Archive for April, 2007

April 30, 2007 | Filed under: oddball, country mouse

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This was supposed to be a video about fishing. It’s not. It’s a video of what was happening river-side while everyone else was fishing.

I love it when you set out to do a certain kind of video and end up with something completely different.

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April 16, 2007 | Filed under: amigos, hello, nurse!, misadventures

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A funny thing happened this past weekend: we didn’t have any patients admitted on our tour. Quite literally the calm before the storm. No babies born. No one in labor. Just empty rooms. This doesn’t happen all that often, so when it does, we react the way any other normal adult professionals would if they were in our place. We hold raucous sing-alongs, careen down the hallways on anything with wheels and eat like crazy. Then there’s more singing, of course, some dancing and then some more hall-surfing. Wackiness ensues.

I gripe about my job a lot. I’ve said many times that “I love the work, but I hate the job” and that still holds true to an extent. The work is fascinating and–on a good day–rewarding as all heck, but the politics of nursing can really, really really get me down. Two things make it bearable: those glimmers of good days where I feel like I’m truly helping my patients, and the strong, funny and goofy women I work with. There’s a handful of them in this video, but there are many more. Sure, we have our bad apples like anyplace else, but most of them are sweet and funny and intelligent and kind and caring…and some sing a mean baritone, to boot.

April 15, 2007 | Filed under: good eatin'

By request, here’s a map of the tasty inexpensive treats I profiled during Videoblogging Week 2007. It’s clickable and draggable and all that jazz courtesy of quikmaps. I really like the idea of adding more stuff and expanding it. It looks sort of sad right now: such a big city and only five little spots highlighted? I think in the next edit I’ll lose the extra text…too crowded. I’ll keep all the info in each star’s pop-up text window. Maybe I should finally grow up and settle down and make the theme for this videoblog “Eating in new York”.

Or not. I just can’t afford to replace all my jeans.

Videoblog themelessness will be maintained — at least for now.

April 9, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

I very nearly made it! I almost completed Videoblogging Week, but missed it by one measly day!
Rather than make myself feel bad about it, I spent most of today watching everything tagged “videobloggingweek2007″ over at blip.tv.

And when I get to work tonight, I’ll be doing the same thing.

(and I feel damn good about editing all those videos day by day and posting them within a week…I mean, six days).

Also, I’m going on a little diet. VBW07 made my pants not fit.

April 6, 2007 | Filed under: videoblogging Week, NYC, good eatin'

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Chugging toward the end of VBW07 with my very favorite sandwich, the Vietnamese Bahn Mi. Roasted seasoned pork, some kind of meat pate/boloney slices (I don’t really like thinking about it…it’s beige and shiny and creepy looking) and carrots, daikon, cucumbers, chili sauce, fiery peppers and cilantro on a fresh toasted baguette. A cheap eats no-brainer at $3.50. There are cheaper Bahn Mi out there, but this one is by far the best. I prefer the pork, but they also have shrimp and veggie ones, too. You have a choice between spicey and not, and I always order them spicy but then backtrack and pull off the peppers. I love the flavor they leave behind, but biting into them is suicide.

This funny little shop churns out nothing but sandwiches, and lives in the back of a jewelery shop. You never know when you might want a coral bracelet to go with your lunch. They weren’t too keen on my fliming in there which is why there’s no footage of the store (there was some shouting and waving) but they were nice enough to forgive me and sell me a sandwich.