in advance. Please remember there is one week in august where you need me healthy so the tiny library that is ONLY open 2 days a week , but hourly circulation beats EVERY OTHER LIBRARY in the county willonly have me in the children's and adult services dept. P.s. Sending your email after 5 - low and dirty trick.

NO love

Me

I've had bosses who don't realize their email is time stamped.

One sent an email that had been written two days before, but didn't clear the outbox until 7 PM on a Friday.

Came in Monday and tried to yell at people for not doing the work before they left Friday.

Real class.

Steph, I hate your GYN's office. Seriously.

My OB-GYN is made of the awesome. And I say that as someone who really really really didn't want to go to her because I thought she was cursed. And given how early I gave birth, maybe she was cursed (and she had lots of babies she had delivered in the NICU) but she also saved my life.

When I went back for my annual exam, she was strongly in the "no really. how are you actually doing?" line of questioning. And the ladies in her office are made of win.

Trees like 70 degrees too: [link]

Xpost with F2F thread:

From the Mpls StarTribune:

Summer...officially begins at 6:59 CDT p.m. Friday.

This is the first time since 1896 - 112 years - that the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere has occurred before June 21, according to the William M. Staerkel Planetarium at Parkland College in Champaign, Ill.

According to the science-advocacy website www.earthsky.org, the time of the summer solstice is officially 11:59 p.m. June 20 Coordinated Universal Time as measured at the prime meridian at Greenwich, England.

So 7 PM Friday in Madison is Solstice time!