Tech-ies

This blog is a dedication to my friends, the Tech-ies. Not to be confused with Trekkies. Although that new(ish) Star Trek was pretty awesome. And I have seen the original six Star Trek movies before….. more than once….. I have an older brother, c’mon!

To use a favorite phrase of mine: but this is all neither here nor there. As devout readers (you know who you are) know, I have been working at Primary Children’s Medical Center for the past year and a half. This hospital will be abbreviated in this post as follows: PCMC, Prims, Primarys. Any one of those will substitute the incredibly long title for the hospital that I usually refuse to type out. But for all you less devout readers (you also know who you are), I figured I’d follow scientific writing rules and write the entire thing out once before I’m allowed to abbreviated it (if you don’t believe me, see Handbook for Thesis Writing available on the U of U website, it’s a page turner).

I’m rambling again. The point is, because I’ve been working there I’ve made good friends with the other techs. I think I mentioned a recent Halloween party we had. There is Jennie (far right, was same year in my program), Jenessa (far left, finishing second year of CMP program), and Hannah (second from left, recently finished another master’s program at U). From August 2010 to May 2011 the four of us worked together several times a week. There were two other techs during that time, Amanda (who I work with at WIC now), and Darren. But they worked super infrequently, and don’t come to our gatherings. There are actually two new techs, but since they weren’t part of the original lineup, they don’t get invited. That sounds mean and elitist, but why would you invite people when Jennie and I don’t really know them? It ruins the fun intimate group we have going.

This little motley crew came over to my house Wednesday night for a Mediterranean Night. We don’t always have themes, there are no streamers or balloons or anything, but we do like to mix it up a bit. I didn’t come up with the Mediterranean food choices, but I definitely cemented the theme when I said we were also tie dying t-shirts. That is a very typical Mediterranean activity, yes? Even if it isn’t, I had dye that has been sitting around for AGES!!

We do something every other week, or maybe a little longer between depending on the busy-ness of the season. We sometimes will go out for dinner or see a movie, but we also rotate through each other’s houses so we can have a little homemade fun. So far we have done a BBQ and Halloween do at Jennies, a Fajita Night and Christmas Party at Jenessas, a pizza night at Hannahs, and a dessert and now Mediterranean night at mine. With lots of other delicious things in between.

I loved working with them, and I love that we still hang out even though we don’t work together like we used to. I still work at PCMC occasionally on weekends, but it’s not quite the same. And oddly enough Jennie (who works at IMC) and I sometimes contact each other for work related reasons. And oh the emails. It seems like I daily am conversing with someone, or all of them in ridiculous, winding emails. Not entirely unlike these blog posts.

And finally, praises and thanks that Wikipedia is back online. Holy jeepers, I thought I was going to go crazy the other day!