What Did You Do Today?

oh really? that's nice. cuz i built a house. :)

isn't that why people do volunteer work? so they can feel smug? i thought so.

my husband and i did 8 hrs with habitat for humanity today. he put a roof on and i helped hang pre-siding stuff and organized the storage area. it was cool. the way that habitat works is that the future home owners take part in the construction (sweat equity hours plus a small mortgage once they're in the house for all the parts and such is their commitment to get a brand new house) and so they were there with their friends today along with a bunch of us volunteers and habitat employees. we were working on two houses at once. it's a really neat, community-embracing effort. if you've never done it, i would certainly recommend it.

and it attracts all sorts of do-gooders (like me, for sure) like medical students. there was a pack of about 10 1st year med students from our local big ass university (BAU). i noticed today and have observed in the past regarding med students that they're mostly all 23 yr old nerds/brown nosers and are sort of clueless about life. i overheard one itty bitty tiny 80lb one say "that lady told me to get water for everybody, but i don't know how to do it, so i'm just going to help over here." she will be torn apart when she pulls that kind of thing with an MD in the hospital. ("they told me to get the crash cart for that patient over there who is, like, dying or something, but i didn't know where it was...so i grabbed this stapler instead.") someone will just snap her into two 40lb pieces.

i mean, i'm sure that the individual families of these children/future docs are really proud of them and feeling secure in their future and all, but they often don't start out inspiring a whole lot of confidence.

and i'll stop with the tirade now. i sound so old. anyone who might be reading this who is a first or second year med student, please disregard my angry old lady PA mutterings.

halloween was fun. we passed out candy (that which we had not eaten ourselves- so we got to about 6 kids before we had to turn the front light out and start shouting "GO AWAY" when they approached our house) and had some friends over to drink mulled wine and play board games.

i'm tired and sore from a hard day of hating on med students...and hauling lumbar...so i'm off. but please enjoy a tribute to michael jackson's 25th anniversary of "thriller." this might be the weirdest/funniest thing i've ever seen.