Ultimate Coffee Date: August 2016

Hi everyone! What’s been going in your life? Pull up a chair and come catch up with life with me for the Ultimate Coffee Date!

If we were having coffee/tea today, I’d tell you that…I finished my first rotation (General Surgery) in residency and am halfway through a second one (Practice Management)!

This is my intern class at our clinic scavenger hunt!

The rotation I’m on right now is fairly laidback and also outpatient, but I suspect that after next week, I may never have free time again. (No golden weekends til December, and then none again til late April.)

If my posting becomes pretty sporadic, you’ll know why. I actually spent some time between graduating from med school + starting residency writing up posts for exactly this reason, but was not as productive as I would’ve liked because I was busy living life. (It’s the thought that counts…?)

Stickers for our peds patients! :]

If we were having coffee/tea today, I’d tell you that…I went back to Sushi Saga (aka place where I ate 100 pieces of sashimi/sushi in one sitting), this time with my fellow intern class on tow! We had a good time, and although it was only week 2/day 7 of our orientation, our number of mutually free days had already dwindled down to…zero.

If we were having coffee/tea today, I’d tell you that…our graduation pictures finally came out!!!

If we were having coffee/tea today, I’d tell you that…I’m part of a [paid] Polynesian dance group!

What what?!

No one saw that coming–not even me. :O

I kinda mentioned it here, but after my trip to Hawai’i and that super short (30 seconds) dancing stint, I started really, really missing hula/Tahitian again, so I searched in the general region, contacted a teacher on a Thursday…and voluntarily roped myself into performing at a luau in a camping resort that Saturday. I got the videos for the 9 different dances the night before. (Remember how I said I was leaving my comfort zone earlier this year?! Not exactly what I had in mind…)

The audience was awesome–a lot of em’ came up afterward to specifically tell me I was an amazing dancer. I decided that what they didn’t know wouldn’t hurt them and just said lots of thank you’s. It was a lot of fun, and hooray for livin’ life on the edge?!

The plus side to all this humidity is that my hair actually stays wavy (kindasorta). When I was in California, I’d wash my hair and braid it, hairspray it, sleep in braids, hairspray again in the morning, and unravel said braids about 30 minutes before the performance and by mid-performance, it’d be all over.

Realistically speaking, I’m not sure how many performances I’ll actually be able to participate in this year because the group I dance with is actually closer to south Jersey (I’m in central) and because my schedule sucks, but I’m going to try to if I’m free! :]

I don’t have any pictures from my current group, but this one’s from back in 2009? :P

The group I’m in also does belly dancing, so I’m going to be learning and performing that as well! :P I gotta make my costume for that at some point, and I thinkkk it’s gonna be turquoise and silver! (Hooray for my favorite colors!)

See past coffee dates here!

(Link-up with Coco @ Got 2 Run 4 Me, Lynda @ Fitness Mom Wine Country, & Deborah @ Confessions of a Mother Runner!)

• How’s life been treating you? Are you drowning in work? If you have any free weekends, please enjoy them to the max so I can live vicariously through you!
• What’s the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done?
• Do you dance? What’s your favorite type of dance?