Maureen Flood

@cassandraismad

Nurse Practitioner, health 🩺 and science 🧪nerd, book 📚 lover, aspiring writer📝, mother, dog 🐶 person. 🥥🏖️🦀🎹🧶🏳️‍🌈VOTE! She/her (I curse like a sailor, and my views most certainly cannot be assumed to reflect those of my employer.)

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Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Jan 1

2025 was bad in so many ways, but a great reading year for me. I guess I was avoiding reality! 📚

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Dec 8

Ugly baby is on the tree, so it is officially the Christmas Season around here.

Ugly naked baby Christmas ornament with wings and weird scant blonde hair hanging on a Christmas tree branch.

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Oct 18

My poster for #NoKings today! This is what democracy looks like.

A poster that says “I want my dystopian stories from the speculative fiction section, not Periodicals.” With images of bookshelves and a newspaper and a stack of papers and magazines.

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Oct 7

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

Cartoon in medieval style of a crow cooking over a cauldron with a thought bubble that says, “I don’t need a recipe for disaster. I usually just eyeball it.”

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Feb 14

If you see this and you are in the mood, please quote this with a beach picture from your gallery #bluesky

Picture of sandy beach on a foggy day with a gull in the center and white breakers on the rights.

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Feb 2

This is where it is today, with the stack of January reads:

Bookshelf afghan in progress with a stack of books in colored yarn next to vertically shelved books in colored yarn

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Feb 2

Working on a scarf (Ziggy Interrupted from ravelry) and a bookshelf afghan with each book representing one I finished. The photo is from a few weeks ago; it now has a stack next to the first three representing my January books.

Strip of tiny crochet granny squares linked together in various colors

First three books of a bookshelf afghan.

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Feb 1

Not bad for a crazy month. Animal was amazing please put it on your TBR list. #booksky 📖📚

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Jan 31

Um, HIV page on CDC website now missing. 🩺

Screen shot of CDC webpage that should have been the page for information on HIV but currently states that "the page you're looking for was not found"

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Jan 18

I am far from a master baker, but I feel like this pièce de resistence based on a recipe from Yummy Crumble is a parenting win. Happy 10th to my 2nd kid!

Bundt cake, medium brown color with a sandy cookie topping decorated to look like a sarlacc from Star Wars

Same sarlacc cake closer up with Lego Boba Fett in the mouth

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Dec 31

@thestorygraph.com 2024 Reading Wrap-Up! I definitely made more time for reading this year, and hope to continue in 2025! This goes from the sublime to the ridiculous, which is an accurate description of my reading tastes. #booksky

Covers of the 26 books I have read this year

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Dec 29

I started crocheting a library blanket. Using stash yarn and a c2c JAYG method, I’m adding books as I read them. First up is The Dark Forest by an icon Liu, followed by La Sombra Del Viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafron. Yes, I started on a random day with the second book in a trilogy. Sue me. #booksky

Part of a crochet blanket with a brown border and two stylized book spines as if on a shelf, one yellow and white the other orange, light blue, and a mix of cream and light brown.

Blanket portion in background, I’m holding the two books I crocheted between my knees to show the spines.

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Dec 25

Merry Legomas to all who celebrate!

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Dec 9

It is officially Christmas when the ugly angel baby goes on the tree!🌲

Old, ratty plastic, blonde haired, naked angel baby Christmas ornament with “Maureen” written on the side, hung on a Christmas tree.

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Dec 8

If the Indigo Girls and Joni Mitchell weren’t in my top artists, i would know someone had hijacked my Spotify. #SpotifyWrapped

Image from Spotify showing my top artists of 2024 as Indigo Girls, Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, and Fleetwood Mac.

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Nov 30

This is a hilarious and appropriate use of AI. Perhaps too complimentary, but I’ll take it. Who is going to help me make a podcast?

AI roast calling me a sassy nurse practitioner with a knack for sharp humor and commentary.

AI roast including a suggestion that I write a book!

AI roast character build: chaotic advocate

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Nov 29

Hung by the chimney with care! 🎄

Fireplace with brick and dark wood surround, 8 Christmas stockings hung on the mantle. Mantle decorated with books and knickknacks.

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Nov 27

If you see this, post a beach pic from your gallery.

A rum punch cocktail in a stemmed glass on a wooden table under an umbrella. A beach, the Caribbean, and blue sky.

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Nov 20

Adventures in primary care: crying with immigrant patients who are terrified of being deported to places they fled; having to tell a patient he couldn’t say racist things about people to me assuming I agreed with him just because I’m also white; and DR FUCKING OZ AT CMS SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE IT STOP.

A manhattan cocktail in an old fashioned glass with an image of a canvasback duck on it. On the rocks because it is Tuesday.

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Nov 19

Posting a dog pic because I don’t want to only be a Negative Nelly.

A brindled beagle mix dog licking another beagle mix’s ear. Looks like the recipient is happy about it.

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Nov 18

I need a button for my lanyard that says “RFK is a dangerous delusional crackpot”. Etsy to the rescue? 🩺

Me holding my lanyard for work showing a variety of badges and buttons

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Nov 18

Photo of a Beagle-Plott hound mix dog with her head resting on a couch pillow that is white with black and gray design.

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Nov 16

Post a picture you took to bring some zen to the timeline (but I’ll include alt text because that’s how we do).

Image of a rocky creek with clear water coming through bright green trees and underbrush on a slightly cloudy blue sky day.

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Oct 2

Adventures in #primarycare: I finally got a stamp with our clinic name, address, and phone number after 8 years here, and it is the best gift I have received from Hopkins ever. Clearly, there is still too much paperwork.

Rectangular black plastic automatic stamp on a brown desk

Maureen Flood@cassandraismad· Sep 19

The O’s aren’t doing great tonight, but Hopkins APPs are always winners! Celebrate advanced practice providers next week!