Holiday Homecoming (backdated to Dec)

Oh, the things a person could count on when it came to medical conferences that lasted more than a day.  The conference rooms would always, always be too warm and the coffee too cold or burnt.  And there was never enough caffeine to keep alert through the endless seminars and the darkened rooms with the never-ending slide shows.  Thankfully the hookup culture had come to almost a standstill because of Covid, but still there was no way that Anika wanted to stay in her hotel room another night, ignoring call after call to her room phone and even the more persistent knocks on her door to get the young doctor go out for 'just one' drink at the closest bar.  ( Read more... )