Had a pretty sweet birthday yesterday - thanks for all the lovely messages :) Yikes 25, where the hell did you creep up from. Am on surgery at the moment. As I tell anyone who will listen, I love love love it. Long stupid hours and all. I'm not sure if its the relief of being out of that bitchtrap that is the ED - where an already stressful ( Read more... )

Ohhhh man. I stupidly agreed to take on an extra two hours for someone last night. I was basically one of the walking dead towards the end. :S My current release is k-dramas. Such cliched goodness!!! Found the guy I'll be replacing next term and he said it was a relatively cushy job which I find hard to believe... I mean.,  Gen SURG?  ah i dont ( Read more... )

pulled up to the intersection and waited for a minute and a half for the lights to go green, before I realised there actually weren't any lights at the intersection.

After a horrible wkend with interrupted sleep no more than 2 hours at a go, stressing so much over my gen Med talk for today, and ward dramas,having to cancel on brunch and the big sing and the Sambanistas, and being disgustingly sick, i am now going to treat myself to some nandos and then im going home and passingout. Talk was mediocre at best but ( Read more... )

YEOWTCH. Yet ANOTHER example of how I am cross eyed/blind when it comes to rosters! This weekend is going to be and effort and a half - playing with the Sambanistas down at the Balingup medieval festival on Saturday(\o/), sleeping over in some random Rec centre (at least its free, right :P), driving back by 8am because I've got a friggin SHIFT ( Read more... )

AAU is once again experiencing an upheaval. They pulled out one of the AAU interns and made a new internal medicine unit which we have to rotate into on a weekly basis. Weird. On the plus side I no longer need to do any evenings and finish at 4 every day :) I prefer working in the mornings because, well, you're UP, and so is everyone else, which ( Read more... )

I owe some people quite a few emails, but right now I'm so full of delicious korean steamboat and its the first time in ten days I've been able to relax so they're going to have to wait a few days more.

*collapses in a pile*

PS: apparantly I am doing a research project now?!! *still confused*

The last two days have been amazing. Was working the friday to Sunday of the Easter break and those three days were hellish to say the least. Usually when you hear 'vascular' med staff tend to wince, but its been pretty cruisey on the wards with the four interns/residents. Last weekend was the first time I'd been alone on the ward and that 3 day ( Read more... )

 Have to give a talk in ~1.25 hours to a bunch of persnickety vascular surgeons and their team, the multidisciplinary team and a whole bunch of med students. Meep. Had two days to prepare, one of those days I was working from 7am-10.30pm. So its basically not the best thing I've ever done, but I'm relying on the fact that our topic is vast enough ( Read more... )

 So the problem with waking up every day at 0430 so I can study before going to work, is I can barely keep my eyes open whilst i'm watching the gorram world cup final!! *flails* :( :( :(

Here, have a brief recap of my week:
- scary consultants still friggin terrifying
- I'm going to be a bridesmaid!!! Very excited by it all. 
- unless we get a couple ( Read more... )