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Sunday, June 27, 2004
It's finally over!

My test was Friday. It was not quite as difficult as I expected it to be. Now, before you think I'm tooting my own horn, or something, let me just say that I was having nervous breakdowns over the whole thing. I have no idea how I did. I hope I passed, and passed well enough to practice the kind of medicine I want to practice. We'll see in 6 weeks.
~Sara~
1:40 PM


Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Heh

A man and his wife were having an argument
about who should brew the coffee each
morning.
The wife said, "You should do it, because you
get up first, and then we don't have to wait as
long to get our coffee.."
The husband said, " You are in charge of
cooking around here and you should do it,
because that is your job, and I can just wait for
my coffee."
Wife replies, "No, you should do it, and besides,
it is in the Bible that the man should do the
coffee."
Husband replies, "I can't believe that, show me."
So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New
Testament and showed him at the top of several
pages, that it indeed says.....

"HEBREWS"
~Sara~
11:18 AM


Friday, June 18, 2004
I got a superfun e-mail today from the registrar's office at MCO. It turns out that I am going to Napoleon, Ohio for my first rotation. I did not request an away rotation for Family Medicine and they gave it to me anyway. I was planning on spending the summer here! The only good thing about getting Family as my first rotation was that it's rumored to be easy in terms of hours. So, I was going to be able to hang out in the evenings and on weekends when I'm not studying. Instead, I have to go to Napoleon for six weeks! It's about an hour southwest of Toledo. I have to drive back here every week on Fridays for lectures, or something. Thank God. If I didn't have a reason to come home for school, I suspect that they wouldn't let me. I have no idea what kind of place I'll be living in. I heard from one of my classmates that some of them are pretty bad, like 6 students in a two bedroom townhouse. 3 students to a room?! Have I returned to dorm life? Actually, that's worse than dorm life. We will probably all have to start work at the same time, too. 6 students getting ready for work at the same time could mean a very crowded bathroom. I am most displeased. I'm scared to death, too. I feel like I don't know anything applicable to patient care. My preceptor is going to be thinking they're training some real dumbasses at MCO.
~Sara~
9:47 PM


Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Cannot Communicate with GroupWise Agent

That's the line my email gives me when it doen't feel like working. Since I don't have a phone, email is my only connection to the outside world. I'm so ghetto I should have blonde hair with dark roots, hightop white tennis shoes, and a hornets jacket. I belong in a trailer park, or something.

I would just like to take a moment to express my frustration with the Office of Financial Aid at MCO. #!%%*??@#! There. I don't understand them at all. You would think that after doing the whole FAFSA dance and applications for additional aid for six years that I would understand it, but I don't. I'm going to have to have a good accountant one day. That's not really my issue, though. The process this year is to allow the 3rd(!) year students to apply for $36,000 in aid before the summer term begins. Then, I have to go back in August to withdraw another $9000, or something. I really don't understand why we can't just get it out of the way at one time. Nobody seems to be able to explain it to me either. So, for those of you who don't have to live on financial aid, that means I'm going to have some weird refund schedule after they withdraw my tuition funds. (I'm not going to even tell you guys how much that is. It will make you cry.) The extremely frustrating part of it is that although summer, fall and spring classes cost different amounts, they are distributing the aid in 3 equal chunks. Since summer tuition is less, that refund will be really big, something like $6000. The next one is at the end of August, but it's only $1500. I think... It's hard to budget that way! I need to know how much money I'm getting and when. Is that too much to ask? Holla if ya hear me.

As far as the USMLE, fondly known as the WEENUS, is concerned, I think I finally turned the corner today. I put in a lot of hours, and I have officially gone through everything once. Now I have until next Friday to go though the stuff that gives me heart palpitations one more time, like renal and pharmacology. I hate the kidney. Only weird people are nephrologists. You guys should see the stack of drug cards that I have to memeorize. Oy. Doing questions on Q-bank can be a confidence booster or make you want to run out into traffic.

In other news, tomorrow is Ryan's 26th birthday. He was born at midnight on June 15/16th. His mom chose June 16th for his birthday so he would always be younger. Aww. I would like you all to know that I think my boyfriend is awesome. He's very thoughtful and wonderful. I love him lots. I wish I could get him a nice present, like a car with good brakes and a muffler without a hole in it. I wish I could take a whole day off from studying to be with him. Being poor sucks. Don't worry Ry, I'll be able to buy you nice presents and take the day off one day. I promise.
~Sara~
8:13 PM


Monday, June 14, 2004
I saw this on Diane's blog. Pretty fun. (kill me so I don't have to take this test)



How to make a TigerLily46
Ingredients:

1 part friendliness

3 parts brilliance

3 parts energy
Method:
Stir together in a glass tumbler with a salted rim. Add fitness to taste! Do not overindulge!


Username:


Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com
~Sara~
2:39 PM


Saturday, June 12, 2004
Hey Kids,
I put a counter on my blog. Cool, huh?

Okay, I postponed my test a little bit. I'm going to enter the lion's den on June 25th. Why would I want to prolong my suffering, you ask? I got sick at the beginning of the summer, and I lost a few days, for one thing. Another thing is that I seem to have misplaced my motivation. I used to be able to make myself hit the books for more than 12 hours a day. I don't know what has happened to me. I can make it maybe two hours, and then I start to get crazy. Gary pointed out that I've already learned the material once, so it's just like backtracking. I hate backtracking. (almost as much as I hate bowl haricuts, sitting the wrong way on the bus, and the color orange) I think another reason is that my peeps are either studying alone in Toledo, or they're in Chicago taking Kaplan prep. I used to be able to bust my ass all day, and then meet a friend to go through things in the evening. That worked well for me. Now, I can't do it. I don't have anybody to bounce things off of, and it sucks. I wish Gary had to take the boards again. I know he would rather poke himself in the eye with a sharp stick. sigh.
~Sara~
4:09 PM


Sunday, June 06, 2004

Here's a picture of my little sister, Missy, and me at the bar in Michigan. Aren't we cool? Posted by Hello
~Sara~
11:17 PM


Here's Missy's other new kitty. She's taking suggestions for names. Posted by Hello
~Sara~
11:11 PM


Tuesday, June 01, 2004
I'll just take my 182.5 please.

Here we are coming up on two weeks until my board exam. I have been studying everyday, but I'm finding it really hard to discipline myself to my work. I feel like I haven't hit my groove with studying. I feel like I'm frantically and randomly reviewing two years worth of material, and that there's no way I am ever going to know all of this. I think maybe it might be time to let go of the notion that I'm going to be able to learn everything, and that I shouldn't beat myself up about it. I felt so mournful and guilty because I didn't remember all of the details about exotoxins and pork tapeworm. Do you know how many freaking exotoxins bacteria have? Lots. I'm sure my future patients are really going to care which of them is heat labile and which isn't. I was talking to one of my classmates the other day, and he said that if he could be sure that he would get a passing score of 182.5, he would take the test now just so he could stop studying. I can definately identify with that.

In other news, my sister came to town over the weekend. We went to Heritage Days, which is the fair that the city of Southgate has every year. I haven't been to one of those since high school. In fact, it was just like high school. I saw lots of people there from my class. It was surreal. All I can say is that I'm not the only one who has put on a few pounds. It's good because I was feeling a little self-conscious. I think I have gained like 30 pounds since then. But then, I saw that they're all chunky too. So we all hung out with our fatness.

I had a really good time visiting with my sister. I miss her so much. While she was here, I was thinking about all of the fun we used to have when we lived together. I wish she lived closer to me because she's a huge source of support, and the only truly normal member of my family. They will push us both over the edge one day. I would like to try to get out to Virginia to visit her again after the board exam. I would also like my parents to buy me a plane ticket so I don't have to drive 8 hours by myself. Perhaps I'll drop a few hints.
~Sara~
1:18 AM

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