Bad Weather, and the razorbacks season in review

With a patch of bad weather coming through the area lately, the ER has been busy. Car accidents, of course, and slips and falls with broken hips, and broken everything else, and hypothermic bums, and hypothermic little old ladies. And of course fires, which are the worst, and even people getting killed trying to make fire, like the two different guys we have seen killed cutting firewood this winter. I am certainly not a global warming naysayer, but this is the coldest winter since at least 1977 in many parts of the world. It is the coldest it has been in Key West for 131 years! I like the cold sometimes, but this is causing a lot of anguish, and is having all kinds of unseen effects like driving up fuel prices, and may even contribute to another flu (swine or otherwise) outbreak by keeping everyone jammed together in doors. ... (By the way, sorry to use all these dots and wierd punctuations, but it seems you can't start a new paragraph and indent on here.)..... Anyway, I have been using some of my extra time inside to reflect on the razorbacks. I am happy with the bowl we got, and I think we beat a tough team, from a tougher than most think conference. I am not Happy with Mallett, though. He looks like Gumby trying to play football, and he thinks he could have even thought about going pro? I doubt it. But the thing I hate the most is here he is, after his "sophomore" year, wanting to go. We know he doesn't care about the team. We can see where his selfish thoughts lie, and we have to spend the whole next season knowing he is leaving us early, and wishing he could have done it sooner. Oh well, I do think we will have an awesome season next year, maybe we actually will be a contender in the west?

Christmas Muzak

The Muzak that is piped into our floors, much like in the house of god is noramally very annoying, but it was even more so this christmas. For one thing, it had been turned off for nearly six months after the "Highway to Hell" by ACDC was playing overhead during a nasty ED code. When they did turn it back on it was christmas music. When the same christmas songs are looped through an average of 4 times during the course of a 12 hour internal medicine shift, it can be very annoying, to say the least. It starts to be very depressing as well. Particularly when you see a 90 yr old parkinsonian gomer lying in bed, Q sign on face, staring at the ceiling, and twitching, seeminly to the beat of deck the halls.

Macy's Parade and Football

Watching the Macy's parade. I can't believe it is actually ending this early. Growing p it seemed like it went on all day, and as far back as I can remember I HATED it! it was so boring and my mom always made us watch it, or at least have it on. I always wanted to watch cartoons, or, later on, the lions play football. I have to admit I had a little thing for the lions there for a time. Not sure why. I hate detroit, and every other sports team from michigan. I guess because they always played on thanksgiving, and I always enjoyed watching football on that day, and they were the underdogs. I realize now that they will never improve. In fact, I don't really care for the NFL at all. Maybe because we don't really have a team here in arkansas. Anyway, it seems that the NFL is a rather blue-collar sport. The league came into bieng in the days when all the majority of the country had never been to college and worked in factories and couldn't feel an attachment to a college team, so they followed the city team instead. Today, the majority of americans have been to college, and it is also much more accepted to follow a team even if you didn't go to college there. So, why do we need the NFL? The drama associated with it seems to be the only thing people follow now anyway. After the long, unintended digression, I will say that I do enjoy the parade now, and I watched the whole thing, and now I'm watching the dog show.

Go Razorbacks

Well, I didnt make the game, but those damn trojans went down hard, and Mallett and the whole team were amazing! Now we get to see the razorbacks back in Little Rock, and They truly are hitting a stride.

This is too much!

I don't mind working my ass off in the ICU for weeks, but when I am forced into call on Saturday night when the Hogs are at home, after I have already worked 14 out of the last 15 days....it is too much! My dad and brother were both going to the game with me, and it was going to be awesome! Sure, we are just playing Troy, but I really dislike Troy. I typically have a ton of respect for strong mid - major schools, and I hate the BCS and think everyone should be on a more level field (playoff), but those Bastards from Troy, I don't care for. I think it is just because I have known some people from the town that I didn't care for. When I think of it, I don't remember ever meeting anyone from Alabama that I liked.

Hogs Nearly pulll Major Upset

The season has already had its highs and lows for the hogs, but a superlative high nearly came yesterday with an upset of Florida. The hogs were thwarted at the last second by a field goal, to put the gators up 23-20. Oh well. Mallet played well anyway, and I am really starting to like this team.

Unusual Names

Along with repeat offenders, I think I will start a regular feature on unusual names that I have heard about or directly encountered in the ED. How about Candy Disch? Or twins Unique and Dunique? I think Dunique got the raw deal there. Another fabled set of twins is Orangello and lemonjello. Spelling orange jello and lemon jello! More to come I hope.

Stop The Skid Hogs!

Ok, so we aren't looking too great in conference play. We had a tough couple of weeks, and our championship hopes look slim at best. Time to buckle down this week in Arlington and take care of business. We can still make a good bowl, and its time to get some wins under our belts!

Mallet and The Hogs Cruise to easy victory over Missouri St. ! Go Hogs!

Razor Rock

An exciting week is under way as Bobby Petrino orchestrates Razor Rock Week in Little Rock. Can't wait for the home opener against Missouri State! Go Hogs!