April 6, 2006 | Filed under: videoblogging Week, hello, nurse!
Videoblogging Week barrels into Wednesday! This will be my “cheat” day. I dip into my small I Hate This Video and Therefore Never Posted It vault to bring you a brief tour of the hospital unit where I work. I hate this video because it reveals my big secret: I have a separate “Labor & Delivery Voice”. It’s that awful sing-songy, kindergarten teacher, ever-so-slightly-patronizing nurse voice. Since I filmed this, I have nipped it in the bud. If I was a patient and someone came at me with that voice I’d kick her.
Behold the bright lights, sharp objects and bad artwork that make up Labor Room 5! And every other labor room we have on the floor…and probably every labor room in the country. This video features the font Comic Sans in honor of TinaPoPo, because she absolutely loathes it. Does it fit into the Year of Vlogging Dangerously theme? Oddly, yeah, because I’m sooooo not supposed to film anything at my job.
…and I ain’t going to feel bad about not posting a new video today. There’s always tomorrow. And Friday. And Saturday. And Sunday. This video project is taking place during a week when I have a three-shift run, and I’m in charge tonight as well. I’ve actually never posted anything on days when I’m working, because my “day” is something like 3 hours long (I’m awake from 2:30pm then head to work at 6). So Videoblogging Week has taught me a big lesson: Vlogging on work days not the complete impossibility I thought it was–but it’s not easy, either. Partly because there’s only so many hours in a day and frequently life is for living, not filming, and partly because my camera is not small enough to cart around with me all day and capture video willy-nilly…but that is currrently being rectified. I loves me ebay.
April 6, 2006
@ 6:12 pm
Where can I get some of those “Sensi-Touch” gloves…….
April 6, 2006
@ 6:27 pm
The addition of some very small headphones brainwashing the babies with ideas of videobloging when they grow up would be nice but hey…funding doesn’t grow on trees.
Evan (http://e-vlog.blogspot.com)
April 6, 2006
@ 11:19 pm
Gaaah, i wish i had time to do that. But seeing as how I’ve had 2 tests this week, a lab report, and been on the phone with a female of interest every night for the past week, I haven’t had time.
I think I’ll have a videoblog week make-up when I get out of school for the summer.
April 7, 2006
@ 2:54 am
Your essence is so beguiling you make everything fascinating!
Peace
April 7, 2006
@ 11:18 am
L&D is so different now from when I was birthin’ babies. I had the classic labor room and the “tie her down” delivery room, where I never knew any of the residents who delivered my baby and where I was laughed at when I wanted to nurse on the delivery table. They didn’t start using fetal monitors until two years after my last was born. And no fathers in the delivery room until 1972, when our last was born.
Was at the birthing center here a couple of weeks ago when my friend, the midwife was in town visiting old friends. Such a different atmosphere from 40 years ago.
April 7, 2006
@ 12:19 pm
This was so interesting. I can’t believe you hate this video! What else is in your stash?
April 7, 2006
@ 3:54 pm
cracked me up. i love the nurse voice. my mom’s a nurse and it makes me laugh to listen to her nurse voice because it’s so…not her funny, sarcastic sexy worldly voice.
hope you are loving vlogging dangerously…
April 7, 2006
@ 4:36 pm
patronizing? You could never be patronizing.
April 7, 2006
@ 5:33 pm
It’s funny, I actually enjoyed that one as much as anything else you’ve done. I like seeing where people work
April 8, 2006
@ 2:52 am
did you purposely post this at 4:20?
April 8, 2006
@ 3:55 pm
Thanks for the tour! I have definitely heard worse “Nurse Voices”.
April 10, 2006
@ 7:23 pm
That was entertaining. I love the matter of fact explination of what things are for: “with which to stick people”. lol
April 13, 2006
@ 10:00 am
That was one hilarious video! LOL!
“Why am I forced to look at a fountain in Italy when I am having a baby in New York?” Major freakin’ LOLOL!
My back hurts from laughing! And I haven’t even had my coffee yet!
April 14, 2006
@ 8:00 am
I like how every baby that comes out goes in the warmer.
You need some Anne Geddes hamburger costumes or something when you put them in there.
April 14, 2006
@ 8:12 pm
Wao, great introduction. So funny!
You know, this is a good idea for videoblogs: make a video about your job, about what you do in ‘real life’.
“I can’t believe I’m being forced to look at a fountain in Italy while I’m having a baby in New Yor” JAJAJAAAAAA
“Dry clothes”… JAJAAAJAJAJAJAAAA
FUNNY VIDEO, VERY FUNNY!!!!!
April 16, 2006
@ 10:50 pm
Yeah I thought this video was great, it is fun to see the real you, the baby warming devices and all!
April 27, 2006
@ 10:37 pm
Hey I loved this!! Now women don’t need the hospital tour before delivery… they can just watch your video (since you tell it like it really is)