Things I have been doing other than this journal:
- Not my wife. (Probably because of the next paragraph.)
- Spent most of my days off obsessively playing Neverwinter Nights 2, a Dungeons & Dragons PC game (finished it with a Wizard, trying out Berserker now). I’ve hardly touched Force Unleashed (360) although Sun Su likes it (but doesn’t quite understand why has to kill all the Chewies – don’t let the wookiees win this time).
- Playing the Dungeons & Dragons mini-game on Facebook. Simple text game, but addictive nonetheless. I actually alt-tab between this and the game above during the loading screens – yes, TWO D&D games at the same time. I guess you can take the Dungeon Master out of the dungeon, but ….
- Told my mom I have to cut her “allowance” in half. With my new job (still as a hospitalist), I get paid 25% less (ouch) but the burnout/fatigue is cut in half, which is a fair deal. I’m hoping this will shock my mom into at least making a serious effort to find an easy part-time job rather than spending all day at home not paying her bills with the money I give her. It makes me mad at her and myself for having to cut her off like that, but goddamn I will never put my kids in a situation where they have to financially support me over their own kids. “Who’s the parent and who’s the kid here?” If I have to be the bad guy in order to be the good guy for my children’s future, then hand me the executioner’s axe and send up the next contestant.
- Amy and I have been playing badminton lately. She plays for exercise and we get to spend some time doing something together. By the way, that thing we hit back and forth is called a shuttlecock.
- I saw an elderly man in the hospital today who had fought in World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam, been shot five times (not in the same war), and lost a toe on each foot. He came in for cellulitis in his leg. This won’t kill him.
- Thanks for all the advice in the previous entry. I ended up getting an iPhone. I liked all the extra “fun” features in addition to email. The games could suck a basketball through a garden hose honestly, but I downloaded a “ten Corean words a day” program which may awaken my dormant Corean tiger spirit.
- Reconnecting with old highschool classmates on Facebook made me fondly look over my Class of ’89 yearbook and remember people I hadn’t thought about in twenty years. Most I had hoped were doing well and not destitute or dead due to accident or illness (this actually went through my brain at the time), but sadly, the law of averages dictates otherwise as I’ve seen firsthand in the hospital. Even now though, there are still a handful of smug faces that deserve a little karmic backhand.
- Listening to Katy Perry’s latest album. I haven’t liked an entire album this much since Lee Jung Hyun’s Greatest Hits. There’s a certain lyrical logic to Perry’s vocals that hits all the right buttons in my head. I really like the range in her voice too. Seriously, and I’m not just saying this to avoid mentioning her motorboatable plushies either.
- I had an older male patient put into the hospital for two months with West Nile virus encephalitis. Almost died twice from breathing problems. No medical history prior to this. All from a mosquito bite.
- I realized that I am almost never bored and almost never depressed. On the contrary there’s always too much to do and too little time.
Sounds kinky.
