I post so few pictures of work that I think some people are under the impression that I never work.

Here are some more pictures to sway you even more in that direction. A residency in neurological surgery is chock full of days off, short hours, and gobs of fun. It's something that everyone should do.

Being long overdue for a weekend off (like two months), I was lucky enough to garner 75% of a weekend to explore the northern tip of the Oregon coast. Our center of operations was Cannon Beach. With warm weather and no school, the coast was packed with people from all over Oregon. Being about an hour away from the beach is nice. Being an hour away from skiing is nice, too. Being out of the hospital was sacred.

I spent most of the weekend attempting to enjoy the sun's ultraviolet rays, the cerulean glow of the cloudless sky, and the flowers of the coast, but ended up fending off the seemingly endless parade of narcoleptic waves that threatened to drown me in the deep dank ocean of somnolence. All in all, though, it was a tremendously enjoyable weekend.

I look forward to having another one just like it perhaps several months from now.

Is life not grand?

Before the posting of photographs begins, I want to show you guys this radiograph from the hospital.

This is an image from a CT scan of a human cervical spine. The "ring" is the first vertebra in your neck, and the little white thing in the middle is called the odontoid process, the tip of the second vertebra. There's a smiley face in it. (This image was not manipulated in any way whatsoever.) Neat, hunh?

With my trusty little Nikon, I took hundreds of pictures this weekend. Here are the ones that made the cut. Besides picture-taking, there was a lot of basking in the sun, walking along the beach, hiking, and lighting bonfires late into the night. The pleasantly warm night air and glowing bonfire were accentuated by pyrotechnic shows by budding pyromaniacs along the beach. We counted almost twenty distinct bonfires from our own. Three of these featured Fourth of July hand-me-down aerial fireworks (some of them very spectacular). I always though those sorts of rockets were illegal. Maybe not.

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