Ultimate Coffee Date: September 2015

Hi everyone! I’m linking up with Coco @ Got 2 Run 4 Me, Lynda @ Fitness Mom Wine Country, & Deborah @ Confessions of a Mother Runner for the monthly Ultimate Coffee Date! Pull up a chair/bean bag/whatever you like to sit on and come link and/or catch up with us! :]

If we were having coffee/tea this morning…I’d tell you that the fact that it’s September is slightly terrifying to me.

When we left off last, I had just taken one part of the second set of my boards licensing exam the day before, and was suffering from post-boards depression (aka where you feel like you failed miserably and will never get anywhere in life).

I’m super super happy to report that I have good news to share (if you follow me on instagram, you may already know this)!

My score wasn’t very close to what I’d hoped for…but what matters is that I passed, and I also improved from last year’s, so I’m counting my blessings! Now I can apply to programs in peace!

If we were having coffee/tea this morning…I’d tell you that I finally made a Facebook page!

My super-awesome cover photo. :O

It’d be super awesome if you’d give my page a like! :D I’ll mainly be sharing my blog posts, snippets of my life, giveaways, and some of my favorite bloggers’ awesome posts on it! :]

If we were having coffee/tea this morning…I’d tell you that before I embarked on my nomadic journey across the country (I’m currently back in West Virginia and in the middle of my Orthopedic Surgery rotation), I was kinda bummed about having to say goodbye to all the friends I’d made and to have to start off anew every couple weeks.

Packing up and moving to a different part of the country every 2 weeks can be exciting and fun, but it’s also exhausting, and can also get a little lonely. (My friend got very well-acquainted with Netflix on his rotation because there were no other students there, and he didn’t want to bother/intrude on the residents.)

At my last rotation, I befriended a couple of the other med students who were rotating there, and it made life there extra awesome–we’d go out for Taco Tuesdays, explore (e.g. hiking through Ricketts Glen!), work out, and give each other advice and pep talks as needed.

When I was working late at one of the games and couldn’t go get ice cream with them, they left me a surprise in the freezer! <3

I stayed the rest of the weekend to finish off my Sports Medicine rotation, and it was super sad having to say goodbye to them on Friday. :[ It’d be all sorts of awesome if we ended up in the same intern class together! :]

If we were having coffee/tea this morning…I’d tell you I “ran” for the first time in about 5 years. (It was more like powerwalking interspersed with bursts of jogging/running.)

My car needed an oil change, and I waited til the weekend so I wouldn’t have to miss any part of my rotation. My friends had moved on to their next rotations elsewhere in PA and I didn’t want to bother any of the residents, so…bright and early last Saturday morning, I took my car over and walk-jogged back to the hospital. I covered 3.12 miles in 35 minutes and did not die, so that was pretty impressive to me.

Then I covered another 3-ish miles to the stadium to catch the rest of the games… (I wasn’t signed up to work for them, but it was my sports med rotation!)

I missed my front-row seats rather dearly.

And it apparently took another 5.6 miles to get back to the car place.

I found Bruster’s about 0.25 miles away from the car place, so I treated myself to a coconut pineapple sorbet before trekking on. I like to think it was well-deserved!

I used to walk/bike everywhere, but since getting a car in med school and encountering the lack of sidewalks in WV, this happens a lot less now. This was good for me, even if I felt like melting! At least I definitely got my vitamin D in for the day!

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