October

I guess I have been neglecting my journal. Let’s see – in a month what have I done? I started to hang out with more pharmacy residents, which is cool. I am starting to have a gang, except they do not always remember to call me. We carved pumpkins this past weekend for Halloween. It turns out they trick-or-treat on Saturday because it’s bad to worship the devil on Sunday. I don’t recall ever doing that when Halloween fell on Sunday, but what do I know? Then we played Jinga with added words on the blocks. Not all that interesting considering we don’t really know each other that well. Would have been fun if we played truth or dare! The cool thing about his apartment is that there is a hot tub in the court yard. That was pretty fun except they kept it really hot so I have to jump from the pool for a bit and then the hot tub for a bit.

The week before that I had a minor surgery for my cyst on my leg. Nothing special, just a hassle having to do it. It was pretty cool because I elected not to be totally under anesthesia so I got to see some of the surgery. (Plus I am too cheap) The cyst was on the back of my thigh so it was hard for me to twist my body around. Lidocaine and Narcaine works really well. The surgery took approximate 30 minutes between all the prepping and etc, but the actual part was like 15 minutes. The surgery part was $1400! It was crazy – essentially that room was $100 / minute. $300 for my anesthesia drug cost. I knew I shouldn’t have taken that extra one – would have saved the health system $50! I am curious how much the doc is going to charge me.

Then the week before that, I was really stressed and trying to pump out my two posters for AMCP meeting in Baltimore. They were the first ones that I designed by myself since last time the data guy in my department wanted to do it. I used PowerPoint instead of the drawing program since I am no artist anyway. I had to fudge some data and make things look nice.

Now this week I am just stressed about my exam. I can’t believe I have 3 exams this week. I took two yesterday and I didn’t do too well on one of them. We will see about the other one. I am taking this class just for the joy of learning and it’s going to bring down my GPA. What is up with that? I should have just sit in, since this class turned out to be a lot of work.

Nothing major planned for this week. Just the usual… oh wait, this is Halloween week. I still have to find a cool custom. I think I will be shopping on Saturday morning. I was thinking of getting a little angelic devil outfit. I figure that would be cool.

I will try to post a picture next week about it.