Megahalitosis

One entry found for halitosis:
Main Entry: hal·i·to·sis
Pronunciation: "ha-la-'tO-sis"
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin halitus (breath), from halare (to breathe) -- a condition of having fetid breath

Yes, well. Ahem. I guess that's what a bunch of cups of bathwater coffee will get you while you're sitting listlessly through classroom orientation day #2. Well, bad breath and a giant case of the jitters. I drank it yesterday, too, but I didn't notice the bad breath (probably because I kept refilling my cup with more coffee) or the jitters as much until I tried falling asleep around 3 o'clock in the morning.

In case you were wondering, here's what I drank yesterday: three giant cups of coffee (which is *very* out of the ordinary for me-- I hardly ever drink any at all), each with four sugar packets. Today, since I was trying to be more aware of my coffee/sugar consumption (and keep a handle on the jitters, mind you) I only had two giant cups of coffee-- one with three sugar packets, and the other with just two. So I'm seeing progress. If there's coffee at all tomorrow, the plan is to only consume one giant cup with two sugar packets, and that will be that. And if they don't have any for us, I'll jitter my way miserably through classroom orientation day #3, trying desperately to pay attention, and wondering all the while about the root cause of my non-coffee induced megahalitosis. Just in case you were wondering, that is. Heh.

So anyhow, if anyone was wondering about classroom orientation day #2, besides my coffee consumption that is, it mostly went like this:
-someone came in to talk about something
-then someone else came in to talk about something else
-then someone came in to talk for a long time about handwashing
-then it was time for lunch
-then someone else came in to talk about benefits
-then someone came in to talk about something else
-then I went home

See how exciting that was? You probably would have enjoyed it more if I'd written on and on again about coffee.

A bunch of my friends have been asking me about how work is going. I don't know, I want to tell them, but I just don't seem to have the energy to go into it over and over again. So instead, I've just been directing them to here so they can all read about it en masse. It's kind of funny... limiting interpersonal communication like that. Pretty soon I won't really be chatting with anyone real-time. I'll talk with friends solely through this blog and their posted comments, with my parents by text messages perhaps for a little personal attention, Matt might be blessed with an email or two, and Ezben (if he's *really* lucky) might receive some snail mail once in a blue moon. I wonder how I'll communicate with my patients once I start giving bedside care. Smoke signals, maybe?

And just one last thing before I sign off for the night-- I wanted to entice you into coming back to read about how classroom orientation day #3 goes, but I have no idea what we're going to be doing, so I can't give you a preview. I do know that it'll take place in a different building on campus, and that it has something to do with staff development, and that I have to be there by 0800, but other than that, it's a big surprise. I wonder if they don't tell us more than one day in advance for a reason... like, by keeping us guessing, we'll feel enough curiosity and intrigue to keep coming back. I mean, I guess we have no other choice... because where else could we get such high quality bathwater coffee?