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Sunday, April 30, 2006


there's that age old endless debate of whether one doctor should marry another, but i'd never really thought it made a difference to me one way or another. but this past month, my resident said that in her med school class of 100, 4 other couples got married the same year they did. that's probably a natural result of having spent so much time there. after all, they say that the easiest time to meet ppl is while you're in school. i have no idea who 'they' would be, but i figure that they'd have to be pretty accurate, given that 99% of my attached friends met their significant others in school... or at least during their schooling years.

where was i again?... oh, right. my resident couldn't imagine herself married to someone who wasn't a doctor himself. her logic was that if she were a housewife, or even someone who worked a 'normal' 9-5 job, she'd always be wondering where her husband was... whereas when she's home alone now she understands what he's dealing w/ at the hospital.

well, tonight i got it. gopooh and i both had to work this morning and then we met up in ann arbor to do some shopping. on our way home in 2 separate cars, he got paged and had to go back to the hospital to take care of someone who was crashing (he's on call tonight), so i continued home myself. i tried delaying dinner as long as possible, but after he called at 6:30 and said he was still going to be there for a bit, i just started making dinner myself. it was only after i'd just finished eating that he called to say he'd be back around 9pm. now, i didn't think anything of it and just started cleaning up. but i can imagine how, if i knew nthg about medicine and crashing patients and all that, i could sit and wonder what the heck he could be doing for 3-4 hours.

ultimately, neither of our lifestyles are going to be like that; this is just during training. but still, the concept is the same.

it's kinda funny, the way ppl perceive things. even though I'd never purposely sought out to settle down w/ a doctor, most ppl who don't know the man behind the woman just assume that he's a doctor too. even my dentist, who apparently knew gopooh from high school, was like, "and T. is he a doctor too?" i still haven't figured out why that's the natural assumption. :p






Saturday, April 29, 2006


i used gmail chat for the first time the other day. accidentally. i was catching up on (a ton of)emails, when i noticed that the contacts list on the side of the page was changing. then an icon changed to be green, and i was like, what's going on here? on mouseover it gave me the option to send a message, and i wasn't sure if it was a chatting thing or if it was going to send an email, but i decided to try it. when i sent my message i realized that this was the gmail chat advertised on the login page, since my message stayed on the screen staring back at me.

at first i wasn't even sure that it worked, b/c i wasn't getting anything back, but then... a reply! hahaha. it was neat. it's actually really similar to AIM but w/out all the bells and whistles, and in a way that's good. i mean, AIM is kinda inconvenient b/c it has to be opened separately, and plus it's gotten annoying, w/ the little video at the top. just stuff like that. gmail chat is simpler, but it does what it was intended to do. i've been itching to try it again. :)






Monday, April 24, 2006


i'm sooo frustrated w/ our process of getting cable tv right now. is it really THAT hard to install cable? millions of ppl worldwide subscribe to some sort of cable. and yet, our cable just won't work right.

friday afternoon the cable guy was over for 3 hours. 3 freaking hours. during that time, he fiddled w/ a DVR-HDTV box that didn't respond properly, and he wasn't prepared w/ other boxes and wasted time first having someone bring him another, and then going back to his main office himself to pick up a third. 3 different boxes... none worked! he also had his 'buddy' show up to 'help' send cable signals from inside to outside, and they wasted time (in my eyes) sitting in my bedroom watching some ridiculous cartoon on hbo w/ the volume cranked up.

in the end, what was accomplished? well, we have a DVR-HDTV box that doesn't work. we're able to watch cable and can even watch the premium channels like hbo, showtime and cinemax (which we didn't order). however, we have no clue what's on next and we can't see descriptions of anything. we also can't record tv shows when we're not home, which is the only reason we got the stupid box in the first place.

then today, i came home to find a note indicating that a lines guy was here and found no problem externally, and that a service technician would be by to replace the box. i nearly flipped. replace the box? you mean fiddling w/ 3 different boxes for 3 hours isn't enough? and plus, there was no indication of a date/time. do they think that we just sit at home all day long waiting for them to show up as they please?!

so i called the company, and the lady was very nice, but after sending another signal to our nonresponding box, she said that the the only thing she could do was to send another guy over wednesday afternoon (when i'd be home), and that i could hope for a different guy who'd be able to figure out the problem. WHAT?! i can't believe the incompetence going on here. if everyone wasted time like this, we'd all be going nowhere, fast. *sigh*






Saturday, April 15, 2006


i used to think this one guy was cool. we were never best buds, but we got along, and i liked talking to him. we joked around constantly and emailed back and forth. but my friend (who'd never met him before) had an 'incident' w/ him, and not a small one. honestly i can see where he was coming from, but i think he was really wrong in the way he came across. even now, things aren't as bad as they were, but they aren't ok by any stretch of the imagination.

normally i judge ppl only by my own interactions w/ them, but in this case i feel like it's different. i read the email he sent her, and she told me some of the snide comments he made around her, and they were inappropriate (i think). and on top of that, someone passed along a message from my friend. a message that she thought was benign. and he s'posedly yelled at her. i didn't actually see it happen, but i just think, what if *i'd* been the one passing along that message that day? would he have yelled at me too? my guess is no, based on some of the other experiences i've had w/ him in the past, but of course i'll never really know.

in any case, i feel stuck. based on my own experiences, i'd still like to continue to get to know him better. but knowing what happened, it's hard not to remember how rude he was, even though what happened has nthg to do w/ me. so b/c i feel stuck, i've sorta avoided him the last couple times we would've normally talked up a storm. C said that b/c i still like him i should just bring it up gently and see how he reacts. i hate doing stuff like that, but it's gotta beat this whole avoidance thing?






Sunday, April 02, 2006


ok so obviously i've been bad at updating. lately i've had no motivation. i've been freaking lazy. and sleepy. really sleepy. friday night i ate w/ friends at 9pm and could barely keep my eyes open. i took a 3 hour nap yesterday afternoon and a 1.5 hour one earlier today. i had to work both mornings, but that's really no excuse, b/c i'm usually a "no nap -- grab a coke" type of gal. and the worst thing is, naps make it hard for me to fall asleep the next night, leading to once again another sleepy day. it's a vicious cycle.

i need to snap out of it b/c i have a lot of things coming up. S's bridal shower, bachelorette party, wedding rehearsal, and wedding. the closing on the condo. moving. more furniture shopping. and of course work. we're shorthanded in the CCU this month so we take more calls. blah! i'm meeting my bro when he's in town for work, and i'm going to see jerry seinfeld in 3 weeks, but both will be post-call. heck, even our closing will be post-call! i don't feel like i have the energy.

another thing is that gopooh and i are hemorrhaging money. we just spent $2K (a little less, b/c of gift cards) on a washer and dryer, and they were out of the box! that was hard for me b/c in general i don't like used things. i wouldn't even buy a used wedding dress for one day of my life even though it would've saved a lot of money. and yet, i okayed a once-used washer and dryer. even then, they were $2K, b/c we needed one big enough for a king size comforter, and gopooh wanted front loaders. our savings are going to be sooo low once we finish doing everything for the condo and wedding. the world is getting expensive.

the thing is, everything that's going on is great. it's exciting! thinking about it all brightens my day. it's just that i realize how swamped i am. i'm exhausted. it's hard for me to get out of bed when the alarm goes off at 5:30am. i think i need more than 5 hours of sleep now. maybe b/c i'm getting older, or maybe b/c there's too much stuff going on. in any case, i'm off to bed. hope your lives are calmer than mine!