Regaining Trust From My Fans

So while I don't have access right now to a USB cable with which to upload my photos into this post, I am updating the blog now and the photographs will be soon to follow (I promise!).

Here's what has happened in my life as of last week:

After the Denise/Larry wedding, I worked five out of the next six days at the hospital... several of my patients had near emergencies, and once again, one of them died (but not while I had her on my unit, thank God). Blah blah blah. On my one day off in the middle of all of that, Friday, I went to Manhattan to meet up with an old friend from sleepaway Jew camp. Rachel had sent me an instant message on Tuesday saying that she was leaving the country for a couple of months at the end of October and did I have time to see her, even though we hadn't seen each other in six or eight years and hadn't talked in at least ten months (even on instant messenger). Knowing my schedule, I quickly jumped on the opportunity to fill up my one free day before she was to leave and we made plans. So voila, New York it was. We met at Grand Central Station, hugged, and headed off to a restaurant serving only organic vegetarian cuisine, chatting nonstop till we got there. And at that point, we only stopped talking and catching up long enough to order our shared lunch. Food came, the talk was great, and we decided to go back to her apartment until both of us had to leave for our respective evening plans (she for a Torah lesson and I for a dinner date!).

I wished that we could have had longer to hang out... it was such a blast! But alas, she'll be back (if she decides not to fall in love with a man and/or the country and stay there) in seven months, and we can hang out another time. And if she does decide to stay, then I guess I'll just have to plan a trip to Israel!

So after we parted, I met Susan at Penn Station. We walked a couple of blocks to a bar and had a pint with sweet potato french fries while waiting for Aine to arrive from her job in Brooklyn. When Aine got there, she got herself a pint, and we caught up and bonded until it was decidedly dinner time. Leaving the bar, we headed for another organic restaurant, this time completely vegan (yay! I love New York!!), where we laughed and joked and had a merry old time until it was an appropriate hour for me to be getting onto a train back towards home. So at about 9pm, we said goodbye and parted for our different subways.

I spent the train ride home reflecting on the absolutely amazing day I'd just had... and honest, it helped me pull through the remaining two days left I had to work. Well that, plus the knowledge that if I held out for two more days, I'd be going up to Bing for another visit, followed by two days on the job, and then three days in Buffalo!!

My Bing trip was also amazing, but in a weird way... lots of hanging out, lots of emotional stuff... between talking and bonding, we hardly left Matt's apartment at all. And at one point before I left, I realized that pretty much all I'd done the whole day and a half that we were together (which doesn't sound like a very long visit now that I write it out) was eat, cry and get laid. It was sort of draining physically and emotionally, but I swear, I was on the best afterglow ever which floated me through these last two days at work. Honest to God, despite the near emergencies and multiple snags on the unit Thursday and Friday, I didn't feel a thing but serenity. It was great.

Anyhow, now I'm in Buffalo... I took an early flight up this morning, had a great afternoon with Kate, and now she's at work for the evening, so I'm taking the opportunity to catch up here for my Noodle fans. Tonight I've got plans with Melissa for dinner, and then maybe with Brian a bit later on, though I lost his phone number so I can't leave him a message for when he gets back from Rochester... so Brian, if you're reading this now and its Saturday evening, call my cell phone to hang out tonight! :)

Ok. I'm going to take a nap now before Melissa calls for dinner... So for now, this is me signing out.