news and orals and homicide and blue's clues and will you have fries with that

• Still no news from ninja_kat. I want so, so much to call and find out what's going on, but they've been swamped with people calling them for updates and I promised to do my bit to help by not contacting them, and I'm going to keep that promise if it kills me.
  
  
• Watched Supersize Me the other week. How very... disturbing. I don't think I'll be going into a McDonald's any time soon, which is not a bad thing, I suppose.
  
  
• Chris does his Oral tomorrow, part of his final slew of exams to get the hell out of residency. He doesn't expect to pass on the first try; it's not uncommon to fail at first and they get five tries at it. Here's crossing fingers and toes that he can at least get this part over and done with.
  
  Roughly seven more months of this residency crap.
  
  Part of me really doesn't believe it will ever be over. In part because it never will be, in a sense. It's been almost seven years, if we include the final eighteen months of medical school, which in some ways was worse than the next five of residency itself. That's more than Justin's entire life. The scars on Chris and me and on our marriage and our kids are not going to be fading any time soon, I don't think. Chris jokes about the fact that his salary once he's a shrink might just be big enough to cover the cost of all the shrinkage our kids are going to need to deal with what it took to get him to be a shrink. Sometimes the joke isn't all that funny.
  
  
• Have been slowly making our way through the Homicide: Life On The Streets DVDs, and we're partway through season six. I know, the seventh season came out a while ago, but it takes a bit of time when you only watch about half an hour of TV per day. Last night it was "Full Court Press", the ep with the famous exchange
  
  Tim: I have a plan.
  Frank: A plan?
  Tim: A clever plan.
  Frank: Bayliss has a clever plan.
  Tim: Do you have a plan, Frank?
  Frank: I admit it. I have no plan.
  
  It's a rather disturbing episode, despite the cuteness of the plan sequence, because one of the perps they catch in the ep is a kid played by Steve Burns. Yes, the creepy murderer is none other than Steve from Blues Clues. My kids used to watch him religiously. They still play two educational games that feature his cheery little voice. Disturbing, yo.
  
  
• Oh, and for anybody who's a fan of both shows: Gee's Clues, a Blue's Clues/Homicide: Life On The Streets crossover.
  
  Yes, crossover. Featuring lines like, "Look Blue, it's our friends from the late Friday night demographic!" and, "You know, I'm really going to need your help solving this murder. Will you help us solve this murder? You will? That's great! Now remember that Blue's pawprint will be on the clues!"
  
  
• Should probably go to bed. Garry's coming tomorrow, and while that will thrill Daniel to no end, it'll be a little hectic for me, especially once Justin comes home.