Ultimate Coffee Date: October 2018

Welcome to another Ultimate Coffee Date! I say this pretty much every month, but it’s crazy how quickly time is going by! How are we already into the last couple months of 2018?!

I unfortunately don’t have any new recipes to share with you this week for Foodie Friday, but this week’s theme is Apples, so be sure to check out Annmarie + Esther’s blogs! I’ll be linking a billion of my previous apple recipes in the linkup. <3

Ultimate Coffee Date: October 2018

Cats crossing!

If we were having coffee/tea today, I’d…tell you that trying to schedule interviews during residency really isn’t fun. I I applied all over the country like I did for residency, and we’re given 3 half-days (yes, you read that correctly) to go on interviews. I’ve mainly been using up my personal/vacation days to go on them. Thankfully, my residency coordinator is the shiz and my co-residents are awesome, so that’s been making it possible too.

Somewhere amidst the air travel, flight delays, sleeping over at the airport due to said flight delay, and freezing in the call room, I managed to pick up a lovely cold right before my second interview, and am still dealing with a super-fun cough that I hope isn’t scaring all my patients away. (I hope it doesn’t last as long as the last one…)

If we were having coffee/tea today, I’d…tell you that I haven’t lived at home in pretty much over a decade (save for one year in 2011-2012). I’m usually too busy to be doing much else other than trying to survive (grad school, med school, residency…), so it’s always so, so nice to get to reconnect and spend time with the super awesome people in my life.

It’s kinda become a tradition to pack as many activities as humanly possible into each visit, and I suspect this is likely to continue until I eventually go home someday (I keep prolonging it and I think my parents are getting worried that I’ll just stay out here for good…).

Sometimes things happen when you absolutely least expect it, but I like to think everything happens for a reason. <3 I’ve gotten weirdly superstitious as each year of residency creeps by (e.g. avoid the “q” word at all costs), so I’m gonna stop there because I’m vaguely paranoid about jinxing things.

If we were having coffee/tea today, I’d…tell you that as residents, although we no longer really get “graded,” we do still get evaluated on a very regular basis. One of the junior residents wrote this about me! :O (Thanks!)

I bumped into one of my favorite patients a couple weeks ago and she told me she was moving away! :[ (She’s the one I violated all the duty hours ever for to be there for her delivery, and you know how I feel about deliveries/childbirth…) We caught up on life and hugged each other and eventually both of us had to go in order to avoid the waterworks from starting. I’m going to miss her, but I know she’ll do awesome things, and I’m so glad I got to take care of her while she was here! <3

See past ultimate coffee dates here!

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

End-of-Week-ish Recap!

• Ever tried acupressure and/or using essential oils? Check out my review of The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Acupressure with Aromatherapy!
• Come on another Travel Tuesday with me and explore one of my favorite state parks–Buttermilk Falls State Park!

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• What’s been going on in your life? I was at the local co-op a couple days ago and one of the shoppers there greeted me and said, “If you don’t mind my saying so, you’re a beautiful woman,” and went on his way. With all that’s been going on lately in the media, it’s nice to know people can still be kind to each other without overstepping boundaries and the like. I thanked him and wished him a good afternoon.
• Are you Team Apple or Team Pumpkin?
• East coast or West coast?