Vacation!
Hey look, enough time to write more than 2 sentences.
Let's review the last few months: medical school is a lot of work. Now we're all caught up.
One more level of resolution: I've decided to go into internal medicine. Trouble and I are hashing out our list of acceptable places to apply for residency. Next year should be far more manageable except I can't handle more manageable and will be teaching a course in the spring. I'm writing a personal statement, which is the sort of exercise that I hate. The only exercise I've been getting is biking to work and it is substantially more than no exercise - Madison does have a lot going for it. The children continue to be awesome and continue to grow up too fast. We had a party where the invite was "The B and J didn't get divorced during the third year of medical school celebration," and all the married grad students who couldn't make it sent a note saying the sentiment was exactly right for them, as well. Now we are really all caught up.
Vacation is going too fast and has not involved much staring at the wall. I've been having an awesome time with the boys - day trips and just walking around the block and just reading books and just nothing-ing. Somehow, I have managed to both to not enough work (I have not even opened the files for my manuscripts) and too much work (not enough staring at the wall). There is always more to do. Now, my work priority is getting a clue before starting Cardiology.
In May, Trouble had taken the kids to the grandparents for nearly two weeks. It was the first time I had been without a child around in 3 years. And the first time I was home without a child in almost 4 years. (Where "alone" means "during my Surgery rotation - 5:30 AM to 6:00PM 5 days a week plus some weekend work" - but it is still nice to walk into the house exactly as I left it.) It was an important recalibration time for me and there are many parts of my prior life I am rediscovering now that I am hormonally back to my prior life self. Like music - I have had the radio off since I got pregnant with Turing and I am now devouring everything I can find through Pandora. Like sewing. Like reading. Like considering having Vegan Month some month when I am off service. See, totally old school me.
