I am so close to being done with surgery! I've been so exhausted these last few weeks, and I'm sure I've been complaining way too much to anyone in my vicinity, but I'm almost there. I have to go in to medicate and walk my patient tonight and then go to rounds tomorrow morning to pass him off to the next student on the next rotation and then I'm free....just in time to start my next rotation, diagnostic services.

The good news is, diagnostic services requires no patient care or paper work, which are the biggest time sinks in the medicine and surgery rotations. I hear we have homework and stuff, but we don't start until 8:30am, we get a lunch break and we finish at a decent hour. I'm really looking forward to having time on the weekends to get my apartment in order, work on stuff that needs done and repay my friends for being so understanding this last block.

Despite the demand of surgery, I've been making decent headway on my fall to-do list. I've been churning through NAVLE stuff and have even manged to get some work done on my match application, which opens in a little over a month's time! I still haven't really touched my clinical conference thing but I'm contemplating changing topics from a case study to something completely different that I'm more interested in. I'd love to do an exotics topic but haven't had the chance to see any exotics just yet, so it's a bit tricky. We'll see, but I do need to decide soon, eek.