Nobel Smells-Like-Rotting-Cheese Prize

Heartless bastards

Leviticus 24:19-20: If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him, fracture for fracture, ICE for ICE

What my 10 yo boy (pre-puberty) ate in a day this week: Breakfast: bowl of bran flakes with skim milk Lunch: 4 slices of turkey, many pieces of broccoli, several pita chips Snack: many veggie sticks Dinner: chicken thigh, 1/2 c. of rice, many peas, skim milk Dessert: vanilla ice cream cone Cont'd...

Did you all hear about this $3 meal the Secretary of Agriculture recommended?

An announcement from Noah Wyle and the CDC:

This is a terrible time for a large nationwide phone service provider (Verizon) to go down.

Dreamed about state-raised designer babies and a hospital that was hiding something I had to find. My hippocampus is worried.

We already know this administration is Pro-teen.

My kid just did sugar packet shots at dinner. But I'm not a bad parent because he's 13.

Sounds like another one of these games

Happy Caturday. I hope you catch your mouse today.

Up at an ungodly hour, but at least 6 out of the 8 soccer games this weekend are indoor, and the 2 outdoor games are miraculously simultaneous in the same place. Small victories.

I'm starting ICU service later this month, and I'm already worried about how many flu-related brain injuries we're going to see.

10: I have no idea what you are saying. Can you say it again in [his name] words? 10/10, no notes.

I wish people were as horrified about immigrants being kidnapped and killed in detention centers as they are about this shooting at the same time I am very glad there is finally some larger momentum building against this and I hope it sustains.

Never thought my first pair of Chucks would be inherited from my 13 yo who outgrew them. Also got a popcorn kernel out of one. Bonus!

I give you permission not to watch the videos. You can be just as angry without those images in your head.

Last year the CDC had to set up a task force on flu-related encephalitis cases. We don't want to be "similar to last year."

There really isn't much value to getting out of bed these days.

My husband found a single sock that I've been missing for YEARS, and I still have the mate. Oh happy day! 🧦

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

In 7th grade, one of my friends suddenly died from meningococcemia. She was previously healthy. We used to hang out at the skating rink every weekend. It was my first exposure to childhood death and was devastating. Imagine knowing it would be preventable by routine vaccination just a decade later.

Insurance: We will only cover a 90-day supply of this med. Me: We only need 14 days. We're weaning it off. Ins: I will approve a 30-day supply. Me: 🙄 Is there a ref # for this conversation when it doesn't go through? Ins: No, but I'm confident it will work now. Pharmacy: It didn't work. 😡

Relevant every day now

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Insomnia was not in the plan for back-to-work Monday. 🫩

Really glad I let the boys stay up to watch that game. As exciting as football ever gets and exactly what it feels like to be a Ravens fan.

Whatever you expected to happen, it wasn't that. #Ravens

I finally found frozen buttermilk biscuits here, which vastly improves my quality of weekend life. No more canned biscuits ever again.

"Mid" is already aspirational

Other terrible things are still happening as a consequence of this shitty administration

Even the nice, professional people are cussing on here today.

I'm going back to sleep and hoping for a do-over.

Jesus fucking Christ

I joke that 10% of my job is turning off sound machines, but it's no laughing matter. I hate those things.

If you told me back in medical school that someday I would be running for the Senate and my campaign slogan would be “It’s me or the measles” I WOULD DEFINITELY NOT HAVE BELIEVED YOU. But here we are. It’s me or the measles. South Carolina, the choice is yours. 💙🇺🇸

Starting the year with the immense stress of trying not to screw up my kids' school choice applications. (In Baltimore City, you have to apply for the good/specialized public middle and high school programs much like a residency rank list.)

I haven't had slow-cooked black-eyed peas in decades, but I'd swoon for some with real buttermilk cornbread. You can take the girl out of the South, but...

Figures

I feel very strongly that Baltimore might be the best place on earth.

Giving 2025 the tribute it doesn't deserve (but I do)

Just going to leave this right here. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... TL;DR: Risk is much higher in unvaccinated children

We have a temporary fix, a short-term fix option, and a recommendation to replace the whole system. 😭

4 Non Blondies

The forecast says it will be 21 deg colder tomorrow. Good thing our heat just stopped working. 😒🥶

I wouldn't be surprised if we find out there's a widespread NFL cheating/gambling scandal this season. There have been so many questionable ref calls and surprise wins/losses.

Back in my own bed, but I forgot the cardinal rule of vacation: give yourself a whole day at home before returning to work. 😢