Natural History II

More pictures from our Day at the Natural History Museum last Sunday. To begin with, a really ugly fish, captured for all posterity as a fossil.

"Monkeying" around with Sophie in front of the gibbon skeletons (you can see Sophie's bottom teeth coming in pretty well in this pic).
Wall o' Stuffed Hummingbirds.
A vulture and a parrot.
Whale tail.
In other news: I've earned a brief respite and I'm on a relatively light rotation over the next two weeks. I'm back at the VA Hospital (the Veteran's Hospital of Boston) which moves at a much slower pace than the other hospitals at which I work. Whereas my list of Dialysis patients at Mass General Hospital had at one point peaked at 35 individuals, my list of VA patients is currently at six, with three anticipated discharges tomorrow. I get into work around 9 or so, accomplish my work in a leisurely fashion, and usually have a bit of time to do some educational reading or catch up on random scientific projects I've put on the back-burner. I even have time to lend Claire a hand and drop off & pick up Sophie from day care!

In other words, for two weeks I get to live like a normal person!