Four and a half hours till a 4 DAY WEEKEND!!!!!!!

How exciting is that?!?! By the time I am done with this blog it'll be less! ok - so now it's only 2 hrs and 15 minutes - i told you so! Man how time flies!! ;) so. my dad called me tonight on my lunch break - like we always do - and he was in a fabulous mood! I am so excited! It's pretty rare to find that with him. So now I am in a fabulous mood! Smile - you just might make someones day! He is finally getting of 12 hour shifts tomorrow. He's been working five 12 hour shifts a week on nights and every third weekend on days. He hates it! He kept saying - "I can finally have a life again!" He likes his job - his best friend is his boss - but he hates nights and especially the hours he's been working. I am very excited for him - he can do paintball games before the end of summer! Yes, my 50-some-year-old Dad loves to go paint balling. Not sure that's an actual word...anyway.

My caffeine is FINALLY working. Now that its not so busy and I have time to do this. Just to let you in on some hospital lingo - we NEVER say that it's slow or that we have nothing to do. The minute you do - the ER floods. People really get pissed if you say these things. I thought they were all joking at first. Till somebody slapped me on the shoulder once and gave me *the look*. Nope. Not kidding.

Well lets see. This weekend going to Omaha, next weekend Abby's coming up and going to the state fair. The next week - wow - i think nothing. hm. That's unusual. The next 4 weekends are packed after that too. I don't remember what order everything is in. Not that anybody cares. ANYWAY......

My friend Lori has been gone a whole 5 days and I miss her. See, instead of this blog I call Brenda or Lori or Amanda and by the end of my list I have usually spilled every detail of my life out to someone. Lately I have been working too much to talk to anyone. So now its you anonymous surfers out there who get to listen to me babble.

Something I was thinking about the other day - not that it has any real relevance to many people, but in a way has effect on us all. Scientifically speaking - how can a human be used in an experiment. Really. How can you use them in a control group if you can't control them or their environment. How can you tell that they are effected by the variable you induce or by other things in his or her life? I don't understand this. Observing is one thing. You can make observations and educated guesses about them, but to actually experiment on them, I don't know. Pharmaceutical companies do these "experiments" all the time and find "definitive" answers. Or can they only justify this because they have the money and political pull to say so. They are the ones paying for the tests. How about sneaker companies and such. People believe the commercials that say their product is better than others or whatever. That doesn't mean they work for everybody. Who's to say the people who tried them out didn't practice better posture or something because of some other random reason - even if they didn't know they were being tested. I seem to remember this discussion in Gen. Phsyc. but I don't remember what the answer was. Maybe the problem is not that it may not be scientifically impossible to use a human in an experiment and come up with a definitive result. Maybe it's that the general public doesn't care to, well, care. Maybe they like being spoon fed full-of-shit facts. That seems to be a reoccurring trend. Well, anyway. Just one of those things that I randomly ponder from time to time. Thought I'd let you in.

Have a good weekend.