 NOBODY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER
Amy and the kids were at an open play date a while back. Our kids were playing in a sandbox area with other children when Sun Su said to his little sister, "Baby, don't do that." He calls Ooseung "Baby" because sometimes we still call her "Baby." Ooseung ignored him. Another little boy (around two years old) got up, stomped out of the sandbox, turned and exclaimed in tears, "I AM NOT A BABY!" And ran to his parents. Amy was the only person who noticed. Kids - 24-hour comedy. __________________________
MASTER PLAN
Sun Su and his same-age cousin are playing Halo 2 in cooperative mode. Their little boy voices squeaking out grown man commands crack me up. SUN SU: "Come on. Get up here." Cousin ducks out from behind a pillar, looks around, and gets beamed by a big purple blast. He hides behind pillar again. COUSIN: "He keeps shooting. He's making me die." Sun Su zooms his sights on an alien and snipes him with one shot. I. Am. So. Proud. Sun Su's actually better than I am at Halo 2, but give me a break, some of us have to work for a living. SUN SU: "You making me die by staying there. Just run up here." Cousin peeks around corner again. Fumbles with controller. COUSIN: "Oh nooo. He's still there." SUN SU: "Our plan was not running and hiding. Our plan was to throw bombs." I have to walk away and laugh. I am no fan of guns in real life but I enjoy playing cooperative games like Halo 2 with the kids. I think it teaches some things, like hand-eye coordination, team cooperation, listening to and giving instruction, bonding. All part of a well-balanced diet of exercise, education, imagination, and intergalactic fragging. Amy says I treat my five-year old boy like he's nine when we're playing together. I am pretty bossy while gaming, but still I have to disagree. I treat him more like he's twelve. I've tried getting Ooseung involved but she just wants to play family with her baby dolls. A three year old with a baby? What's up with that? She'll even ask me, "Where are the girl games?" Sigh. I'll turn my princess into a sharpshooting brawler yet. Give it a few years. __________________________ JOURNAL LINT
1. For some reason, track 7 is often one of the best songs on any given CD.
2. For my birthday, last month, I busted out my album of Duran Duran's Greatest Hits. The first ten seconds are the best part of every Duran Duran song. 3. Viral respiratory infection is upon us, at least in Michigan. Not just that, but I've had at least three patients who have been coughing so hard, they actually passed out. After thorough work-ups, it was just from the coughing. (Technically called post-tussive syncope.) 4. My computer will always glitch for a second about 2 seconds before my hospital pager goes off. It's like lightning before thunder. 5. So, a week after Amy's "American Citizen" party at work, she calls in sick two days in a row (and she never does that). And here I thought she couldn't possibly become more Americanized. 6. I think I am finding this journaling thing fun again. We'll see.  __________________________
BUSINESS AS USUAL So
... sometime after I finished the line above, I got paged by a nurse
(even though I'm not on call). I've just learned that one of my
patients is in the middle of a heart attack (but painless).
Several phone calls later, business is taken care of. It bothers
me though. You wonder if you could have discovered it
sooner. If those hiccups earlier were an atypical symptom of a
heart
attack sneaking up (via heart wall inflammation irritating the phrenic
nerve which activates the diaphragm which causes hiccups). It's
one thing if it occurs when they walk
in the ER doors, but it's another thing when it occurs after your name
has already been slapped on their wrist. It's your responsibility now. You just hope everyone
is still alive and happy in the morning.
Gives me a headache. Stomach ache. Business as usual.
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