I am back from the dead! Actually, in the memorable words of that Monty Python guy, “I’m not dead yet.” No, the real reason that this blog has remained ignored and un-posted for so many months is because I have been studying for my board exams, virtually eliminating any chance at a real life. For the past
six months, I’ve been stuffing my brain full of useless trivia regarding such thrilling topics as the myriad antigens present on your red blood cells, every kind of tapeworm in existence and what it’s life cycle and its eggs look like, and how the LIS (Laboratory information system) works.
As for the test, I would like to think that six months of studying actually made a difference, but it was truly so obscure at times, that my success or lack thereof may just come down to my lucky socks: Hot pink, lime green and yellow stripes on Wednesday, and frogs with sunglasses, floating in pool toys and sipping foofy drinks on Thursday. With socks like that, how can I go wrong?
In the meantime, life has been moving along without me. The soybean plants in the garden are producing bean pods. Edamame, here I come! And the green beans are forming nicely as well. Admittedly, the garden is a little heavy on beans this year. I’d say that it represents more than 50% of my total crop yield. Beans seem to grow very well in New Mexico. I have four varieties: soybeans, bush beans (your run-of-the-mill green beans) and two kinds of tepary beans: Mitla Black and Sonoran Gold. I’m not really sure what I’m going to do with the tepary beans, but they’re not ready yet, so I still have time to figure that out.
What else is coming up? We’ve got good food, we’ve got travels in the enchanting state of New Mexico and elsewhere, we’ve got artsy-craftsy things to check out. Can you tell how excited I am to be done with this test? Life is about to get good. Stay tuned…
