am still alive...
Today is Sunday (also known as Lisa Cortez Hendrick's birthday--but it's probably too early for me to call her and tell her that). I'm at the hospital...I'll be here until noon tomorrow, and I'm bored out of my mind. I actually paged myself to make sure my pager was actually working. So, since nothing is going on, I figured I should do something semi-productive.
Updates (finally, I know): Presented with many, many cuts so you don't have to read a ginormous post if you don't want to. So, here we go:
I managed to make it through my last few days of the second year of med school. The mock boards were terrible though.... waaaaaayyyy too much testing. (on the bright side, I got to feel super smart as I scored 4th in my class of 220.) The last three days of school were all ACLS training. We had to learn everything about what to do in a code in 2 days... on a third day, we were tested. Since then, I've managed to forget everything... so... now I offically panic every time I hear "Code Blue" over the intercom at the hospital. :(
After the lovely ACLS test, I came back to my lovely apartment and finished throwing crap into boxes, getting ready for the big move back to the mitten state. My mom and dad showed up the next day to help me finish packing, and to load up the rental truck. The highlight of packing: my mom dumpster diving (thankfully in the "Carboard Only" dumpster) to find more boxes b/c we ran out. Then, early Friday morning, we left dreary Erie. Things I will miss: El Canelo margaritas and the B&N twins. That's it.
My new apartment is pretty "meh". In some ways it's better than the "Amazing Flooding Apartment" that I left back in Erie (like my bathroom is large enough for me to actually dry off outside the shower), but the kitchen was gross (I just got new cabinets though), and the linoleum is peeling up in places. (Random note RE: "Amazing Flooding Apartment": I never got my security deposit back because my landlord states that my cat peed on the carpet and now the apartment smells like cat pee. Bastard. The apartment smells like MILDEW because his lazy ass didn't come and clean the carpets after it flooded.) Anyhow, while we were moving stuff in, it started to pour... so basically everything from the moving truck got dumped into my living room... and pretty much stayed there until boards.
I took the USMLE June 1st. It was bad. The USMLE is given on a computer, and the flourescent lights in the room made the screen seem like it was flickering... which gave me a massive headache. I managed to score above the average though, so I can't complain too much. After the USMLE... Steph and I had a drink and crammed for the COMLEX poolside.
The COMLEX was June 8 and 9. Two whole days of testing. Joy of Joys. Steph and I stayed in a hotel in E. Lansing (the test was at MSU). We were pretty darn slap happy after the thing ended... and there was much celebration. OK, not really, we were both absolutely exhausted and the only celebrating we managed to do was get A drink each at TGI Fridays after we got back to Novi.
I spent most of that Thursday attempting to move all of my crap out of my living room and start putting it away. (note: there are STILL boxes in my apartment)
Tammy and Wes's wedding was the weekend after the boards. It was a good time. They held their wedding at the Lansing Center, which involved walking down a bunch of wooden steps to a gazebo next to the river. Thankfully, I managed to not fall down all 20 wooden steps (even though they were wet and slippery b/c it was pouring), AND I managed to do my reading without calling Tammy and Wes, "Wammy and Tess". Their ceremony was very nice... but I imagine it would have been even more nice if it hadn't been pouring down rain. They had fun with it though, and that's the most important part. It was by far one of the funnest weddings I've been to. The reception was fun, too. :)
Oh!!! Am being paged!!! Yay!!!!!