Arright, tomorrow morning's my interview for a diener (autopsy assistant) position on the main campus of the hospital at which I've been working for the past year. I've been brushing up on gross pathology for the last couple nights and I think I'm all set. What does one wear to the morgue/path lab on a job interview? I hope they'll give me an apron ( Read more... )

Every time I have something of note to say, I'm not in a position to type it up. And now, when I've spared a few minutes, I have no idea what I want to say ( Read more... )

We had our end of the season rugby party last night. Needless to say, I'm tired today. It was also the one-year anniversary for our sponsor pub, the Thirsty Lion, so they had eight bands and everyone got plastered. I shouldn't have, but it'd been a long time and I figured I might as well get it out of my system during a long weekend. They gave ( Read more... )

It just figures that right when I have time to jot a few things down, my work internet goes down. It’s actually 4:30pm on Thursday, 10 May at the moment. [I eventually posted this on 25 May.] I’ve just returned from a picnic in the sunshine while my second restriction digestion ran. It’s gel time at the moment. Free time ( Read more... )

St. Patrick's Day with the ruggers was crazy. I went out for vegan pirate food with Nicole and co. first, which was a great start to the night. Tasty little "chicken" bits. Mm. I've become unaccustomed to imitation meats, given my diet of veggies and grains ( Read more... )

I'd barely arrived at work when my boss started questioning me this morning. Barely as in I'd only just finished swapping my bike pants for jeans and had not yet reached my desk. He didn't mean anything by it, I know, but it nearly brought me to tears. He's hosting a seminar in fifteen minutes and is also hoping to present my work at some ( Read more... )

It feels wonderful to be done with my supplemental applications. That was a terrifyingly long process. I am rewarded for my efforts: my local medical school just invited me for an interview. It reportedly takes them eons to get around to offering invitations, so I feel superb about my prospects. I think I'm going to try to wedge it in before I ( Read more... )

It took me an unnecessarily long five weeks to finish the six essays this last medical school asked for, but I'm done. I'd been shooting for a two-week turnaround time on secondary applications. I kept it up till this last school sent theirs out about a month after I'd finished my others. I was caught up in work and rugby and not motivated ( Read more... )

I just had an interaction with the biggest jerk I've never met. I was cycling home from Beckett's, where my rugby team had watched and critiqued our playoff match over scads of popcorn, perfectly content to be climbing a long, slow hill. (The last one had resembled a cliff in reverse, or so my thighs report. The problem with crossing from SW to ( Read more... )

Today, I finished my first marathon. ( Without cheating! )