Work and Play

It's been a mixed couple of weeks in regards to my professional and personal life, but overall I would say things are on the up side. In terms of school, I am back on surgery. I am not sure who knows this, but there was a bit of time during my third year when I considered becoming a surgeon. I loved the OR and felt jazzed to be in the hospital during the rotation. Now that I'm back at it, I am having the same feeling and wondering if not following something that I find exciting a bad idea. I chose internal medicine because not only do I like the field, but because I care about patient follow up and work-life balance. I guess...that hasn't changed. So instead, for this next week, I'll just cherish my last couple days of being in the OR as they will not return again.

We're operating with robots! This is my attending who let me use the robot machine inside someone today! WHAAAAT? SOOOO F-ING COOL. Ok, I didn't actually do anything but it was still an awesome moment nonetheless. 

NOW for the up on the personal side - I've been enjoying hanging out with friends. I have a very strong inkling that I won't be in the bay area come June. So I gotta make these last months count! Hmmm, this sounds a lot like my Hanoi posts last year. :P

 me getting ready for backpacking. yea, I'm a dork.

despite their (our) whining, we did pretty good! (plus we kinda loved it)

20+ miles of backpacking. Completely worth it once we reached the natural hot springs.

 Finally went to the fort mason OTG! It was cool, but I'm also satisfied with the small one near UCSF.

 Halloween weekend with the laaadies! Poison ivy, cat lady, and the butterfly not pictured. :P

 SF Sutro bath house ruins. Pretty cool place to check out!

 Love these cats - we've become such 4th year laziness buddies.

 View of the GGB from Land's End.

Oh yeaaaaa, again we are the champions! I'll admit it, I'm a supporter but not a fan. I don't know diddly when it comes to baseball or the Giants. Buuuuut, it doesn't mean I can't have fun when the town goes crraaaaazzzzzy! It's like Christmas, you don't have to believe in it to enjoy the celebration. GO SF GIANTS!