The nurse is totally bossing the doctors around to get the pain management tasks she thinks are best ordered from now, so they don't have to hunt down a doctor when her current painkillers wear off

Competence!

There was an email that came over the campus parenting list-serv in North Carolina asking for mohel recommendations. A couple of hours later there was a very funny followup thanking everyone for the motel recommendations, but explaining what a mohel was.

Heh. When I was in middle school, I had to memorize a poem that started with "There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold." My mother overheard me reciting it and asked to see the poem, because she couldn't figure out what those men were doing.

"The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert Service.

Hooray for bossy nurses and dr's who listen to them!

Indeed!

I've been decorating all day and am way overheated. It seems to be way too much effort to get a suit on and jump in the pool. And yet it would cool me off.

Wow, that Walgreens is just lovely. Well done!

The bank vault was retained and now is a "Vitamin Vault"

There's an old bank that was a spa for a while and is now a salon and i guess they kept the vault through all that because I am told that now you get your hair washed in the vault. Haven't seen it for myself.

That Walgreens is crazier than the one on State & Randolph.

Yikes--as I was leaving the ER (in an efficient and timely fashion, because the nurse deserves every accolade you give her (which reminds me--I need to plan for which visit is the one where I bring them Christmas treats. I wonder if home made would work? Like I'd get around to it...)) I heard the doctor say "Okay, and now the second part [insert my eek! here] and put your hip back into place." I have no idea what that really means but I didn't want to find out. As I was going through the last door into the lobby I noticed the older man who'd been sitting with her (I assumed father, have no real idea) sitting in the fast track section looking completely exhausted.

No doubt! Obviously it's not as bad as being the injured ones, but if that's a father who has to watch his daughter be conscious when they put a pin in...well, there's no good relationship other than nemesis for getting through that..

On a completely different topic, I've found that adding ground cloves to the muffins is a really tasty change, but why the fuck was it so hard to find them ground? Only one brand had any displayed there yesterday. I found a second use for my shopping list software--telling me if something is a thing. I could find out that McCormicks makes ground cloves, so even if it's not the brand I end up with, at least I know it's relatively mainstream.

That Walgreens is crazier than the one on State & Randolph.

Is that the one where Loehmann's used to be?

why the fuck was it so hard to find them ground?

Man, it shouldn't be, especially during Christmas season! Unless people are buying more of it right now and that's why it's not on the shelf?

suspect a plot by Big Spice.

I made a little shriek today but it was because my supermarket has started carrying Tastykakes.