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The reward for hard work is more work, and I know that, but sometimes I wish it wasn't true. Having sent off CODA Standard 2 two weeks ago, I've spent the time since catching up with the alphabet soup (POH, IPE, ICRC), the CODA survey (which is an annual headache and required me to count "clock hours" for the new curriculum, which means going through every single course schedule and counting how many hours of didactics, small group instruction, independent study, lab, patient care, and simulation time are involved in every course and then adding them all up by year), final pre-publishing edits on an article for Medical Principles and Practice, major edits on a new article for the Journal of Dental Education (which finally got me Endnote, because maybe I won't have to reformat so many references), the usual meetings plus the Curriculum Committee, and various other things that meant I skipped chorus rehearsal on Wednesday. My brain needed peace and whatever else a chorus rehearsal is, it isn't peaceful.
I have a truly first-world problem: I make pretty damn good coffee, but only in 6-8 cup quantities. I can't drink that much coffee in a day, and I object to pouring out the extra because it is, in fact, pretty damn good coffee, so now I have about a quart of iced coffee in the fridge and it's too cold out for iced coffee. I think maybe I'll try making coffee jelly, just to see what that's about. The Great Gildersleeve mentioned it at least once, when coffee was rationed in WWII. Google as of today thinks it's a Japanese idea; if it is, I can believe they wouldn't say that on the radio back then.
This is where I hope Dr. Gransky will tell me I'm being a Paranoid Pet Parent, but I think Lily is having teeth issues again because she doesn't want the right side of her jaw scritched any more. If the teeth need surgical intervention, I'm inclined to ask him to take Marlene (a benign cyst which is now ping-pong-ball-size) off while Lily's asleep. Marlene was drained last November when she was grape-size and these things get bigger when they fill up again, so I want her removed rather than drained, if anything. I wish Lily were a human so we could just do local anesthesia and remove it. Maybe I'll ask about that anyway.
I have a truly first-world problem: I make pretty damn good coffee, but only in 6-8 cup quantities. I can't drink that much coffee in a day, and I object to pouring out the extra because it is, in fact, pretty damn good coffee, so now I have about a quart of iced coffee in the fridge and it's too cold out for iced coffee. I think maybe I'll try making coffee jelly, just to see what that's about. The Great Gildersleeve mentioned it at least once, when coffee was rationed in WWII. Google as of today thinks it's a Japanese idea; if it is, I can believe they wouldn't say that on the radio back then.
This is where I hope Dr. Gransky will tell me I'm being a Paranoid Pet Parent, but I think Lily is having teeth issues again because she doesn't want the right side of her jaw scritched any more. If the teeth need surgical intervention, I'm inclined to ask him to take Marlene (a benign cyst which is now ping-pong-ball-size) off while Lily's asleep. Marlene was drained last November when she was grape-size and these things get bigger when they fill up again, so I want her removed rather than drained, if anything. I wish Lily were a human so we could just do local anesthesia and remove it. Maybe I'll ask about that anyway.