I got to deliver two things last week: a best-man toast … and a baby. To my surprise, the culmination of spending 2 weeks on L&D to the actual hands-on delivery of a baby was pretty anti-climactic in retrospect. I experienced no big epiphany on the wonder of life – just slimy baby sliding out with lots of smelly bodily fluids splattering about. In contrast, toasting at my friend’s wedding this past Saturday was a lot more nerve-wracking than I had imagined. Despite all my experiences teaching classes and giving seminars over the past few years, I still get the butterflies whenever I speak publicly. It didn’t help, of course, that the videographer’s got his bright-ass spotlight on me the whole time. Fortunately, it was over in a cinch. Now that the groom is happily married and honeymooning in the Greek islands, I’m gonna have to embark on another pain-in-my-brain study week for the Ob-Gyn shelf exam this Friday.