Updates

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. I got sick over the weekend - of course, right before I started third year orientation. I no longer have a fever or sore throat, but I am hoarse and I sound like I'm going to cough up a lung every so often. Yummy.

4. It is hard to make new friends in a class of 100 people who all know each other already (especially when you sound like a COPD patient!), but I am trying.

5. I got a new phone (Palm Centro) and I am already obsessed with checking my email on it. I also got my pager, but I will not be turning that baby on until Monday morning when I start psychiatry.

6. One of my submitted papers got accepted with very minor revisions. I'm hoping to have those done by Sunday at the absolutely latest, so I can check that off my list.

7. So You Think You Can Dance has started again! I have favorites already - Kherington and Twitch and Katee and Joshua in particular. 

8. I am doing my psych rotation in a chemical dependency unit. That means I am going to see a whole lot of addiction (and hopefully will finally learn the usage and withdrawal symptoms for all of the different drugs) but I am slightly concerned that I won't see any actual psychiatry (schizophrenia, bipolar disease, or depression). I will just have to study a lot. The good thing about doing my rotation there is that it is totally cush, and I should have plenty of time to study.  

9. We learned how to do basic procedures today and practiced on models - putting in IVs and Foley catheters. Is it bad that I can't wait to actually do this, even though I'm sure that it's going to be totally uncomfortable and painful for my poor patients.

10. I was less depressed at graduation last week than I thought I would be. I missed the graduation deadline by about a week, and I was really looking forward to walking with SIG and my MD/PhD classmates and being hooded by my dad. I wasn't able to do this, obviously, and I thought I would be really bummed at graduation. But mostly I was just happy to be done and I don't even care about it now because I'm a medical student again, YAY! 

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