Photos

Alright friends and family- photos have been uploaded to Facebook. A lazy Sunday was spent cleaning and catching up on some internet time. I also took some time to write some postcards and letters too. Thinking of some movie time later tonight and then back to work tomorrow.

Claire you freaked me out

Claire sent me this email that freaked me out just a tad with a subject line of cat refuses to die.
Although it may sound familiar to most of my friends that know about Teaser, names and places have been changed to protect the innocent.


Check out the article: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/cat_refuses_to_die?utm_source=EMTF_Onion

Recuperating

18 girls, 2nd-3rd graders, awake til midnight and up way too early again in the morning. I must say that the ice skating attempt was comical though. And those sweethearts had their moments like offering me their smores. And those 40 some pancakes we made this mornign sure were good and flew off the pan. The night would not have been survived without the facemask and ipod earphones.
And so today has gone by with lots of naps and a pot of coffee. Nice and relaxing though.

Fish and Chips Friday (and Pizza and wings)

Well it's snowing again and warming up here so that's exciting. Today was another presentation and clinic day for me at the hospital. I have a case presentation to work up this weekend on glomerular nephritis and a clinical inquiry on postpartum contraception to finish. First off on the weekend line up though is the Girl Scout sleepover tonight at the log cabin. I've been recruited to come help supervise. The plan is to make a quilt, learn knot tying, and go ice skating followed by smore making! Should be fun.

Well my first trip to the gym made me feel quite out of shape, really need to ease back into this and not over do it.

Thank you Patti for care package #2. The nutella is much fought over this time, in fact Mandy jokingly said that I'll need to share in order to get that A I'm hoping for.

Not a whole lot else going on here; maybe a movie this weekend with the pharmacy gang, otherwise some homeowrk to hammer out.

Mediterranean Thursday

I can't believe that 3 weeks have almost flown by here already. I did keep saying I'd be back before anyone knew it. Today was a project day as the weather was much too cold to allow for a village visit; instead we will be flying to Kwethluk next Wednesday for an audit. Today was svery beneficial in minimizing that to do list though. I got a lot further than anticipated but still have things to keep me busy. If only I could figure out how to work Microsoft Office 2007 as well as 2003 in my undergrad days.

On a side note, the days are getting much longer. I can see the faintest sign of a sunrise on my walk to work now at 9am and the sun is still out as I walk home at 5Pm too. Now if we could just get the northern winds to stop.

I did another round of native dancing last night and was proud when I could remember some of the hand motions, but not all. The dances are depictions of every day life including wood gathering, dancing and drumming, and snow machining! It was great to see the laughter again from all the group members as certain ones had trouble remembering songs or as children were playing with the drummers.

But enough procrastination. I have to finish a clinical inquiry tonight; most people know who much I love these.....

Hamburger Wednesday

Today we coordinated wearing our qaspaq's to work, me and Beth (the other pharmacist who took the course) and Mandy my preceptor. I have apparently gained a reputation among the staff who admired all my work, but I just kept thinking don;t look too closely at the stitching. Many technicians were impressed and noted that although they were Yupik they had never even made a qaspaq. Additionally Sarah who had introduced us to dancing lent me some of her handmade jewelry pieces to complete the ensemble. Sarah and some of the other billing specialists were so touching and mentioned that when "cossacks" or outsiders take the time to learn about Yupik culture. They said it touches them here and pointed at their hearts. It made my day.

Thai Tuesday

Well the lack of sleep is catching up and Im much looking forward to bed tonight, hopefully I've reached that point of tired where I can just drift off into oblivion and wake up feeling like I lost a chunk of my life.

In the meantime my to do list has been tackled and is getting smaller so that is promising.
Other than the usual mundane pharmacy stuff not a whole lot going on. I did find a new addiction to an online game called bounce out which is great for insomnia.

Tomorrow is qaspaq day (not officially) and hopefully I can con some pictures to post for you guys. My time in clinic this morning again showed how the providers here are taking some fashions from the locals. Many nurses and some other providers wear qaspaqs in place of scrub tops. They can vary quite a bit too. Some have very ornate trim and some are just simple smocks. The biggest thing is the convenience of a large pocket, almost like a kangaroo.

Oh and the titles this week are inspired by the weekly menu for the YKHC cafeteria. It's quite diverse really, but not always appetizing. Good thing there's a kitchen where I can make stuff like homemade maccaroni and cheese and brownies (not helping the diet plan though).