I just became WAY less productive.

Did you know there is now Netflix for the iPhone?!?!

I was so excited to learn this.
Not that I have a lot of time to watch movies or tv. It's still exciting.
Maybe that tredmill running won't be so horrible now.

I got one of my projects at work up and running. People are going to be able to nominate teamplayers and hard workers to receive a reward. I'm trying to use positive reinforcement on good behaviors to improve morale. Now that we've got our pods working again it's a lot nicer.
Yesterday was a good day. For some reason I find it a lot easier to work with male nurses. They don't get all huffy if you walk of in the middle of a conversation to do something important.
Also, they talk less. I like that.
Sadly, most of our current doctors are leaving at the end of this month. I don't know them very well, but I know them a little bit. Enough to know I'll miss them.

Good news everyone!
A long time ago I accidently took my vibrams off at my parents house while taking a shower, they were eaten by Mocha the dog.
I asked Vibram what size I had ordered explaining that I need a new pair because mine had been eaten, now they're sending me a new pair for free!!!
Ah! New shoes?!?!
Now I'll own 4 pairs of shoes!

Not a lot of science updates recently. I'm bad.
Sort of lazy. I did spend too much time looking at images and videos of cuttlefish yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-DusaSVHmM&feature=related

So awesome.
I think fish are an excellent example of how alien another terran creature can be. Its cool what can evolve in a zero gravity environment.
Sweet little Cthulus.

Speaking of which. I just began reading Lovecraft last week. Sigh. I'm hooked. What a great writing style. It's SciFi Poe. I love it.

Yay! Almost the weekend. Working 5 12hour shifts was hard in the beginning. However, now I just look back and think of all the boredom I would of had if I had not been working. I don't think I'll sign myself up for that many hours again too soon (I do have to finish the next few weeks of this madness) but the good news is once I do have some time off I'll have plenty of money to blow!

I think I'm going to use these powers for good and get that new iphone. Maybe a chair or something for my porch now that it's functional. Or perhaps I'll do what I always do and decide that there really is nothing I need in life.

My goodness, my Guinness. Is it the weekend yet?

Outside!

Yay!
I'm finally getting to use my porch!
This is the first day it hasn't been killer hot here and I'm enjoying a bit of time on my deck. I pretty much never came out here if I could help it. It was a shame because the view is great. Oak trees.
Sigh...
This is nice. Watching little cat play with leaves, listening to a bit of OK Go, and shopping for my brother's b-day present.
Too bad I have to go back to work later.
I'm supposed to be planning a baby shower for someone I don't know. I found out yesterday someone told this person it was Sunday. I didn't know this. I'm trying to ask around to figure out how to get a hold of this person if I can't I'll just have to cancel it. I really don't want to do that though... I have no way of contacting this person. I've never even met her. Not a good place.

How did this happen you say? I guess I'm the party planning committee.

Haven't gone running in a long time. I've chosen sleep over exercise. However, this morning is just so nice....

Hmmm....

Great new idea!

I think iTunes needs a feature where you put in a book title and it formulates a soundtrack around that author's writing style. I could probably setup a theme in Pandora or something but how much easier would it be if I could type in an author or book title?

What brings this up you ask?
Being halfway through The Call of Cthulhu and iTunes choosing Hanson...

MMMBop?

Ummm, no.

Sent from my iPhone

Tired...

Unit council meeting was yesterday.
I had to take notes (having recently been elected secretary) so I took Eevee (netbook) and iphone to record the meeting. Good thing too. I think I was too nervous to really listen to anything that was going on. I seriously have no memory of any of the meeting.

Except that we started in a room that was way to small, moved to another room and started 20 minutes late. Then the meeting lasted an extra hour. So I was very late to work. Oops.

The best part of the meeting is when our manager said, "Ok, on to lunch break."
Then everyone stood up. Except him, he wanted to talk about lunch breaks. Oops again.

I think what I had to say went over really well. I had some morale boosting ideas, and beginning our shifts with team meetings. Everyone liked it and we're going to go live in September.

I've got to type these notes up on an "official" document sometime this week and email them out, but I don't have the "official" document.

Meh.

Tired with a headache.

The Cost of LYING- Science edition.

Dinking around at Triage today. Had a bit of time to skim the google reader. Always a joy in my otherwise dreary life. I came across a bit of interesing news (among the bits of new zombie paraphernilia, school starting for friends, and various drug trials) the public library of science published a bit about the costs of scientific misconduct. Always one for the fun of research I looked into it. 

 

 

They brought up the example of Scott Reuben. Facinated I wikied him. (I know google is a verb, but is wiki a verb? If not, lets make it one.) Scientific American had a bit to say about him in March 2009, exposing him as a member of Pfizer's speakers bureau and having received 5 research grants. Hal Jenson, the chief academic officer of Bay State Medical (Reuben's hosptial) said red flags when up when he noted that two of Reuben's studies had never received approval by the hospital. Hmm.

 

Reuben published several, several papers on efficacy of perioperative nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug administration (like celebrex-pfizer, or vioxx- merek.) the Oh SNAP! can be found here.

 

What I found even more facinating than all this (I mean come on, faked data for lots of money? People have done-what they consider- worse things than this for money) is Scott Reuben did his residency at Mount Sinai. Remember me ranting about medschools not requring the MCAT? Ranting about how they'll accept non-science majors? Ranting about how you can become an MD based on your highschool BIO class (if it was advanced placement.) Well, maybe I didn't rant on here about it, but I know I put it on facebook and John had to hear about it... a lot.

 

Yep, same school that published that data.

 

Hmm...

My science-senses are tingling...

  

Lou Gehrig didn't die of Lou Gehrig's disease?

Lou Gehrig didn't die of Lou Gehrig's disease?
Pluto is not a planet but a "basteroid"
What's next you cruel world of contradictions?

This study looks at the possibility of similar neurological problems suffered by those with multiple traumatic brain injuries and ALS.

Stephen Hawking once visited Nantucket
while there he ran out of luck, it
was while he was there
the wheels fell off of his chair
and he had to come home in a bucket.

I know, I know I should be frowned on for mocking someone who understands so much about something I know nearly nothing. You only frown more because he's "disabled." I feel like (if he knew me) Stephen Hawking would make fun of me because... well... I'm sure he'd think of something. It'd be witty too.

Speaking of which. I am always amazed at how many people don't know who Stephen Hawking is. Nearly everytime I've brought him up around acquaintances I have to explain. It's surprising. Although, I bet they feel the same way when they bring up Kim Kardashian. (I finally looked her up) I thought she was that Desperate Housewives girl... So, who's that?

Anyway. I wonder if Rockin' Hawking's condition is a result of too many swirlies in grade school... (Or Primary, whatever the British call it...)

Ramble bamble...

Remember when I talked about this?
(This is not my blog, but it so sums up my feelings)
How much it sucks to be an adult.

It's happening again, the circle is coming around. I'm reaching the point of irritation with all the things I have to get done. I just don't wanna.
Or so that's how it was going.
I'm slowly picking up. I watched some TV with John and it really helped. The house is a mess, we have no meals for next week, the laundry needs to be done, and I haven't gone running, but I'm happier. So it's all good.

I guess that's the danger of my job. All day I have to be nice and do things for people, go out of my way, deal with high stress, and maintain a cheerful aspect even when I have no clue what's going on. Sigh, sometimes I wish I could be an aggressive, offensive, antagonistic person so people would leave me alone, but no that would go against my humanistic beliefs. I'm outgoing and like to help, it makes more sense. It also makes me really tired.

I know I need to "have time for myself," but currently most of my "me time" is devoted to John so he can focus on school. So, him taking the time to sit on the couch with me and play Star Trek trivial pursuit really made my day better. (Except he beat me, all because I mispronounced Chekov's middle name. Jerk.)

I think I have to make a big decision on this whole marathon thing. It takes a lot of time, am I really wanting to devote this much time to this? I mean, there are so many other things (not just sitting around!) that I also want/need to do. Mostly study for the CEN. I saw on a plaque at work the other day that there are only 3 CENs in our department and one is a 'high-heeled' nurse that doesn't do patient care. Hmmm. I'd like my name on that plaque...

Article for today.
I was listening to the Nature Medicine Podcast and they had a story about a bit of music written using the choir's genetic code. I tried to find a bit of music, but alas I didn't search that hard and if you listen to the 18 min podcast you'll get to hear a bit of it anyway. Quite an interesting concept especially if you think of the ethics recently brought up by the UC Berkley "freshman DNA" experiment. Sigh.

Anyway, I was going to play it to John whilst he studies.

I'm gonna go running. I think I finally found the energy for it.