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Somedays it's a bit of a challenge to get up in front of your class and talk about suppositories. Suppository itself is a mild word, but one full of connotations. And it necessarily goes along with words like vagina and rectum, and if you're very unlucky, urethra. It's good to have a place to pratice using these words with ease and grace. Suppositories are less funny when you have to make them, as was the case today. One of the most challenging specimens of the extemporaneous preparations, suppositories require skill, patience, and knack for covering up mistakes. And my instructor always wants things nice and "elegant." You never knew suppositories could be elegant, did you?

I have to admit that making compounded prescriptions is one of the things I love most about pharmacy. In some ways it's like cooking, which I also love: you follow a recipe and throw things together, but to be really good at it, you have to have a feel for what it should look like. I'd like to think that I have a feel for it, but the other day I totally left out a crucial ingredient for making cold cream (the white greasy stuff your grandmother used) and the product ended up looking like paste. A nice emollient paste, but not quite right.

But on to things that are very right, if you like eggs for dinner, like them poached, and like the sharp taste of raw garlic then turkish eggs with paprika and sage butter should come into contact with your palate soon. Perfect for ameliorating the winter chill.