Sunday, February 28, 2010

34 Minutes to Spare

Thought I better write another newsletter in the last few moments of February so it wouldn't technically be late. The last few weeks have seen a decline in my motivation to study, but that seems to be the general attitude at school, so hopefully tomorrow's test will end up with a hefty curve (oops, they don't curve tests, they statistically analyze them). We are in our Renal block, so we're studying the kidneys, and I think the hype about the difficulty of this subject is somewhat justified. It's four more weeks of renal, then Women's Health, then a month-long board review course, then I'm taking the boards and taking a few weeks off before starting rotations in the hospitals. I am assigned to the Colorado Springs and Pueblo hospitals for my rotations, but I won't know any more than that for a month or so. I've been looking forward to rotations, but the last couple of days I've realized that what I really need is those few weeks off. We get a spring break at the end of renal, so I just have to stick it out a month and I'll get a breather.


Liz and I are still going out. I'm discovering the difficulty of managing a relationship around two peoples' schedules. I met her mom and step-dad Friday night at the ballet her mom took us to, so now I've met all of her immediate family, and in mid-March, she'll have met all of mine when we go to Body Worlds at the museum with my dad.


This seems pretty short, but I should get going, and I think this pretty much sums up the last month of my life anyway.


Scott