On to OB

It is Saturday, I am on call for pediatrics, and will be starting OB on Monday. Hard to believe that I have been doing this for a couple of months already. Time flies frighteningly fast when you never get to sleep. I am excited about getting next weekend off, however, the trade off will be a twenty day stretch without a day off, and overnight call in the hospital every 3-4 days. At the end of the marathon we will be going to Tucson and Indiana for a week filled with weddings and missed friends. Funny how everything obtains a new perspective. When I worked M-F, 40 hours a week, the weekend seemed an eternity away. Now that I work 80-100 hours a week and get every other weekend off (if I am lucky), the weekends pass quietly like another day. I realized I had a problem when I was excited about getting half the day off after leaving at 2pm following a 6am start.

Almost forgot...

Weezer and the Foo Fighters! Together! America West Arena! (wait, Rob and Jana live in Alaska, not Arizona. Why the excitement?) September 28!!!!! Sweet!! We already have tickets. If anyone is interested in joining us, or possibly babysitting (I will otherwise have to buy Jackson some earmuffs, being a good father and all) let me know. Rock and roll!

A few scattered thoughts

V AC AT ION! I finally managed to coordinate my call switch and Team Church may be coming to a city near you! We'll be heading to Tucson on Sept 24 for a few days, then on to Evansville, IN on the 30th! We are looking forward to seeing all of our good friends and introducing Jackson to everyone.

I am addicted to Cheap Seats. I have never been a huge sports fan, and the time I have actually spent watching ESPN over the past few years has been relegated to watching college basketball, but these guys are great. It is a simillar (okay, actually the exact same) concept as Mystery Science Theater 3000. The hosts take old sporting events ("sporting events" is a loose category as they watched competitive Scrabble and frisbee last night) and make smart as comments all the way through. This is my dream job. The past couple of weekends they have had Cheap Seats marathons and I have sat through far too many episodes. Watch it.

My other TV watching for the week was Metallica's Some Kind of Monster, which I unfortunately only caught the last 2/3 of the movie. Tremendously interesting documentary. I haven't been a recent fan of Metallica, as they have aged and become more commercial. But the insite into how such a band works after 20+ years and rehab was fascinating. It's good to know that rock stars aren't so different from ourselves. The new base player is now my favorite member. Not only does he rock, but he seems to be the only one who really realizes how good he has it.