November

er, Hi. Fancy meeting you here. Don’t mind the dust and cobwebs – they should be out of here soon.
I have tried numerous times to get this post going, but all attempts read like a child’s excuse for not having the homework done (my dog ate it) or I try to catch you up to where I am now and ramble on for paragraphs that can be summed up in 9 words – halfway through my second year of residency and tired.The exhaustion is chronic, and won’t likely let up anytime soon. The almost half way through part? music to my ears.

I am hoping to post daily this month – not with the goal of posting daily beyond that, but to try and put some of my experiences from the last 15 months down somewhere. NaNoBloMo is a challenge that is perfectly timed for me because it’ll give me a chance to do just that.
Not a whole lot about me has changed in the last few months, but I thought I’d recap so I can bring everyone up to speed…

- I bought the house I grew up in from my parents. It’s a great house, with mostly great neighbors.

- Izabelle and Beazlie are still my cats/housemates

- I’m very much an introvert – I *thrive* on time to myself and become quite cranky without it.

- If it were up to me, there’d be naptime daily from 2-4pm. Followed by snacktime.

- I love to knit but haven’t finished a project in a very, very, very long time.

- My favorite color is deep plum.

- There are days when I wonder what I’ve done with my life, and I often wonder why I thought going into medicine was a good idea.

- I’m not sure I’d have gotten this far without my cats and their twisted sense of humor.

- I know I wouldn’t have gotten this far without my mom and her ability to help me keep things in perspective.

Here’s to this next month, and the stories it will bring. (all names/ages are not real and one person may be based on numerous patients I see or have seen.)