I arrived back from LA at about 10:30 last night, so I was home by 11 (I really enjoy being so close to the airport). After pretty much collapsing into bed last night, I was up again this morning for the same old routine: breakfast, run, shower, second breakfast, read cardiology, read practice cases, do practice problems, lunch, do more practice problems, go the gym, do more practice problems, dinner, and then contemplate doing more practice problems (which is the step I'm at right now).
I have learned a value lesson the last week or so: doing practice problems while sitting out on the deck enjoying the sunshine is probably not the best study technique I've ever come up with. First of all, I do much worse on the problems. Second, I never to think to put on sunscreen, so I'm getting some pretty interesting tan lines. Still, it's hard being cooped up in the house all day.
Good news: the dishwasher guy came this morning, and all is better again. Turns out it wasn't that big of a deal; for some reason, the detergent foamed up more than usual (I know I didn't add too much; it's hard to mess up on measuring an Electrosol tab), which hit some sensor in the dishwasher and blew the breaker. At any rate, it's working again, so I don't have to wash dishes by hand.
USMLE countdown:
CK: 5 days
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Still here
Yup, I'm still here... and still doing more of the same. See, when I told you the life of a med student wasn't that exciting, this is what I'm talking about.
Kit came down this weekend (showed up Friday about noon), so that was a little bit of change from the usual nothingness. We had a barbecue on Friday night with Andrew and Megan, which mostly consisted of us putting burgers, corn on the cob, and salmon on the barbecue and wandering off to do other things. We're going to have to find a more efficient way to grill corn and salmon--both took about an hour and a half. After everyone was done eating and whatnot, I loaded up the dishwasher, started it, and went off to bed. Then Saturday I got up, headed down to the gym for my cross-training (swimming, exercise bike, and elliptical) and came back. When I opened the dishwasher to grab a bowl for my breakfast, I noticed there were bubbles everywhere. Very confused about this, I tried unsuccessfully to get the dishwasher to rinse again. That was about the time Kit wandered up to the kitchen and noticed the giant puddle that had been sitting on the hardwood floor probably all night. So, to sum it up, the dishwasher was clogged, water went everywhere, floorboards might be permently a bit warped, and there are very few places around here that repair Bosch dishwashers. Supposedly, someone is coming out on Wednesday to take a look at it. In the meantime, it's washing dishes by hand, something I loathe deeply and fortunately haven't had to do much of since the apartment I lived in first year.
Other than the dishwasher fiasco, it's been same old, same old, like I said earlier. Just a lot of studying. Kit and I were briefly considering going to a few car dealerships and test driving some cars, just to see what I like, but that didn't happen because I, again, started to panic about the fact that both of my exams are coming up way too quickly. In fact, I'm flying down to LA tomorrow night for my clinical skills exam... yikes!
USMLE countdown:
CS--2 days (well, 37 hours)
CK--8 days
Kit came down this weekend (showed up Friday about noon), so that was a little bit of change from the usual nothingness. We had a barbecue on Friday night with Andrew and Megan, which mostly consisted of us putting burgers, corn on the cob, and salmon on the barbecue and wandering off to do other things. We're going to have to find a more efficient way to grill corn and salmon--both took about an hour and a half. After everyone was done eating and whatnot, I loaded up the dishwasher, started it, and went off to bed. Then Saturday I got up, headed down to the gym for my cross-training (swimming, exercise bike, and elliptical) and came back. When I opened the dishwasher to grab a bowl for my breakfast, I noticed there were bubbles everywhere. Very confused about this, I tried unsuccessfully to get the dishwasher to rinse again. That was about the time Kit wandered up to the kitchen and noticed the giant puddle that had been sitting on the hardwood floor probably all night. So, to sum it up, the dishwasher was clogged, water went everywhere, floorboards might be permently a bit warped, and there are very few places around here that repair Bosch dishwashers. Supposedly, someone is coming out on Wednesday to take a look at it. In the meantime, it's washing dishes by hand, something I loathe deeply and fortunately haven't had to do much of since the apartment I lived in first year.
Other than the dishwasher fiasco, it's been same old, same old, like I said earlier. Just a lot of studying. Kit and I were briefly considering going to a few car dealerships and test driving some cars, just to see what I like, but that didn't happen because I, again, started to panic about the fact that both of my exams are coming up way too quickly. In fact, I'm flying down to LA tomorrow night for my clinical skills exam... yikes!
USMLE countdown:
CS--2 days (well, 37 hours)
CK--8 days
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