Harry Potter

Miranda or Mimi... (or anyone else who reads HP)... you game for getting books at midnight. Miranda I know you are going out of town, but I wasn't sure when you planned on getting your book.

I am super excited about reading the book. I am giving myself 26 hours to read it..... wooo...

I have returned from falling off the face of the earth..

So I kinda fell off the face of the earth for a while. I was really busy last month being on ob-gyn. I liked it, didn't love it. So that makes me confused on what I want/need to be when I grow up. But right now I am not thinking about that because it causes me stress and to not sleep.

I spent last week at the beach (Sanibel Florida) with my family. It was nice to sit around and do nothing all week. I ate good food, slept, read a little (mostly school related.. I know not on vacation), knitted, and sat on the beach. I have tan lines, and the only part of my that is burned are my ears. I am so excited that I didn't turn into a burned painful mess.

I did visit a yarn store in Sanibel. It was not as lovely as my yarn store here. I still love you the most Gina. I did buy a new skein of yarn, because well you can't go to a yarn store and not buy yarn. I think I will join the bandwagon and knit the clapotis with it..I'll have to take pictures of it later, first I have to find my camera. I am not sure where half my stuff is right now. In the past two weeks I moved from Wytheville back to Christiansburg eptied out my car and suitcases and then headed to Florida for a week. So my stuff is everywhere and I can't find a single thing.

We have end of the year testing this week. It's so joyous, please note the massive amount of sarcasm in that statement.

Well that's my update for now.

I'll post pictures of knitted things when the camera is found.

Graduation Countdown

In honor of the Class of 2007 graduating tomorrow... I thought I'd start the countdown until my graduation...


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Carry on..

No I haven't died

Just letting you know I am not dead...

I am DONE with psych. Oh so happy about that. It was funny when we got our evals from the psychiatrist. Everyone in my group (except me) had increased interest in psychiatric disorders. Mine said "well liked by staff." Which is true, but I just found it amusing, I think it's all my preceptor could muster up instead of writing "Allison hated psych and showed no effort in disguising this fact." In other news I got to watch an appendectomy the other night on my way home from Marion. Why you ask, because my surgeon loves me and entertains my neurosis. He still maintains that I will become a general surgeon. I do love surgery but I don't know if I love GI anatomy that much. I was thinking of knitting him a pancreas and somehow also make the surgery rules. He lets me come to a lot of surgeries and is just the most fabulous person in the world, I adore that man. If I haven't taught you the four rules of surgery here they are.
1. Eat when you can.
2. Sleep when you can.
3. Read when you can.
4. Don't mess with the pancreas.

So I think we should start a knitted anatomy collection for my surgeon... he already thinks I am a little crazy, and he does already have a gallbladder. I guess I could cross stitch the rules... because that just wouldn't be feasible with knitted items... because knitted alphabet just doesn't not sound like fun. There is always the computer but really doesn't help the dexterity factor. I'll see how much free time I have this next month on OB-GYN!!!

That's right Ob-gyn is FINALLY here. I start in the OR on Monday morning. We have a couple of hysterectomies scheduled, and a bladder tact (or at least that's what I think it is based on the OR schedule I have). Which reminds me I need to call over there this morning and make sure nothing else was added on.

I turned in square number 16 yesterday. I don't know my call schedule yet for next month so I am not sure if I will be able to make it Blacksburg for the knitting party. But if I am not working I'll definitely be there, otherwise I'll be sitting in Wytheville staring at my pager wishing it to go off thinking of knitting squares together.

Well friends that is my update... now it is time to get my eyeballs examined and find out exactly how blind I've become this year.

For Gina

This is the first uterus that also has ovaries.. so feel very special. Really this is why you don't give medical students yarn at random hours of the night.... I started the uterus at 1 am finished at about 4 am. Now it's back to squares.

Addiction to squares

My new book

Tulip Lace in progress

Completed squares from this week... the psych patients stress me out a little, ok. I need to knit.

Birthday money

My sister sent me a Barnes and Noble gift card for my birthday. Well seeing as I own literally every book in the medical section, and I really don't think I am exaggerating with that statement, I decided to buy a new knitting book. Really you can never have too many books and you can never have too many books about knitting. I looked at the Vogue knitting stitch dictionary thing for a while but decided against it. There was a really nice pattern book based off lingerie type things, but I doubt I'd wear half the things, even if they were pretty. I finally chose the regular Vogue knitting book. It states on the front it is the ultimate knitting book... you can't go wrong with that. I really need to stop looking at the book and do some real work.....