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| Your Personality Cluster is Introverted Thinking | 
You are:
Objective, honest, and credible
Intellectually curious, with many diverse interests
More inclined toward ideas than people
Fiercely independent and unapologetically unconventional |
Amazing. A quiz that can sum up my personality in just 4 questions... And I thought I was complex!
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
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| Time: | 7:46 pm. |
| Mood: |  bouncy. |
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At work tonight... Only a few 24 hour shifts to go and then never again! (I hope).
Yesterday we went to my colleague, Henning's place for dinner. He is trying to get me to help organise an exchange for his 16yo son at a school in Perth. He wants his son to live with me, but I'm not going to play mummy for a 16yo away from home for the first time... wagging school, alcohol... no way. He says his son is responsible and the European junior sailing champion, but he still needs a host-family!
PS does anyone have contact to a public highschool in the western suburbs? He needs to surf.
After dinner we had an hour trip home because the train track is being repaired, so we had to take the bus.
I then had an hour trip to get to work because of the damn bus. The train is going to be out of order all week!
I bought a plane ticket for €655 inkl tax and insurance. That's what the germans would call a Schnäppchen! I'm leaving HH on the 19th of June at 20:00 and getting to perth on the 21st of June at 00:30! Yay, by the time I'm out of customs it will be 3am. I always get that damn flight. I'm flying quantas. That's never been the cheapest airline before.
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have once again got the idea into my head that it would be good to cross to the other side and become a runner.
day one: 35 min of alternating jogging and walking, the first 15 min 2:1min and the rest of the time 3:1 min. I thought that was not bad. Plus, nothing hurt afterwards.
Alternating jog/walking is meant to be the best way to get your bones and joints used to the impact. (I am aware that some people would think my effort today was pretty pathetic:)
The weather is around 10 degress and rainy...
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the long weekend (took a day of leave on friday) felt like a short holiday. the wedding was weird. registry office, sitting, no flowers, no music, just signing some papers. afterwards, jens and karin, the 2 witnesses, renate and henning, the two mothers and me and christian went to eat a 4 course lunch with lots of wine!! they even had a vegan menu which the chef made just for us. it was really flash and totally yummy.
friday afternoon we went off to hanover and christian gave his migration presentation. we had a lively discussion afterwards. there was a guy from attac who was really moronic. i don't know what it is with attac, but they produce a lot of idiots. spent hours chatting in the pub afterwards.
went back to hamburg on saturday morning, hung out with rosi during the day and went to jens and karin's wedding party last night. stayed there till 3 am (lost an hour because daylight saving has started). spent a lot of time talking to people at the party who had heard that I#m going back to australia who can't believe we're deciding to spend almost 2 years appart again. Christian and I spent a long time talking about things too on the weekend. It#s cool. It won't be fun, but we feel like it's the right decision for us. i think by the time we're permanently together my biological clock will be well and truly ticking.
the sun was shining and it was nice and warm today. i went for a walk with rosi this morning and then when we finally got back to lübeck i sat on the balcony and read the paper.
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
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last night we finally spent some time together. the first long chat we've had in over a week. it's kind of sad. we went out for a drink at a pub called kandinsky's and spent the whole time talking about politics or medicine. what has become of us. but, no, we had a good time.
we went home and went to bed. after reading for 5 min, C turned his light off and fell asleep in, i swear, less than 5 min. i fell asleep about an hour later. i had to read some more of sven regener, although it's a total boy's book, but light reading, good for dozing off.
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
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this is C in valencia.
sometimes i think that if you count up the net hours per year, we spent more time together before i moved to germany.
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
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we all have so much accumulated overtime, that someone is always missing... then we have part time people who work till 13:30. The last two days I've been the only doctor in the house from 14:00 till 16:00. And had the on-call phone for most of the day... Today I had to admit 5 people, do a ward round for 20, discharge 3 patients...
The only highlight is that I got to aspirate 1.3litres from a pleural effusion. I don#t know. The learning experiences are few and far between and dealing with all the shit, unsupervised takes all my time...Quitting was definitely a good decision.
Finally getting back into the gym after my cold.
A workmate of mine is looking for a school for a student exchange in Perth near the beach for his 17 year old son. He doesn't want to use Rotary because it's too expensive. Anyone know anyone who could help?? It would be in a year or so.
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
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I quit yesterday!!
It's great to have finally done it. Now I have lots of planning to do. And I will be free for all the G8 protests.
Got an email from Locumotion Ireland asking me if I want a job for July today. Hmm.. maybe there are other interesting oppportunities for me.
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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
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This is us sitting outside a contemporary art gallery in Barcelona. It's a photo of our reflection in a window.
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
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It's finally really cold. Minus temperatures in the evening, frozen puddles, ice, crunchy lawns. dry hands, dry lips...
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Saturday, January 6th, 2007
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| Time: | 10:48 am. |
| Mood: |  accomplished. |
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Yes! I did it! Went to bed early, got up at 6:45 on a saturday and went to the gym. Walking home at 8am it was just starting to get light. Now I'm at work with sore muscles, and was so hungry after the gym that I have already consumed more calories than I burnt. But that doesn't matter.
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Monday, January 1st, 2007
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guinness,irish music, interesting museums, literary pub crawl.
had a great time.
have accumulated a sleep deficit, work again tomorrow.
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
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| Time: | 11:03 am. |
| Mood: |  relaxed. |
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Went to the Christmas Market with Christian's mum yesterday. It was full of stalls selling overpriced crafts etc. Christian was painfulling bored. I bought a pair of earrings.
Last night we saw Volver at the cinema. I had been dying to see it, missed it in the mainstream cinema, and was happy to see the original version with subtitles- usually we get everything dubbed here, which is stupid.
The sun is shining, the weather is still warm. 9 degrees today, it should be about 0° at this time of year. So far germans have saved more than 10% on their power bills this winter- it's often not cold enough to put on the heathing. Our houses are so well insulated. When it's 15° outside I usually don't put the heating on at all.
There's a paeds job in kiel, in the other big hospital there. I'm going to apply with mixed feelings again. It would make our lives complicated- weekend relationship, probably C trying to transfer to the Uni in Kiel. But the alternative is me not getting a paeds job and moving back to Australia. It's weird, but I don't see that as being so complicated- it would mean that I'm going back to what I know, not starting fresh somewhere else again. Not getting too excited though- I don't have a new job yet, after all.
Interview on Thursday... along with god knows how many other hopeful applicants.
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Saturday, October 28th, 2006
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Sick and tired of my underpaid, overworked existance as a German doctor, I again thinking about working in Ireland...
does anyone know any Irish Drs who can give me some advice? specifically: can i get into paeds in Ireland? What are pay and conditions like?
Mon
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Thursday, September 28th, 2006
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| Time: | 8:45 pm. |
| Mood: |  sick. |
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in barcelona again.
went to visit a friend in valencia for two days, amazing how much you can fit into a two week holiday!
caught a cold.. have slept so much this holiday, and today i hardly did anything else. we got up at lunchtime (12 hours sleep) ate, went to a museum of catalonian art for 3.5 hours!! (lost track of time) and then back to the hotel, slept from 17:00 till 19:30. now weÇre about to go and eat.
if anyone would like a postcard, please send me your current address and this will be arranged.
i have a new haircut. its short at the back and asymmetrical at the front.. its cool.
going to freiburg tomorrow.
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i get a day off due to a religious holiday Yay!
I managed to figue out how to put a new photo into my blog Yay!
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Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
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| Time: | 5:10 pm. |
| Mood: |  thoughtful. |
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I am now an official member of a radical left wing organisation! AVANTI www.avanti.de not sure if there is anything in english, or if anyone actually cares what is written there...
I bought the latest edition of the oxford clinical handbook today! I figured that as i still refer to my good old litte yellow book that i bought in fourth year, it was worth buying one that isn't 10 years out of date! There is a german 'equivalent' book, which is wordier and nerdier, i love the wacky quotes from Shakespear, the little philosophical tangents that the authors go on...
the sun is shining again.
I came to an important realisation today: I have very weather-dependent moods, and I am living in the wrong climate zone for that...
I am really fluent in german now. I even think in German quite a lot, but my grammar still sucks. The problem is, I´ve decided that perfect german grammar just isn't that important to me..
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| Time: | 11:22 am. |
| Mood: |  contemplative. |
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I have two things to say. and i want to keep it short. no three.
1. The first few weeks of any job are always the worst, eva.
2. wow, i wish that i could come to work and find a fresh load of patients, not the same people i have been dealing with for days, who i need to sort out- ie nursing home? long discharge letters, paperwork piling up on my desk... applicaton form for further rehab treatment... And I wish this job was a ´term´not a 2.5 year contract (there´s no danger of me staying here that long)
3. why are there almost no medical jobs that are
a) satisfying
b) limited to 40 hours per week
and C) with very little paperwork?
Surely the problem lies with capitalism.
Point 4. (yeah, I´m going over my planned layout)
it hailed yesterday. I no longer believe in the myth of the ´german summer´it´s a conspiracy. It was sunny for 2 weeks, and now it´s a perth winter again.
5. I´m involved in planning the protests/festival/events surrounding the Anti G8 campaign in Germany next summer! am very excited!
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
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My first Eutin nightshift.
Started work at 10:30, go till about 12:30 tomorrow... hopefully with some sleep in between, or i´ll be grumpy- 26 hours and i have a consultant wardround in the morning!
Tried to sleep in this morning, but it didn´t work, it was so beautiful and sunny, and we don´t have curtains (only moved in 4 months ago, after all). Christian got up at 6:30, he has surgery at the moment and they expect him to turn up at 7:30. He gets to leave at about 2:30 so he gets no sympathy from me!
So i went for a short jog before work, chucked some washing in the machine (left a note to C to hang it up) and went to work. (It´s not that C is in any way trying to get out of doing housework, but he just doesn´t notice the washing piling up until he has no clothes to wear. I end up doing things just because my threshold is lower, and god knows i´m not exactly suffering from OCD in that respect).
Got to work to find 4 new admissions, and a letter informing me that all employees are to receive a 5% paycut due to the dire financial situation of this hospital. That means that I now definitely earn less than in Australia, and have more expenses. Oh well, it´s not forever. and we´re still a lot better off than the average German wage-earners.
There´s only one solution to these problems: we need to find an alternative to capitalism! We need a Revolution!
Man, I am constantly fighting an Urge to type my Nouns with capital letters now! not to mention adding a c to my ´sh´ sounds eg schit! damn Germans.
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Not many neonates today!! I should be happy. I got three hours into my shift and had nothing left to do. I'm sure more work will pop up for me though, always does. I should have had the next three days off, but I've kindly taken an extra shift on Thursday (my arm was twisted) and will have to do the 8am to 4pm shift, which I hate. There's nothing worse than getting up at 7 when you've established a pattern of sleeping 2am to 10am...
God, this tiny DCR is dominated by female o+g doctors talking about pre-eclampsia and meconium and their own children all day long...
This job has really convinced me that i don't ever want to do O+G!!!
In the last fortnight of this job, I have the 8-4 ward job all week. That means you just stay on the ward and can't do the fun bits (labour ward and theatre)...
Enough complaining... time for some channel-surfing, newspaper...
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