Ultimate Coffee Date: July 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!

Ninja’s been on a diet and lost a whole pound! :O!

If we were having coffee/tea today, I’d tell you that…I’ve officially started my residency in Family Medicine (our first day of orientation was yesterday!), which means that now, aside from the “grad school life” and “med school life” tags, there’s gonna be a new one…(residency life)!

Since it legit just started yesterday, I’ll have to talk more about it at next month’s coffee date, but in the meantime, it’s weird to not be a student anymore–I actually have a job again, but this one is actually enough for me to live on!

I may not have to bum in a sleeping bag anymore!

I spent last week very narrowly escaping the horrible floods in West Virginia. I arrived in Greenbrier County the day that they happened (I am so, so thankful that everyone I know is okay <3!), but thankfully still somehow managed to move all my things over to New Jersey. It’s definitely been a hectic couple of days, but I’m so glad to finally be done moving in! Here’s to not having to move again til after residency.

If we were having coffee/tea today, I’d tell you that…I’m starting something new on my blog for every other Tuesday–Travel Tuesdays!

Back in the day, I started Fairyburger as a way to document my adventures after I moved across the country for grad school. It was part journal and part recipe/kitchen-experiment-dumping ground for me up until I started my clinical years in medical school.

A photo posted by Farrah @ fairyburger (@fairyburger) on Jun 6, 2016 at 10:28am PDT

When I started my fourth year, I was worried that I’d be consumed by applications, audition rotations, interviews, and traveling, and wasn’t sure whether or not I was going to be able to keep blogging regularly.

Thankfully, it still got to happen. Residency is a whole ‘nother ballpark though and I don’t know how things are going to be, so we’re just gonna see what happens!

I’ve already shared Looking Glass Falls and the Moore Cove Trail with you, and I’ve scheduled a bunch of posts into the future, so things may be a-okay for at least the near future. I did a lot of traveling right before and right after graduation, so those will probably/hopefully manifest themselves at one point or another! I’d like to think that I’ll still have my pockets of spare time here and there! :]

I kinda want to move to Hawai’i…

If we were having coffee/tea today, I’d tell you that…I got featured twice on EvolvHer! :D! It’s an online resource for STEM + entrepreneurship for high school + college females!

• Part 1 (Advice on choosing schools + surviving medical school)
• Part 2 (Advice on study tips + preventing study guilt)

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

• Have the focus/main topics on your blog changed over the years?
• What’s on your travel bucket list?

See past coffee dates here!