almost there

I dont know what the opposite of P.S. would be, but because this is at the beginning it is the opposite of P.S. But maybe the opposite of post script is pre script, so it may well be P.S. still. I'm not sure anyone knows. Anyway, I wrote the following entry on Wednesday on word in my apartment where I have no internet and just haven't been able to upload it until now. So if some of the information seems outdated, I apologize. 

So I had a meeting with the one of the deans today. All M1’s have this meeting and it’s just like an initial progress meeting and talk about your future kind of thing. Anyway she was very happy with my grades and all that stuff. No surprise there, RIGHT?? Then we got to talking about future plans and stuff like that. I told her that im leaning toward ortho or ER. It felt very much like an interview, “why did you want to do medicine” “why ortho,” those types of questions. As soon as I told her how much I like to build stuff and work with my hands she was convinced. Also, she said that my grades are right on track for ortho as long as my step 1 and 3^rd year go well. However, apparently the residencies are different from what I thought. Apparently you have to apply for a general surgery residency that you do for a year or so and then have to get into a separate ortho surgery residency. This means 2 different locations most likely and more moving. Whatev, that doesn’t bother me. But applying to 2 residencies would suck. More paperwork, more interviews, more stress. Yes I may even stress in the future. Hard to believe I know, but it may happen one day.

Then we got to talking about you know who. Yea that ol’ brunette ball and chain that I’ve been dragging around for the past almost 6 years. Basically I told them that she does in fact play a pretty large part in where I end up for residency. They told me where I get in plays a pretty large part in where I end up for residency. We laughed. Oh deans, so cheeky. They laughed at me that I would be thinking about residencies based off of a girl. Then I told them that we’ve been dating for almost 6 years and they started to see my point. Anyhoo, the male dean, Joe we’ll call him, mostly cause that’s his name, told me that things can change and not to put all my eggs in one basket. “I mean hey anything can happen. There will always be that young cute nurse that helps you out a lot,” he told me. Hmm… that does sound nice. (receive slap from jenna) I also told them that I want to end up out west for practice. They told me that most of the time where people do residencies they end up living. I told them baloney. I don’t know if you’re supposed to spell it bologna or baloney when you use it like that so I went with the non food. Anyway it seems that I will have a lot of obstacles to overcome in the future b/c of her. Knew she would cause me problems in the future. It’s okay though cause she promised to make me dinners for the week every Sunday so I don’t have to cook all week, so that’ll help.

We eventually went over the projected schedule for M3 and M4 and all the stuff that I’ll be doing. She showed me how little time there is for weddings in that area. I promised her that it was not a problem. We laughed again. Needless to say the meeting went well. She even told me numerous times about how happy she was with how the Ecuador trip was coming along already, so that’s good too. Overall, good stuff.

Very very very long road ahead of me, though. Very long. It’s kind of daunting seeing it all on paper and in the open at one time. Holy cow I’ll be a “student” for a long time. Luckily this is the last year of just school and classes. Good cause I am downright sick of it.

Life is good. Other people keep telling me that they’re up till like 2-3 in the morning working and can barely stay awake in class. I don’t get it because I go to be, on average, at 11. Then I’m usually up at 6 to get to the gym by 6:30 for a morning workout. Then I have time most days to get an afternoon run/bike/row in and I’m still doing well. Guess I’m just so totally awesome. Oh almost forgot, I am planning on running the Illinois FULL marathon on April 30^th here in Champaign (assuming my knees hold up for training. If not I’ll do the half. Either way I’m running). Training is beginning next week for it. I say this because I would love to have other family participants whether it be the 5k, 10k, half marathon, full marathon, or marathon relay. I told my parents about the marathon relay and told them they should get a team. And yes, mother, 4 months is plenty of time to be able to run 6ish miles. So, for anyone slightly interested, strap on some running shoes, hit the track (too cold to run outside for now, even for me) and lets make it a family event. Welp, that’s all I’ve got for you today. I’ll see ya when I see ya.

Almost forgot! Jenna is fast on her way to be able to do a pullup. Now this sounds kind of funny, working to get one pullup, but how many of you out there in internet world can do a pullup? HUH???? She’s been working her butt off and she’s really close. Her deadline to do one is the last week of her break, so sometime in January. The guns will be in full force for the next few weeks getting up over that bar. And she’ll be home this Saturday if you want to give ‘em a squeeze. Trust me they’re pretty robust.

K that’s it this time I promise. Sorry Aunt Wendy for the length. I like the sound my voice in my head narrating this as I type it. K bye. 

by the way it snowed a ton this week. heres 2 pictures of the results.