Ohhhhh Yeah

This weekend has been awesome. Nothing like working 15-hour days all week to make you really enjoy your days off. I did have to work yesterday and today, but only in the mornings. Today I went in to work and my PGY2 (that's second-year resident for you non-med types) was awesome as usual. Made me work, taught me a lot, and then let me go as soon as my learning was done. All in all, about three hours of work. I came home, got "lunch" (at 9:45am) and watched some of Legally Blonde.

Which just reminds me, I'm very emotionally brittle right now. I can't really show much emotion besides hammerhead nose-to-the-grindstone upbeat enthusiasm all the time at work, and if I'm not doing that I'm sleeping. So the flipside of that comes in situations like today: I was watching the end of Legally Blonde and they were all throwing their graduation caps up into the air and I just burst into tears for about ten seconds. And then stopped. Like a summer squall that just blows in and out. I don't know why I felt so suddenly moved; maybe I was just imagining how incredibly happy and proud I'll be when I finally graduate from med school. For sure, I've never worked harder for longer in my life. Whew. But anyway, tears just come briefly and unexpectedly every now and again.

Anyway, I got some awesome time with my family today. The best part was being on the carpet in the living room, with a fire in the fireplace as it snowed outside, with my 3 1/2 year old nephew jumping on me and letting me grab him and tickle him, all the while with my 1-year-old nephew clinging to my legs and grinning at me. They're both so, so sweet and adorable. It makes me sort of hope that I don't match outside of Philly for residency...