Tuesday, December 18, 2007

One more thing

I hate my upstairs neighbors. While there are many things I like about this place, the neighbors are not one of them. The loud rap music blasting out their windows at 12:04am on a Monday night is just one reason I hate them.

Monday, December 17, 2007

Back in the routine

Another day, another attempt at a blog post.

I'm tired. And I shouldn't be. I'm on an outpatient block right now, which means I'm working an easy 8-to-5 schedule, more or less. I should be resting up for the inpatient surgery and medicine rotations I have coming up. From what I hear, those are supposed to kill me.

Except that I'm not resting. Part of it comes from the fact that I'm trying to finish up my two research projects. One was supposed to be done ages ago and is still somehow taking up my time. The other one, well, I suppose I knew I'd be working on it at this point. The other challenging thing is the fact that Karen has a particularly brutal schedule that requires her to get up at 4am every morning for work. (That's what I'll be doing in January and February.)

But that means that I also wake up at 4am. I don't stay up long, but it's usually long enough for me to fully wake up and spend a little bit of time getting back to sleep. I just don't feel as rested afterwards. I don't blame her; we all know that we'll have that schedule at some point. In January and February, she probably won't be too thrilled to hear my alarm going off at 4am as I get up and head into the hospital for surgery pre-rounds.

Time to stop whining and get to work. This abstract isn't going to write itself.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

A short hello

Hi there.

It is December. I keep starting to write on here, then I get distracted, save the draft, and forget about it. This post will be short so I can write it, save it, and post it.

It has been a busy few months. I finished my research block at the end of October and have been back on rotations since then. And I'm starting to think pretty seriously about the residency-related application fun that will be coming up in just a few short months.

Between now and 2008, however, I just have outpatient clinics to attend. They're usually not that hard. However, the surgery clinics are always overbooked, which means angry patients, which means frustrated residents, which means no real interest in teaching. Wonderful.

Happy holidays to everyone!