My new job.

Well, it seems there is some confusion over which job I have taken. I actually called today to accept a position at the medical center my internship is at as a clinical dietitian. This means I will be doing what I did during my clinical rotations, but getting paid for it. They currently have two openings and could not tell me exactly which floors I will be covering. The openings are on the two general medical floors and on neurology. They wanted to know my preference and I told them general medical because it is actually my favorite floor. That's because it has the most variety. It holds all the patients that don't fit into any of the other floor "categories" such as Cardiac, Oncology, Renal, Pediatrics, ICU, etc. So every day is different, and I shouldn't get bored seeing the same thing every day.

The other day at work I searching for a food related quote to put on my blog, but I found so many I couldn't decide, so now I'm going to list them all. I know you're probably not interested at all, but in honor of my new job and two weeks left at the Eating Disorder Program...here goes. (And I can't say too much about the ED Program, but I will say some of these remind me of my patients more than you can imagine!)

When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because that Raid really doesn't taste that bad. ~Janette Barber

My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it. ~Harry Secombe

I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. ~Ed Bluestone

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short. ~Shelley Winters

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. ~Author Unknown

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not! ~Author Unknown

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook. ~Andy Rooney

If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies. ~Elmer Rice

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge. ~Don Kardong

I keep trying to lose weight... but it keeps finding me! ~Author Unknown

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. ~Author Unknown

I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge. ~Paula Poundstone

In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and cahins. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale. ~Stephen Phillips

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. ~John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society

I bought a talking refrigerator that said "Oink" every time I opened the door. It made me hungry for pork chops. ~Marie Mott