so i've been avoiding my own blog until i could properly update with pictures, and slideshows, and basically a spectacular multimedia presentation of life since the wedding.... but like so many other things in my life since i started work, i've decided that i just have to LET GO of my foolish ambitions. so here i am.
i'm on my lunch break currently, sitting here in a small office at the VA mental health clinic, counting the hours until i can leave and check out some of the local Korean markets. it's not that i don't enjoy my time here... it's just that i have whole city to explore, and dinner to cook, and there are only so many substance-abusing depressed vets you can see in one day before things start to get repetitive.
i shouldn't complain. residency is awesome. i got my first paycheck yesterday, and was stunned because i spent most of my first week of work surfing the web in this office, because patients weren't showing up or weren't scheduled... surely that didn't warrant ALL THIS MONEY??!! (ok, it's really not that much, but heckuva lot more than i used to make in med school = $0) i'm just so happy to have an income. and now, when i'm done seeing my patients at the end of the day, i feel no guilt whatsoever about just leaving.... no more checking in with the attending, or waiting for things to be signed, no more frustrating periods of limbo and wasted time... i do what i need to do, and i go home. WORK ROCKS!! ;)
newlywed life is similarly awesome, if i do say so myself. andy's living it up on a fairly chill rotation right now too, so we're definitely enjoying the time we can spend together before we're thrown into the chaos of the inpatient rotations. we've also been doing quite a bit of "home-making"... i'm beginning to understand what that term really means- it's been amazing to watch the empty house we moved into a few weeks ago shift and morph into our home. my goal is to make the place presentable for the many dinners and get-togethers i'm hoping to host in 2 months. a few more pieces of furniture, a lot fewer cardboard boxes littering the family room, and we'll be there.
and now, back to my regularly scheduled programming : "tell me about the voices in your head... when was your last drink? ... how does that make you feel??..." gotta love it.
