Yay for blog posting

Hello sybilites,

First off good to see everyone blogging and congrats to Wkbriggs and Scambou. I look forward for attempting to not tell the tackle story to too many of Suz's grandparent aged relatives (but by then ill technically be a MD so if i cause any heart attacks i should theoretically know what to do...theoretically). Let's see what i should tell you all. Life in Cbus is going as well as can be expected. I suppose i should tell you all about this photo. As most of you know, I live with 2 other UofM grads here and we try to get more michigan grads to come to the med school. So we end up hosting a lot of these kids for interviews and we occasionally get gifts like this flag. Since we wanted to keep our windows intact in the house (it gets cold here) we havent hung it up and I promised that if we won I would raise this over campus. So sure enough on the Sunday night after The Game we did a night mission and hung it on the med center flagpole. I felt like it wasnt ok to lower the American flag to do this prank so I put it in place of the state of ohio flag (who cares honestly). It went up around midnight and it was there at 7 the next morning when i was walking to the hospital. Sadly it wasnt at around 11 for lunch break (moment of silence for the flag that was sacrificed in honor of this historic victory).

Overall, 3rd year is way better than the first 2 years. I'm finally out of the classroom/library and spending most of my time in the hospital (with the nurses). I do have to admit I miss the library but I still get to visit, albeit for shorter periods of time. The only real disadvantage is the complete lack of free time, so things like getting my clothes back from the dry cleaners and other normal tasks become a challenge because you're stuck in the hospital during normal business hours. I'm still not sure what I'm going to be when I grow up but I think I have ruled out anything surgical at this point and will end up in medicine. If all else fails I'll probably end up doing Internal Med just for the amount of sub specialty options it has but I still have a bit of time to think about it (aka panic).

I'm currently on Child and Adolescent Psych which is a crazy (literally) service. I'm not sure its something I could do for life but I can say there is never a boring day with this one. I have to agree with Nathan here and say I'm excited to not be going to the real world for another year. But Nathan was so convincing that I am considering DC for residency now and hopefully by then this train will be built so we can make this trip to see Billy and Sluis and Arnold Schwarzenegger too. But its not entirely my choice either as to where i end up. Residency programs interview you and rank you and then you rank the programs you interviewed at and some magical computer decides where you end up so yeah its a ridiculous day in March where everyone get a letter saying where they will be spending the next 3-5 years of life. Fun times. Also I'm about to blog again about this reunion so we can all exchange stories, wine and man sweat in person.

Hearts,

James