i have recently become

-a homeowner: found a super sweet condo only 6 minutes drive from the hospital. with a totally pimped out kitchen, not that i know how to use it. photos soon.
-a doctor: graduation was a great day, with my parents hooding me and all the best who came out to see it. still hasn't sunk in yet though. the past four years have been fun/ridiculous/intense for so many reasons.....i wouldn't give it up for anything!
-an alcoholic: went on two bar crawls in three days......the first being the school sponsored trolley where i sustained a semi-concussion(ok, so it was just a really big bump) thanks to none other than my also alcoholic older brother arun. slightly embarrassing to be standing in the middle of a bar with an ice pack on your head sobbing your eyes out.....but that's just how things happen sometimes. bar crawl number two AKA the vengabus was to celebrate nick/stacey/amreesh's birthdays, which was its own brand of ridiculousness. full documentation on facebook, of course. thinking of these crazy nights is going to make me smile for a long, long time afterwards.

the next few weeks are going to be spent organizing, shopping, grad party planning, closing, furnishing, and oh yeah, starting residency. wish me luck!

"do you have a first aid kit handy?"

danity kane's damaged........a girl can't listen to depressing indie all the time, now can she?

this weekend has legendary potential.....it shall unfold as follows.

friday: UIC honors college alumni event, out with the peoria crew in chicago
saturday: cubs vs. pirates at wrigley, return to the P for the diabetes fundraising party at alok's
sunday: P joseph open house party, with my all time fave irish cream brownies!!

a full report to follow! 2 weeks left!

modern man's greatest invention?

hands down, the flatiron. specifically, the CHI flatiron. my most prized possession!

"your name is the splinter inside me"

is there seriously anything more heartbreaking than listening to joshua radin sing this line in "winter"? my goodness. sometimes i just want to sit in a quiet dark room and listen to him.........not like in a depressing way. just in a calm, peaceful way.

went to "thunder over louisville" this weekend, which is apparently the biggest fireworks show in the country, or something. actually it's pretty sweet. it's like a giant trashy tailgate party with a 35 minute fireworks show on either side of the bridge crossing the ohio river, and then for the finale they blow all this shit up from the bridge itself. i like fireworks. :-) anyways, it would have been more fun had it been a) not 40 degrees and b) had i been drunk. but all in all it was a good ol time spent with the fam.

two more weeks of the ICU. this 7 am thing.......eek.

"whatever we deny or embrace, for worse or for better"

love love love pat benatar. anyways.

crap, i really need to pack my stuff. the days are getting fewer and fewer until graduation, which is really really scaring the crap out of me. for thousands of reasons. mostly, getting yelled at by my mother for not packing my stuff.

what else? whole lotta nothing. i'm tired. good night!

"only a sith deals in absolutes"

yeah, so i'm a huge nerd............watched most of episode III tonight on teev........i just get so sad at the part when anakin is storming the jedi temple and kills the kids!! the poor little paduan learners!!! sigh. haydn, you are such a horrible, horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE actor. but so.freaking.hot. well, hotter in jumper than he was in star wars. but i do need to finish life as a house, which he was awfully cute in as well. anyways. star wars is still sweet. my neighbor/lover ingrid and i are going to have a star wars marathon after her surgery shelf which i am very excited about! ok, i'm a really, really huge nerd.

i started reading "the spirit catches you and you fall down" today. it's about a Hmong girl with epilepsy and the communication and cultural struggles that complicated her medical care in California. I had a Hmong patient while I was doing my Stanford rotation and luckily didnt have to deal with any of the huge issues that are talked about in this book, but the communication gap was still enormous. so far the book is excellent and i'm having a hard time putting it down. highly recommended!

had the physicians vs. firemen charity hockey game this weekend. unfortunately we lost, but the game did end with a spectacular fight started by my m3 friend kevin!! it was the total highlight of the game. at first i was like, oh crap, kevin is in a fight, oh crap, and then i said, what the hell, got out my seat and started cheering him on. i mean, why else do people go to watch hockey?

getting up at 7 for the MICU is making me a little bit cranky but otherwise it's pretty chill. have the world's most laid back senior and one of my fave interns is on my team as well. plus i'm you know, learning, and stuff.

and so it is!!

off to michigan i go!! so happy and excited..............but scared that it's finally concrete where i'm going..........and that i'm going to be a real live intern!!!

the only things i want to do for the next few weeks are pack up my apartment and make great memories with my friends!! then we'll think about real life things like condos, contracts, and call schedules.