menometrorrhagia

    I can’t tell if my account is working now.  I want to test this out.  Thus this lame post.

my blog looks to have been disabled.  i’m wondering if i post something if the old posts will show back up.

penn jillette

sorry for the string of crappy posts.  this is just a quick note to say: prepare to update links — menometrorrhagia is moving to an awesome, as yet undisclosed site!  i’m just trying to iron out a couple minor details in the design (and completely learning how to manipulate css) and once those are done i’ll make the switch.  i suspect this site will stay up, but just won’t be updated.

Today marked my return to the clinical realm after a hiatus of about five months.  I was understandably nervous.  Perhaps all the modest skill and aplomb I had accumulated over the course of my third year had withered away from neglect.  I am quite sure that most of the knowledge accumulated during that time has dissipated.  My fears were all the more pronounced because the rotation I began today was Women’s Health, i.e., outpatient Ob-Gyn.

Going into that first patient’s room and lining up all the instruments was nerve-wracking.  Not only was I sure to fumble with the speculum and cytobrush, my Spanish was far rustier than I had anticipated.  I couldn’t remember how to say “Relax, baby, just let me slide this cold metal alligator up there and do my thing.”  So I reverted to the old standby “Lo siento, senora, lo siento.”

My palms were completely sweaty as I struggled to pull on the latex-free gloves, but I needn’t have worried.  That cervix popped it’s little pink eye right out at me on the first try.  It turns out doing pelvic exams is like riding a bike.  A smelly, disgusting bike, but still.

Lo siento, mi esposa.

1. I’m thinking of moving the blog because about 1/7th of my regular readers cannot access the comments section from work, which is, as we all know, where the vast majority of blog browsing occurs.  If I do move it will be to either vox or livejournal because all the other free blog sites suck.  If I go to livejournal I will change the name, much to the delight of billy and my wife who seem uncomfortable with gynecologic word play.
2. According to an anesthesiologist at Parkland, every time someone vomits in the hospital it costs about $100.  That’s just retarded.
3. I have until Feb 21 to submit a rank list of the residency programs I’d like to attend, but I think I’ll submit it on Feb 7th just like all those high school football recruits submitting their letters of intent.

there’s been a request to move menometrorrhagia to another host.  here’s a list of a few candidates.  let me know what you think.
http://menometrorrhagia.vox.com/
http://menometrorrhagia.shoutpost.com/
http://llogg.lifelogger.com/blog
http://menometrorrhagia.eponym.com/blog

None of the candidates are all that user-friendly or customizable, but then, neither is blog.com.  I might try blogger, but their templates are ugly.

PS. I’d love to use livejournal but menometrorrhagia is one letter too long for their subdomain name.

“I want to put the rumor to rest, I was diagnosed with Klinefelter’s last
year.
Thank you for your support.”

Weird.

That is all.

I had this really long post typed up about how great the Opera browser is because of it’s mail and news clients, but when I went to submit it blog.com apparently hiccupped and now it’s totally lost.  So here’s the quick version of that post, which will still be pretty long.
1. Opera has a built in mail client that is awesome and checks mail automatically whenever Opera is open.  Reading mail is just like opening webpages, uses the same window, new tab, same commands.
2. Opera also has a news reader that sets up RSS subscriptions to various sites and opens the articles in new tabs.  The rest of this post was generated from the news client, with one exception.
3. This article about Barack Obama reminds me to say “Don’t nominate Hilary Clinton you dumbshits!”  Could anybody possibly mobilize the Republican hordes more than her?  Let’s get it right this time.  Had General Clark gotten the nomination last time Bush might have been relegated to the single term bin of presidents where he belongs.  For the record, I’m not endorsing Obama.  I don’t know enough about him or any of the other potential candidates.  I just know there’s no way in hell Clinton could win.
4. Netflix will dominate the home movie landscape for the next few years.  I think that kiosks where films are downloaded to thumb drives is a better solution than online downloads or streams of movies because of fewer security concerns and people without access to high speed internet could still access the product.  But what do I know?
5. China has a state-sponsored Catholic church?  How many Hail Mary’s do you give for suppression of the Tibetan people?  Just curious.
6. [deleted for not working.  i hate this freakin' internet!]
7. This article on evolution and carnivores is pretty interesting, but I think they gloss over the enormous predatory dinosaur problem too easily.
8. When did Venezuala elect Rush Limbaugh?  Now that’s statesmanship!
9. Meanwhile, in the forgotten war …
10. Stuff like this is why I have often thought of moving to Canada.
11. Not to totally rehash the debate that raged through this digital space several months ago, but here’s more about antibiotic resistance in the news.