Fun Weekend

This was a great weekend, the last one right before my hospitalist month torture to start.  It's going to be my last month of floor medicine and it's not the same as last year in terms that I'm the only resident with 10-15 patients and working 6 days/week.

Kirstin came for the weekend and it was great to see her, it's been 3 months since our Caribbean trip.  It's going to be a low key weekend, just relaxing and hanging out.

Went to Westside Market on Saturday. It was fun, having our lunch there, wandering around looking at the stalls.  Found the homemade pierogies, we each bought 3 kinds, can't wait to eat them.  They've got interesting flavors and sound very good.  For dinner, it's Indian, originally planned for Saffron Patch but they've got a wedding party going, so we went to Indian Flame, so yummy.  Of course, it's a snowy evening, but we went to Velvet Tango Room anyways to have our after dinner drinks.  They specialize in handcrafted cocktails, everything is freshly made, not instant stuff.  I've got the apricot sour and boy was it yummy.  The ambience is fun too, Jazz group playing and we just catched up and had a good night.

For Sunday, we went to Velocity Church.  It's a young church but somewhat charismatic as well but not as much as what Kirstin is used to.  People are nice but I just don't feel like it's somewhere I could grow.  It just doesn't feel as Bible based as I'm used to. After church, I introduced Kirstin to Vietnamnese food. We went to Superior Pho, I had the vermicelli and had her ordered the sweet and sour fish (also one of my favorite).  It wasn't the best I had but I still like the places in Cali.  Can't wait to go home to have good Vietnamnese food.

For the rest of the day, we just chill, caught up on our gossip and tried to hang out as much cuz who knew when's the next time.  My plan to is to got to NYC in April and June.  We shall see.

ENT Rotation

Today is the last day of ENT rotation, one of the intern rotation.  The rotation is not bad, it's split with airway clinic and inpatient consults.

The 2 weeks in clinic is busy in the sense that it's a long day.  Starts around 6:15a for morning rounds then clinic usually from 8a-4p then evening rounds after the ENT residents are done with their ORs. Days end sometime between 6-7p.  We don't do anything for rounds, just stand there and sometimes help with sutures removal or copy previous notes.  As for clinic, we do nasal fiberoptic scope for the larynx, so very similar to our fiberoptic intubation.  It was a good practice for our nasal fiberoptic intubation.

Then the next 2 weeks were on consult which we would just hang around from 7a-5p to help out with consults.  Most days we would get abou 2-3 consults and someday we were ignored cuz the resident in charge did want to give us any.  It was good time to get reading done.  I think I've gotten about 2/3 of Morgan & Mikhail done, but the question is more of how much will I retain for the ITE coming up.

New Year 2012

This year I decided to do something different.  I'm setting goals this year as a trial to see if it really help me to organize my life.  This is not to say that my life is a mess but I'm just trying to see if setting goals can become part of my life.

Goals:
1. spend some quiet time daily with the Lord
2. pick a church and go on average twice a month
3. lose 30lbs by end of year
4. spend more reading time for residency
5. call home more often

Let the New Year of 2012 begin!!