Filling the time

I thought being on an outpatient rotation (Sports Med 1) meant things were calmer!
Somehow, I am finding ways to fill up every spare moment of time.

Last weekend, I pretty much needed to recover from my last 2 weeks of OB nights, which kicked my behind. I think I slept for 13 hours straight (then up for 1, then back to sleep for 5) after my post-nights clinic Friday. Last weekend and week included the following:

• Seeing 'Milk' in the theaters. Very moving movie.
• Meeting with med students (ah, so young and optimistic!) about this home visit program (they go visit one of my patients who has a hard time getting to clinic due to mutiple challenging issues)
• Doing sports med reading (I feel very retarded in sports medicine)
• Taking my worn out Danskos (I think I wore them for 365 days straight) to the cobbler (or shoe repair place, whatever...) to get a buckle and seam fixed.
• Doing intern GYN clinic and doing elementary school physicals
• Running with Anna and Sarah (I signed up for a half- marathon on March 15th.... need to do some serious training)
• Being thwarted in running by our rainy, rainy weather which has dumped a TON of snow up at Tahoe
• Being cold (it's been 40-50 here! Brr for California!)
• Dinner w/ friends at Jack's Urban Eats and Buckhorn Grill
• Finding out ANOTHER friend is pregnant!
• Lots of FP clinic... which means lots of EMR notes to write...
• Dealing w/ lots of patient calls and medication refills
• Doing a shoulder injection in sports med clinic... and then seeing a lot of people with knee pain or hand pain who didn't get injections
• Getting library books to read on VACATION (which starts in 1 week!)
• Being sad and trying to figure out why my ipod died... been on the phone with the automated guy thingie, and then talking to a real customer service rep, who thinks my battery may have died altogether... I just hope I don't lose all my music on there!
• Grocery shopping
• Having my shower head break and having my awesome landlord replace it within 1 day
• Realizing that my vacuum doesn't work and having a new belt ordered for me by Shomir so that it works!
• Being jealous that Shomir has another continuity OB patient delivering today (I have several but they're not due until August!)
• Celebrating V'day by doing errands including going the post office with a Punch Brothers Bluegrass concert coming up tonight
• Hoping to go skiing either tomorrow or Pres' Day on Monday (I can't remember the last time I had a 3 day weekend!) if people will join me and the roads are ok
• Planning our car rentals, etc. for vacation when we fly to FLA
• Possibly contemplating driving to Salt Lake City to see Molly, and ski, before flying to FLA
• Studying for ACLS which I do on Thursday....

.... which I should probably do instead of procrastinating by blogging