Team America
There are at least three things that we as Americans know to be certainties.
1. Death
2. Taxes
3. RedHotHalos is the best damn thing out there.
RedHotHalos has become so good, it blows my mind. It's the purest form of blog.
I am currently in a quiet spot of a call night in the hospital. I am sitting on a bed in a room about 6x8 feet. I have a small lamp on, a computer on a cart in front of me (for entering orders at night) and a telephone. The nice thing about being in this room is that I can take my socks off and let my feet air out, something that is more difficult to do at the 5a nurses station.
This next item relates to both nurses and feet. One of the nurses this evening asked me what to do about her new foot problem. "I know this is like totally gross and you are going to totally think this is so gross, but my toenail kind of fell off and its kinda green underneath and smells really bad." She must not be a Vikings fan, because anyone who watches sports on television would know what to do about this seemingly very common problem. I am more amazed that I am placed in a situation where someone I am working with thinks its ok to say these things.
Drivel like this is important to me because I am not that good at following the news. I have started to get most to all of my news from the Daily Show, Colbert Report, and occasionally NPR in the morning. I occasionally read Internet headlines as well. I do understand that this is a very dangerous filter for receiving news, but at the same time it is the most entertaining.
My new DVR option from Comcast allows me to digitally record these shows daily. So along with the Daily Show and Colbert Report, I also record PTI daily and then a variety of cooking shows including Barbecue University, Barefoot Contessa, Everyday Italian, 30 Minute Meals, and Simply Ming.
Barbecue University is by far my favorite of the cooking shows. The way that it finds the simple goodness in foods is what appeals to me. It hurts to know how limited my grill equipment is (I am limited to essentially one mini Webber gas grill), but super fun to discover the lifetime of opportunities that await in grilling paradise.
I want to tell a fun story now. I have a friend in my residency program here who is Sikh. Basically what that means is that he is an Indian who wears a turban and through his entire life has never cut a hair on his body. He is also by law allowed to carry a concealed sword if he likes, but I am too afraid to ask is he does or doesn't do that. Well, this weekend he and his wife attended a Saint Paul Saints game, and the promotion of the day happened to be an all-stadium beard contest. And not only did he become one of the on-field finalists, but he also beat out several members of a certain America Beard Team (not a joke), in winning the competition by crowd applause. Selected as the best beard out of 10,000 people, he raked in $50 of Saints gift certificates. Pretty good. Even better was that he was solicited by the America Beard Team to join their ranks. Making the worst decision in his life, he politely declined, and simply took one of their business cards for future reference. Now, I am not telling anyone what to do, but if I was asked to join any sort of America team, I would do it in a heartbeat. These things are best done wearing a red, white and blue bandana.
I am not sure if the America Beard Team is indigenous to Minnesota, or they just traveled here for the beard competition during the minor league baseball game. Quite frankly, neither would surprise me.
1. Death
2. Taxes
3. RedHotHalos is the best damn thing out there.
RedHotHalos has become so good, it blows my mind. It's the purest form of blog.
I am currently in a quiet spot of a call night in the hospital. I am sitting on a bed in a room about 6x8 feet. I have a small lamp on, a computer on a cart in front of me (for entering orders at night) and a telephone. The nice thing about being in this room is that I can take my socks off and let my feet air out, something that is more difficult to do at the 5a nurses station.
This next item relates to both nurses and feet. One of the nurses this evening asked me what to do about her new foot problem. "I know this is like totally gross and you are going to totally think this is so gross, but my toenail kind of fell off and its kinda green underneath and smells really bad." She must not be a Vikings fan, because anyone who watches sports on television would know what to do about this seemingly very common problem. I am more amazed that I am placed in a situation where someone I am working with thinks its ok to say these things.
Drivel like this is important to me because I am not that good at following the news. I have started to get most to all of my news from the Daily Show, Colbert Report, and occasionally NPR in the morning. I occasionally read Internet headlines as well. I do understand that this is a very dangerous filter for receiving news, but at the same time it is the most entertaining.
My new DVR option from Comcast allows me to digitally record these shows daily. So along with the Daily Show and Colbert Report, I also record PTI daily and then a variety of cooking shows including Barbecue University, Barefoot Contessa, Everyday Italian, 30 Minute Meals, and Simply Ming.
Barbecue University is by far my favorite of the cooking shows. The way that it finds the simple goodness in foods is what appeals to me. It hurts to know how limited my grill equipment is (I am limited to essentially one mini Webber gas grill), but super fun to discover the lifetime of opportunities that await in grilling paradise.
I want to tell a fun story now. I have a friend in my residency program here who is Sikh. Basically what that means is that he is an Indian who wears a turban and through his entire life has never cut a hair on his body. He is also by law allowed to carry a concealed sword if he likes, but I am too afraid to ask is he does or doesn't do that. Well, this weekend he and his wife attended a Saint Paul Saints game, and the promotion of the day happened to be an all-stadium beard contest. And not only did he become one of the on-field finalists, but he also beat out several members of a certain America Beard Team (not a joke), in winning the competition by crowd applause. Selected as the best beard out of 10,000 people, he raked in $50 of Saints gift certificates. Pretty good. Even better was that he was solicited by the America Beard Team to join their ranks. Making the worst decision in his life, he politely declined, and simply took one of their business cards for future reference. Now, I am not telling anyone what to do, but if I was asked to join any sort of America team, I would do it in a heartbeat. These things are best done wearing a red, white and blue bandana.
I am not sure if the America Beard Team is indigenous to Minnesota, or they just traveled here for the beard competition during the minor league baseball game. Quite frankly, neither would surprise me.
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