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Yesterday was my first day at work. I have a colorful UW ID, a bus pass, and a stack of benefits paperwork to prove it. I even had my first day of training of the software I’ll be the sysadmin for and it seems pretty easy and intuitive thus far. The hard part is the disease dictionary. I was looking through the list of diseases and was recognizing a good 70% of them… standard things like TB, Meningitis, Hanta Virus, Ebola, Chicken pox, Measles, Polio, the laundry list of STDs, and then a whole bunch of WTFs that just sound ominous. Blastomycosis? Oh, just a little fungal infection in the lungs…
It’s interesting, educational, and feeds right into that part of me that enjoys learning about medicine without actually having to get into medicine. Now if the Dummies people would just put out a book on Epidemiology for Dummies, I’d be set…

Now if I could just do something about the week of anxiety dreams I’ve been having that consistently wake me up at 4am and render me unable to get back to sleep and have contributed to a nice case of what my dentist called “stress-induced TMJ.” That’s why I’m taking a nice pack of steriods that have not only helped my TMJ, but have finally fixed the sore heel I’ve had since I stomped on a Thomas the Tank Engine plastic train track at 2am last July.
Better living through pharmaceuticals I always say…