annie and i were driving home from breakfast at the nearby armenian owned cafe this morning when she noticed a gigantic bird trying to get into the washington mutual. was it trying to make a deposit? start a nest egg? :) i know, i’m lame. (update: annie suspects that it may have been trying to mate with its reflection in the mirror.)
we pulled into the nearby parking lot and went out to see… and we found a peacock! picture us walking quietly behind a peacock with our camera phones open down colorado blvd. fun fun. too bad i didn’t have a better camera with me. photos on flickr.

i’ve finally moved my site over to a new server and a new blogging platform– hopefully this will keep the spammers at bay. time for an update:

on my last day of my IM rotation, i went down to the ER to see one of our “revolving door” admissions. he was a 96 y/o elderly asian male, cachectic and unresponsive to me calling his name. i put on gloves(the guy had a history of mrsa) and proceeded to tap him on the chest. he wakes up at once, opens his eyes and straining, he says, “ba-na-na”. now i’m standing there confused, because i had thought this guy was chinese speaking-only. so i repeated, “banana?” he raises his head off the bed, and looks at me, “i want a banana. for fooooood.” he then drops back into bed, and goes back to sleep.

me: how are you?
him:banana.
me:hello?
him: banana.

i give up.

now, i’m doing endocrine/IM in little armenia– yet another rotation full of patients who don’t speak my language. bah! so… my learning comes from the clinical pearls and random stories that the doc tells me… and playing with all the toys from the pharm reps. good times.

i recieved my new driver’s license today with my new name (and strange looking face) on it. there’s no turning back now. i join the ranks of asian folk with white white white names. now… to change my name on the other million documents.

saturday, we went to tram’s wedding– a huge celebration, complete with dragon dancers, a slide show, and funny little skits. ryan and i gorged ourselves on the chinese food and fondue, and then had cake. mmm. tram looked beautiful, the reception hall was beautiful, and my chocolate covered rice crispy treat on a stick was beautiful… that is, until i dropped the plate it was on (and made the carpet a little more brown than usual). at the end of the night, we danced to one slow song (no dancing for ryan’s knee), drank coffee, and ran home to our nice warm bed.

william and i braved the 110 down to torrance to meet giada today– so much fun! we ran around the pier at redondo beach (only stopping to dislodge the heel of my shoe from between the wooden planks) looking for food, then we gave up and had dinner at a little korean cafe (complete with gigantic shaved ice topped with fruity pebbles), waited in line for an hour or so at borders (while quizzing each other with first aid and pretest medicine), and spent two seconds getting our books signed and drooling over giada. she’s too cute.

now, i’m tired… and wondering if i should break out the new wine kitkats and other chocolates from japan that william gave me. hmmm.