<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>doctorsquared @ doctorsquared.blog-city.com</title><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/</link><description>(doctorsquared) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 doctorsquared.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:42:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>doctorsquared @ doctorsquared.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>If I don&apos;t get honors in Neuro, I blame Michael Phelps...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/if_i_dont_get_honors_in_neuro_i_blame_michael_phelps.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/if_i_dont_get_honors_in_neuro_i_blame_michael_phelps.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:48:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[What I should be doing: frantically studying neuro in preparation for my EXAM and PRACTICAL EXAM on Friday, and thinking about what I will bring to Pittsburgh this weekend (yay for seeing Birthday Boy!)&nbsp;What I am (and probably will be) doing: si]]></description></item><item><title>What I&apos;ve Learned This Week</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/what_ive_learned_this_week.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/what_ive_learned_this_week.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:02:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[1. Being a doctor is hard work.&nbsp;2. Seeing kids who have no chance to get better is really depressing.3. EEGs, and by extension seizures, are horribly boring.4. You can make any topic relate back to something you care about (example: We have to g]]></description></item><item><title>Lumbar Puncture</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/lumbar_puncture.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/lumbar_puncture.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:25:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It&#39;s my outpatient neurology week right now, so my co-med student and I have been rotating through a bunch of different clinics and observing as much as we can. We&#39;ve seen EEG&#39;s and EMG&#39;s being done (EMG&#39;s look freaking painful!),]]></description></item><item><title>Something&apos;s Missing...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/somethings_missing.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/somethings_missing.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:35:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[But unlike John Mayer, I know exactly what (or who, in this case) is: Birthday Boy. He moved to Pittsburgh on Friday to start graduate school, and I already miss him. We had a busy last week together - I was in the Neuro ICU, so I was mostly exhauste]]></description></item><item><title>The Big Read</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/the_big_read.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/the_big_read.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:24:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they&#39;ve printed.1) Bold those you have read.2) Italicize those you intend to read.3) Underline the books you LOVE.4) Reprint this list in your own blog. &nbsp;1 Prid]]></description></item><item><title>Oh My...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/oh_my.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/oh_my.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:29:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Twice in the past week, I have left my lights on in my car and come back to a car with a dead battery. Thank God for AAA. Never has that $42 membership seemed so important, especially today when I was stuck at the chemical dependency hospital! Clearl]]></description></item><item><title>Sleep and Nervousness</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/sleep_and_nervousness.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/sleep_and_nervousness.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:44:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I&#39;m on an easy rotation right now. I&#39;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]]></description></item><item><title>Puerto Rico</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/puerto_rico.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/puerto_rico.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:43:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[So now that Birthday Boy and I have been back for Puerto Rico for almost a month, I guess it&#39;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]]></description></item><item><title>Psych Ward</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/psych_ward.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/psych_ward.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:27:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I promise, I&#39;ll write about Puerto Rico soon, but now my patients are on my mind. I&#39;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]]></description></item><item><title>Updates</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/updates_1.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/updates_1.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:47:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I will write a real entry soon telling all about our trip to Puerto Rico, but for now.&nbsp;TEN THINGS&nbsp;1. We had an amazing time in San Juan.2. I came home and went to lab for one last day. I&#39;m DONE. Key turned in, can&#39;t go back, yay!3.]]></description></item><item><title>SATC</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/satc.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/satc.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:24:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[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,]]></description></item><item><title>X: X-hilaration :)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/x_xhilaration_.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/x_xhilaration_.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 18:45:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>Tomorrow...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/tomorrow.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/tomorrow.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 19:52:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[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&#39;re going to Cafe Spiaggia for dinner and then the &quot;kids&quot; will likely go to the Tasting]]></description></item><item><title>W: Whew</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/w_whew.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/w_whew.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 03:33:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>V: Vacation</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/v_vacation.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/v_vacation.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 18:53:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Vacations in my family are something that didn&#39;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]]></description></item><item><title>U: Up And At &apos;Em!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/u_up_and_at_em.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/u_up_and_at_em.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:46:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>T: Tragedy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/t_tragedy.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/t_tragedy.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:45:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[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&#39;t even bring myself to answer the email, because of the events that happened immediately]]></description></item><item><title>S: Stuck</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/s_stuck.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/s_stuck.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:18:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ever have those days where you can&#39;t do anything because people who are supposed to get stuff done in order for you to finish things haven&#39;t done it? That&#39;s where I am right now. Stuck. I can&#39;t leave because I have to pick up Cute fro]]></description></item><item><title>R: Rest and Relaxation</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/r_rest_and_relaxation.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/r_rest_and_relaxation.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:53:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I visited SIG in Washington, DC, this past weekend. It&#39;s a trip that&#39;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]]></description></item><item><title>Q: Quickie</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/q_quickie.htm</guid><link>http://doctorsquared.blog-city.com/q_quickie.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:23:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There&#39;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 &quot;R&quot; we discussed this we]]></description></item></channel></rss>