Bird Baths

Things are somewhat back to normal following the damage brought on by the hurricane. Somewhat. Tunnels and bridges, like LIC's Midtown Tunnel, are opening and trains, like our local G are beginning to run again. I guess the newest development is the gas shortage in the area. Thank God, this is one thing Jen and I don't have to worry about. People with cars are freaking out: going hunting for gas on their lunch breaks, storing extra tanks full of gas in their cars (can you say car-bomb!?), and siphoning of course. 

Good news, we are living in our own apartment again. We have electricity but no heat or hot water because of all that was water damaged in the basement. We have two small electric heaters (don't worry, we are careful and never leave them on when we're away) to keep us fairly warm. In order to bathe without freezing to death we heat water on the stove in a big pot. We try to think of it as really luxurious camping, instead of a really sad normal shower. My coworker told me that in Gayana, this style of bathing is called a "bird bath." It's been interesting but it could always be worse.

Jen went back to work Thursday for the first time in almost two weeks. She then worked today and now has a three day weekend... funny. She's happy to be back to work and they're happy to have her back too.

Next week is my last week of my final clinical assignment. I'll then get my temp license (that I'll use until I take my board exam in April) and look for the right job after the holidays. Every student at Lutheran Medical must do a PT related presentation, termed an in-service. I picked a few topics that I was interested in and my clinical instructor, PT director, and I narrowed it down to one: Diabetic Neuropathy. I present on Thursday so wish me luck. 

Luckily, I was able to reschedule the surgery observation I was supposed to attend the morning that Sandy attacked. The downside is that I'm working at the restaurant Sunday night until God knows when because I really didn't have enough time to request it off. It's all good. After these last few weeks, what can't we handle?