i'm DONE!!
yayay! what a way to end the year, by finishing my thesis! been stuck here at yale most of december, but it was all good 'cuz i did have some fun between staying up 'til the wee hours typing away at those 80+ pages. =) i printed out 6 copies, and tomorrow i head over to staples to get them bound. then i go get my rental car! yay! my first car in the east coast. i wonder what kind i'll get...and i have to get used to driving in the snow and cold as i have a 45-1 hour commute each way to my next rotation starting tuesday. =( what a drag...to wake up an extra hour earlier just to get to work, instead of rollin' outta bed and walking 2 min to the hospital across the street! oh well, at least this primary care rotation doesn't have overnight calls!
so besides working on my thesis through much of december, i did have some fun. radu, his twin bro mike, and i went snowboarding in new hampshire! i even got the college season pass for $199, good at 3 different mountains with no blackout dates. we went for THREE days in a row! that sets a record! after the first day, i didn't want to go anymore...radu and mike are first-timers, and i was bored outta my mind by noontime. but days 2 and 3 i stayed with them a bit, then took off on the blues on my own. the powder was great, weather was amazingly warm at 35 or so, and it was sooo much fun i didn't want to stop! can't wait for radu to improve so that we can hit the slopes together. he and mike can both carve by day 3, but just very slowly and only on green slopes. still, pretty fast improvement considering they fell constantly on day 1! i hope to go at least once a month til the season ends, to get my pass's worth! oh, i forgot to mention, we stayed for free at a BEAUTIFUL house 10 min from the mountain. radu coaches the daughter of a really rich family, and they are letting us stay at their vacation house whenever we want! i can't wait to go back--3 stories, heated hardwood floors, awesome massage chair/foot massager from sharper image, fireplace, new kitchen, pingpong table, etc. the works, i tell you!
after the amazing snowboarding trip, i stayed at radu's apt with mike and his mom for 2 days over x-mas. it was nice...i felt right at home surprisingly. his mom likes to talk a lot, and i have to be patient and listen. =P on x-mas day, radu and i were invited to this really nice dinner at his friends' place, and had some steak. now here is the problem--the steak was waaaay more fatty than any meat i've ever had, and although i kept chewing it, it just wouldn't break down! so..either i had to force swallow it, or spit it out in front of company. what would you do? (i spit it out, i know i'm disgusting, but i can't swallow fat like that!) anyhow, radu's mom likes to keep chocolates out on the coffee table, so that became quite dangerous for me quickly! thank goodness we left after a few days so that i can finish my thesis. but i got to try stollen (yummmm), some european bread, and polenta with romanian stuffed cabbage. SOOOO good. kinda chinese-y, like napa cabbage with ground pork. his mom also cooked some european sausages, but i'm not a big sausage fan. ugh, i'm getting hungry now (4am) but i can't sleep 'cuz i'm so excited to be done with my paper! but now that i'm done, we're about to head back to his place tomorrow with my new rental car to spend new year's eve with his family. should be fun! i'm gonna bake a triple berry cake tomorrow to thank them for letting me stay!
happy 2006 everyone! =D
so besides working on my thesis through much of december, i did have some fun. radu, his twin bro mike, and i went snowboarding in new hampshire! i even got the college season pass for $199, good at 3 different mountains with no blackout dates. we went for THREE days in a row! that sets a record! after the first day, i didn't want to go anymore...radu and mike are first-timers, and i was bored outta my mind by noontime. but days 2 and 3 i stayed with them a bit, then took off on the blues on my own. the powder was great, weather was amazingly warm at 35 or so, and it was sooo much fun i didn't want to stop! can't wait for radu to improve so that we can hit the slopes together. he and mike can both carve by day 3, but just very slowly and only on green slopes. still, pretty fast improvement considering they fell constantly on day 1! i hope to go at least once a month til the season ends, to get my pass's worth! oh, i forgot to mention, we stayed for free at a BEAUTIFUL house 10 min from the mountain. radu coaches the daughter of a really rich family, and they are letting us stay at their vacation house whenever we want! i can't wait to go back--3 stories, heated hardwood floors, awesome massage chair/foot massager from sharper image, fireplace, new kitchen, pingpong table, etc. the works, i tell you!
after the amazing snowboarding trip, i stayed at radu's apt with mike and his mom for 2 days over x-mas. it was nice...i felt right at home surprisingly. his mom likes to talk a lot, and i have to be patient and listen. =P on x-mas day, radu and i were invited to this really nice dinner at his friends' place, and had some steak. now here is the problem--the steak was waaaay more fatty than any meat i've ever had, and although i kept chewing it, it just wouldn't break down! so..either i had to force swallow it, or spit it out in front of company. what would you do? (i spit it out, i know i'm disgusting, but i can't swallow fat like that!) anyhow, radu's mom likes to keep chocolates out on the coffee table, so that became quite dangerous for me quickly! thank goodness we left after a few days so that i can finish my thesis. but i got to try stollen (yummmm), some european bread, and polenta with romanian stuffed cabbage. SOOOO good. kinda chinese-y, like napa cabbage with ground pork. his mom also cooked some european sausages, but i'm not a big sausage fan. ugh, i'm getting hungry now (4am) but i can't sleep 'cuz i'm so excited to be done with my paper! but now that i'm done, we're about to head back to his place tomorrow with my new rental car to spend new year's eve with his family. should be fun! i'm gonna bake a triple berry cake tomorrow to thank them for letting me stay!
happy 2006 everyone! =D
posted by CookieMonster28 at 3:41 AM
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