Canadian

What are you saying?

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. Canadian
2. American (Standard)
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. English
2. Dutch
3. Norwegian

The quiz here.

Well, I guess they got me pretty close. Not about the Dutch and Norwegian, except to suggest that perhaps English is more Norse than German in it's roots. But I am an ethnic Canadian, standard American citizen since birth, and grew up in Detroit, spending a fair amount of my adulthood around Black Americans at school and in the Army. It's an interesting quiz.

Today was tiny at work. Scrub and I had two cases in our room, one cancelled overnight, the second patient was called in, got there, we opened supplies, case cancelled. He had sores that would be in the surgical field, in the incision, putting the risk of infection for an elective case into the "oh, just wait a week" category. My scrub nurse wrangled a nice little case from one of the other rooms, to avoid the paragraph case with Dr. Chaos. Which I extolled him for, such a cunning, evil plan, and it worked, too. So, a nice leisurely morning, I got to one project that seems to have become mine, one case of our own, then covered a lunch in Dr. Chaos' room, then a scrub lunch in the hand room. By the time I was done, just the one room still running, and two very small cases in the procedure room for the scrub nurse I relieved.

Clocked out at 1330. Next week, we are taking a few days off to see Dinosaur National Monument, I'll work Thursday, and Friday is Skills Day (no surgery.) This is why I can stand the hard days, other days are very thin indeed.