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My Mood Is...
Currently...
Reading: nothing, looking for a new bookListening:the new Dave Barnes, 4 Minutes to Save the World
Preparing for my defense in less than three weeks!
Re-revising my thesis
Relearning psychiatry for June!
My Cast of Characters
The PlayersBirthday Boy: the boyfriend
SIG: Sexy Indian Girl, a friend from work who now lives in D.C.
G: a very close friend
HGD: Hot Gay Doctor, one of my med school friends
SS: Selfish Surgeon, the ex-boyfriend
The Sister: this one's easy - my sister
CBT: Chicago Boy Toy, the sister's Boyfriend
WMN: Wants to get Married Now, a friend from work
BMP: Brings Me Presents, a friend from work who brings me food occasionally
Silver Stain: HGD's ex-boyfriend, grrr
FFW: Friend from Wellesley
MJ: SS's best friend
B: a good friend
RHG: Red-Headed Girl, a friend from school
CWP: Comes to Work in PJ's, a friend from work
CCE: Coolest Chica Ever, a friend from Wellesley
MLM: My Little Mentee, the 8-year-old I'm mentoring
CLG: Cute Little Undergrad, G's fiancee
MFB: MIT Fratboy, formerly known as PTG
FDG: Fun Dorky Guy
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Sleep and Nervousness
Thursday, 3 July 2008 9:44 P GMT-05
I'm on an easy rotation right now. I'm done by 12:30 on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Mondays I have outpatient clinic in the afternoon and I finish around 4:30. Wednesdays are my only really bad day, because I have to rush from the hospi
Puerto Rico
Wednesday, 2 July 2008 8:43 P GMT-05
So now that Birthday Boy and I have been back for Puerto Rico for almost a month, I guess it's time to recap the trip to Puerto Rico. We were a little bummed when we looked at the weather and saw that it was supposed to rain every day that we wer
Psych Ward
Thursday, 26 June 2008 6:27 P GMT-05
I promise, I'll write about Puerto Rico soon, but now my patients are on my mind. I'm about 3 hours of rounding and group sessions away from finishing my first week of my four week psychiatry rotation. I am working in the chemical dependency
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Updates
Thursday, 19 June 2008 10:47 P GMT-05
I will write a real entry soon telling all about our trip to Puerto Rico, but for now. TEN THINGS 1. We had an amazing time in San Juan.2. I came home and went to lab for one last day. I'm DONE. Key turned in, can't go back, yay!3.
SATC
Monday, 2 June 2008 11:24 A GMT-05
Like many other women nationwide (worldwide?), I eagerly awaited the movie of Sex and the City - I downloaded the screen saver, the desktop image, the trailer, I read up on everything that was happening on the movie set, and I had decided, long ago,
X: X-hilaration :)
Friday, 30 May 2008 1:45 P GMT-05
I am DONE. My committee signed off on my PhD with very little comment, criticism, or debate. My public talk went very well, once I got into it, and even though my sister thought I was killing people instead of cancer cells (big difference there), I t
Tomorrow...
Wednesday, 28 May 2008 2:52 P GMT-05
Is the big day - my thesis defense. My parents are in town, and they, The Sister, and Birthday Boy are coming down to the university for my talk. We're going to Cafe Spiaggia for dinner and then the "kids" will likely go to the Tasting
W: Whew
Friday, 16 May 2008 10:33 P GMT-05
I turned in my thesis to my committee members today. Or at least I left the written thesis outside each of their offices, because none of them was actually there! But. Thesis turned in. In 13 days, the defense will be over and I will have consumed at
V: Vacation
Friday, 9 May 2008 1:53 P GMT-05
Vacations in my family are something that didn't happen that often when we were kids - for a while we drove to Ocean City, MD, every year for a week. Then we had a few years of really horrible weather there and stopped going. We went to Sanibel I
U: Up And At 'Em!
Monday, 21 April 2008 2:46 P GMT-05
I am so ready to be done! My advisor told me that my thesis is in good shape, which means after I talk to her about times and dates, I can schedule my thesis defense, woohoo!!! I got my rotation schedule for next year, and I got my first choice, doub
T: Tragedy
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 9:45 P GMT-05
Recently, I was asked by my Church to serve as a speaker at the 8th grade Confirmation retreat - to share how my Confirmation has affected my life. I couldn't even bring myself to answer the email, because of the events that happened immediately
S: Stuck
Tuesday, 15 April 2008 2:18 P GMT-05
Ever have those days where you can't do anything because people who are supposed to get stuff done in order for you to finish things haven't done it? That's where I am right now. Stuck. I can't leave because I have to pick up Cute fro
R: Rest and Relaxation
Wednesday, 2 April 2008 8:53 A GMT-05
I visited SIG in Washington, DC, this past weekend. It's a trip that's been planned for almost a year, as it initially started with a goal of running the National Half Marathon together. I was signed up for the race, signed up for the trainin
Q: Quickie
Monday, 31 March 2008 5:23 P GMT-05
There's something to be said for a quickie - in any form - a quick snack, a quick drink, a quick cup of coffee, and of course, THE quickie. And this? This is a quickie post (SIG, this is so that I can get to the "R" we discussed this we
P: People
Thursday, 27 March 2008 11:46 A GMT-05
When I was in college, I was an avid reader of People magazine. I subscribed for most of my four years of college, but I remember distinctly my first summer at Wellesley walking into the Vil every Thursday afternoon after chemistry class to buy the n
O: Olympics
Sunday, 23 March 2008 3:24 P GMT-05
I have been an Olympics junkie for as long as I can remember. It all started with figure skating. My parents signed us up for skating lessons when I was six and The Sister was four. As it happened, the next year was the 1988 Olympics - The Battle of
N: Nettled
Wednesday, 19 March 2008 12:31 P GMT-05
According to the thesaurus, nettled means annoyed. It's the closed N word I could find that really describes how I felt on Friday afternoon (shockingly, there are no "N" synonyms for upset, depressed, sad, or angry!). I need to vent abo
M: Medicine
Monday, 17 March 2008 10:15 A GMT-05
"A nurse," I said to my pediatrician in response to his what-do-you-want-to-be question. "Because only boys can be doctors." The pediatrician looked at my mom, saying, "And the next time you bring her in, she will have Female
L: Losing My Mind
Friday, 14 March 2008 12:47 P GMT-05
I have 45 minutes to go before my meeting. Today has been one gigantic freak-out. I hate committee meetings; like SIG says, they're like being placed in front of the firing squad, except they last for much, much longer. I hate the unnecessariness
K: Kids
Thursday, 13 March 2008 3:34 P GMT-05
As an aside, sorry for the long delay between posts. I have a huge committee meeting for my thesis tomorrow, and I have been working nonstop to get everything ready for it. I'm still not done, but thought I'd post a quick one in lieu of recen
J: Jeremy
Wednesday, 5 March 2008 9:06 P GMT-05
I went to school with Jeremy from elementary school through high school. He was always a nice guy, but we didn't become friends until high school. We were both in the same homeroom - and we were assigned one homeroom for the entire four years of
I: Iliotibial Band
Monday, 3 March 2008 8:36 A GMT-05
I started running at the urging of SS in Summer 2005. After about a month of running on the treadmill, I started to feel some pain in my left knee. Google and WebMD, and SSm, all agreed that it was Iliotibial Band Syndrome. Some days it hurt worse du
H: Harvard
Thursday, 28 February 2008 9:56 P GMT-05
As an elementary school kid, I told my parents I wanted to go to Harvard. I'm not sure how I even learned about Harvard, but I knew that's where I wanted to go to college. That lasted until I was 15, and I read an article in the Sunday New Yo
G: G
Tuesday, 26 February 2008 12:01 P GMT-05
G and I met during his med school orientation. I had read his med school facebook (as in the actual paper book) entry with interest, "I know way too much about antiques and women's fashions," it read. "Oh!" my friends and I ex
F: Friendship
Monday, 25 February 2008 10:54 A GMT-05
My 8th grade English teacher used to say to us, "You'll have a lot of acquaintances in your life, but you'll be able to count your friends on one hand." The older I get, the more I realize how true that is. There are only four peopl