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I suck, you suck, everything sucks - 2005-03-17
Hurray! - 2005-02-22
Good year coming - 2005-02-10
Fat - 2005-01-27
Bleh - 2005-01-11
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Velcrometer
2003-05-14
I've been on this endless cycle of going to bed really late, waking up early for school, being groggy during lectures, crashing in bed for a long afternoon nap at home, then not being able to sleep again at night. This is starting to kill me. I can't pay attention to anything. Lucky I only have a week and a half of school left.
My Timmins placement is starting to piss me off. First of all, the reception desk takes 1.5 hours for lunch. I thought this was an underserviced area. If so, then why the heck would they take such a long lunch hour? Aren't there tons of patients waiting? I hope that during this time, they're actually doing some lunchtime clinic elsewhere.
Secondly, I have tried to call them a billion times (no exaggeration) and I keep getting the busy signal. Or else I get the answer machine telling me that they don't take messages. Can they not at least subscribe to call waiting? How are patients getting through to make appointments? Maybe this is why the hospital emergency rooms are so overloaded.
Anyway, a happier topic is that I am in the midst of planning my trip to Europe in July. Hurray! I got my Lonely Planets book and...well, that's about all I have so far. No plane ticket, no Eurail pass, not even an ISIC card. Sad eh? But it will happen. I have done a little bit of reading so far and know that I want to go to Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Bruges, and Berlin. And cycling through Flanders Fields sounds like fun. But last time I went biking in Cuba, I nearly fell off so maybe it's not such a good idea. Whoever said that once you learn to ride a bike, you never forget? So not true. I am proof.
But first, I have to get through two more exams and a "narrative evaluation", which is really an exam except that they are trying to downplay it. I have forgotten all of my clinical skills since not having any practice for four months now, yet they still expect me to perform everything next Friday for this non-exam though someone is still going to watch me and either pass or fail me. Lovely.
12 more days...just 12 more days...