mthor

Thank you

Credit your sources.

No, it's just that about the 97th time you hear it....

There were a lot of worsts, which was why I liked it.

I don't know. I used to pop into IB occasionally, and I always found it more hostile than Rants. Sounds counter intuitive, maybe, but in Rants, we were assholes, we knew we were assholes, and anybody who wanted to be an asshole with us was welcome. There were cliques; there are always cliques, but there was plenty of room for free-range assholes, too. In IB, I always felt like there was a secret password that I didn't know, and getting said password would be more of a hassle than my welcome-to-rants curbstomping was.

Menopause is a beautiful thing. 😇

I got a nosebleed one time when I was changing a bed-bound patient's sheets. All over my whites, all over the bed, all over the patient...the girl I was working with couldn't decide whether to be scared about all of the blood pouring out of my face or pissed about the mess. After that, getting my period at work was kind of anticlimactic.

@K_N 🍻🎂🍻

Like it ever does?

Is she a nurse or a tech? Just curious; in my experience, the techs had more interaction with the patients, especially when it came to communicating with the outside world. (Granted, I haven't been inpatient in about 20 years, so I'm sure that things have changed...)

We had this discussion in FFA - it's no stronger than any other coffee, their directions just tell you to use twice as much. I don't mind it, but it's not my favorite; my son in law is fond of it now and again. You want strong, you need Cafe Bustelo. I've never seen it in anything besides an espresso grind, and it packs both taste and a pretty good jolt of caffeine. The problem is, although it's fine going down, once it hits your stomach, it's pretty much kyrie eleison until it exits. And that's my nightshift gut - I'm not quite sure what it would do to yours beyond it being unpleasant.

I'll bite - what are they? (Please expect a certain amount of skepticism - my inpatient charts alone probably weigh about twice what you do.)

Does she at least wash her hands before she goes back to work? I'm not sure from this.

If a malignant sprite thinks it's disgusting, who am I to disagree?

In Italian folklore, that's the technique used to rid one's self of a folletto, which is a type of irritating house sprite. One must let the folletto see one while one is using the chamberpot and eating a sandwich simultaneously. The folletto will hurl some verbal abuse, including statements to the effect that they cannot live in the same house as such a pig, and will then quit the premises.

Not your fault - I just need to remember that I'm powerless over Star Trek.

I need to stop, ghostie, or I'm going to relapse and start binging - there are a couple of those nostalgia channels that play TOS through Voyager, and if I start watching, I'll never get anything done.

Well, there was the whole Dr. Pulaski/ Data interplay on TNG, too...

Well, from what I remember of original canon, it's not that Vulcans don't have emotions, it's more like they suppress them and place more importance on being logical and objective. (I know that the animated series isn't generally considered canon, but there's an episode where Spock goes back to Vulcan and sees himself as a child being bullied by some other Vulcan kids. That actually makes more sense in line with T'Pring's actions in Amok Time.)

Well, in the original, she was fooling around with another guy (which is why she chose Kirk as her champion), so she was established in the original canon as kind of a bitch...

Maybe it's a pon farr thing - isn't that like every seven years? (T'Pring being there, I mean)

Oh, right. T'Pau was the old lady.

T'Pau?

It's taken me two days to decide, but orange, grey, yellow.

The only two I'm sure I don't want are the beard one and the memory one. Could probably do without the airport one, too. The rest are going to be a challenge to choose between.