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09/12/07

Morphage

Permalink 08:27:40 pm by cassie, Categories: Announcements [A]

For the benefit of those who haven't spoken to me lately, I would like to explain that I have been avoiding blogging for the following reasons:

#1 - I'm crabby

#2 - All I've been doing these days, it seems, is going to work

#3 - When I come home from work I am just all depressed and possibly crabbier than when I left to go *to* work

#4 - I still have no idea what I'm doing and how to manage my time and I'm still terrified that I'm going to miss a brady with a heart block and give a beta blocker and end up bottoming out my patient

#5 - I'm possibly off orientation on Monday (yikes)

#6 - I spend most of my free time sleeping or crying

So. Lest I come out with a more morose and neurotic post than what I've already dished out, I've been holding back despite the urge to wake up at three AM (and one... and two... and four... the way I have the last three weeks) and blog about this stuff.

Anyways, completely unrelated, but I couldn't help but notice a terrifying trend in a picture that was sent to me from D. Shaughn, our local reporter/photog/friend. It was taken at the wedding of a really dear friend of ours' last Saturday. It was a lovely day, lovely wedding, lovely couple. Suffice it to say - big surprise - I cried.

As far as the picture goes, please observe:

Anganderhydes

Note the way in which Mark and Daddy-o's heads seem to be morphing seamlessly one into the other. They both lean forward; the glasses, the classic wife-haircut, the blank stare that says, "Hooray, a wedding," with a period at the end of the sentence. Sure, Mark is a rosy/pasty combo with blonde-brown hair, while Dad is more green/yellow on black, but it could definitely be a match.

I love my happy face in this picture. It looks like my RealSmile, not my picture one, and I love my cutiewootiepatootie Teds and Ray in it on either side of me looking worn out and bewildered about the whole ordeal of not calling the bride by her former married name anymore. And I like the way my ruddy Dutch-German husband looks so out of place amongst all the sallow yellow-olive-green tones of my gaggle of Greeks. How'd I ever end up with a name like Van Der Hyde anyhow, I wonder? I always enjoy the raised eyebrows when I introduce myself to people who assume I am unmarried. More often than not, they laugh and say something like, "Of the New York Vaaahn Dah Hydes, I presume," and I always say no and giggle a little at the thought, because if they ever spent a day with us they'd know there is no old money in our bloodlines. Still. It makes me feel a little bit fancy anyhow. Van Der Hyde. Very distinguished.

I'm off the floor for the next two days. I plan to sleep in tomorrow, as does Emvee (he's off tomorrow too), go see a movie (because Mark got free tickets from work), wash some dishes (because I made more dirty ones today and they're piling again), and not think about beta blockers at all. Or chest tubes. Or pleural effusions. Or Tridil drips. It shuts off now and I'm determined to sleep through the night without once waking up from a dream about titrating insulin drips. Give me a break, I can't believe that I'm dreaming about this carp.

G'night.

4 comments

Comment from: Jen [Visitor] Email
JenI love that picture as well. You have a beautiful smile, Cass.
And I know a Mexican named Maria Swanson, so your name doesn't phase me. ;-)
09/13/07 @ 07:51
Comment from: Mom [Visitor] Email
MomI just love that picture of you!
09/17/07 @ 13:46
Comment from: sj [Visitor] Email
sjI agree... this picture is a great one of you, Cass. Not that any other picture of you is not great, because they all are. =)


PS- I bought glasses today at Walmart. I should be getting them in like a week or something, at which point I will post a picture or two so you can see. These are already infinitely better than the internet ones. Like, by FAR. At least, I think so.
09/17/07 @ 18:10
Comment from: heidi [Visitor] Email
heidicarp, teehee.
09/18/07 @ 20:07
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