In other news, I may have put too many chocolate chips in my chocolate chip pancakes.
For the last 10 years of my career Working at the bedside I worked every Friday, Saturday and Sunday So we would have Coverage for the children Since my wife work during the week. The last 5 Years of this I Got a second job So that I worked every weekend In Our neonatal Intensive Care Unit and travelled every third week to NICUS around the country where I either spoke at conferences or Acted as a Consultant for the Physicians, respiratory therapists, nurse practitioners and nurses. It is no exaggeration To say Those weeks were 100-plus hour weeks. I am thrilled to have one job now And to never Have to work weekends unless there is An emergency With A baby in my Area .
In other news, I may have put too many chocolate chips in my chocolate chip pancakes.
I have a $10 dollar bill from 1934 and a $5 from 1963. Neither are in good enough shape to be worth more than face value. Yet, I've held on to them for a couple decades.
Effects of the pandemic: As I mentioned before, I chaperoned middle schoolers on a trip to England and Scotland in the summer of 2013. I absolutely fell in love with Edinburgh and knew as soon as I left that I wanted to come back. I have a pinky swear deal with a fellow theater artist to go to the Edinburgh Festival with her when that is a thing again. But that's not the end of it, I have decided that I am finally going to have a semester abroad. I looked into studying abroad when I was at Duke. There were no programs for math majors and had I chosen to spend a semester abroad, I would not have been able to graduate in 4 years. The next step was to look at summer programs and my parents' reaction was - wherever you can afford to go. In other words, they wouldn't be paying for it. I went to Montreal for a month. Duke had a program with the Universite de Montreal, so, the coursework was in French and I will argue that Montreal is the most European feeling city in North America, but still, it was study abroad light.
So, my plan, when it becomes possible to do such a thing again, is to find a way to live in Scotland for 6-9 months. I'm not really planning to study anything. I'm thinking of it more as a sabbatical.
Automatic - bottom of the line Chevy Biscayne, at the time probably the least interesting automobile ever made. (It's a classic now, but was definitely a piece of crap back then.) I remember when my grandfather came home with it - his "first new car" - and my excitement immediately melting into a pool of massive disappointment -- I wasn't going to impress any dates going out in that ugly boat.
I drove an orange dodge omni hatchback in high school. First gear was stripped, so I had to learn to start in 2nd. If you rolled the windows down some sort of fibers from the ceiling blew into your eyes. Said ceiling was also falling down and drooped close to the passengers' heads. I was forced to develop a personality at a young age. As to whether or not it is a pleasant personality is open to interpretation.
Tomorrow I head to the beach for a month!
you're reminding me of my 1976 Plymouth Valiant...this was the era when American cars hit rock bottom. The car had a 12,000 mile / one year warranty, the transmission crapped out at 13 months, the engine NEVER ran right (bad design), and
as in your Omni, one day I was driving down the road and the fabric ceiling fell on my head, nearly blinding me...the arm rest also fell off...otherwise it was a great car.
We have not but we have stayed on Skye and Raasay. I assume you can ferry from Skye.
Her family is not far from Glasgow but we’ve gotten pretty comfortable renting a car and cruising around so we explore something new every time we’re over.
I actually like a good Haggis but it can be real bad, too.