exciting!

so much happened yesterday.

i got my ob rotation approved in chicago. i called meridith's mom to see if i could stay at their house in december. how fun!

big red and i bought plane tickets to daytona beach!!! :-) we leave in a week and a half. we'll stay with her grandparents, but that's not going to stop us from getting C-R-A-Z-Y!! ;-)

we also bought tanning packages last night. we figured we'd do a little rush-pre-tanning in order to allow for increased ability to lay on the sun from dawn til dusk. the high life awaits us.

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i came to the realization yesterday that i know why our school notoriously does poorly in the behavioral medicine section of boards! the cram 40 lectures and 2 exams into two weeks. there's absolutely no time for digestion. no wonder we dont know anything about the superego.

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a side note, one of my roommates truly believes that strawberry air spray from dollar general will mask/reverse/make pleasant the smell of her poop. i have news for her.

just another day at the mall.

karma and i are hanging out at the den of uncivilization once again. hot-t is allegedly on his way out, but i seriously doubt he makes it. we planted ourselves strategically near an outlet as always, not noticing the group of 4 "grumpy old men" if you will. sitting not more than 6 feet away, playing cards and talking about this random girl that just walked by. i'm not sure what exactly they were discussing, but one of them were convinced that whatever it was, it wasn't real.

our laptops seem to attract way too much attention here. a couple of the old men just stared over karma's shoulder for at least 90 seconds. he's now fully turned around in his chair watching whatever it is karma is working on. old men are so not subtle.

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ok. to the books, i say. studying is for the birds. but we have a 20 lecture exam on friday and i'm supposed to be through lecture 14 today. totally not happening.

geriatrics sucks. and so does gateway.

this afternoon, karma, big red and i spent the day torturing ourselves by studying in iowa's mecca of shopping malls. hot-t refuses to join us, saying it's uncivilized. whatever. so while all around us families and friends spent their sunday leisurely wandering the corridors of capitalism, we sat in the food court attempting to complete a geriatrics assignment straight out of the pits. it took over two hours to answer 5 questions. and as i was about to save my final, my internet connection fitzed, and i lost all my work. of course, karma had been saving all along and his stuff was tucked neatly away in the vaults of blackboard. good thing we dont need no stinking honor code. he forwarded me his answers. geriatrics. done. after tuesday's exam, i'll hopefully have no further need to keep the word in my vocabulary.

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big red and i were supposed to work out this evening. i just called her and asked if we could continue out our weekend of gluttony and sloth, replacing it with the diet and exercise bit tomorrow morning. she didn't seem to enthusiastic about that idea, so we compromised. continue the gluttony, get rid of the sloth. so we'll so some pilates later. i can handle that.

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aside from that, none of the cute babies were at church today. sad.

my first post

i originally started this as a personal journal. but i'm transforming it into a way for family and friends to keep up with what's going on in the medical world that is slowly becoming my life.

on with the ramblings...

i hate geriatrics. no, despise. good thing there are only 9 lectures on this exam, lest i shoot myself in the eye. it doesn't matter though. post-geriatrics exam comes psych. never mind all the board study we'll be skipping this week just to keep up.

i think i'm going to make a nickname for all my friends. if for some reason any of them ever read this, i'd hope they can recognize themselves.

big red and i have been attempting to plan a spring break get-a-way. so far, we've come up with not much of anything affordable. i think we're going to end up saying screw it. i'll go hang out at home (of course, that's AFTER i've spent 20 hours or so reviewing physiology... scheduling sucks.) my mom will be happy.

karma called this afternoon. he'd just left the gym and was heading back to study. again. i envy his drive.