Geee... was hoping the picture could move.... :(

Performance went... well? Overall the audience loved it though I myself knew where I made mistakes. After the rehearsal where I nearly made a mistake after thinking to myself 'it's the second to last page!', I was reminding the silly noodle to not get distracted. On the day itself that was precisely what it did, 'it's the last page! it's the last page! without mistakes!', and then I nearly stopped wondering what chord was next and then moved to hit what seemed most like it which was one tone lower than what it should have been. Lol. Thinking to myself now, do I want to perform for thanksgiving??

Had to work morning yesterday to cover for someone else. Went to about half past twelve, then caught a ride and went to A's. Barb's then sent me back... to work of course at 3. I was thinking at least this would make up for the lack of hours next week then since I've got acutes. Though it seems like I'll be having to work from six thirty onwards. Darn. But when I was thinking that to myself, I certainly wasn't counting on going up to half past nine. What the heck? Why do people have to see the doctors next door last minute? To hell with their coughs and aches and colds! $%^$#%%#$!! If you can leave it to the last minute then you can wait till tomorrow morning for your medicines! Especially that stupid Asian guy whose script was from two months ago. One lady came in with a five paged script right at 8.29! So can't lock the door because she has to leave again. And then more started coming in from there bearing their scripts. WtF! I can't cash up the till like that?!!! And then after we thought it was almost done, just as K was calling out the last customer the lady who called earlier that afternoon about Tixylix came in. Celaka! You had to wait all afternoon and evening before you come and get the mix for your croupy kid?!! And then the nerve to talk about 'I want colourless this, I want alcoholess that! He might react to those things!'. I don't bloody care if they react or not, just choose, buy, pay! And the nerve, the till was done by then and she had to pay by cash, and not the exact change either! And she was not even apologetic about it, even smiley happy! Cekik dia wanita celaka! And after I readjusted the float and K got everything else straightened out, it was half past nine-ish and I got home close to 10. Sweat.

The only thing that made it more interesting was the fact that the alarm went off at the doctors next door. And K was so worried we were the ones who set it off. Turn out that it was from the alarm from the side of the building furthest away from us and hence was someone else. Wonder if the two security guys caught anyone?? Hah, the morphine, methadone and pseudoephidrine are over at our side silly, not at the doctors!

p/s If you read through my entire rant, I pat you on the back and Beetley bug gives you big hug.

Today was the full dress rehearsal for the cultural night tomorrow. Was feeling so nervous, had to drag pupiaks along so many times just to get some practice at the hospital chapel's piano (poor thing, I'm making him page turner.... he wants to bonk my head with paper in return though :S) but hurrah it went ok during the rehearsal earlier on. So a bit more practice tomorrow maybe at the chapel and the last rehearsal and then it's shows on! Whopee! Can't wait to get it done!

Been thinking if I want to perform at the Thanksgiving service this year as well. Steinway piano up on offer I'm told. Gosh! I really want to, but playing what? And it's in September as well. Do I have enough time to practice and polish whatever pieces up I wonder? Do I still want to perform at the end of year's thingy?

As for the more geeky side of things, I suppose gen med is going ok so far. Can't say this is the best sort of run though. I much rather the short and brief ward rounds of surg than the leg jellying hours long gen med ones. And if I'm that desperate for patient contact then I'll take the less physically active one then. Standing the whole morning for one round is a bit much I say lol. I've done the first patient case history and shall hand it in tomorrow. Thinking if I should skip ward round early and start on my second in the morning, since there's no way I'm going to be really that free during the afternoon. Evening time is certainly out for sure now.

I should really get started some time on the presentation as well I suppose but I'm not motivated. Thinking of getting it done during the upcoming holidays. Lol.

Path these days are consisting mostly of dermatology pictures and slides. Lots of really scary skin lesions and lots of slides made up of cells and keratin. Hard to tell them apart though, but I least I get the general idea - pink cells with dark brownish (?) nuclei everywhere and then weird blue ones occasionally or lobulated nuclei here and there and dead skin bits right on the top. So very medical indeed.

I can't imagine how terrible life must be with psoriasis and all those other skin conditions. That one episode of whatever dermatitis on my neck and legs really made me afraid at one point that my skin would look ugly forever and I remember trying to cover my neck up with scarves and what not most of the time too. And golly that itch! I wonder if that is how scabies must be like as well?? Ugh!