And another one bites the dust

[shelaghc]

At least for me.

I used to be a TV addict devotedly watching waaaay more TV than any single person should have watched weekly. Once I got a VCR, I habitually taped show after show and added regularly to my massive collection. (Hey artemis2050, did you know Voyagers! came out on DVD last year

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[artemis2050]

I did know that! Though I've had a bootlegged copy on DVD for years, so I didn't bother.

I did, however, just receive an Omni as a graduation gift.

Let's see: ER (I'm not giving up, it's the last season), L&O SVU (I'll watch any of them but that's the only one where I Tivo the new ones), House, Battlestar Galactica and Top Chef. Oh, and The Simpsons.

[shelaghc]

Congratulations on graduation! I saw your old posts about going to med school - didn't realize graduation had already happened. What's your specialty or do you have one yet?

Believe it or not, up until about two years ago I still had my original Voyagers tapes. I loaned them to a friend who promised to transfer them all to DVD, which he did for most of the eps except one tape's worth which he never returned and absolutely swore he had.

About a year later he found the missing tape, told me he'd drop it off then never did and never replied to any of my calls or emails.

I had been on the verge of buying a ridiculously expensive bootleg myself when TV Shows on DVD announced the series was being released officially.

Scarecrow and Mrs. King, however, I think I'm going to have to break down and buy as a boot.

And where the heck did someone find an Omni for you?

[artemis2050]

eBay, I think. There's this one guy who makes them by hand in limited quantities, and I've seen the auctions from time to time. I haven't actually watched the shows in years...(But I do still remember random things like October 21, 1879. *g*) It's very cool--lights up and everything. (Or it will when I get the batteries in.)

Graduation hasn't happened yet--it's May 28th, as a matter of fact. Going into residency in pediatric neurology. That'll be two years of peds followed by three years of neurology. The peds is at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, which is where I went to med school, and the neuro will be at Einstein in the Bronx. You pick a specialty at some point in residency--either at the start, which is what I did, or you can do residency in something basic like medicine or pediatrics and then specialize later by doing a fellowship afterwards (like cardiology or GI or whatever).

In my case, it's kind of like I applied for my residency and my fellowship at the same time. *g*