"The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things." -- Ernest Dimnet c/o Meenal Sharkey.

My life just turned into an episode of Sex and the City---- Sex in Cleveland Heights! I was just taking my trash out, and as I walked out of the side door of my house (which faces my neighbors house) I saw the middle-aged male tenant of the house next door walking past his giant window butt naked ( Read more... )

My dad is so cute. He sent me an email earlier today that said "49 hours and counting". It took me a second to realize that he was referring to the match. Usually when I talk about future events, even those that are important to me, it seems to go in one ear and out the other with both of my parents. When I bring things up again they always act ( Read more... )

Last week was exquisitely shitty. I had to have my cat euthanized in my arms, which is quite the awful experience for anybody who hasn't had the joy of doing that yet. She was fine--not eating so well but I thought it was because of trying a new brand of food-- nothing terribly concerning until I came home from a 30-hour call and she was barely ( Read more... )

I am so irritated with my attending this month that I seriously find myself fighting the urge to tell him to fuck off. He reminds me a lot of Chevy Chase's character on 'Community'-- dumb, but thinks he's the shit. They look a lot alike, too ( Read more... )

My rotation in China has turned into a rotation in China with a vacation tacked onto the end in Taiwan. I really love med 4... I'm sad that it's almost over and I'm soon to join the ranks of the 80 hour work week crowd. Though, it will be nice to finally be getting a paycheck and not living off of Uncle Sam's teat. I only have $119 in the bank ( Read more... )

I just had such a great afternoon on service-- great attending experiences, great patients, and getting out on time-- that I really wanted to write about it somewhere so that I can remind myself that occasionally there are days that make this whole experience worth the $1000/week and ritual humiliation that it entails ( Read more... )

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I'm halfway through my interviews and am at the point where I'm comfortable enough with my performance thus far that I'm going to cancel interviews a couple of the less desirable programs that I have lined up (namely, Rush in Chicago and Cleveland metrohealth). So far, my favorite programs have been Nationwide Children's here in Columbus (which I ( Read more... )

Trapped in the airport in Charlotte, NC, trying desperately to get to Norfolk, Va for my third residency interview. I guess what's left of hurricane Ida is wreaking havoc there and every flight out of here has been canceled today. If I say fuck it and go back to Ohio I'm out 350 bucks. So here I sit. If the people around me didn't have such ( Read more... )