Cross posted

I wrote this on my lj...

So today was COMLEX Level 2. Started the day at 9:40. Did all my sections, breaks, etc.

I was finishing my last 50 questions. I hit submit and verified YES I want to end this section. Then ERROR.. and the computer restarted. AHHHHHHHH.. I stared at the computer for a good 5 minutes like WHAT??? No maybe if I close my eyes it will go back to the test and tell me it actually finished it. There is suppose to be a survey at the end where I get to tell the NBOME that their graphics suck and I didn't have problems, etc. Well no survey. The lady at prometric couldn't print my verification that I finished the test, her computer was saying it was still incomplete. She called the IT people and they said they wouldn't know anything until after she closed the site. So I called prometric help center at 745 before they closed. The lady there thinks the test was submitted to the NBOME. I have to call them to make sure it actually did and they got all the sections. I left a message with NBOME but they won't be there until Monday at 9am. So I may or may not have a test to grade. I'd really like to not take boards again. I just don't have time to study again, and I am not smart enough to keep all that random garbage that only boards ask in my head for another month. ...uhh.. As soon I called my mom to tell her how the test went I lost it.... stupid prometric people.

There were several EVMS kids taking USMLE 2 today. Sarah and I chatted with a couple of them during our breaks. There is something about taking medical boards ... well that just screams "I AM TAKING BOARDS TODAY"!!!! Maybe it's the lack of sleep look or the stolen hospital scrubs but there's definitely a look. I told one of the kids who I was rotating with next month... and he said "yeah Dr. Archer is a big deal..".. Awesome I am going to look like a moron. Really looking forward to being dumb next week.

That's all for now.. I am too tired to write anything else...

Picture Happy

So in the process of packing I did eventually find my camera cord, so I uploaded pictures. YAY!! I wish there was more time to play and knit but sadly I need to finish packing and studying.

Anyway I give you tons of pictures...

Here's the clap that I started that will probably never be finished... oh well. It's pretty to look at.



HARRY POTTER
Ok this dates back to Harry Potter 7 release date. Mimi, Loren and I all went out to dinner and headed over to Barnes and Noble to wait for the books to come out at midnight. Miranda and my roommate Ashley met up with us. Of course we brought knitting and found fiber friends near the knitting books. We brought all the house scarves with us.. .even if they are the wrong colors. Oh well. Here's them mostly done. It was our little area until they had potions class at which time we were almost plumbed to death by small children. I would say around 11 pm... Mimi had either too much coffee or not enough sleep, or maybe a combination of the two. This is what happens when knitters go crazy. Watch out they are letting her teach little kids soon.. you might want to home school your kids. ;-)

But the night was not a total waste... Look at the awesome pattern we found. How was my life complete before this... I totally need a knitted Little Tea Pot hat... and with arm gestures and everything. I think this is going to be the newest "it" item... you watch.


But where can I find such an awesome pattern... oh no worries here's the source. Better hurry up and get your copy before they are all gone. I mean with patterns that HOT it's going to be hard to keep it on the shelf.

The latest knitting project (along with the 8 million things I haven't finished... SOCKS!!
Now I thought I hated knitting socks. But for some reason I decided I wanted to knit socks last week. I have tried several times to knit socks, I get 3/4 done with one and get bored, put the stupid thing away and never get it out again. I have decided a couple things. I don't like knitting socks with magic loop, although there are not 4/5 needles, it's just inefficient with all the moving and looping. It just takes too much work/time to get the stitches where I want them. I much prefer DPNs. I also figured out I don't like knitting plain socks. I have the attention span of about 5 minutes (see 8 million unfinished projects.. and I don't think I am really exaggerating). So knitting a stockinette sock kinda makes me want to take the needles and poke my eyes out. So the remedy: knitting a quasi patterned sock with DPN. I give you a modified version of the Rainy Day Sock from Magknits. I turned the rib section between the YO into a mock cable.
So now I am starting the second sock, because right now I have one, and that doesn't do me any good. I also bought a lovely shade of purple Koigu that will be made into socks when I am done with boards.

In other news... I leave for EVMS on Thursday. I take my second set of board exams on Friday morning. I need to pack and study but yarn is way more fun. Ok aback to work...

I just realized

I have knit 7 uteri so far this year....

1. Russian Uterus
2. FSU Uterus
3. John Deer Uterus
4. Heidi's Uterus
5. Dr. Fox's Uterus
6. Women's Center Uterus
7. Gina's Uterus

I think I might have a problem with either knitting or anatomy.

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...


Create yours at BlingyBlob.com!


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.