What I am grateful for today:

I'm on call tonight taking care of the cancer kiddos, most of whom I already know, as I have been on service a lot lately in some way or another. They are sweet and too mature and way too medically savvy.

Anyway, it's not Thanksgiving, but I am feeling grateful and love making lists. So...ten things I am grateful for today:

1. A good intern on call with me. It makes my life about ten times easier.
2. Betty White is going to be on SNL in the near future, according to CNN.com.
3. Beth Moore's Get Out of That Pit, which I read last night and was quite good.
4. The TV show Castle. (I have a teeny crush on Nathan Fillion)
5. My fellow seniors on call, who are are two of my faves.
6. I got to sleep in a bit, so I have lots of energy on call.
7. Glee fanfiction (I know, I know...)
8. Bronchiolitis season has peaked.
9. Rotisserie chicken in the cafeteria.
10. God being extra gentle and patient with me since, well, forever.

Good night!!!!

Hugs.

I love hugs.

A side hug is not a hug. It's not that I don't have a healthy respect for the side hug. It can be a very unintimidating first step at platonic physical intimacy for the nonhugging person. But a real hug it is not.


Christian single people are all about the side hug. Someone even wrote a parody about it. Note: The below video is a joke. I promise. It's some Christian dudes rapping badly...they are making fun of themselves. This is not in earnest. It's totally ridiculous and thus kind of hilarious. Unfortunately, there are a lot of youtube folks who think it's serious and make a lot of "Christians are judgmental idiots" comments. Seriously, people, you think this is for real?



I will give the critics that the "riding home in a coma" and "buying babies like Angelina Jolie" lines are not particularly in good taste.

For the record, I prefer my hugs full frontal.

Have a great weekend, sweet friends!

One call, that's all.

I do appreciate lawyers and feel that they are, in the highest sense, important advocates for people. However, I do feel that we as a society, especially in this country, are too litigious. We have this need to assign blame and to know that everything that goes wrong is someone's fault. Sometimes bad things just happen, and it's no one's fault. I also feel that we have a national obsession of getting what we deserve.

I'm thinking about this because of a billboard I saw driving home. It was an advertisement for a popular injury law firm in Utah. On the right was the slogan, "Trip and fall, make the call," and on the right was a person falling down a flight of stairs. A rather well lit flight of stairs at that. Really? Is it now someone else's fault if we fall down the stairs? Do all stairwells now need to have a disclaimer? "Warning, you are about to walk down a flight of stairs. Enter at your own risk." Hmmm.