i love my team

my team rocks. my chief, this chill ecuadorian guy is funny as hell, uses fuck like every other word, is 28 and married the girl he's been dating since he was 18, and just a good guy. the intern from jamaica is sassy, smart, loves to eat good food and listens to reggae. we are all fascinated by each other. we're all from different places and have totally different upbringings. the intern from jamaica is 23 siblings- yup! she's one of 4 on her mom's side and one of 19 or something on her dad's side. she goes to dance class and gave me the name of the place she goes in manhattan, called the alvin ailey dance school. i definitely gotta make it to one of the classes- there's one called 'absolute beginning hip hop' and another 'snap pop and lock' class. hell yeah! this morning we all caught the shuttle at 6 am as usual, and this time it was only us three in the shuttle- usually there's a couple other randoms, including a very sour anesthesia dude and a couple bubbly 3rd yr med students. our driver, julian, who i talked to today for the first time is from columbia and has the cutest baby face. he took us to a columbian bakery right by the hospital on the way and i ate a bunuelo (similar to ones on guam!). mmmm!! so fricken good. i'm eating my way through new york city i think.


the day in the OR kinda sucked to be honest. i rounded with one asshole, pompous attending who said he doesn't think 'indigent people in America should be fed or get health care'- WTF?!?!?! i almost puked in my mouth and then almost punched him but kept it to myself. this was as he squeezed the hell our of an abcess on the gastrocnemius of a 10 yr old boy without warning him or making him feel comfortable. i know what kind of surgeon i don't want to be!

the next couple cases were lap choles. i like them because i want to be good at the, and the best way to learn right now is to see as many as possible. except this attending was rushing the resident, impatient, saying 'you're killing me!' over and over, and wouldn't let me do ANYTHING. only yell at me no matter how i held the camera and then pimp me- but in a way that was mocking me, like asking trick questions and stuff. fuck that. i'm over being a med student. he wouldn't even let me close skin. i know i sound like i'm ranting and raving and possibly entitled to do whatever i want, but at the same time, he has no reason to be an asshole. i basically felt like a monkey in a clown show or something. i skpped the third case- an inguinal hernia and opted to read for the afternoon. i'm trying to read sabiston.

i also got another interview!! yippee! at kaiser permanente LA. sweeet....also scheduled an interview at Brown University in Rhode Island for Monday, and made travel plans.


got home, made plans for dinner with a high school buddy for dinner tomorrow night. did laundry. went to a 'pre-season sports conditioning' class. this class was an hour long of PE class. remember PE, and having to run a certain amount of laps, having to get in line and do drills and getting in small groups to do stuff? it also reminded me of volleyball practice. it made me feel competitive again, which i liked! i miss team sports. it brought back high school memories of PE teachers such as Mr. Capule and Mr. Linkenhelt. I was pretty athletic in high school and pretty competitive, but never really the best at what i did. I think i was lucky and persistent, and that's why i was able to play volleyball as much as i did. much like medicine- i've been lucky and persistent. plus i loved volleyball so much, also much like medicine. i will work my ass off as long as i love it and if i set a goal, but i'm not a 'natural' at anything, you know?

anyway, haven't gottten to explore too much these past few days...still some thing son my list:

MoMA
the Village
Urban Outfitters/Macy's
take a Dance class
go to a Broadway show
find good underground hip hop music
walk around Central Park
Eat good Korean Food
Chinatown
Try different New York bagels
if possible, see a sporting event
Find the grafitti wall on 106th street in Harlem/ Harlem during the day
See the statue of liberty from battery park
see the rockfeller tree lighting
go out dancing on a friday or saturday night
maybe buy boots!
the sex and the city your
people watch in the bronx


my time is running out!! especially since i'll be heading to providence for the day and night on sunday afternoon. it's almost work to do everything on ths list. i can't complain though.


...okay today i missed hawaii. a lot. the weather got fucking cold. i love the islands. a lot. so i listened to reggae music on my ipod today;)

i know it'll pass. and realize i'm really really lucky to be where i am right now! the opportunity to spend a few weeks in nyc and to see different cities in the U.S...pretty dope.