My brother has 'acquired' scrubs, stretchers and booze to camp out in the office tonight. I'm telling you, a medical hub is where to get stuck.
Home schooling? You know, it's not just for scary religious people anymore.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Jan 28, 2014 5:00:09 pm PST #18466 of 30000
Steph L. - Jan 28, 2014 5:17:51 pm PST #18467 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
If I may bring up one more misused word...
Seen elsewhere, a reference to "the stigmata of being a female [fill-in-the-noun]". STIGMATA. Not a trace of irony.
Check your hands, ladies.
Jesse - Jan 28, 2014 5:18:37 pm PST #18468 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There's a joke about bleeding in there....
Amy - Jan 28, 2014 5:18:49 pm PST #18469 of 30000
Because books.
So that's what that is!
Burrell - Jan 28, 2014 5:20:23 pm PST #18470 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
The scrubs and the stretchers I get, I'm kinda loving that there's booze to be had in a hospital.
sarameg - Jan 28, 2014 5:30:28 pm PST #18471 of 30000
I'm kinda loving that there's booze to be had in a hospital.
Well, he's on the research oncology side of UAB's freaking multi-facility med complex sprawling across downtown. But he is friends with residents (who are also stuck) over on the clinical/hospital side, where I'm pretty sure they're more likely to have that stashed, given their hours, than the salaried researchers with saner hours are.
Cool fact: When there are human samples to be directed to research using the lab he runs, he usually gets to scrub in to surgery collect the specimens. Not operate, just fetch. But chain of evidence stuff.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 28, 2014 5:52:00 pm PST #18472 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Stigmata!
Do hospital pharmacies still dispense alcohol to alcoholics there for other reasons?
Jessica - Jan 28, 2014 6:09:02 pm PST #18473 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I finally got in touch with our friends in Marietta - she and the kids are safe at home, but he's spending the night in a grocery store break room after 8 hours stranded on the road. I really hope he can get home tomorrow.
Ginger - Jan 28, 2014 6:19:54 pm PST #18474 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My one friend got home about an hour ago, after more than 9 hours on the road.
Jessica - Jan 28, 2014 6:35:33 pm PST #18475 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
NYC had that kind of gridlock right after Hurricane Sandy, but it was pretty concentrated in Manhattan (the one day I tried to drive to work since there were no subways, it took me 2 hours to go the 4 blocks I needed just to turn around and be driving in the right direction, and then another 2 hours to drive the rest of the way to Brooklyn).
The store he's in has heat and bathrooms, so that's something. And food, obviously.