By way of update, as there are few other people who will appreciate this feet, I managed to bring a bit o’ the piratical to work on The International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
In combined case conference at the base (so psychiatry residents and staff, psychology residents and staff, and social workers), we were discussing a socially isolated patient. So isolated in fact that his only hobby is…oh, oh, what’s it called? The presenter fumbled a bit over ‘mind sweeping’, ‘metal detecting’, maybe.
That’s when I pipe up with, in full character voice, “Aarg, he be lookin fer buried treasure.” Most people missed it, but Gretchen thought it was funny. The two psychology residents near me seemed to think it was weird. And I’m okay with that.