Really?

A lot has been surprising lately:

1. It is September 5th and it has felt like fall since the very end of
August. Strange. That's not to say the weather will stay this way, but
last year at the end of October we were begging for the weather to change.
This is a pleasant difference.
2. My hospital seems to believe that if they give us stacks of policies,
tell us the answers to quizzes on said policies, and yell at us quite a bit
about pretty much everything, we will be well prepared to work on our units.
I fear for my license.
3. An atheist friend of mine told me the other day that the best way to find
an apartment in New York City is to pray. Huh. I didn't even tell him my
specifications for said imaginary apartment.
4. I watched House for the first time ever today (wooed by the promise of
weird medical problems with uncommon diagnoses at the end). I was
disappointed. The guy had been quadriplegic for 8 years, and at the end of
the episode one of the doctors gave him a shot of cortisol and he stood up.
Ha! His muscles would have been so atrophied, that moment would have taken
weeks to months.
5. I went to church on Sunday for the first time since June. There were a
bunch of new people, and two of them were telling us that they searched "gay
churches and New York City" on google, and ours came up first. There are
even specifically gay churches and other houses of worship in Manhattan, and
our tiny church still came up first. Sweet!
6. I guess none of this is very suprising: the weather is cooling down; the
city hospital that I work at is so short staffed that they don't have the
people to give us a proper orientation (they could be nice); it's hard to
find an apartment in New York; TV isn't realistic; and Unitarians love the
gays. When I put it that way, it all seems pretty commonsense
actually...maybe I just like to reimagine normal things as surprising, and
occasionally exciting.