New Mercies

These last couple of days have, for a variety of reasons, been really tough for me. I've been exhausted, worn-out, and occasionally even tired of being a doctor. This year has been both great and one of the toughest of my life. Intern year definitely stretches you and challenges you a thousand different ways every day, and this week more so than others I have definitely realized that I cannot do it alone. I spent most of yesterday near tears all day after starting the day by being treated like a total peon by one of our consulting doctors. As I was getting to the end of the day, the Lord brought a verse to my mind, "This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it." I can't say that I was rejoicing after that, but I can say that it made me feel better.

When I got home from work today around 10:30, and the sun was shining in the bright blue sky, I was reminded of another verse.
From Lamentations 3
22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; [2]
his mercies never come to an end;
23 they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“therefore I will hope in him.”

Thank you, Lord for this new day with its new mercies.

Cool Cub Link

Cub's second basemen Mark DeRosa has a blog.

In other cub news, Greg Maddux will be pitching against the Cubs at Wrigley Field today, that's kind of sad. And Jim Edmonds, who last week was a Padre, will be playing for the cubs today, against the Padres.

Go Cubs.

The Crit..

A week or so ago, we enjoyed watching the criterium race here in Uptown, Greenwood. I learned that when you bike really fast, and then fall, you might actually lose your britches. (Or at least nearly so.) But it was a beautiful evening in Greenwood, and I found a place to stand where it almost felt like they were going to run right into you. Which, for some reason is more appealing that it sounds.


Seeing these guys race by made me want to be a faster biker. Sigh. Maybe when I'm working less than 60-80 hours/week I can find more time to train. Until then, though, I'll just be happy poking along.

See how it grows.

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BTW, This mornings post on SC geography was the 500th post on our blog!

South Carolina Geography

I'm not sure there is another state where someone could move from the community of "Opossum Kingdom" to one called "Rabbit Stew." But here in good, old SC it has been done. Any other good town names y'all know of?

Only in a hospital...

Would you see a sign posted saying "Do NOT send fallopian tubes through the tube system."

Good advice for us all.

And sorry for the relative lack of posting these last few weeks, in between me starting medicine, Jeff trying to get all his papers written as well as preach every Sunday, and our much-anticipated upcoming visit by Mom and Dad Tell, we've been a little busy with work and tidying up. More to come later.

Mac or PC?

Aubrey and I's computer has developed a number of quirks over the years. Technically, it is a laptop, but the screen broke a few years ago, so we have it hooked up to an external monitor, and it functions like a desktop now. Lately it has developed a new habit of randomly turning itself off. It usually only does this when I'm working on a paper, or when Aubrey and I are trying to watch the latest episode of The Office online. This quirk is particularly unacceptable. I had designated this morning to be "revise and edit papers" morning, but the computer has already shut down on me five times. I now hit "ctrl-s" after nearly every word I type.

So we are thinking it might be time to buy a new computer. Two questions face us now. Laptop or desktop? And the even bigger issue... Mac or PC?

We hear Macs are pretty nice, but they do cost a few extra shekels. Are they worth it? Please comment and tell us what to do....

The new college graduate

Here he is... a newly-minted B.S, with both his soon-to-be-wife and my parents. I decided that watching graduation projected on a screen was not that bad. I didn't feel guilty when I whipped out the novel I was reading and tuned out some of the names. And I did get a good view of him walking across the stage.

On another note, I'm back on my last month of internal medicine. I had forgotten how bad being on call can make you feel. I didn't even have a particularly bad call, but still managed to feel a little like I got hit by a train the next day. Just 13 or so more calls until second year!