operation garlic powder

this morning i participated in a county-wide disaster drill. i was fortunate enough to be assigned the task of scribe. basically, i had to write down everything and when it happened -- call that came in, supplies that were needed, bed counts, patient census data, when people made reports and what their updates were ... essentially everything. it was definitely a great learning experience and helped me to have a better understanding of what to do and what not to do in a real disaster situation.

on another note, i don't think i've mentioned the fact that there is an amazing shopping center right across the street. i can walk there in 5 minutes. unfortunately, i have zero dollars in the bank, so i haven't really gone shopping. it's nice to walk around though, since it is an outdoor mall. the weather has been phenomenal since i got here (and now i probably jinxed it), so it's nice to walk around and look at all the stuff i wish i could buy, especially at bloomingdales and nordstom. oh, the perils of a negative net worth.

i know many of you (if anyone else actually reads this besides kevin) are amazed at how often i've updated lately. that is simply because this week is a low volume week for me. next week i'll have my usual meetings, plus i'll be shadowing in clinical nutrition with some registered dieticians. on top of that, i'm taking next friday off for multiple reasons -- a great uncle passed away, and my mom is coming in to town (along with another aunt and her family) for my cousin's high school graduation on saturday and my grandfather's surgery on monday. this means that i'll have to condense a fully-packed work week into an even more fully-packed four days. as such, don't expect to get any blog updates from me between the next two mondays.

aaand i forgot to mention that i watched zoolander for the bajillionth time on tuesday night. zoolander is probably one of the most quotable movies of all time. after all, it isn't easy to be so really, really, really ridiculously good looking ;-)