Partaaay!

So we did follow the invitation by resident J. K. to his roommate's birthday and we did not regret it. For one, there was a lot of booze.
The party was in the Upper East Side of Manhattan on the top two floors of an apartment building, including its roof. There were some interesting people there, a few from the ED that we more or less knew, a surgical attending from another hospital, a girl who was quite fluent in German, a bunch of Indians (i. e. internal medicine residents) and more. After a while, a few inebriated people decided to dance on the lower level of the apartment.While out on the roof the party went on (this is not a very good shot, but there are very few recognizable faces so I can post it).This is the co-host who invited us, Dr. J. K., trying to get some chords out of the guitar. I'm afraid the poor guy may have had one too many of those excellent wodka-jellos another resident had prepared.At some point, Phèdre and I decided to lie down at the ledge of the roof and look down on the streets below and at Manhattan from our vantage point on the fifth floor. For some reason, skriehma decided to make these pictures of that. Craaaaayzeeee.Anyway, one of the highlights of the evening: one of the Indians decided to barbecue some pattys, making one of the best cheeseburgers I have ever tasted.Man, these things were good. I mean it.I had three of them, before we soon made ourselves scarce, shortly after the weed was starting to circulate. We took our first NYC cab back to the apartment, which I have a several minute long video of that I'd love to share. Alas, the bulky size of it prohibits me from doing any such thing. You'll have to take my word for it.It was a very fast and convenient ride and for about $4.30 a piece not exorbitantly pricey.

Now Phèdre and skriehma are both sleeping and it's only 4:30am. Skriehma's been sleeping for a while. I wonder how/if he's going to make it through our first night shift tomorrow, which he needs to be awake for until at least 7am, if not 8am after the resident's presentation we would have to attend. We'll see.

My biggest concern though would be that those roommates of mine are going to wake me before 3pm tomorrow. Phèdre has been working on and perfecting her stealth technique quite well, there are no earthquakes that wake me, just her mere presence still does. Skriehma unfortunately still creates a 5 on the Richter scale when he moves around the apartment. I guess my sofabed is not ideally placed 2 meters from the kitchen.

Oh well, I think I should stay awake at least another hour or so until 6am, which shouldn't be much of a problem. I guess I have less trouble than most other people dialing back my circadian rhythm. If it were up to me, the day would have 28 hours.

Cheers, people!