Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Oscar Nominations
The nominees for this year's Academy Awards were announced this morning. I won't list them all here on the blog, but you can probably find them at the official Oscar website. Primarily I just wanted to say how happy I am that Amy Adams was nominated for best supporting actress for her role in Junebug. As you may recall, I posted about this movie back in September and specifically stated that she had better be on the Oscar nominees list. Apparently a few other people agree with me. The movie isn't very widely known; Katie Couric hadn't even heard of it when they discussed the nominations on the Today Show. It is out on DVD now, so by all means go buy or rent it! Rachael Weisz (nominated for The Constant Gardner) has won some of the bigger supporting actress awards this year (SAG, Golden Globes). Amy Adams hasn't done too bad though, being nominated 11 times and winning 7 times in the smaller awards. I guess we'll just have to wait until March 5th to see what happens.
Monday, January 30, 2006
Swedish Royalty in the Big Apple
Having recently complete her degree in History of Art, Ethnology and Modern History at Stockholm University, the youngest member of Sweden's royal family, Princess Madeleine, is moving to New York City. She will apparently be interning at UNICEF and living in a "posh Manhattan pad" with three of her closest friends. Ah the life. Hopefully she will be around in March when my sister and I are planning to go to New York. Not that we are stalkers or anything, but it would be fun to see her while we are there. Both Madeleine's older siblings have lived in the US. Crown Princess Victoria studied at Yale, as well as doing internships at both the UN in New York and the Swedish Embassy in Washington DC. Prince Carl Philip went to a private high school in Connecticut for two years.
Whale Vomit
Apparently, perfume manufacturers used to use ambergris (or whale vomit) as a fixative in perfume. Now it is such a rare find that most manufacturers use a synthetic version. A fisherman on the south Australian coast, however, has found a 32 pound piece of ambergris on a beach. For this find, the man could receive upwards of $295,000.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Christian Valdemar Henri John
Three month old Prince Christian Valdemar Henri John of Denmark was christened this past Saturday. He's pretty darn cute as you can see from the picture below. Doesn't hurt that his parents (Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary) are rather decent looking as well. One of his eight godparents is my own personal favorite princess, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden. She is apparently a popular godmother, as Christian is her sixth godchild.
Monday, January 23, 2006
My schedule is super fun!
So, this past week has been a little rough and it isn't over yet. The following is my schedule for the past week and the next few days:
1/16 - work 12.5 hours
1/17 - class 4 hours
1/18 - clinical 8.5 hours
1/19 - clinical 8.5 hours
1/20 - work 12.5 hours
1/21 - work 12.5 hours
1/22 - clinical 8.5 hours
1/23 - class 3 hours
1/24 - class 4 hours
1/25 - work 12.5 hours
1/25 - DAY OFF!!!!
This is all by way of trying to explain why I haven't posted anything but the Dagens Namn posts for the past six days.
I have to say that clinical while exhausting has been rather enjoyable. I am certainly learning a lot. On Wednesday I saw 15 patients, on Thursday I saw 13 patients, and on Sunday I saw 11 patients. A significant number of them came in with upper respiratory infections, which you can't really do all that much for. I've gotten to do both some time in both the Family Practice and the Urgent Care settings. You really do get to see an interesting mix of patients. It certainly gives me a better appreciation for practitioners and how busy they can get. It is very easy to get behind in your schedule because every patient thinks they are the most important person there. People are generally appreciative though. I've only had one patient refuse to be seen by a student (which is their right). I try not to take it personally, but at the same time it really annoys me. The only way a practitioner gets to be a good practitioner is by gaining experience. The more people refuse students, the less the students will learn and consequently come out of their program (be it medical or nursing) as weaker practitioners.
No more fake triplets at work, but I was telling someone the story and they brought up the other end of the spectrum. And by this I mean the women who come in at full term fully dilated and claim they had ABSOLUTELY no idea they were pregnant. I think these people are at least equally if not more deluded than the people who falsely claim they are pregnant. How can you not feeling a living being moving around inside your body and not think there might be something going on? Having never experienced it myself I can't say for sure, but I'm pretty certain that you would feel a full term baby inside you.
1/16 - work 12.5 hours
1/17 - class 4 hours
1/18 - clinical 8.5 hours
1/19 - clinical 8.5 hours
1/20 - work 12.5 hours
1/21 - work 12.5 hours
1/22 - clinical 8.5 hours
1/23 - class 3 hours
1/24 - class 4 hours
1/25 - work 12.5 hours
1/25 - DAY OFF!!!!
This is all by way of trying to explain why I haven't posted anything but the Dagens Namn posts for the past six days.
I have to say that clinical while exhausting has been rather enjoyable. I am certainly learning a lot. On Wednesday I saw 15 patients, on Thursday I saw 13 patients, and on Sunday I saw 11 patients. A significant number of them came in with upper respiratory infections, which you can't really do all that much for. I've gotten to do both some time in both the Family Practice and the Urgent Care settings. You really do get to see an interesting mix of patients. It certainly gives me a better appreciation for practitioners and how busy they can get. It is very easy to get behind in your schedule because every patient thinks they are the most important person there. People are generally appreciative though. I've only had one patient refuse to be seen by a student (which is their right). I try not to take it personally, but at the same time it really annoys me. The only way a practitioner gets to be a good practitioner is by gaining experience. The more people refuse students, the less the students will learn and consequently come out of their program (be it medical or nursing) as weaker practitioners.
No more fake triplets at work, but I was telling someone the story and they brought up the other end of the spectrum. And by this I mean the women who come in at full term fully dilated and claim they had ABSOLUTELY no idea they were pregnant. I think these people are at least equally if not more deluded than the people who falsely claim they are pregnant. How can you not feeling a living being moving around inside your body and not think there might be something going on? Having never experienced it myself I can't say for sure, but I'm pretty certain that you would feel a full term baby inside you.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Friday, January 20, 2006
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
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