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First: Happy St. Patrick's Day. It was four years ago today that I spent a considerable amount of time dancing with a leprechaun. And, as Harmony pointed out, said day was also the day we frolicked in Death Valley! Oh, good times ( Read more... )

I MATCHED! I'll know where on Thursday at 11:00am!

Okay, so this didn't get posted when it was supposed to be, so bear with me. Imagine I've traveled back in time to Saturday afternoon ( Read more... )

Once I returned from Portland, I spent a delightful 36 hours in my house before packing up all my things for prolonged stay for Christmas in TN and heading to the Hoosier State. Thursday the 6th dawned clear and bright but was gonna get ugly fast if I didn't flee before around noon in Iowa. A scary storm was forecast, and though I tried to stick ( Read more... )

I believe I left the OHSU story prior to going to dinner with the residents at a microbrewery in downtown Portland. Able to muster what little element of "extrovert" remained deep in my soul, I climbed into the PT Cruiser and followed the directions to the restaurant. I would like to point out that trying to find the venue to meet the residents ( Read more... )

After much nail-biting, my flight from Des Moines did finally get off the ground at around 3:30 CST on Saturday. There was a huge round of applause when the flight crew returned to the plane at 3:00, as we passengers rightly assumed that we had to be taking off if they brought the big guns back into play. I had another delightful flight attendant ( Read more... )

It's 11:53 now. They're saying the plane "can't possibly" leave before 2:30. Oh boy!

After a brief stay at home in Iowa City, it was off to another state to which I had never been: the Beehive State! Why, you may wonder, did I apply to the University of Utah? Why not? I applied for two reasons. It was suggested by a number of residents throughout the last year and a half (only one of whom is Mormon) and I hadn't been to Utah ( Read more... )

After a lovely Thanksgiving at home (and an unexpected chance to be there for 9 days), it was back to the interview trail. Next stop: Iowa. Wow, was it stressful. The five of us, including one other Iowa applicant, had dinner at The Brown Bottle. Yum. I had not met the two residents that took us to dinner, but they were nice and were honest ( Read more... )