Ultimate Coffee Date: July 2018

Welcome to another Ultimate Coffee Date! How is half the year already over!?

Ultimate Coffee Date: July 2018

If we were having tea today, I’d…tell you that I’m officially a PGY3 (3rd year)…in other words, it’s my last year of residency! (What what?!) Time has seriously been flying by quickly–there’s still so much I want/need to do! I’m currently knee-deep in my applications for fellowships and attempting to finish my personal statement for hopefully the last time (sigh).

If we were having tea today, I’d…tell you that I already miss our graduated 3rd years. Tradition has it that we hold an annual “informal graduation” at our office–I collected random (funny and/or ridiculous) quotes from people throughout the year and put together a slideshow “Quote Jeopardy” + also managed to coerce our former-former 3rd-years to put together some words of wisdom (or residency roasts) in the form of videos. :] There were lots of laughs and it was a fun trip down memory lane. :P

Despite having to work nights, I even got to make it to graduation for 2 hours before heading back to the hospital to work! My advisor texted me the night before to ask if I was going and I found out why when I got there–I apparently won an award! :O

R’member when I won that one scholarship in medical school for being a nice person? This is vaguely similar in the sense that it’s given to a resident for their service to others, being a good role model, and “providing patients and their families with compassionate, comprehensive and caring medical service on a continuing basis.” I was super, super flattered. <3!

If we were having tea today, I’d…tell you that I finally found out who prank called me last year!! In my residency, I’m generally known as one of two things–cat lady vs. resident who gets the weirdest answering service calls. Late last year, I was working on nights and my pager went off twice in succession. When I called back, I got…Pizza Hut…and Taco Bell. (Our pager is supposed to be used by employees of the hospital to reach us if they need to (e.g. the Emergency Department to tell us about a potential admission or a nurse to alert us about something a patient needs). Apparently one of my graduated friends (former-former 3rd year) sometimes pranks us when he’s bored. >_>

I finished off my second year of residency by visiting one of my closest friends over in Brooklyn! Our hangouts usually consist of fooding, some form of physical activity (walking, working out, kayaking, canoeing, etc.) and napping, and this past weekend was no different! They say that once you hit the 10-year mark with a friend, you’re pretty much stuck with each other for life. Only 3 more years to go! :P

Trish asked me to form a third entity in the backseat and I didn’t want to disappoint. We named her Emma. (We did not end up needing to use her for carpool purposes.)

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See past ultimate coffee dates here!

(Link-up with Coco @ Got 2 Run 4 Me & Deborah @ Confessions of a Mother Runner!)

• How do you feel about carpool lanes? Do you ever qualify for them? :'(
• What’s your drink of choice? I still don’t actually drink coffee so I’m all about different varieties of iced tea lately!