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swingchickie...braces.
i swear, in the past few months it seems like everyone i know has decided to get braces! a couple of months ago i ran into a girl who works for my company, i hadn't seen her in about 2 years... and as we talked, i saw a flash of silver. turns out she got them on last year, and her teeth already look totally different. since then, 2 nurses i see regularly got them, and today at lunch, i noticed that one of my doctors, who's in his 40s, just got them as well! wow... tom cruise bares a silver smile a year ago, and suddenly everyone realizes it's okay to have them if you're over 13 years old.
worked in chinatown today, in the pouring rain. on the one hand it sucked, because i always have to walk several city blocks to get to my offices, and i ended up completely drenched (and sweaty, because it was warm too). on the other hand, it was good because the rain held the interesting scents at bay. chinatown really is like its own world within boston... it's fun because everything looks so different from the rest of the city... but i'll be walking along, with the wonderful smells of roasting ducks and ginger and spices in my nose, and all of a sudden the stink of garbage or sewage will just slap me in the face. nowhere else in boston do you find that.
had a mild panic attack mid-morning... i didn't have anything planned for lunch, and a ton of work to do in my home office, so my plan was to work through lunch and then head back to finish out the day doing paperwork and reports. but at 10:30am i checked my voicemail and heard, "hi jennifer, this is dr. XYZ's office, we're confirming your lunch for 12 noon today." WHAT??? it wasn't in my PDA, so i hadn't realized. (this happened back in february too... i had set up several lunches with this same office and somehow they all disappeared from my PDA calendar.) so i had one hour to find a place that could cater lunch for 12 people and deliver it. thank god there's a great chinese restaurant i love that was able to pull through for me. but ugh, if they hadn't called, i would have looked really bad. stupid PDA.
off to philly tomorrow, i can't wait! i really need the break. (yes, i know we just had a 3-day weekend.) eek, i have to pack tonight...
i swear, in the past few months it seems like everyone i know has decided to get braces! a couple of months ago i ran into a girl who works for my company, i hadn't seen her in about 2 years... and as we talked, i saw a flash of silver. turns out she got them on last year, and her teeth already look totally different. since then, 2 nurses i see regularly got them, and today at lunch, i noticed that one of my doctors, who's in his 40s, just got them as well! wow... tom cruise bares a silver smile a year ago, and suddenly everyone realizes it's okay to have them if you're over 13 years old.
worked in chinatown today, in the pouring rain. on the one hand it sucked, because i always have to walk several city blocks to get to my offices, and i ended up completely drenched (and sweaty, because it was warm too). on the other hand, it was good because the rain held the interesting scents at bay. chinatown really is like its own world within boston... it's fun because everything looks so different from the rest of the city... but i'll be walking along, with the wonderful smells of roasting ducks and ginger and spices in my nose, and all of a sudden the stink of garbage or sewage will just slap me in the face. nowhere else in boston do you find that.
had a mild panic attack mid-morning... i didn't have anything planned for lunch, and a ton of work to do in my home office, so my plan was to work through lunch and then head back to finish out the day doing paperwork and reports. but at 10:30am i checked my voicemail and heard, "hi jennifer, this is dr. XYZ's office, we're confirming your lunch for 12 noon today." WHAT??? it wasn't in my PDA, so i hadn't realized. (this happened back in february too... i had set up several lunches with this same office and somehow they all disappeared from my PDA calendar.) so i had one hour to find a place that could cater lunch for 12 people and deliver it. thank god there's a great chinese restaurant i love that was able to pull through for me. but ugh, if they hadn't called, i would have looked really bad. stupid PDA.
off to philly tomorrow, i can't wait! i really need the break. (yes, i know we just had a 3-day weekend.) eek, i have to pack tonight...
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Date: 2004-09-08 01:13 pm (UTC)Bwahah! Yeah. I think that's the Chinatown in every major city in America. It's the reason why, as a little kid, I NEVER liked going there (but my mother always used to go shopping there so I always had to come). Oh the stank. Then as an adult, I ended up working in the neighborhood. Also didn't help that it's one of NYC's busiest, most crowded tourist sections.