We celebrated our 2-year anniversary with a two-person Chinese seafood banquet – steamed striped bass with ginger & scallions, honey-glazed walnut shrimp, deep-fried sweet cream, garlic-sauteed peapod stems – all our favorites. To ensure our place on the high throne of geekdom, we also checked out the new Star Trek movie, which featured an entertaining new cast and jaw-dropping edge-of-seat action sequences. And after 2 months of being away from my wife and video games, we donned our shady hat, ranger battle armor, and our A3-21 plasma rifle, and returned to the world of Fallout 3 to battle the ghouls and super mutants once again. Now, as we enter the third year of our adventures together, we look forward to exploration beyond and going where no one has gone before.

My first shift in the Emergency Room, and people were piling in asking to be ruled out for swine flu – which pretty much includes anyone with a fever and cough. It’s amazing how the media can really affect the direction of healthcare. Fortunately, emergency medicine does offer more variety than my last rotation on cardiology, where I spent the month ordering the same three tests: EKG, stress test, and echo. Speaking of echoes, we’re sad that our new TV addiction, Dollhouse, has come to an end. Featuring the visually-titillating Eliza Dushku, the new Joss Whedon series about programmable people who’ll submit to our every desire, has kept us glued to the screen. Sadly, even our other favorite Fox show has been terminated for the forseeable future. At least we’ll finally have time to actually get some work done.