The obligatory holiday greeting

[deschutes]

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...though no less warm in its obligatoriness 🙂

Merry Christmas everyone! And best wishes for the New Year.

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As for us, well - flurry be on the 25th, but right now it is a 50-degree winter day here up north 😀

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Likewise, I wish all of you a safe, happy, and joyful holiday season. And Happy New year as well 🙂

 

[ziadp]

I hope the holiday season was a joyous one for everyone and their respective families.

To those applying for Path Residencies, best of luck!!! I hope we all get what we want! (Though it is getting hard waiting for Match Day.)

To everyone else, happy holidays!

 

[b&ierstiefel]

(Though it is getting hard waiting for Match Day.)

Yeah, I wish we could press the fast forward button in life. (I also wish we could press rewind and do some erasing/rewriting )

 

[beary]

I also with everybody a Happy New Year! Best of luck to those of you interviewing, thinking about rank lists, and waiting for Match Day! I certainly am not looking forward to next year when I am in your position!

P.S. - Deschutes, I love your holiday avatar - so cute!

 

[yaah]

Yeah, I wish we could press the fast forward button in life. (I also wish we could press rewind and do some erasing/rewriting )

At times I think I would like a rewind button, particularly to go back to college and have more fun, but then I just kick myself in the ass and say "stop whining you idiot, everything in the past is a memory anyway so grow up and think about today and tomorrow instead of yesterday."

Hope everyone's Christmas was nice, even if you refuse to celebrate christmas at least you probably are getting some time off. I refuse to wish anyone a happy new year though, because as I have already ranted about, it's a silly holiday and doesn't deserve our respect.

 

[deschutes]

Deschutes, I love your holiday avatar - so cute!

Thanks! It looks a little cheeky, for some reason.

There's this surg-onc guy who has been trotting around the hospital in scrubs and a crazy spring-coil Santa hat.
Same guy who had bunny ears for Easter.

One week of holidays left! I'd forgotten how good time off feels. Haven't waken at high noon in a lo-o-o-o-o-ng time.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Deschutes, you realize you really quoted beary and not geddy, right?

At times I think I would like a rewind button, particularly to go back to college and have more fun, but then I just kick myself in the ass and say "stop whining you idiot, everything in the past is a memory anyway so grow up and think about today and tomorrow instead of yesterday."

If there was a rewind button, perfectionists would still be stuck in grade school.

Hope everyone's Christmas was nice, even if you refuse to celebrate christmas at least you probably are getting some time off. I refuse to wish anyone a happy new year though, because as I have already ranted about, it's a silly holiday and doesn't deserve our respect.

OK negative nancy, happy new year to you too.

 

[yaah]

OK negative nancy, happy new year to you too.

Why not just wish someone a happy new December every time it comes around? Or happy December 27th at 8:25 am? It's all arbitrary! I was first turned off of New Years when I was younger and saw other countries celebrating New Years while we still had 5 hours to go here. Why is a new year a time to celebrate anyway? Hurray! I don't have to write 2004 on my checks anymore!

 

[jeff2005]

Yaah, you're just a party pooper. I love new years celebration, and this one in particular has meaning to me. I'm in the class of 2005 and it's going to be 2005!! 👍

 

[yaah]

Yaah, you're just a party pooper. I love new years celebration, and this one in particular has meaning to me. I'm in the class of 2005 and it's going to be 2005!! 👍

I got ripped on today by the cute girl who works in histo when I told her I didn't like new years. I have found people who agree with me, so there. The summer has always been a more significant "shift" to me than new years - school always starts in the summer, graduations, and residency started. New Years is the middle of the year. I don't play by your rules. You are all tools and victims of the champagne and firecracker lobbies. If it wasn't for New Year's they would lose a lot of their business. It's all a conspiracy, like Valentine's Day is.

Maybe New Year's would be more fun if I had someone to make out with at midnight. 🙁

 

[deschutes]

Yes, my mistake - beary, not geddy. I think I had too many windows open; the Step 2 thread comes to mind. Beary gets credit for good taste 😉

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I liked the fact that we all celebrated new year's qhourly! I used to think of it as a giant Mexican wave. But to each their own.

I much preferred the Lunar New Year anyway... marked the start of spring (just maybe not this far north). And pssst you all... that's when you really eat mandarin oranges, not Christmas 😀

The other thing I liked about it: if I realized on December 31 how messy my house was and how much work I needed to do to get it cleaned, it'd be just in time for the Lunar New Year end January/early February.

 

[jeff2005]

We have got to help Yaah find a woman. It's a terrible shame seeing that studly man going to waste.

 

[deschutes]

I'm afraid I'm not his type either. Naturally I do apple pie, but I need my "ethnic cuisine" fixes. I doubt he'd find my kitchen inviting...

I look forward to finding my match in Iowa 😉

 

[yaah]

We have got to help Yaah find a woman. It's a terrible shame seeing that studly man going to waste.

I believe my mother and grandmother have both used these words. Except for the studly part.

Everyone thinks when I badmouth so-called "ethnic" cuisine that I would refuse to go to such restaurants. This is far from true. I will try almost anything (no more sushi though) and can almost always find something good at any type of restaurant. Hence, I would have gone to the indian restaurant if they wanted and probably enjoyed it. It's just that I enjoy a good meatball sub a lot more. I do like good food as well, it's just that I don't need it. I can do quite well with the basics. I'm more flexible than one would think (that's MENTALLY flexible, all you horndogs!) As long as the menu doesn't include the words "eel" or "cayenne pepper" or "butternut squash" I do ok.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I do like good food as well, it's just that I don't need it. I can do quite well with the basics.

Well...as long as you're not like one of my friends who ate only peanut butter sandwiches all summer and then got presumptively diagnosed with scurvy by his dentist!

 

[deschutes]

I can do quite well with the basics. As long as the menu doesn't include the words "eel" or "cayenne pepper" or "butternut squash" I do ok.

My dear sir, I'm afraid you really don't understand...... there are some of us who eat grilled eel with roasted cayenne pepper on a bed of butternut squash.

For breakfast. 😛

(But then again, Doritos and salsa does a dinner make..)

I can't bear to drag boyfriends out clothes shopping with me and watch them suffer, unless it was for say, a one-item trip. For the same reason I'd never drag someone someplace he didn't like.

Maybe that's why I'm still single. I need to spread the suffering.

I applaud the peanut-butter-eater's fortitude.
Could never eat only peanut butter sandwiches all summer.
Could never eat only peanut butter sandwiches for a day.
That's right up there with Supersize Me.

 

[yaah]

I can't bear to drag boyfriends out clothes shopping with me and watch them suffer, unless it was for say, a one-item trip. For the same reason I'd never drag someone someplace he didn't like.

Maybe that's why I'm still single. I need to spread the suffering.

I hide my suffering well. I can keep it bottled up inside so it only stews and festers and slowly damages my thyroid gland.

Clothes shopping isn't terrible, but I am definitely one of those people who goes to a store a gets things done quickly. Browsing is ok once in awhile but it's kind of a waste of time. Either buy the pants or don't buy the pants. I guess I'm not very complex in that way.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I hide my suffering well. I can keep it bottled up inside so it only stews and festers and slowly damages my thyroid gland.

but that would make you more hypothyroid...SHENANIGANS!

oh waitaminute...so would that mean that you used to be hyperthyroid but now you have progressed to a more euthyroid state?

we really need that timecourse plot there.

 

[yaah]

but that would make you more hypothyroid...SHENANIGANS!

oh waitaminute...so would that mean that you used to be hyperthyroid but now you have progressed to a more euthyroid state?

we really need that timecourse plot there.

No, you see, that's my new explanation. My TSH is not affected because as my gland is slowly damaged, too much hormone is released. But it is only done it spurts, thus my resting TSH is perfectly normal. But no doubt the end of my disease state will be a crippling cretinism. Delayed reflexes, sluggish responses, and massive weight gain.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

No, you see, that's my new explanation. My TSH is not affected because as my gland is slowly damaged, too much hormone is released. But it is only done it spurts, thus my resting TSH is perfectly normal. But no doubt the end of my disease state will be a crippling cretinism. Delayed reflexes, sluggish responses, and massive weight gain.

yeah...very interesting...maybe deschutes can write a case report on this since that's her thing.

so now, this has implications for your emotional/psychological state WHEN you go to the doctor's office to get your blood drawn.

so are you like intermittent sick euthyroid or something?

 

[yaah]

so are you like intermittent sick euthyroid or something?

I am intermittent pseudo-sick euthyroid.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I am intermittent pseudo-sick euthyroid.

...who really likes cavewomen but is still in denial.

 

[deschutes]

We are talking about clothes? 😉
Or male-female relationships. Or suffering.

Either buy the pants or don't buy the pants. I guess I'm not very complex in that way.

Suits me. Questions to answer -
(1) feels good: Y/N
(2) looks good: Y/N
(3) expensive: Y/N
Done!

I certainly don't remember the last time I asked someone "Do you think I should get this?"
Vice versa - happened just today.

If only I made medical decisions as easily.

So maybe not not remotely like the girls I've seen who model every outfit for their long-suffering male partners.

But I'm hyper-sensitive. I over-empathize with those who hate waiting 😉

Case reports are yaah's thing, not mine. Although he will probably have to declare conflict of interest when writing himself up.

...who really likes cavewomen but is still in denial.

I sense some counter-transference going on.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I sense some counter-transference going on.

explain please

 

[yaah]

explain please

I believe she means that you are secretly or unconsciously attracted to me and that in your ideal world, you would be my cavewoman. If that is the case, I must decline. Because while you are an attractive man, my tastes tend to go towards those without a Y chromosome, unless they are one of those individuals with a translocation who are XX yet male.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I believe she means that you are secretly or unconsciously attracted to me and that in your ideal world, you would be my cavewoman. If that is the case, I must decline. Because while you are an attractive man, my tastes tend to go towards those without a Y chromosome, unless they are one of those individuals with a translocation who are XX yet male.

I don't understand how my conversation about cavewomen allows her to jump to this sort of conclusion. Both of you have me confused on this one. No matter how I spin this, I don't get this. And I believe transference and counter-transference refers to both positive and negative emotions. And why would I want to be your cavewoman? 😕

Bah...the Lounge has warped my fragile little mind...and this is what happens when Lounge matters are brought here

 

[deschutes]

I believe she means that you are secretly or unconsciously attracted to me...

*screams*
Like a red-hot poker in the eye! I would think no such thing!!

I just wondered if Andy with his *BONK!*, liked cavewomen but was in denial.
Since I'm not a cavewoman, I am safe.
Though not from the *BONK!*, it seems. (see Random Non-pathology thread)

 

[b&ierstiefel]

*screams*
Like a red-hot poker in the eye! I would think no such thing!!

So does that mean that your head is not in the gutter and this is all in yaah's head?

I just wondered if Andy with his *BONK!*, liked cavewomen but was in denial.

Well that's not counter-transference you're talking about then. You are referring to a defense mechanism...which one is it...hmm...displacement?...don't remember clinical medicine.

Since I'm not a cavewoman, I am safe.
Though not from the *BONK!*, it seems. (see Random Non-pathology thread)

No one is safe from the *BONK!*
It is an equal-opportunity *BONK!*