4 weeks left!!

Well, it's been a while since I've written on here, and amazingly, I have nothing really new to report. I was waiting to write until we heard any new news about the possibility of getting Brent up to the NW, but we are still waiting. They keep telling us "two more weeks," by the time they tell us we will have already made other plans....

Other than that, I'm getting nostalgic about leaving SoCal. Not really for the weather, because honestly, the sun may be beautiful, but the smog and the dirt I can live without. My lungs are going to be so happy with me when I move back. I really love my class though and have finally found a good niche of girls that I can call my "own" friends. That was such a big problem for me last year and felt like although I had a lot of friends, they were all guys and were more Brent's friends than mine. I can't really explain why I felt that way since we are all classmates, but I did and now I'm finally feeling so much more at ease about everything. Regardless, it will be sad to leave all these amazing people. It's making it even harder realizing that most of you girls are no longer in PDX. I'm no complaining, but it's been really tough trying to figure out my living situation coming up here in a few months. I know that the only people I would want to live with are all of you, but alas, I have to find someone else...

With that said, I have been a little bit conniving and have convinced Morgan to wait to move in with Joe until I am out of PDX in January. This way, he is still able to live with Mikha during her really hard rotations and have someone to hang out with...and he won't drive me nuts....so yeah, it looks like I am going to live with Morg and then Joe will take over my spot when I leave (although I'm sure he'll be over A LOT), but that's better than the alternative, which would have meant living with a couple.

Sooo, that's really all the news I've got. I have 4 more weeks of classes. We are currently learning all about dermatology and it is the first class I haven't diagnosed myself with some disease. Although, I have diagnosed a few moles on Brent as being pre-malignant basal cell carcinoma. In my defense, he has already had a mole taken out because it was cancerous, so I'm just looking out for the guy... Then onto Pediatrics and Geriatrics and then I'm DONE with the school part. Then, I'm giving myself 4 weeks to study for my Part 1 boards, then we are moving me back up to PDX. I was hoping to be in town for Kim's birthday on the 20th of June, but it looks like we have a stupid wedding to go to in Nor Cal on the 18th of June, so I may be gone that wknd. I'm still trying to get us out of it, but we will see. All I know is, we gotta do a reunion sooooonnn!! I am so damn excited to see you all, especially Taren :)

Okay, now I'm really done with this post. Time for someone to write on here. Taren, post some damn pictures if you can! Chris, how was Maui and what's new with everything?? Kim and Em, we had such quick phone talks the other day, so what is new? Jessie, Nora, get on here stat!

Love you girls. Talk to you all soon!