I am turning in revolution

f***ing national board exams

2009-08-20T00:04:20Z

Step 2 is seriously making me feel like a moron. The more I study, the dumber I get, the more questions I get wrong on practice tests.

I'm going to go eat some ice cream and pretend I don't have to take this stupid test. In, like, 5 days.

lantea @ 2009-04-21T21:52:00

2009-04-22T01:53:02Z

Successfully managed to ask out my intern. YAY! (Today was his last day so he is no longer technically my intern.)

Yay. :)

My life. Funny, in the cosmically amusing sort of way.

2009-04-10T22:41:45Z

Umm. I have a ridiculous crush on my intern. (intern = one year out of med school, in other words one of the people in charge of me) It's out of control and totally inappropriate and he is completely adorable. HELP. It's very distracting and there's really nothing I can do about it. Today, on a Friday afternoon, I volunteered to stay late, after all my work was done, to help him finish up his stuff. AND THEN THEY MADE ME GO HOME ANYWAY. Well, they told me I should go home and I couldn't exactly be all "no, please, I want to follow around my intern like a puppy dog for the rest of the day." And now I'm sad I won't see him for A WHOLE TWO DAYS.

I am ridiculous.

lantea @ 2009-03-29T00:23:00

2009-03-29T04:26:01Z

Guys. This is my alma mater. We're going to the Final Four.

That game just about gave me a heart attack. We won it with 0.5 seconds left. <3 Villanova.

lantea @ 2009-03-10T19:22:00

2009-03-10T23:35:54Z

I have to be careful about where I post things like this elsewhere, so:

Favorite Books:

cat's cradle, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, catch-22, rubin's pathology <--- If this isn't the perfect guy for me, I don't know what is. Plus he became a fan of Sports Night the day after I did. WHY DOES HE HAVE TO HAVE A GIRLFRIEND? Okay I'm done now.

I KNOW, I HAVEN'T POSTED IN FOREVER. Let me sum up: Tired of third year. Ready for path and fourth year. Wish Terminator wasn't going to get canceled. That and HIMYM (BARNEY/ROBIN) are kind of the only shows I care about anymore. Umm... thinking of going to Arizona for residency. (Sick of winter.) Thinking of going to Singapore for ID rotation next year. Way behind on getting my shit together for next year in general. Oh well.

Cameron is one of the best tv characters ever y/y?

2008-12-03T01:18:54Z

"Do you ever think about dying?"
"About what?"
"Or about suicide?"
"Why would i think about that?"
"Because there's something wrong with you."

OMG CAMERON DON'T KILL YOURSELF! :(

"It's like a bomb inside you... waiting to go off."
Seriously. Cameron almost made me cry. I felt worse for her than I did for the other guy. Although that probably says more about me haha.

Whoever is not watching this show needs to start. Inmediatamente.

lantea @ 2008-11-20T21:46:00

2008-11-21T02:58:01Z

All these girls from my high school class are getting married, one by one. I don't want to be a jealous person but um it kind of sucks.

Plus I hang around babies all day (so many babies), and I'm like, I want a baby... but that is unlikely to happen, anytime soon. (I love kids.)

I at least deserve another niece or nephew. That's all I'm saying.

just a lil rant

2008-11-11T02:57:36Z

What is wrong with boys.

For real.

WHY WOULD YOU IGNORE A PERSON FOR A GOOD YEAR AND A HALF AND THEN IM THEM OUT OF THE BLUE AND THEN ACT LIKE THAT IS TOTALLY NORMAL AND OH BTW I WAS NEVER A JERK WHO BROKE YOUR HEART

lantea @ 2008-11-05T00:49:00

2008-11-05T05:59:04Z

YES WE DID.

And thank you America.

"the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals"

sometimes there are no words

2008-10-30T02:41:37Z

Thank you, Phillies.

(thanks to the Inky for the photo, even though you really didn't give me permission.)

PHILLIES. WORLD SERIES.

2008-10-16T03:46:49Z

I can't believe I'm in Pittsburgh right now.

hello from pittsburgh

2008-10-07T00:35:35Z

Really enjoying ob/gyn. No internet at the house (yet). Posting from phone. Go Phils!

lantea @ 2008-09-29T21:29:00

2008-09-30T01:35:19Z

OMG DVR WHY DID YOU NOT RECORD T:SCC

THIS IS SO NOT WHAT I NEED RIGHT NOW

IT'S NOT LIKE I REALLY REALLY WANTED TO SEE THIS EPISODE BEFORE I LEFT OR ANYTHING

(leaving for pittsburgh tomorrow)

The surgery rotation

2008-08-20T23:55:27Z

Surgery is actually pretty cool in its way. My life right now fucking blows.

Help me pick a new phone!

2008-08-09T16:35:12Z

I need a new phone because the one I have now sucks and I hate it. But I'm having trouble deciding between these two.

phone 1
phone 2

GIVE ME YOUR THOUGHTS PEOPLE! Even if I don't know who you are and you only stalk my journal, and heaven knows why you would be doing that. I need more LJ friends haha.

ENT is pretty horrendous

2008-07-28T22:35:27Z

So I found out that the team I'm on doesn't really do pre-rounding, so I don't have to come in before rounds. Which is nice and all. On the other hand, it means that this rotation consists of:
1. standing around the OR watching other people operate
2.

Miserable day. Really.

lantea @ 2008-07-27T18:23:00

2008-07-27T22:37:18Z

So I finished ophtho, which means now I get to start ENT. Tomorrow rounding starts at 6:30, which means that (after tomorrow, since it's the first day) I'll have to get there even earlier than that so I can pre-round on all my patients. I call them "my" patients loosely, you understand. Supposedly tomorrow we'll be in surgery all day. I don't exactly know what "all day" means, but it does sound fun, doesn't it.

My joy over starting this new rotation is overwhelming, isn't it.

Chances I'll last more than say two days of this schedule without wanting to kill myself: slim-----------------------x---none.

Man I am a wuss when it comes to sleep.

med school blathering

2008-07-17T02:11:43Z

Step 1 scores came back today. Since I'm not going to be one of those obnoxious people who goes around telling everyone their score, I'm just gonna do it here. I got a 238, so, yay? I guess. It's really too damn confusing how they do it. But, I mean, my two-digit score was a 99, which is the highest you can get on that scale, so that's gotta be good. I don't know if this year's test was harder than usual, since apparently the 99's usually start in the 240's or so according to the sites I looked at online (haha, yes, I did research. I need to know what things mean!). Aaanyway, I'm happy with this. It's not a freaking amazing score, but it's a good score. This means that I don't have to cross any specialties off my mental list, except for like plastic surgery and dermatology maybe which I promise I would never want to do anyway.

Ophthalmology I am actually really enjoying. Not sure if I want to do it for the next 40 years of my life, but then I'm pretty much not sure that I want to do ANY one thing for the next 40 years of my life. So I'm thinking about it. ~~Everyone~~ Almost everyone I've met there has been really nice, and generally cool, and it's pretty interesting stuff. And a good lifestyle, which is sort of a prerequisite with me at this point.

Anyway, that's about my life at the mo. I still have a crush on the cute boy, though I never see him lately. Sigh.

lantea @ 2008-07-13T11:26:00

2008-07-13T15:29:57Z

Aaaaaand our gas was left on all night.

So if you hear a large explosion coming from the direction of Philadelphia, THAT WOULD BE OUR APARTMENT BLOWING UP.

furthermore

2008-07-02T01:36:45Z

They are playing "Rose in Peril" while the Doctor lies dying on the floor of the Tardis. That's all I'm sayin'.

I finally watched omg

2008-06-30T03:41:01Z

RTD YOU ARE SO MEAN I HATE YOU SOMETIMES.

I wish I had more to say but I am still all incoherent with squee and omgz. It was all amazing and awesome but mostly NO SERIOUSLY HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT YOU EVIL MAN.

I need to go read other people's reactions.

yaaaaaaaaay Doctor Who

2008-06-22T02:23:14Z

DEAR ROSE, ILU, PLZ BE AWESOME FOREVER.

I loved this episode. And when I come back from vacation, the next episode will be waiting for me! YAY.

P.S.

2008-06-18T18:32:52Z

I AM DONE.

lantea @ 2008-06-18T14:22:00

2008-06-18T18:29:54Z

Erm. So I just finished my test (3 hours early, haha). This is the weirdest feeling. I've clearly never studied for anything more in my entire life (and never, ever will again), and just like that it's done and I still feel all tense and jittery.

Oh, well. This still calls for a celebration so

I FINISHED STEP 1!!!!!!!

STEP 1: 0
MCAT: 1,000,000,000,000,000 BECAUSE I'M DONE SO HA!

At least, until I get my scores back.

sort of an asinine post

2008-05-30T03:46:37Z

Today I introduced myself to a cute boy. He has a girlfriend, of course, but it doesn't matter because now I can talk to him when I see him in Starbucks again, instead of pretending to study while I secretly think about how cute he is. This will obvy do wonders for my boards score. Oh well, I take victories where I can get them.