well, the second half of spring break was quite eventful. i'll just give the highlights...
saturday, march 17: erin go bragh, etc. corned beef was had. as well as cabbage.
sunday: more time in the morning at the hospital. i had to force myself to leave so i could drive up to boston. for real. force myself.
monday: pete and i's day. we didn't do much. i mostly just remember eating. though not just good things. story time...
we went to bertucci's for dinner. first of all, the rolls were cold. at some restaurants, that's alright. not acceptable at bertucci's. then, we ordered the mussels appetizer. when it arrived, i was surprised when the mussels were cold. though i grew more concerned when i found ice on some of them. we sent those back, only to find out that they were out of mussels. great. we got the shrimp scampi instead, which they comped, and the waitress hovered for the rest of the meal. which reminds me what else was hovering over our food. the flies. lots of little flies were very interested in what we were eating. i didn't want to look away from the food, for fear they would steal it...
tuesday: i had an interview! at 7:30 in the morning....which meant that the night before i had an emergency buy a blow dryer and nylons event. at cvs. anyway, the interview was at children's hospital and they offered to have me work there this summer, being the official orthopedics department hand specialty lackey. booyah. i then spent the rest of the day hanging around enc, with kara for a bit, then luke, and a bit of a nap in the library. i talked at enc that night about being in med school, which went well, i think.
wednesday: i drove down to leicester, near worcester, to visit an old friend. i spent the night at the durost's, and hung out with jenni the next day.
thursday: jenni-time, then went back to boston to have a small group time with pete, and some other charles river young adults. margaritas and the book of acts. excellent combo.
friday: pete and i drove up to new hampshire. he had a retreat to play at, while i went on and visited another jennie (i collect them). which was an adventure, because i was driving pete's car, which is a stick shift, and i haven't had that many hours driving one, though i do know what to do. and i also got lost...and then my cell phone died. so i had to pull over, and i charged the phone at a dunkin donuts...
saturday: hung out with jennie, then drove back to pick up pete, then drove to foxboro, then i drove back up to logan to pick up my cousin rich who had spring break in florida. whew. pete and rich and i went out to dinner that night.
sunday: i got ready to go back to syracuse. i left foxboro, started driving when BAM! my hood flew open on the highway and crashed into my windshield, forming the most extensive cracks i've ever seen in a windshield, and freaking the crap out of me. i was in the right lane, so luckily i was able to pull over on the side of the road easily. i called AAA (for the second time in less than two weeks) and pete. pete and rich came to save me on the highway, and wait with me for the towtruck. i got a tow, and went back to the boys apartment.
enter bonus spring break time:
monday: figured out bus schedules, talked to the body shop, talked to the glass people, talked to everyone again 600 times, watched that day's lectures online, missed the last bus in the evening....and made my mom's famous sausage soup, which of course was not as good as my mom's....
tuesday: woke up ridiculously early, pete drove me to south station where i made the 7:10 bus narrowly. i slept the whole way to syracuse.
this was the most eventful spring break i've ever had. and i've had spring breaks....drove to florida, stayed with a friend's crazy grandparent's one year....
for a bit of an update: my car has a new windshield, which was more of a hassle than you could imagine. the body shop didn't do anything to my car, because they wanted exactly one arm and one leg in order to do it....so we're on the lookout for a cheap used hood for a 96 saturn.....anyone have any leads?
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
spring break me off a piece
see, my title is one of those before and after things they have on wheel of fortune.
spring break is going particularly well. after my exam on monday the 13th, i drove on home to ct. good to see the rents again, they still like me.
tuesday i went down to my aunt's hospital to the er and shadowed a great doctor, dr. tilden. he let me take some histories, and taught me a lot about presenting cases: "a 40 year old women with a chief complaint of...." i had a good time.
i can't remember what i did on wednesday. did mom and i run errands? something like that.
thursday was girls day out for mom and i. we got our hair done, mani and pedis, and went out to lunch. mom was a little late to work after all that....what a great example. i saw the cahills of westport that evening (my sis and broinlaw) and we went out to eat.
friday was another day at the er, with a different doc this time, dr. holmes. you might also remember that friday was the nor'easter. i left the er at around noon so i could get home in a reasonable time. i got to my car, turned it on, then went to get my brush out of the trunk to wipe off the snow. as my front door clicked shut, i had the sneaking suspicion i had just locked myself out of my car.
i had.
great.
so i went back in to the er, called aaa, and waited till they came. perhaps because my motor was running, it actually didn't take that long for them to come. i drove home in the snow at about 25 miles an hour. but i made it.
ok, now i have to get ready to go up to nh for the night. the continued coverage of emily's spring break 2007 will be right back.
spring break is going particularly well. after my exam on monday the 13th, i drove on home to ct. good to see the rents again, they still like me.
tuesday i went down to my aunt's hospital to the er and shadowed a great doctor, dr. tilden. he let me take some histories, and taught me a lot about presenting cases: "a 40 year old women with a chief complaint of...." i had a good time.
i can't remember what i did on wednesday. did mom and i run errands? something like that.
thursday was girls day out for mom and i. we got our hair done, mani and pedis, and went out to lunch. mom was a little late to work after all that....what a great example. i saw the cahills of westport that evening (my sis and broinlaw) and we went out to eat.
friday was another day at the er, with a different doc this time, dr. holmes. you might also remember that friday was the nor'easter. i left the er at around noon so i could get home in a reasonable time. i got to my car, turned it on, then went to get my brush out of the trunk to wipe off the snow. as my front door clicked shut, i had the sneaking suspicion i had just locked myself out of my car.
i had.
great.
so i went back in to the er, called aaa, and waited till they came. perhaps because my motor was running, it actually didn't take that long for them to come. i drove home in the snow at about 25 miles an hour. but i made it.
ok, now i have to get ready to go up to nh for the night. the continued coverage of emily's spring break 2007 will be right back.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
i know it's time, but i don't know what to say
it has been a while.
lets see. i guess i'll tell funny stories from my past exams.
so for my practice of medicine class, we had a series of three exams in the past 3 weeks. 2 were on physical examination, and one was a graded history-taking.
i guess there weren't too many funny stories from the physical exams...we partnered up for them, and i partnered with my friend afarin (who i will be living with next year, by the way...). the first exam was a bit nerve-wracking, as it had been the first time we had an exam like that, where a doctor is watching what you do. and our doctor was a bit intimidating. he would get up and move around the table, watching what you did. his comments at the end were things like, "you didn't watch her face when you were palpating her abdomen." but luckily, he didn't mark off much for anything.
the second week, we had the second half of the physical exam, which was eye/ear/etc and muscle strength/movement thing. the doctor we had watch us i actually knew from the christian fellowship on campus, so that was nice. the funny thing is, he had absolutely no comments for us. he said, "yeah, you did fine." and that was that. and then he just said that we ended early and he hoped that the people that were going after us did so he could go home early. ok.
today i had my graded history-taking thing. it was basically a role-playing thing where we had a standardized patient that was in just for a physical but it was the first time at the doctor...
well, mine was at 10:00am. i did not sleep well, i had a bad dream that when i got there, there was a physical exam part that i didn't know about....always the worst case scenario, things not being as expected...i ended up waking up at 9, showering, getting dressed, changing my clothes, drying my hair, putting on a bit of makeup, and running out of my apartment at about 9:50. sadly, we were supposed to be there at about 9:45, i didn't get there until 9:55, then when they told us which classroom to go to, i went to the wrong one but didn't realize it until they said, you aren't on the list and i was scared and then i left the room and realized that i was not where i thought i was so i went to the right room but at this point it was late (they were timing us, we had 20 minutes) so by the time i got into the little fake exam room i was a little bit frazzled.
and then at about 10:10, my cell phone goes off.
well, the history went fine. which was good. and the missed call ended up being from the lady at the apartment building that afarin and i had applied at, telling us that there was an apartment available for august. so we have a place to live! it's a two bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, for 878 a month, everything included (except parking-$30, internet and phone). which sounds pretty good to us. here's the floor plan:
now i'm dreaming about decorating. i can't wait. my little dorm room is feeling very small...and dorm-like.
lets see. i guess i'll tell funny stories from my past exams.
so for my practice of medicine class, we had a series of three exams in the past 3 weeks. 2 were on physical examination, and one was a graded history-taking.
i guess there weren't too many funny stories from the physical exams...we partnered up for them, and i partnered with my friend afarin (who i will be living with next year, by the way...). the first exam was a bit nerve-wracking, as it had been the first time we had an exam like that, where a doctor is watching what you do. and our doctor was a bit intimidating. he would get up and move around the table, watching what you did. his comments at the end were things like, "you didn't watch her face when you were palpating her abdomen." but luckily, he didn't mark off much for anything.
the second week, we had the second half of the physical exam, which was eye/ear/etc and muscle strength/movement thing. the doctor we had watch us i actually knew from the christian fellowship on campus, so that was nice. the funny thing is, he had absolutely no comments for us. he said, "yeah, you did fine." and that was that. and then he just said that we ended early and he hoped that the people that were going after us did so he could go home early. ok.
today i had my graded history-taking thing. it was basically a role-playing thing where we had a standardized patient that was in just for a physical but it was the first time at the doctor...
well, mine was at 10:00am. i did not sleep well, i had a bad dream that when i got there, there was a physical exam part that i didn't know about....always the worst case scenario, things not being as expected...i ended up waking up at 9, showering, getting dressed, changing my clothes, drying my hair, putting on a bit of makeup, and running out of my apartment at about 9:50. sadly, we were supposed to be there at about 9:45, i didn't get there until 9:55, then when they told us which classroom to go to, i went to the wrong one but didn't realize it until they said, you aren't on the list and i was scared and then i left the room and realized that i was not where i thought i was so i went to the right room but at this point it was late (they were timing us, we had 20 minutes) so by the time i got into the little fake exam room i was a little bit frazzled.
and then at about 10:10, my cell phone goes off.
well, the history went fine. which was good. and the missed call ended up being from the lady at the apartment building that afarin and i had applied at, telling us that there was an apartment available for august. so we have a place to live! it's a two bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, for 878 a month, everything included (except parking-$30, internet and phone). which sounds pretty good to us. here's the floor plan:
now i'm dreaming about decorating. i can't wait. my little dorm room is feeling very small...and dorm-like.
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