cleansed
ahhhh it feels so good to be done with that talk! i was lucky enough to get the rest of the day off yesterday (!); i spent it cleaning the house and just generally basking in the glow of not having a huge deadline looming over my head.
of course, there are plenty of stress-inducing projects waiting in the wings to replace that of my talk:
☑ prepping for peds boards
☑ quality improvement project (although this isn’t too bad)
☑ working on research proposals for fellowship
not to mention the actual huge transition TO fellowship, which is starting to actually appear as a little glimmer on life’s horizon. i’m completely thrilled at the prospect of starting to focus on peds endocrinology — i love it, and it’s what i want to do with the rest of my career! but like with anything else, there will be an enormous learning curve, and for the first time in 3 years i’ll be starting somewhere near the bottom.
with all that said, i am not trying to say that my life is stressful than anyone else’s! in fact, things are really not so bad right now. i have so many fun things planned over the next few months (seeing friends, vacation, etc). i have just two ‘hardcore’ months of residency left!!
i guess what i’m trying to say is that there’s always going to be something new to deal with. honestly, i would someday LOVE to find a way to make these things seem less catastrophic and disruptive. breaking the project up into more manageable steps helped a little, but despite my best intentions i’m still not great at doing things ahead of time.
something else to work on, i suppose.
to anyone who would like to believe that homework, projects, and tests stop when ‘school’ is over: HA. really, i can’t even imagine a job or station in life that doesn’t have these things, at least in some form.
mark your calendars, monsters
YES: she’s coming. here! hopefully i will be there as well!
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3.16.10
workout: 6 miles, with 2 at tempo in the middle (i was burning off some pre-talk steam!
miles 1 and 2 average 8:37/mi
miles 3 and 4 (tempo) average 7:36/mi
miles 5 and 6 average 8:57/mi
in the kitchen: cooking light strikes again!
super-easy recipe for chicken curry, which i modified a bit by adding green beans and peanuts (i’ve decided everything is better with peanuts on top). served with whole grain udon noodles for sort of a thai-style meal.
reading: ummmmm no. but for those requested, i’ll post a recap of the high points of my presentation tomorrow!
3 Comments
Congrats on finishing your talk. I bet it felt great to blow off some steam afterwards doing anything other than stress about it.
Glad your presentation went well and is over with! Looking forward to reading the highlights 🙂 I really need to start coming to your blog for recipes more. You dinners always look so GOOD!
that chicken curry looks faaaaabulous!!!
happy Fridayyyy !