Med School Prom

Last night was the Winter Ball (aka med school prom). Below are some pictures from the night. I had a really hard time finding a dress. Springfield just does not have a lot of options. I ended up buying a dress that was one size too big and then used my suturing skills to alter it. It was really loud in the room and David and I currently have hoarse voices from screaming all night. It was nice to be able to see a lot of people that we have not seen in a while because a lot of med students have been out of town and you really just don't see each other on rotations anymore. David became a photographer for the night, he and my friend's husband Luis ended up taking a lot of group pictures for people. Afterwards we went to a karaoke place, but sadly they closed down before most of our group had a chance to sing.

David and Julie

The CMDA girls

The salad from our dinner. It looks a lot greener in the picture than it did in real life. After this the dinner just got progressively worse. We had roast beef that was smothered in gravy with canned green beans. The dessert was tiramisu and cheesecake.

The Class of 2009

David's New Clothes

On Saturday, Macy's was having a clearance sale, so we went there to get David some new clothes that he can hopefully wear whenever he becomes a professor. We figured that he probably will not be able to wear cargo pants and t-shirts and polos anymore. Plus his t-shirts are getting a lot of holes in them and his polos are fading, so new clothes were definitely needed. Below are his new outfits, in reverse order of how the pictures were taken. He was getting a little bored, so he wanted to try some different poses. Surprisingly one of the more expensive buys was a new belt. David was pretty excited about though because he had never heard of a reversible belt before, so he now has a brown belt and a black belt. As a side note, I really think that the televisions in the men's dressing room area should be on stations like HGTV and the ones in the women's should be on sports. I had to have David lower the volume and he also changed the channel for me because I was too vertically challenged to reach the television

Personal Watermelon

I am bored and do not want to write my paper on minorities in medicine, so I decided I would post something since it has been a while. I just finished my sub-i in family medicine, although I still have to finish entering my patients into my logbook and filling out evaluations. I am currently on two electives, the previously mentioned minorities in medicine and also a health literacy elective. I still have to finish up my brochure for my health literacy elective, it is on breast-feeding jaundice. It is supposed to be a take home brochure to answer all those questions that new moms cannot remember that they should have asked when their kid has jaundice. I have also been doing some Dance Dance Revolution on Wii, but cannot seem to get better than a D. I clearly have no rhythm.

As David previously mentioned, we still do not know where we will be next year, but at least he has one more interview. I have spent much of my time looking at houses in the various cities that me might end up in.

This weekend is med school prom. I forgot to buy tickets, so we might have to sneek in after they serve dinner, since they refuse to sell anymore. So maybe at least after that we will have something interesting to post.

Update: For all of those who were concerned, I was able to get tickets to prom, woohoo. And on another, yet slightly related note, I submitted my pictures for my yearbook page. I am slightly concerned though because a future general surgeon will be doing my page. In case anyone was wondering, apparently everyone in med school wants to relive their high school years, hence the prom and yearbook.