Spring!

I'm really happy it's starting to get a bit warmer and the days are longer. Have been really good about getting to the gym and doing some weights / running, even though I'm half-commuting to Westchester for my ER rotation (which is fantastic). The teaching is great, procedures are great...too bad we can't have an environment like this at my home hospital. I'd love working at a place like that. In the last two weeks I've gotten to do a very clean lumbar puncture (brilliant, took me all of 5 minutes, they never go like that for me!), a shoulder reduction with arthrocentesis, seen two chest tube placements. That's pretty awesome. 

Have continued my theater splurge and since seen 33 Variations (with Jane Fonda), which is absolutely brilliant. So ingenious, it amazes me how Kaufman can have the clarity to think like that, make connections between a speculation on why Beethoven wrote his 33 Variations and the modern-day life of his musicologist, and life in general. I might have to see it again, or get the script for it. I love really intelligent plays like that. I've also seen the new musical "Next to Normal," which is creative but I can't really understand why everyone is raving about it. I don't really like the music in these new musicals. Bar one, "Invisible Girl and Super boy," I don't really like the music although some of the lyrics are kind of funny. Same as in Wicked, I don't really like the music except "Defying Gravity." Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but bring back the Gershwin / Hammerstein music. At least Sondheim's music makes sense, he's probably the only contemporary composer who makes good musical music. 

This Wednesday I'm going on my first eharmony match date. Still a little wary of meeting someone off a dating website, but seeing as how it's nearly impossible to meet anyone when you're working, and that people don't approach each other in gyms and whatnot like they do in movies (never mind the fact that I still tower over all the boys in the gym) that's the only way to go. So dinner and then seeing Waiting for Godot with Nathan Lane...that alone should guarantee a good night! 

I'm glad I'm in WMC ER right now with such a good experience so far. It reaffirms my part-desire to be a doctor and help people, and when I'm at work I enjoy it. I still know that being a doctor isn't the only thing that I want to have happen in my life and I'm still going to explore other options, but now I'm not as depressed as I was a couple weeks ago and it's a good job to be a "baseline" job. I still need to work a lot and study, but still having time for a theatre habit so that's not too bad! And I'm starting to work at creative endeavors with writing ideas and buying a guitar off amazon ;). We'll see if it can get me more content!