wyn157: November 2005

we've decided to follow in E's footsteps and have a small bridal party. small, meaning 2 on each side. for him, picking the best man is easy b/c he and his brother are tight. i, on the other hand, am really wishing i had a sister right about now, just for simplicity.

i know which 2 dear friends i'm going to ask to stand at the wedding, and neither should be surprised, b/c even before the engagement i'd gotten the feeling that they were counting on it. now, is being maid of honor better than being a bridesmaid? in my eyes, the only difference between the two is the order in which they walk down the aisle. but i know some ppl view it differently, like someone once said that it's not 'bridesmaid of honor.' i'm still not sure if she was kidding or not.

since both friends live out of town their titles would be mostly for show anyway (no real responsibilities) so picking the maid of honor isn't a matter of practicality. unless i go w/ the one i see more often. i just don't know how to choose!

this year gopooh and i are hitting both families to celebrate the holiday. first up is mine, where my mom's making dinner except for the stuffing, which my brother wanted to make. and then we're going to T's family, and he is actually cooking everything. so if you never hear from me again, most likely it's b/c i've exploded after eating 2 dinners. :p

happy thanksgiving!

i love my fellow interns. gosh i can't even tell you how much i love them. as a group we just click. we text page each other sarcastic comments, we joke around, we purposely seek each other out in the hospitals, and we get together every month. residents in the other classes tell us they're jealous of our bond. it's great. :)

like on friday i had 3 hours off in the afternoon before our monthly intern dinner, so i went to the call suite and hung out w/ E. when she had to go down to the ER for an admission i even went w/ her. we kept making faces at each other when no one (especially the crotchety old patient) was looking, b/c we're just silly like that.

when my other friends ask how my training is going, i always have to throw in smthg a/b how i love my class. :)

anyway, last night was the 2nd dinner between my family and gopooh's. it went just like the first one, except that my brother was there, and the parents talked much more about the wedding. so it looks like this is really going to happen. the wedding i mean. we're gonna force our families together whether they like it or not. :p

one of my attendings said today that when she filled out my inpatient evaluation, when she saw my name the first thing that jumped into her head was, "she is such a cutie pie. just look at her. she couldn't hurt a fly." and then the COAs nearby all turned to look at me and voiced agreement. i turned pretty red.

last year i had several patients (mostly men) go, "how old are you?" in disbelief that i was going to be a doctor. i don't know if i've aged 5 years in the past year or if it's just the change in title, but this year, there have been no questions on my age. instead, i just get the sickos.

like on inpatient medicine, i had one guy who always told me that he liked me the best and that he liked when i examined him. (can we all say ewww together now?) i'd ask him, "now that we've talked, will you let the nurse give you your medication?" and he'd say "only if you come back and see me tomorrow" in a sickening voice. he'd be rude to the med student, but after i asked him to be nice to her, she said he was magically cooperative and also asked where i was. on and on.

and then there was the guy who... ok never mind. this has veered off topic. i meant to write a/b how i thought i'd outgrown the cutie pie thing, but instead i ended up writing a/b inappropriate patients. ahh well.

a bunch of us went to a karaoke bar to support L in a contest friday. while we were there gopooh and C did 2pac and dr. dre's "california love." gopooh was dre, C was 2pac, and the rest of us cheered. after that this guy decided he was their new best friend, and he kept coming up and asking them to rap w/ him. i was like, wasn't he the guy who did the justin timberlake song?!! hehe yeah i know, i'm mean. but the good news is, L qualified for the semi-finals. :)

i watched tim burton's corpse bride on sunday. i'm assuming that ppl who'd planned on seeing it have already seen it by now, since it's nearing the end of its theater stretch, and i'm not really revealing anything here... so i just wanted to say... it was hard not to notice how they juxtaposed the dreary gray of the living and the bright colors of the underworld. interesting.

i overheard this conversation between 2 PGY2s today.

J: is shirley married?
K: shirley? no.
J: ooh!
K: she's engaged.
J: i was thinking of setting her up w/ someone.
K: what???
J: i was thinking of setting her up w/ someone. i think she'd be his type.
K: oh, probably not a good idea.
J: you don't think so huh.
K: ummm, no.
J: [long pause] wellll she's not married yet.
K: ohhh listen to youuu... but no, her fiancé is a really good guy.
J: he is? oh that's too bad. i didn't know.

i can't believe those jerks were talking about me! heh j/k. it's not like they were saying anything bad, and plus, K's great. he and i have known each other since we were 5. but i realized that i'm in my 5th month of the training year and i don't personally know some of the other residents, mainly the ones at the other clinic who aren't my year or ppl i've worked/hung out w/... like J. :p