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Paris 1: Le vol (the flight)
You'd think that this part of the trip narrative could be summed up with "I flew to Paris." But that's not very fun, is it ( Read more... ) -
So much for poetry.
National Poetry Month Fail.
Anyway!! Over the next few entries I will be discussing my most recent vacation, a week-long trip to Paris. Probably in more detail than any of you want to hear. -
Poems, poems, poems
April 2: On the Birth of a Child- in honor of delivering my first baby at County
April 3: The Emperor of Ice Cream- when the day's Google Doodle is an ice cream sundae, how could I not have that poem stuck in my head all day?
April 4:
Today... no particular theme. I just like this one.
who knows if the moon'see cummings ( Read more... ) -
Update on intern year progress
In March, I did my second month of gynecology at the university hospital. The first time I did that rotation was in July. As you might guess, there was a BIG difference this time around. It was just so much easier, not having to expend so much energy on newbie tasks like figuring out how to put orders in or learning my way around. It no longer took ( Read more... ) -
Good both going and coming back
So instead of posting entire poems here every day, I'm going to post links here and on Facebook. Simple and to the point. Today's poem was "Birches" by Robert Frost. I've posted it before but it's still one of my favorites. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better. -
Will winter never cease??
Yikes, I'm cutting it a little close on meeting my goal of an entry every month. It doesn't feel like it's almost April. Chicago weather just refuses to cooperate. Natives keep assuring me that there's at least one snowfall left before spring really comes. And yet millions of people continue to live here, as if they are unaware that there are other ( Read more... ) -
Weather and Illness
Now that I've moved to Chicago, I am experiencing my first real winter. We had a big blizzard at the beginning of this month that was like nothing I've ever seen. Since I'm new to the whole Chicago winter thing, I didn't really know any better. But my co-workers who've lived in the Midwest all their lives were flipping out, too ( Read more... ) -
Time for another update!
Since I last wrote ( Read more... ) -
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I just realized that I neglected to give the second reason I had a stay-cation last week: it was CREOGs week. CREOG stands for the Council of Resident Education in Obstetrics & Gynecology. Every year they give all ob/gyn residents a 300-question standardized test. Kind of like the shelf exams I used to take as a rotating VMS3. The test covered all ( Read more... ) -
Vacation #2... hard
Only a few hours left of my second vacation of the year. It was a staycation this time around, for two reasons. First, I had five count-'em-FIVE friends from Nashville come into town for my first weekend off. They didn't actually come for my weekend off, it was just a ridiculously-well-timed coincidence. None of them stayed at my place; they had ( Read more... )
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