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Well, what the hell, the words came together nicely; that they don't really represent my values is but a caveat. On the other hand, one could read them as irony or even sarcasm. Sarcasm, though, would better serve.

Not a bad day. Again, I got lots of sleep, and I really am starting to like that. I woke up this morning at 05:30, having to go pee; but I looked at the clock and decided to go back to bed for another hour. When the alarm finally sounded, I hadn't achieved sleep, but that wonderful hypnotic state. And then I woke Karen up enough to give me a backrub.

And it wasn't a bad day at all. Pretty busy, but I got to do a procedure on the Z, something that we don't do but once in a blue moon (speaking of which, there's one coming up!). We had to put a suprapubic catheter in the bladder of a patient who'd been injured quite critically in an MVA and who had a ruptured bladder and/or ureter along with a badly fractured pelvis. There was also a lot of uretheral damage, which meant that the catheter couldn't be placed the usual was.

Ah, man, I love, and miss, emergency medicine.

Anyways, I was pretty well worn out by the time that I got home. Then I went downstairs to play some music, and my feet hit water at the bottom on the stairs. Yep, the sewer was backed up again.

I spent about fifteen minutes, and all of my energy, getting that unplugged. I normally blame Drew for such occurences, but he hadn't been over today. But he was probably here yesterday, and I wasn't downstairs at all last night.

Which is weird, 'cause I didn't really feel like playing any music at all last night.

Which maybe means that I am getting burned out on it. I need to get over the hump musically, and that means that I need to learn something more. A challenge to my meager abilities.

And I think that I know what it is. I DLed the music to Fur Elise, one of my favorite songs. I need to do that... but the problem is that it's more than just chords and a melody. So I will probably wind up hating it before I'm done.

Had something odd happen to me... I got to work this morning and started looking for my glasses. I always take off my reading glasses when I leave and put them in my drawer, along with my name badge and my current favorite pen. And my glasses weren't there. Well, I have a NILKYyg™ on my glasses, and sometimes the monofiliment string doesn't stay inside the drawer, and it might catch on something. So I looked and looked, and no glasses anywhere. I do keep a spare pair in the same drawer, though, and though they're a poor substitute, they're much better than the eyes alone. They have no NILKYyg™ though, so I put a string on them. Pretty poor, but it got me through the day.

And when I came home I found the ones from work, I'd worn them home yesterday and not noticed that I hadn't changed....

Of course, that made me feel pretty dumb, and I don't like that, I really like thinking that I'm smarter'n everyone else, y'know?

I've long since realized that what we think of ourselves doesn't really count for much.

And what other people think of us doesn't count for much either.

In fact, I'm just pretty well confused about what counts.

That pretty much sums it up, I think.

And yes, I've done some deep thinking about that very subject, how did you guess? Heh.