March 17, 2007

  • You wouldn't think...

    ...so few people could be so loud.  Greetings from Baton Rouge, LA.  After a week in San Francisco with the family, I'm here in lovely BR visiting LSU's Astronomy Grad Program. 
    I will hopefully blog about both trips in detail later (though it's
    doubtful, so you're probably better off just asking me), but for now, a
    quickie.  The department has put us up in the LSU Faculty Club, which
    is really quite a nice hotel.  Not plush by any means, but comfortable
    and spacious.  In addition to hotel rooms there is a large banquet
    room, which was rented out tonight to a local high school for their 9th
    Grade 80's St. Patrick's Day Dance/Party.  The music was insanely loud,
    basically preventing any work from getting done, and then, when it
    finally ended, they all congregated outside my window while a man with
    a megaphone announced the name of each student as his/her parents
    pulled up to get him.  It went on forever.  Here's a shot, midway
    through the name-calling:

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    I know it doesn't look like that many people, but boy do they have some lungs on them!

    Besides the disruption, the visit is going well so far.  On the knitting front, I am nearly done with Fetching, part (a):

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    I really like the pattern and mostly like the yarn (Karaoke),
    and hope to get them complete soon!  And now, the noise has stopped and
    I will attempt to get some work done before I fall asleep!  Ciao a
    tutti!

Comments (2)

  • I like the colour of that pink yarn! Check out my knitting page.

  • A Scribe:

    Soft
    Cuddly
    Really nice
    Iridescent (sp?)
    Boy
    Extraordinaire

    Just kidding. The kind of scribing I'll be doing is as follows:
    Every shift (10 hours, 4-5 times a week) I'll be assigned to a different ER physician. As he or she sees patients, i take down their diagnosis, lab orders, x-ray orders, etc. I then get the results of such labs or x-rays and write down anything pertinent for the doc. As well, some of the physicians take you under their wing and teach you a lot of diagnostics that you don't get until 3rd year of med. school. Pretty awesome if you ask me!

    Sean

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