I've got some fragmented thoughts rolling around in my 'noggin so here goes.

*I love Christmas trees. I just bought myself a tree yesterday and I love it. I wasn't going to get one because I don't really have the money plus I live by myself so I figured what's the point. Well, I'm glad I changed my mind. I've just been sitting in my living room staring at the tree. Of course, eventually I'll have to take it down which will be sad and a big pain in the butt. We'll see if kitty will leave it alone until Christmas.

*The first two days that I saw patients by myself, they all had ear infections. Seriously, there were 4 people with ear infections. My patient on Monday was this cute little 12 month old. Now, I figured I would hate pediatrics because of the crying, but it was kind of a nice change of pace to not have to deal with whining adults. So we'll see...

*I hate earwax. We've all being practicing doing physical exams on each other which means I've had my ears looked at about 20 times in the past week. This would be fine if I didn't have the wonderful problem of producing too much earwax. So now, said earwax has been jammed down against my ear drum and now I'm basically deaf in both ears. I've got this nifty remover junk, but it hasn't completely fixed the problem.

*Fiber. What can I say that won't be TMI. Hmm, well I've changed my diet recently by adding fiber and it's been good. All I'm going to say about that.

*Traffic. I was sitting in traffic for an hour on Sunday night trying to get into Rockford. Okay, I know rush hour traffic in Chicago or other cities is crazy but this was traffic moving 10 miles hour on a Sunday night coming into Rockford. I guess I accept it better when it's city traffic. Plus, I was 15 minutes from home after a three hour drive with my cat. Needless to say, I'm going to be driving back from Christmas during the middle of a week day.

*The saying "practice makes perfect" is lie. If it's possible, the more I bowl, the worse I get. Seriously, last night I bowled a 57. 57?! Some people could get more than that bowling with their eyes closed. I pretty much suck and it's starting to not be fun now. I mean, a few weeks ago I was averaging about 100 and now, 57? Everyone else on my team is improving and I'm getting worse. Oh well, at least we aren't playing for money.

GRRRRRRRR

Ok, so I'm going to quickly bitch then I'll move on. Tonight I went out to dinner with my friend S and her family. It's S's birthday so she wanted to go to a Japanese restaurant where they have the grill at your table (but a very limited menu). I'm a picky eater but I am willing to try new things so I went. I enjoyed the dinner, I tried the fish and shrimp and veggies and stuff but I just left the stuff I didn't like on my plate. No big deal right? Well, her family noticed that I hadn't eaten everything so they decided to list out all the foods that I don't like and then ask "What DO you eat?" Ok, do they really expect me to list all of the foods that I like? Seriously, it's one thing if I'm like five years old and refuse to try things. It's quite another if I'm 23 years old and am willing to try new foods. I mean, some people just don't like everything. I have HATED people bugging me about what I eat for years. I feel like I've come a long way and try new things now and I still get harassed about it. Rrrrrr.

On a brighter note, I've had a pretty nice weekend overall. First of all, I didn't have to study at all this weekend which is pretty awesome. I just had 2 assignments that only took me about 2 hrs to finish. So, I had plenty of time to catch up on my reading. I've actually started reading a "real" book again. It's been 3 months since I've had time to read a novel. And, I saw Harry Potter this weekend with Katie. I enjoyed the movie but was a little disappointed at how much they had to cut out. And we all agreed that Krum was way too cute. Wasn't he supposed to be ugly? I am glad I saw it though, and it was nice to have a visitor. Besides the fact that I like seeing Katie, it was also the motivation I needed to get my apartment cleaned up.

Tomorrow should be an interesting day. It's the first day that I get to see patients all by myself. I'll let you know how it turns out. All I have to say is I hope they don't have a serious problem, because I sure as hell won't know how to fix it.

Political fun

So, I found these interesting liberal posts that I just had to share. Now, I'm not saying that I necessarily agree with all that they are saying but it does give you something to think about. Plus, it made me laugh my ass off.

This one is about impeaching Bush. Personally, I don't really think that is necessary. It probably be better to let him self-destruct but it's a pretty funny post.

This one is about the whole intelligent design debate. Again, interesting to think about especially in this way.

Free again

Just a quick update for everyone so that you don't think that I quit school and ran off to Vegas. Far from it actually. I'm still here in Rockford studying my life away. I've begun working in the clinics and am getting a taste of my future already i.e. I've consistently been leaving clinic an hour and a half late. Besides that, I am in the middle of a 5 day cram session before my big exam on Tuesday. Man I love the 8 hr exams. The only good thing about it is that I get it all done in one day, and I don't have another one until February.

I've gotta say that I've been better about studying these few days than I thought I would be probably because I can't walk. I twisted my knee pretty bad the other night. I went to a resident to have him look at it and basically he said that I'm doing everything I should be and probably didn't really need to see him. He actually had me basically do my own history and diagnosis. Thanks buddy, just I wanted to do, pay you to tell me that I am right.

Oh, and I am single again. Yep, once again it's been proven to me that the whole thing about guys liking independent women is BS. Basically, E said that it could never work because I am busy now and it is only going to get worse and since his job is so important to him he needs someone with a more flexible schedule. What an ass, right? Sure would have been nice for him to mention this problem a couple of months ago. On the up side, the whole problem about trying to figure out what about where I will go for the holidays has been fixed.

Gotta go get my books together. The library opens soon and I need to reserve my table.