Career Day

uggg. everytime i think about it i want to throw up a little.  

actually, i just want to hide in my bed, under the covers, next to liv.  

so last week, we had career day. it was a really great effort by our school to help us learn about potential residency programs that we might like.  we got to talk to dialogue with real doctors and ask questions about the little details of the residency match, day to day life, etc. 

well, of course i was cranky the whole time.  i mean, most of us are 25+, and we're still in school.  i think i've realized semi-adult + school, authority figures, etc.  isn't always the best mixture.  listening to someone else's opinions on my future for 8+ hours in one day is a little bit like torture.  it reminds me of watching msnbc or fox news for > 3 minutes at a time.  why do those people think anyone cares what their opinions on the world are?? furthermore, who wants to watch them fight about controversial issues? 

anyway, this was alot like career day.  everyone throwing their opinions at you, inducing the medical school mass chaos that ensues when two or more medical students are placed in a room together for an extended amount of time.  i was pretty discouraged, as most of the of the older folks were bashing my career choice: a residency in med-peds.  you know its bad when a psychiatrist is rude to you about it.  but after i did a little more research on my own, i've found my self even more excited about a program such as this.

so bite me,  psychiatry / family medicine / and surgery. 
this is my life! 
i've watched this video upward of 50 times already, and my confidence is brimming. (thanks Kaili)

anyway, here's to sunday and living in nashville, portland, or charleston in just under a year and a half!!!

also: quintessential picture of liv. at the beach yesterday. 

the girls.

a certain someone that i'm working with right now, on a certain roation having to do with female reproduction and its associated organs, often refers to breasts as 'the girls'. not sure why, but i find that phrase super annoying.  i mean, if my doctor asked me "how are your girls?"; i probably wouldn't come back to her.  that said, maybe i'm uptight? whatever. i don't care. i hate this certain rotation on certain female reproductive parts.

so here are some 'girls' i find inspiring right now.  and no, i'm not referring to breasts.

i hope i have a little piece of each over these beauties in me somewhere.

Barbara Streisand from The Way We Were.  She's a bad ass curly haired passionate woman who advocates for human rights.  I don't even care that she gets dumped by Robert Redford when she's preggers.

Liv Tyler. OMG. Could you be any cuter? Major personality points. 

 Sidney Bristow from Alias.  AKA Jennifer Garner.  AKA perfect combo of intelligence and vulnerability.  Also, a six pack.

  Picasso's Portrait of Francoise.  I dig her hair. 

Kees Van Dongen's Stella in a Flowered Hat.  Interested, yet skeptical.  

 

And this girl.  She's wearing a bun and she's gonna travel the world.  Watch out!