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Because Last week wasn’t bad enough…

Ok let’s review what I have to accomplish this week….

MONDAY

-Catch up on the 4 lectures I am behind from last week

-Memorize a boat load of Cardiac drugs 

- Have lunch with my Mom and give the appearance of a sane, well groomed 2nd yr medical student who is juggling it all while at the same time making my Mom feel needed during her time of pre-empty nesting. 

- Turn in an abstract that makes my crappy, crazy international health project appear like an ethical, important study that is going to make a profound contribution to the knowledge of HIV/AIDS treatment in Eastern Europe. 

-Attend 6 lectures, listen, pay attention for 6 freaking hours, outline, memorize, etc

Tuesday:

-Attend a lab and a case study

-Memorize 6 lectures from Monday

-Get my hair cut and my nails done because I am a freaking wedding

-Attend weekly social event (watch House with friends) so I actually speak to a human being this week that is not a patient or a classmate.

Wedesday

-Patient Stimulation Lab  for gosh knows how long

-Turn in poster template for crappy research project that makes it look like its going to save the world 

-Attend 2 lectures

-Teach 10 squrimy 3, 4, 5 yr olds about Jesus, finger paint and that sharing. 

-Memorize Labs, lectures…etc

-PACK FOR TEXAS

-Iron my no less than 4 outfits for all the various events that require my attendance

Thursday:

-CATCH UP…memorize as much as I can.  

-Attend Bed-side teaching for 5 hours…

-Examine, take a history and present a patient. 

-Write it all up before midnight.

-Drive to Friend’s house in Charlotte

-Sleep?

Friday

-4AM-Drive to aiport

-6AM get on an airplane

-8AM-get on another airplane

-10AM-arrive in Houston

-10:30-SEE RACHEL BAXLEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HUG HER NECK!

-Noon-Arrive in Galveston, TX, see the blushing bride, handsome groom, amazing minister and various people who I probably won’t know.   

-5-Attend rehearsal dinner appearing like a sane, well-balanced, well groomed 2nd yr medical student, friend of the bride, have cute stories and toasts to share.  

-8PM-attend college friend party and try to stay awake long enough to see people and tell more cute stories…toasts.

Saturday

-8 to 10-Try to cram the 5 hours of lecture I am missing in my head.

-11-Bridal Luncheon…appear like a polite Southern young lady in a pastel sort of outfit with impeccable manners and ready with POLITE cute stories and about the bride .

-1 to 4-Visiting, Primping, general girl-ness

-5-Actual Cermony where I must appear sane, well groomed with a nice reading voice and I must not fall on my face, on any member of the wedding party or the altar…. 

-7-Reception where I will dance and then most likely collaspe

Sunday

-9AM-on a plane on the way back to NC

-4PM-reach NC

-6PM-right where I am now…studying in the Wake Forest Library for my Cardiac exam…

 Seriously…um this week might kill me..I’m excited about Texas but good grief…too much to do. 

You Might Be Experiencing Med School Burnout if….

-You find a specality you like and then you find out there are 3 spots a year for it NATIONALLY.  Oh and the closest one is in Delaware?!?!?!

- That boy from high school that had a HUGE crush on you that you never had feelings like that for…is giving you guy advice and advice about being too busy.

-You don’t actually have time to wash your hair.

-You find yourself wearing the same pair of jeans for more than three to four days in a row.

-Your diet consists of sandwiches, mostly turkey, caffeinated beverages and the occasional Raman noodles.

-You dream about physiology

-You start to talk in multiple choice format

-You see a beautiful sunset on the way home and begin to think of histo slides

-You read some medical ethics stuff and start to realize how much you miss college where you babbled on and on about David Hume. Seriously YOU MISS DAVID HUME. You are even more sincerely sad that none of your classmates  has any clue who David Hume is.

-You begin to look up graduate schools in other displines hoping for a life raft off the sinking ship.

-You leave frantic messages on your college friends’ phones/facebooks/etc that are something like:  “So busy…4 lectures behind and I have a research project due next week and well yeah don’t try to call me this week, maybe next week…wait no exam next week, maybe we could schedule something the following week, I’m free…well scratch that just leave a message…..miss you….miss having time to talk to you

-You are siting in intently in Panara when a middle aged guy comes up and says “Oh the Frank Starling curve, that brings back memories!” You reply, “Unpleasant memories no doubt?” “Well acutally I am a Cardiologist, hey do you go to Wake?”
crap!

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