Boston and Life...

A friend of mine and I made an impromptu break for Boston on Friday night. I really (no, really) needed to get out of dodge and have some drinks and be around some gay men. Well, gay men with taste. Sometimes it is just so suffocating living here. I can't believe after 5 years of hating the scene in Dublin I moved to somewhere with even less of a scene. Well, not that there is even less of a scene here, in fact there is no scene. (I have to remind myself I came here because I'm in a great residency program). We had a lovely (albeit expensive) dinner, and then plucked ourselves down in a lounge and enjoyed a night of catching up and enjoying some strong Jack and Cokes. (Jason would be proud)! I think I got home about 4am. I think of it as a night of being on call. Being awake fore 22 hours is really no big deal anymore. We made a pact to make it a point to go to Boston (or NYC) monthly. Life is too short to not take advantage of getting out of Dodge more often...

The rest of the weekend was mellow. I spent a few hours working on my application for South Africa. I loathe paperwork. Sadly, work email has been down all weekend, and one of the documents I need to fill out is trapped in my work email. Fingers crossed, I think it will probably take about 2 months for all the paperwork to be completed. Once I get registered with the Licensing Board and the Foreign Workforce Management Program, it should be mostly smooth sailing from there. And then it will feel real.

As for dates, I should be flying to Johannesburg at the end of June (2008), and will return to complete my final year of residency in June 2009, and will finally be finished with formal medical training on June 30th, 2010.

Wow, I just had to sit for a few minutes and look at that date. June 30th, 2010. Wow. It still seems so far away. Ironically, one of the nurses asked me on Wednesday if I was already an attending. I laughed out loud. "No, it just feels like I have been here forever."

Anyway...

I am really looking forward to seeing the family next weekend. We're meeting in Illinois for the grandparents 90th and 85th birthday celebration. I'm really looking forward to seeing my niece and nephews!

Alright, time to go for a bit of a run. I'm trying to run outdoors once a week...

Cheers,
B