pictures

So it turns out I don't have too much to say about my life, so I'll keep posting pictures.

Unfortunately the words aren't 100% parallel to the box. I wasn't sure if, in the end, I wanted St. Louis straight or the edges. I opted for the box as it forms a frame.

Some place was going to through renovation and had a bunch of newspaper in the window with the cool colored signs.

I eat burgers here a lot.

Yea graffiti.

I like this one. Its in front of a place called Dressel's. Its a giant dragon.

more pics

So I wandered around my neighborhood again yesterday taking pictures. I've got some good ones that I'll post in batches over the next few days (motivation to keep checking back). This first batch is of a bunch of tables at a place called Wildflower. None of the bars have their patios open yet -- all the tables at this particular one and all pushed together, thus facilitating the pictures. I climbed up on some concrete thing to take these. And while I did touch up the colors a bit, I think that my sense of composition and depth still legitimize me as a [amateur] photographer.

I'm not sure what those math equations mean. I'm about 14 years removed from my last math class.

I think the tree branch shadow is kind of eerie in a good way.

recent news

So I have some updates. First of all, the t-shirt I designed came in. This is a picture of me wearing it.

Notice how smooth my arms look. Sweet. For those of you not in the medical field, prn is an abbreviation we use when writing prescriptions. It means "as needed", like for a pain med or something of the sort. Essentially, it makes the shirt totally awesome. This shirt represents the first phase in my grand plan for either world domination or financial security. The main idea is that the "hugs prn" phrase will spread across the country from children's hospital to children's hospital with various editions of shirts until at last I take over the world (with the proceeds going to charity).

Next up is a portrait drawn by one of my patients. He was my patient last weekend. We sent him home on Sunday with the diagnosis of "viral syndrome" but he hasn't really gotten better. So he came back into the hospital on Tuesday and is getting all kinds of crazy tests done. Everything is still negative, which is good. Anyway, he drew a picture of me.

I think that it looks just like me, Dr. Clay. I go by Dr. Clay to patients and families. Definitely easier to say and remember and Dr. Sontheimer and it doesn't make me feel like an old academic dermatologist either (not that there's anything wrong with that). So that's me right now.