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School
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Family, General, Life, School, Work
Resourceful
07.28.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsZoe had a diversity/international celebration at school today. The request was that each child dress in a representative ethnic costume for a parade and bring a dish for everyone to sample. It’s a great idea. Until we remembered that we’re white. We (w)racked our brains for the better part of a week to come up [...]
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Family, Life, School, Work
I lost 10 pounds in 2 weeks on the MS3 plan. Ask me how!
07.14.11 | Permalink | 3 CommentsSooooo hi. Life on the wards. My first rotation is internal medicine at the county hospital. My team was on call the very first day. It was a harrowing, soul-sucking, what-the-eff-have-I-gotten-myself-into 30 hours and I was 99% certain I would not return for another minute of it. But I did. And after that day, I [...]
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Baby, Family, General, Health, Life, School, Work
Clumsy
Here’s what just happened: A curly-headed blur zoomed past me as I carried the dog’s full bowl of water to his tray. Zoe, don’t run with a pen, please. It’s dangerous. “It’s not a pen, and anyway I was skipping with it. It’s my pencils.” ALRIGHT WELL WHATEVER YOU’RE RUNNING WITH STOP IT AND WALK [...]
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Family, Life, School
One week to go!
So. It’s quiet around here. The Girl and her Dad-O took off for cooler temperatures and more entertaining people last week, leaving me with a wide open schedule to take this test prep by the horns. I finished the Doctors in Training Step 1 review course (15 days, 3 lectures per day) and am reading [...]
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Family, Life, School
Days go by…
05.08.11 | Permalink | 4 CommentsFirst, Happy Mother’s Day to all the awesome Mamas everywhere! Mine is the bomb dizzle, of course. Raising the munchkins is quite a job, and I’m grateful to the Moms in my life for who they are and what they mean to me, and I’m so glad to be Zoe’s Mom. Full disclosure: she’s been [...]
