saturday

i suppose i don't have to keep this under my hat any more. kara got a new job. she's very excited and so i'm very excited. suffice to say that her work will be, for the first time in 3 years, interesting and possibly challenging. she might get a little raise too, and that can't be bad. this coming week she's half-time at the old job and half-time training in the new. very hot stuff.

i did finish reading "complications" by atul gawande. it was a very conversational look at the fallibility of medical science. how doctors daily make critical decisions in the face of not-enough-information and exhaustion and lots more. there were plenty of interesting case histories and i enjoyed it. highly recommended.

now back to fiction, but still medical. yesterday i picked up "saturday" by ian mcewan. i'm only 20 or pages into it now, but already i like it. the main character is a neurosurgeon so there's all this groovy medical language to excite me. it's ostensibly one of those post-9/11 novels, and we'll see how that goes.

maybe "24" disk two will arrive today. kara works this evening and tomorrow evening, so we wouldn't be able to watch it until monday, probably. yesterday evening we watched a couple episodes of "firefly," which has very good dialogue.