Assorted babble.

Earlier this evening Erica and I were at her apartment doing a kickboxing workout video together, and we heard this pflump outside... She glanced out through the blinds and said, "What is on my balcony?"
It was a peacock. A beautiful, brilliant, full grown male peacock, perched on her railing.

WTF?

I came home from working out about an hour later, and through the open blinds I saw a giant blue peacock sitting on my balcony. (Presumably, the same peacock that we saw earlier.)

Seriously, WTF? It's mid-February, and I live in Montana.

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I had to work all weekend, and I also had a couple of big assignments due by Saturday at noon. After I got off work on Friday I came home and finished the longer one, and finally retired to bed around 2:00am. I went to work on Saturday morning with the intent of finishing up the second assignment there. Usually Saturday mornings are fairly quiet for the first hour or so - but nooooo, not this weekend. It was complete insanity until about twenty minutes past noon, or twenty minutes after my assignment was due. I scrambled to finish it up, and I turned it in about half an hour late. Naturally, the following two hours at the office were completely quiet. (grumble grumble...)

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Tomorrow is my first day in med surg clinicals. I'm actually a little bit freaked out. Ventilator, nasogastric tube, foley catheter, central venous line, infection, complicated diagnoses with complications on top of that - my patient has it all. I'm sure the day will go fine - I met the nurses on the specialty unit where I'll be, and they were helpful and friendly. But still, it's a lot for my first day.
And next week we have to take two patients.

*whimpers*

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It's been beautiful outside the past few days; mid-forties and sunny. Spring isn't here yet, but it's coming. A week ago yesterday was the first time I noticed it - I went outside in the evening, and although it was quite cold, it smelled like spring. I'm ready for it.

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Okay, enough therapy. Time for homework.