24-hour Sunset

Here’s a novelty for you. I’m sitting in my garden offline typing this watching an almost cartoonish sunset with pink and purple fluffy clouds on a deep blue background. Exactly like this in fact:

Even complete with plane. I’ll spare you a photograph of my washing drying on the line.

Today was a good day. I have only two cases and one of them only needed feeding. The other is absolutely fascinating and required an anaesthetic, which gave me an excuse to be in the same room as my current favourite person. As it was a light day, I even had a chance to research my case and present an informed report in rounds, which resulted in me looking somewhat intelligent. That is, up until one of the clinicians discovered my fervent note-taking was in fact a shopping list. I did get lucky in one aspect though – the Opal Fruit I chose turned out to be purple.

Sun’s gone now. Would you like another photo? Same view, different angle.

Gorgeous. Next will be purple.

Anyway, where was I… Ah yes, good day. After work (which did not end particularly early, so that can’t be the reason for my good mood) I went to the library, paid my fines (a-hem) and looked up a journal on the case I am working on. By a stroke of luck, an article in the same journal was on the disease my own cat has, and as a further stroke of good luck another article in the same journal was suitable for my presentation next week. Bargain!

Although this will be yet another 6 day week in the past 2 months of 6 day weeks (which seriously buggers up my hay buying ability as the pet shop is only open for about 3 hours a weekday and puts Rabbit on Atkins as a consequence) I have a 4 day week – yes – a FOUR day week to look forward to! Pure luck and nothing to do with me, I have two days off in one week as part of the rota and that is Fri and Sat. By chance I swapped my Sun with another girl so she’s covering for me that Sun in exchange for me covering one of hers. Result? 3 day weekend, baby! Rock!

See? Purple. The light is now too dim to focus properly or get the red so the purple isn’t as purple as it looks in real life. Imagine the vaguely pink bits are garish fuscia and the darkish blue bits are flower purple.

More like this:

But the red should be darker.

So. I sit in the fading light having read 3 journals in the last of the real sunshine (thought I’d better generate at least some Vitamin D this week), having done the washing, a little shopping, and having dinner on (defrosted and microwaved Disappointing Stew combined with likewise previous Successful Stew = probably Mediocre Stew), I get ready to watch House (hilarious for any medic-like people or infact anyone with a acerbic cynical view on life) and then snag an early(ish) night. The air smells hot and baked like being abroad. I even managed to avoid the heat of the day by working in an A/C building and spending my evening in the cooling garden instead of the cooked house. And I even got a 40 minute lunch break. You can’t say better than that.

The End.