Fasten your seatbelt....

I just applied to residency. 2:18 PM

Working so hard every night and day and now we get the pay back. Trying so hard, saving up the paper, now we get to lay back.

I have gotten so sick of complaining about my financial aid situation that I went and got myself a job. (Oh no! Not a JOB!) I'm working at Borders again, but this time in Toledo. This was, perhaps, not the best time to get a job. I'm still studying for Boards. I'm taking an anatomy class. I'm trying to get my residency application done, which includes my personal statement, typing in my CV stuff, and kissing some ass to get letters of recommendation. I know the application thing doesn't sound so bad, but we all approach it with a lot of anxiety. This is going to determine where I live for the next 5 years, and what kind of career I can have when I'm done. I'm starting to drive myself kind of crazy. To make matters worse, Borders decided that they want me to work five days per week. This means the only days off I get are Tuesday and Thursday. It's too much. I told them 20 hours, not 33.5, which is what I have for the next two weeks. I don't know why, but I feel bad about telling them that they're going to have to fix my schedule. I guess I wasn't clear, or something. They're also not going to like it that I'm going to Indiana University to do a rotation on September 26th. Maybe I'll get fired. That would suck ass.

I noticed some interesting things at Borders the other day. First, it was the romance novels. All of the writers have names like Carolee Chambers, and Leanne Walters. Do these names call up images of the tv show Dyanasty to anybody else but me? The themes are all the same. The tremulous, but secretly spirited, young woman, who is always a virgin, meets the dashing stranger, who is usually a pirate. There's a third act arc, and then they get married. My question is this, where are the woman pirates who pillage the thoroughly domesticated and subservient men? Where are my romance novels? Huh? I also noted that both the Gay and Lesbian and Erotica sections are in extremely close proximity to all of our Christian books and Bibles. I almost feel like crossing myself when I go put books away in erotica, which are always found in bizarre sections of the store, by the way.

Anatomy lab is every bit as terrible as I remember it. I like dissecting, and human anatomy is fascinating. However, the place is stinky as all get out. I'm back to walking around normal places outside of the lab, like the supermarket, and suddenly thinking something smells like the lab. It can't be me because I come home and shower after lab immediately every single day. I think it might be ectopic bleach pockets, or something.

Working out is going well. I actually look forward to it. I never thought I would. I think part of the trick is to have something on your list of things to do that you want to do even less than work out. In my case, that would be.... almost every other thing I do in a day. I have officially lost 1.4 pounds. This is probably related to when the last time I ate was, but hey, I'll take it. I want to get myself into some degree of shape before residency starts. Plus, my high school class reunion will be in June of this year, if they actually have one. Furthermore, as my sister always says, I should do this for myself. I know, Missy, you have been telling me to do it forever. You were right. The MP3 player and an issue of Glamour is all I need. (It is kind of a struggle to read while I'm bouncing on the elliptical machine, though!)

I will probably change this template after my test. I have been getting complaints on the size of the text, lately. :) I hope my quick fix is okay for a while. 9:15 PM