tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post2403061999335656749..comments2023-12-06T00:48:23.734-08:00Comments on Daily Writing Practice: Wednesday March 16th, 2016Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14952331166517430843noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-76637561220590553992016-05-01T16:12:21.968-07:002016-05-01T16:12:21.968-07:00Greg - no, I meant wound up as in full of energy. ...Greg - no, I meant wound up as in full of energy. He quite enjoys the class. It's just afterward he wanted to run around stores and get into everything, so it was a bit of a challenge.<br /><br />Enjoyed your alphabet format. You lulled me into expecting one thing and then dropped the bomb on me at D. Very nicely done. Especially liked C.<br /><br />I was going to say 'Especially liked your C section' and then decided not to... until I had to get it out anyway, apparently.Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14952331166517430843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-85726480087648448802016-03-17T13:27:18.063-07:002016-03-17T13:27:18.063-07:00That music class doesn't sound good – or perha...That music class doesn't sound good – or perhaps its too good? I get the impression from your understatement that Max wasn't happy by the end of it. You should probably stop having him learn classical harp... :-P<br />I'm very glad I'm not a patient of your surgeon: someone who's reliving how his Orc Chieftain just died in a raid is not someone I want with their hands inside me looking for organs to remove. I do like the way you lead up to the WoW moment though, especially the notes about the surgeon imagining other people's conversations when they're too indistinct for the words to be made out.<br /><br /><b>The surgeon</b><br /><i>A is for Anaesthesiologist</i>.<br />Got one of those, he's sitting in the corner. Nice guy, not long out of med. school. Talks quietly to the patients while they're asleep because he's worried that they might be slightly awake, so he tells them reassuring things and pretty much drones on about his life. If they were awake he'd put them straight back under through boredom, so I let him carry on and do it.<br /><br /><i>B is for Bald.</i><br />Got one of those too, though it's not by choice. Mine or theirs. She's been bald for the last two weeks since her girlfriend got jealous and shaved her hair off while she was asleep; it's growing back but painfully slowly and she keeps complaining about how it itches. Her eyebrows are missing this morning so I'm guessing the cats are still fighting back home. I'd rather not have her in here at all but that's because she showers irregularly and her breath is abattoir-bad. However, she's still got the neatest stitches of any of my trainees and the hospital are insisting that I take more minorities (is being a lesbian really something to get upset about in an operating theatre?) so she's in.<br /><br /><i>C is for Cutter</i>.<br />Junior Surgeon Arnold Cutter to be precise, but it seems to be one of those cases of nominative determinism. He's good, and getting better. He started off like the guy from Big Bang Theory, but after I replaced his scissors with pinking shears and his bone saw with wood rasp he had his little hissy fit and started to loosen up. There was the small matter of the lawsuit as well, but I defended him and swore blind that it was the nurse with the buckteeth who'd done those things and one dismissal later we're all one big, happy family again.<br /><br /><i>D is for Death</i>.<br />That would be me.<br />Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08503319830584828982noreply@blogger.com