In the past…
March 31, 2010 at 22:00 4 comments
… Month – word count of thesis versus word count of blog: 9487 to 0. This, I think, is the reason that my spring of blog-inspiration dried up. Evidently and alas, I have brains enough for only one composition at a time. The good thing, though, is that the damn thesis is drafted and disseminated to three unfortunate souls to plow through. After it comes back, I have to mutilate and re-patch it, get it nicely bound, and send off three more copies to three more unfortunate souls.
… Week – night-call count: three. As in, this is the third night in the past seven days I’ve spent stuck in the Fruit Farm till the sun rolls around the next day. And I’ve got a grand ward round, normal ward round, lunchtime talk and afternoon clinics to be at tomorrow, none of which I look forward to. Half my work here revolves around being forced to take responsibility for people that no one else wants. I’m not sure what kind of medical specialty that is. In the pecking order of glamourous jobs, it’s probably somewhere between prison warden and Victorian poorhouse manager.
… Day – number of times called ‘Madam’ by my medical officer: twenty-three. I don’t bloody know why. It’s come to the point where, each time I pause for breath, he puts in a ‘Yes, Madam’, or ‘Thank you, Madam’. One day, he will address me as ‘Madam’ one too many times, and I will probably answer, “Yes, Slave?”
Entry filed under: Dear Diary. Tags: Work.
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flaneurvric | April 1, 2010 at 04:27
Goodness! I have not seen you in a month, which is sad. I am glad to hear you are making progress on your thesis; I hope your advisers’ feedback is more useful than my advisers’ has been on my stupid not-as-significant-as-a-thesis paper. Huh.
I am also intrigued by the MO you are working with. “Madam” is at least 19 times more formal than “ma’am,” which I have been known to use myself.
It is nice to have you back in the blogosphere, even if it’s just a brief stop.
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Katie | April 3, 2010 at 13:44
Oh, have you not met my MO yet? I’d love to witness a conversation between you and him. Do you know, even when he telephones or emails me, he does not stop addressing me as Madam. It’s bizarre. o_O
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Yee Ming Mok | April 2, 2010 at 08:19
hahaha. Its all about creating diamonds out of the coal dust.
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Katie | April 3, 2010 at 13:45
Making pigs fly? Unscrambling eggs? Ice-cube in hell?