Doctor Psychobabble

Today was the last official day of my vacation. Tomorrow I start another rotation in inpatient medicine. My last rotation as an intern, ever.

I’m sick. What started as the sniffles has progressed over the past few days to a full blown cold with a yucky cough. I feel like crap.

I should have spent the day today in bed catching up on Netflixes. But instead I went for a run, and ran 8 thousand errands, including lifting an air conditioner that weighed more than me and carrying it a hefty distance. I’m sure all the people on the street thought it was pretty entertaining watching me schlepping the air conditioner down the road in 90 degree weather.

Anyway, my brain is not working. I’m not depressed about going to work tomorrow. But I’m not looking forward to it, either. I just wish I didn’t have to start the rotation coughing and sneezing all over my patients. But such is my life.

Time to prepare for bed. No more staying up until 5 a.m. having fun. It’s back to waking up at 5 a.m. to go to the hospital to be a scut monkey.

Blah. Blah. Blah.

Photo: My dinner last night. Yummmmmm.

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Well, it’s official. I am back in New York City after a 2 week vacation adventure which included a wedding in Gaithersburg Maryland, visiting Barcelona, Paris, and Amsterdam and then visiting my parents’ farm in Luray, Virginia.

I could write three books on the subject of everything I did and saw, however I have a million things to catch up on, so please do wait patiently for a description of my adventures.

In the meantime, please check out this photo collection. Some of the photos are a bit out of chronological order and I didn’t have the time to add proper descriptions of each photo, but hope to do so in the future…

Enjoy.

Now it’s time to take a trip to the Apple store to replace my iPhone….

• Is There a Doctor on the Plane? – NYTimes.com
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ahhh, the smell of baby goats in the evening…smells like home.

In Amsterdam at a bar. There are 6 kids beside me no older than 12 who are all smoking and drinking beers…ridonculosomount….

I’m currently sitting in a McDonalds in Paris France, typing on an iPad. My partner Micah unfortunately had to do some work online and we just discovered that the Mickeydees right outside our hotel has free and fairly fast Wee fee (how the French pronounce wifi), so we came here, ordered 2 large cafes, and Micah started working. Of course, I became bored so hence the figuring out how to blog from an iPad. (As an aside, sorry for putting only one photo in this post, but I’m not adept at using an iPad.)

Today is our third and last day in Paris. As a reminder, we spent 5 days in Barcelona, Spain before taking a flight to Paris. The plan is to take a train to Amsterdam tomorrow and stop in Brussels along the way.

So far, our vacation has been everything I hoped, and more. (with only the one mishap of getting my iPhone stolen, which sucked, but taught me an important lesson…)

Barcelona was amazing and I dare to say cooler than Paris in a few ways…But Paris has definitely not disappointed (as an aside, the couple next to me have been making out non-stop for the past 15 minutes..) Yesterday, we went sight seeing and saw the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and a bunch of other things, which I’m not sure the name of…

This afternoon we plan on seeing Notre Dame, and some other things which I can’t spell without googling. Then perhaps another night out in Paris with wonderful food and drinks..That’s all I have the patience to type at the moment. Au revoir!!!!

J’aime la France! http://instagr.am/p/EnSGd/

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