6:30 bedtime?

The babies have been sick. Very sick. Influenza sick for a week. All they want to do is sit on you sick. Poor babies.

I had been doing fairly well with my work schedule. I felt like I had hit my groove with work, I work hard, I come home and see the babies when I can. I've shaved off every second I can to see them and that is just the way it is. And when it is vacation, I take them away for 3 weeks. So it goes.

But these days, they just want someone to sit on and read books. And I get home and we do that for a little bit and then they go to bed early. So I essentially do not see them very much. And it is exceptionally little for the time when they just want to sit on the couch together and read books. And have a backrub.

I'm on Peds, though, so I'm seeing lots of other people's sick kids. They're (almost always) cute and I am always sympathetic. That's nice. What is not so nice is the total lack of evidence for a lot of what they do. Research opportunities abound (good) but dissemination may require a lot of regime change (sounds like actual work). I am weighing my options.