Head Nurse

...because I really can't call it cooking. Warning: girly foof ahead. The local Quick-ee-Mart had a sale on various frozen entrees this ...

Mom and Dad bought me a set of barrister bookshelves for my birthday. They arrived last week, but I only managed to bribe Chef Boy into help...

Just a cautionary note for readers: I ordered two Bill Bryson books on a Barnes & Noble gift card. Both of them arrived in the mail yest...

The weather went to shit night before last. In less than a day--in less than twelve hours, actually--the temperatures dropped from 82* to 22...

A tip for those who plan to spend a significant amount of time in the hospital, any hospital: No matter how long you plan to stay, or how im...

Or, Gosh, I'm Glad I Didn't Have A Souffle In The Oven Fruit Salad: honeydew melon that actually smelled like melon, alors!, pineapp...

Another entry in the Person With No Face contest: Weird eye tumor extending into the bone of the skull near the temple and up over the brow....

....that there'll never be a "CSI" set here, because there's only one DNA sample and no dental records. I just watched a n...

Care for another monotreme? This one not in Australia ? Oooo. I get so cheerful and happy and giggly when I read things like this. I will ne...

Thoreau never had a cell phone, that's for sure. And a land line, and a T1 connection for his computer, which he also didn't have. S...

First, to those of you who couldn't access the blog reliably over the last couple of days: Blogger has been having some unscheduled down...

I go back to work tomorrow after five days off, the first three of which I spent incredibly tired and feeling as though someone had scrubbed...

Okay, so Alito got confirmed. And it's likely that in the next decade or two, we'll see either states' laws become more restrict...

With a black guy. A *gay* black guy. A gay black Catholic clergyman.* In a wheelchair. No, that is not what I said. It's what I wish I...

I love my boyfiend. This is why: I called him an hour ago and said, "Look, I'm in a foul, foul mood that hasn't gone away since...

Cindy-Lou Who looked across the table at me just before report began. She widened her big brown eyes and said, "Y'know, this workin...

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My pal with ovarian cancer? Doesn't have cancer at all, thanks be to Frog. Turns out what she had is some sort of crazy rare benign grow...

(With apologies to Beloved Sister, who originated the title.) 0420: get up, get coffee, wonder again why I took a job that requires a forty-...

This is the time of year when, if you work in the typical hospital, the patients who come to you are either very sick or very weird. Sick, b...