and a magical holiday was had by all

Or so I like to believe.  As I posted earlier, I went to B's the weekend before Christmas and stayed until Tuesday and then I came back to the apartment and went to work on Wednesday after which I played with Kitty (MJ) and went to dinner with my friend C on Wednesday night and then on Thursday I slept in an then drove home to my parents' house.  I got to see many of my family and friends even though I was only home for about 4 days so that was nice...  What isn't nice is coming back to work.  Not to mention coming back and having to work evenings but still be there during the day a little to get crap done outside of the work you do for 8 hours in the evening.  might not be so bad if I wasn't trying to work evenings but stay on a schedule like I'm working days... b/c next week, guess what, I'm working days again.  Not my favorite but not the worst possible thing either I guess.

Anyway, I'm trying to get applications around for PGY2 programs and I have to say, it really stresses me out.  Now, many of you may be thinking -- gosh, this lady gets stressed out about a lot of things... and this is probably true.  I guess maybe I work better under stress so my natural survival instinct is to just be stressed... I'm not sure.  What I do know is that the older I get the more I notice my stress.  I don't like it.  I think it is because I now have sometimes when I'm not stressed.  There are actually times when I'm calm and happy.  I think this is healthy but it does make the times when I'm not more noticeable.

It's almost new years and I'm excited to be spending another one with B.  He is super.  Last year at this time we were in Florida at his parents' condo which was a lot of fun.  This year we'll be spending the weekend at home but I think we may go out for dinner and potentially see a movie as well.  Then just relax at the apartment and wait for the big ball to drop :-)  I love having time to just relax with him and I'm really glad that he's going to be around for his next rotation.  I know that I'm going to be very busy with both PGY1 interviews with my current residency and PGY2 stuff for next year but it is just better when I know I get to go home to a not empty apartment.

Ok, off to do something productive now.

my sister is awesome

So yeah, my sister made me this awesome new header for my blog.  She is pretty good with stuff like this... Also her blog is likely funnier than mine.  In case you are bored... reallifeiscoming.blogspot.com  -- check it out :-)

happy holidays everybody!

Blogger on my phone

For real this is awesome... I love being able to do computer-ey things on my phone :-)

lovely Sunday

Today was fun.  B and I went to our dear friends' engagement party.  The bride to be was my roommate for a couple of years in college in the Bailey House and the groom to be was B's roommate all through college.  They actually were kind of involved with B and I getting together.  The two of them are so cute together and I am really really happy for them.

Now we are back at B's parents' house and just hanging out.  B has to have a little surgery tomorrow to have 2 lipomas removed so that of course makes me a little nervous even though it totally shouldn't.  What can I say, my brain is just overactive.  So I'm staying here until Tuesday evening and then going back to go to work on Wednesday to try and do a bunch of data collection.  Then I'll stay overnight at the apartment and head back to my parents' house on Thursday.  It will be a full 4 days but it should be nice.  Overall I'm happy to get some time away from my residency but I really don't ever stop thinking about it... that is kind of annoying.  Sometimes I just want to go several days without thinking about anything that I need to do but I think that is pretty unrealistic.  In any event, I'm trying to give myself some times each day where I think about residency stuff and then just let it go.  I'm stressed out about next year now but hoping that everything just works out.

Ok, now I want to go watch a movie or something so we'll see if I can make that happen.

goodnight

post midyear happenings

I'm going to keep this brief.  So I got back from midyear where I had 11 interviews.  There were about 6 programs that I could see applying to if need be.  Then one of them emailed and said they filled their spot with an internal candidate.  Now I have 5.  Also, I found out that the program I am with is going through the match.  No early committing.  This means I won't find anything out about next year until March.  I am saddened by this.  I really don't know what else to say about that.  On the plus side I will be applying to 6 programs including the one I'm at now and I would say that there are 4 including my current program that I think would be good places to get my PGY2 training.  So now I just have to get all my application stuff around and done before the first week or so in January and then hopefully get some interviews and then find ways to travel to said interviews and then decide how to rank the programs and then wait (im)patiently until mid-March.  Hooray for the evil that is the residency matching program.  Alright.

Goodnight everybody.

prepping for midyear

The time has come for all good PGY1 residents to hop on planes and travel the miles to one location in the country deemed worthy of hosting a bunch of nerdy pharmacy types... This year the lucky city is New Orleans and I for one am quite excited about the destination.  It should be fairly nice weather and the city is fun and our hotel looks awesome and B and I are going on our first vacation-esque thing by ourselves.  I have 11 interviews set up during PPS and that seems like a lot but I'm intrigued to see how this all goes.

Another rotation ended today.  That means 4 down and 6 more to go plus December as a project month.  December is a big month with a lot going on including interviews for the PGY2 at my current program... I am cautiously optimistic about that whole thing.

So, I think I'll just leave the blog at that tonight... I may be sparse with my blogging for a little while until I get some things figured out about next year but --- the blog will reflect what happens once it happens

Ok, goodnight everyone and to all the other residents out there making their way to NOLA in the next few days, safe travels and I'll see you on Bourbon Street :-P