seasoned.

Today Danny and I were at McLean Hospital in Belmont for a presentation on how to use one of the software systems we already know how to use. Silly for Partners to send us all the way there for that, but I did find my new favorite coffee at the Starbucks on the way there (if it is even possible to be obsessed after only one venti).

 

This was my first run-in with the Clover. O.M.G. The smokin' hot, rich, flavorful Brazil coffee that started my morning (and my GI tract) and surprised my taste buds with its fabulousness was BANGIN'. I am on the hunt to find a sbux closer to home with a Clover so I can love every morning of my life and start it off right.

Anyways, back to the word of the day. While sitting and people watching at this presentation, Danny wrote the following observation on his information packet and flashed it my way: "we are so young and amazing. they are so old and seasoned." Danny and I might be the youngest team at Partners and we are basically taking on the highest compliance/audit risk area in research and all of the MDs and PhDs at literally the top hospitals/research facilities in the nation have to answer to us. They don't necessarily love being told what to do by two post-teeny-boppers, but they do. We are kind of a big deal. Comply or die. Or lose all your federal funding and be fined millions of dollars. 

On the flip side to being seasoned is what all of us would be considered, fresh.  Fresh because we are new to the scene, attractive, and bringing revolutionary new ideas to everything that we do.  We are accomplished, but not yet stagnant.  We are forever evolving as individuals. and always inspiring new trends and influencing the world around us.

Word of the day? Seasoned. We will use this phrase in an attempt to not call our old colleagues: out-of-date, boring, aged, senile, archaic, decrepit, antiquated, dilapidated or antiques. We must be professional and proper up in hurrrr.

Shout out to: DANIEL DAVIS for his seasoned entry. (check out his fly blog)

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seasoned

1. Aged or Processed.

2. Covered in spices to the desired taste.

3. You fucked up your brain so much on drugs that you can’t do any of the old things that you used to be able to do and/or to have perntamently fucked yourself up to the point where you don’t have any idea whats going on anymore.
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Daniel uses the word in many sentences for your reading pleasure:

This word would even be suitable for the…

• Youth in the Ghetto:  Shaniqua be givin that good brain, like she dropped out of college, that bitch is seasoned.
• Gorilla Juice Heads:  T-SHIRT TIME!!!! Here’s the situation men. We looking for only the freshest bitches tonight. NO SEASONED GRENADES!!!
• Southerners:  Grandma is so seasoned in the kitchen, she is always fixin up the best fried chicken for the church cookouts.
• Smarty Pants/Nerds: “I heard some hoodlums say that my, ‘kicks were fresh to death’ this afternoon.  I can’t even begin imagine what that means.”  ”Oh Steven, you are just to seasoned to understand todays youth.”
• Aristocratic: “William is such a seasoned pheasant hunter, I would let him pluck my feathers any day.” “Oh Elizabeth, don’t get fresh! You are so naughty!”
• Surfers: “Dude, let’s get seasoned!”  ”Hey man, I’m hella seasoned!”
• Valley Girls: “Her dress is so seasoned.” “Like what does that mean?” “It is last season.  Duh!” “You really should go back to school…”

AND INTRODUCING….

• Antoine Dodson: Hide your kids, hide your wife, there are seasoned rapists everywhere out here!

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Can you have a visual? Sure. This is the kind of seasoned we need more of: