Stripes and Plaids
I'm matched; Queen's Family Med!
whew.
MamaM and LittleE came with me up to the school, where some super kind american students (who don't have their match for aeons) put together a nice little ice cream feast for us canucks who found out today at noon. There were a few casualties in the lobby, but overall, only the contented came out for frozen treats. Happily, my entire little geek-gang all seem to have gotten our 1st or 2nd choices, and are pretty pleased. Which is good, because we plan to study for the boards tomorrow morning, and that could have been awkward.
I am especially glad that there was ice cream at noon as I am not joining the drunken celebrations this evening. I'm happy that i got to celebrate with everyone, and to bring LittleE to some of the festivities, which he enjoyed. Back in 2004, MamaM found out she was pregnant about 3 weeks after I was accepted into skool, so his growing up is in some ways a marker of how long my classmates and i have been at this silly business. My skool friends all remember me sitting through the 1st year embryology lecture on anomalies the day before MamaM's 18wk screening ultrasound, and also remember the announcement I sent out at his birth. Many of them still ask about "the baby" so it was kind of neat to have him there so they could see him all big and kid-like.
Overall, I think that my match is great. The program rocks, and I think it'll suit us well. I am of course sad to be leaving a lot of great people in a great city, and also sad not to be moving to that other less-great city with equally great people. . . But we seem to have struck the compromise of *not* living in a smelly congested city, while still being within visiting distance of the folks that we love in either place.
I have my fingers crossed that the transition will go quickly and smoothly, and that we will meet good people there too.
whew.
MamaM and LittleE came with me up to the school, where some super kind american students (who don't have their match for aeons) put together a nice little ice cream feast for us canucks who found out today at noon. There were a few casualties in the lobby, but overall, only the contented came out for frozen treats. Happily, my entire little geek-gang all seem to have gotten our 1st or 2nd choices, and are pretty pleased. Which is good, because we plan to study for the boards tomorrow morning, and that could have been awkward.
I am especially glad that there was ice cream at noon as I am not joining the drunken celebrations this evening. I'm happy that i got to celebrate with everyone, and to bring LittleE to some of the festivities, which he enjoyed. Back in 2004, MamaM found out she was pregnant about 3 weeks after I was accepted into skool, so his growing up is in some ways a marker of how long my classmates and i have been at this silly business. My skool friends all remember me sitting through the 1st year embryology lecture on anomalies the day before MamaM's 18wk screening ultrasound, and also remember the announcement I sent out at his birth. Many of them still ask about "the baby" so it was kind of neat to have him there so they could see him all big and kid-like.
Overall, I think that my match is great. The program rocks, and I think it'll suit us well. I am of course sad to be leaving a lot of great people in a great city, and also sad not to be moving to that other less-great city with equally great people. . . But we seem to have struck the compromise of *not* living in a smelly congested city, while still being within visiting distance of the folks that we love in either place.
I have my fingers crossed that the transition will go quickly and smoothly, and that we will meet good people there too.
Labels: medskool
posted by lothyn at 6.3.08
3 Comments:
Congrats on the matching.
congrats... hopefully that'll be close enough for me to visit assuming I don't up and move to the other end of the country to take advantage of the incentives being offered to lure young professionals to the Tar Sands. I'll let you know when I find out what I'm doing with my life :D
Thanks Paul! Your opinion matters a lot to me, even though I have a shitty way of showing that by never writing.
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