Bike it to the MAX in June Ghoulies!!! (Page 78)

G'night Melindy.  It's late and I am driving carpool to the Y for masters swim in the morning.  Wheels rolling at 5am.  Ugghh. If it weren't for peer pressure I'd probably never swim.

Well, don't sweat that one. Most All of the MD/PhD's I know are total pains in the A$$.  A really good clinician is worth their weight in gold.  Follow your strengths and your heart.

Ok, if you really wind up doing NOTHING for the weekend, PM me where to send the DVDs.  I have every season of Sex and the City. 

I am having difficulty making myself get to the pool these days too...haha...

I remember my 415am mornings...Just not fun...haha...

Ya, my supervisor in Edmonton is an MD/PhD. He truly is an amazing physician and researcher, but I think he spreads himself too thin. Its a lot to have to balance and I don't really think it is possible for everyone. And I don't want to just work and be in school forever. And if you do that, you are stuck in work and school forever...I think I'm more likely to be a Fellow, if I feel it is necessary to continue education...but by 3rd yr residency, I might just want to end it. Haha.

I had a clinical preceptor this year who said "you just can't do it all, something, somewhere down the line needs to give" and that "ultimately it doesn't matter what you do, in 10 yrs it will be a job and you need to have a life outside of that". In fact, she sat me down at one point and told me to make sure I got out and did stuff with my classmates more because she was worried that all I did was study and train...which okay...might be true. And my lack of social options this weekend might be supported by that assertation...My daily regime seems to follow train--lab--train--sleep.

And now I'm having a pity party! Yaaaaa!!! Lalalala.

My friend is trying to convince me to go home. Flights are stupid expensive though because of Canada Day/July 4.

Sigh...

In my effort to get out of pity party mode, I have come up with a few possibilities:

1) Go to the beach and read some wholeheartedly trashy novel(s) in the attempt to get rid of my ridiculous tan lines
2) Go rent "True Bloods", which I have heard is a ridiculously, trashy, yet awesome series about horny vampires
3) Go to watch the new twilight movie by myself admist the ridiculous hoard of 13yr old girls, because I don't know any 13yr old girls in Victoria, but it is one of my guilty pleasures (yes, I know )
4) Go rent Scrubs
5) Go shopping...because we all know I need to spend more money...but maybe I just need to go shopping for fun stuff...like fun stuff that isn't tri stuff...hmm...haha...

hmmm...I wonder what else I can think of...

Note to self: I can not tolerate social isolation for extended periods of time..

(look at all the interesting things I am learning about myself this summer)

Except that Amy had to leave to go for an OWS. Yay!
 

But now that I'm back, and have completed my mom-type duties for the night, I will do my best to help put another page to bed ASAP.  

Just doin' my part!

What was that you said, Ann? You missed me? Awwwww. Shucks. I missed you too.

Hi my brotha's and sista's!

(is that better?) 

Okay, so I am caught up on today's postings.

And now I am super tired. 

I felt fine when i sat down and logged on to the computer. Hmmm.
 

I'm wired. I could give you some energy...

Kim if the new race sounds fun, just go and have fun--do it to complete it--it's an experience, right?

Hi!  Sorry your project isn't going as well as you had hoped. 

Did you figure out what you want to do this weekend yet? 

Well, hello there, new page!

New page toppage!!!

So one quick question before I head to bed...
Melindy--what does PAM stand for? I know it was in some pages I missed in the last few weeks--but finding it would be like finding a needle in a haystack!

 

And who is in charge of doing the cliff notes? I've been a busy girl--can a Gouhlie help a sista out? 

Physically active machine=PAM

One of my friends asked me for a side profile picture to use as an example for lifestyle presentations in high schools in Edmonton. He said it was because I was a physically active machine...haha

ohhhh... I DO remember you mentioning him asking for a side profile picture. Thanks for clearing that up for me! 

Nope. Another friend is trying to convince me to do something spontaneous by myself...haha...ya, right.

And now I can sleep soundly knowing why everyone kept calling Melindy PAMelindy.

Night Gouhlies!  

I'm the same way. I rarely do anything by myself, really.  Maybe that's hwy my hubby thinks all I do is socialize all the time, LOL. I am socialising...just in a hard-working kinda way.

Ya...its kinda lame. Haha. But funny at the same time.