on tuesday, ryan and i boarded a bus full of old people headed for the hollywood bowl. we were off to see a performance of stravinsky’s petruska and attend his lab mate’s birthday party. before the performance, we gorged ourselves on deviled eggs and other floofy foodies. when the rest of the party arrived however, we found out that the picnic food of choice was brie, bread, and red wine. mmmm. what’s more, there was cake! it was this dark, chocolatey-rasberry thing. mmmmm.

the LAPHIL was good– we especially enjoyed the crazy talented asian violinist man. the whole performance reminded me of a mix between alice in wonderland and the soundtrack to national geographic.

i want to go again. soon. if only for the food.
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maggie and i trekked down to south coast plaza on saturday for some shopping and lunchy at vie de france. it was good to be home. we braved the nordstrom anniversary sale, the shoe racks at macy’s, and waded thru the masses of beautiful people with their beautiful bags.

i miss it already.

later that afternoon, ryan and i made our way to the valley for jenny and amy’s birthday foodfest. happy birthday jenny! happy birthday amy!

yesterday, we drove to westminster to check out possible restaurants for the reception. our first stop: grand garden. apparently, there’s no garden, and it’s really not grand. we didn’t even stay long enough to taste the food– the manager of the place was so incredibly rude that we just put our menus down and left. stupid cocky little asian man. bah!

our next restaurant was better, though! free food tasting, cake, nice happy asian lady (who i swear is the asian martha stewart. it’s a good thing.), and some so-bad-it’s-good karaoke made the night just absolutely fabulous. annie and i took home bunches of peach-coloured long stem roses. mmmmmm.

and… the most exciting news of all… annie bought me an ipod! woo hoo! i’ll just have to wait about 3 days for it to arrive from singapore or whatever happy sweat shop that does the laser engraving. ahhhhhhhh!

as i’m flipping thru the channels this lovely saturday morning… i come across this happy little anime-ish cartoon and they’re singing:

it’s hard to save the world
when you’re falling in love

hahahaha. i want that as my theme song.

our last baby of the day today was a possible CAH baby with crazy ambigous genitalia! turns out, the baby has a uterus– and we’re still searching for the other organs. hopefully the chromosomes come back soon– i’m curious. grace got the patient [lucky ducky]– so she’ll be looking after the kid, writing notes for the chart, and doing a nice presentation on it. yay for grace! i hope i get a neato squito baby next, too.

long time, no blog. the action at the nicu has slowed to a crawl, but grace and i have found a few things to do with our time.

- a baby coded and i got to give chest compressions (using only two fingers)
- my amphetamine baby went home
- i saw a C-section complete with a tubal ligation
- my first new patient of the day was a potential turner’s syndrome kid (webbed neck, widely spaced nipples, abnormal facies) who had multiple cardiac issues, such as a PDA, membranous VSD, and coarcation of the aorta.
- i got to squirt erythromycin gunk into a newly born baby’s eyes
- i watched a very bloody, very smelly vaginal delivery of a large baby by a very large woman. the kid had meconium aspiration. yum.
- apparently, a strange, pointy, fleshy thingy sticking out of a female baby’s genitalia may be normal.
- i have put together a very boring presentation for tomorrow.

yay for black and white cookies from new york’s william greenberg bakery!

annie’s friend’s aunt sent her a 5 pound box of these babies. is it a cupcake, is it a cookie? who cares! it’s goooooooooooooood.