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Internal Medicine

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Tomorrow is my last day of inpatient internal medicine at SLU Hospital.  🙂  Then I just have 1 month of outpatient internal medicine before my MSIII year is over.  Crazy how fast it goes… and how slow it goes.  I feel like I’ve been working here at SLU for ages, when really it’s just been 4 weeks.  My time at the VA just flew by, and I’m hoping that outpatient flies by as well (and that I get a lot of studying done!)

I’ve got my summer exams all scheduled now – I take the written USMLE Step2 (CK) on Monday July 11 and I have the standardized patient USMLE Step 2 (CS) scheduled for Thursday July 14 (or maybe it’s Friday the 15th.. I’ll have to recheck).  I’m at that point where I’m nervous about having enough time to study, but I also want to get them over with.

I still haven’t heard from UW or OHSU about my away rotation applications.  Supposedly OHSU started contacting students on May 12th, so  I might try to give them a call sometime next week if I still haven’t heard.  UW claims June 1st as their communication start date, so I’ll just wait with eager anticipation.

AJ got me a nice little stamp that says "Jill Cook MSIV" for me to use next year (well, in a couple of months) for when I sign my progress nots and orders and stuff.  It’s really cool, and even though my handwriting is fine so I don’t really NEED a stamp, I like it a lot and it makes me feel special.  🙂

City Museum

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This is "MonstroCity" at the City Museum here in St. Louis.  It is a huge suspended maze of random architecture that you can walk, crawl, climb, and slide your way through.  It was definitely built with adults in mind, because all but a very few little parts of it are nicely sized for adult adventurers.  As you can (kind of) see, there is a firetruck, a big crane, and two smaller airplanes all built in.  It is amazingly awesome and fun to play in!  If any of you come to visit here in St. Louis, make sure this is a part of your trip!  Oh, and bonus for those of you who would prefer to explore such an attraction with minimal children around, the City Museum is open until 1am on Friday and Saturday nights, and there’s a little bar/cafe on the ground floor that opens in the evenings as well.

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My First Golfing

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Yesterday AJ and I went to "GOLF Headquarters" and hit a bunch of balls at their driving range.  I had only done this once before (a couple of years ago), and I really enjoyed it then so I was looking forward to doing it again.  We had a great time, and so today we went back and played their 9 hole par 3 course.  It was awesome! 🙂  I have some pictures below.  (At the bottom I am holding up 4 fingers because I scored a kosher par 4 on that hole – oh yeah!)

    

    

    

My New Niece!

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My new niece was born yesterday evening… I don’t have many details, but I know she’s doing well (as is my sister) and I think her name is Alexandra.  🙂

Happy Birthday Allie!

Because Living in St. Louis = Complaining about the weather

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It’s hot now.  And humid.  And I know it was just very recently that I was complaining that it was cold here, and so dry.  But that’s the way things go in St. Louis.  I think we had our ~2 weeks of nice spring weather, but it’s hard to notice them when they are interspersed with weird cold rainy days.  I enjoyed a few "Seattle" type days in the past couple of weeks, but now we’ve entered summer with a vengance and it’s time to start moaning about the heat and the humidity.

Supposed to be 90F today.  50% humidity all day, then it increases to ~75% overnight.  And there are T-storms predicted.  Which means that any local TV shows that I have recording tonight will be interrupted by the weather woman telling eveyone that it’s raining – with some thunder even – and they probably shouldn’t venture outside lest they get wet, or scared, or hit by lightning.  They do this every time there’s a thunderstorm and I don’t see what difference it makes.  Tornadoes, sure.  Hurricanes, sure.  I can see how warning and things might help.  But c’mon people, it’s a thunderstorm.  And I want to watch American Idol or Alias or House or whatever in peace.

WA State Plates

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Look at that on the car there in front of me.. it’s Washington license plates! 🙂  Funny how little things like that make me feel like I have some sort of connection with that person.

The End of Buffy

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As I have discussed before (I think), Jill2 and I had the crazy idea of watching all the Buffy episodes (seasons 1-7) in order.  Well, that stroke of genius occurred back in the early days of 2003… and here we are in Aril 2005 and we’re done.  Just like that, no big hoopla or shebang… just another Buffy night that happened to be the last.  It was fun while it lasted.

Of course, we have no intention of abandoning our weekly get togethers, and we’re lanning to move on to Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes. 🙂  We definitely won’t have time to get through all of them before graduation, but whatever we do get through will be fun!  And since "Star Trek The Next Generation Nights" is just way too long to say regularly, we’ll still be calling out little soirees "Buffy Nights".

My drive to work

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So I thought I’d blog my drive to work this morning.. it’s the last time I’ll be driving out to the VA and a time will come when I don’t remeber this city as clearly… However, it was a gloomy, rainy, overcast morning and I was taking pictures on my cell phone while moving – so I don’t know how much of this will really be nostalgic later, since I can’t recognize a whole lot. 🙂

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This one is the World’s Fair Donut Shop that I pass every morning (on Vandeventer).  It’s hard to see because of the rain on the windshield.  I’ve never actually been here… I wonder if they have maple bars (probably not).
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Here is the construction at Vandeventer and Chouteau that has inconveniently removed a nice route home from school by removing a bridge.  Hopefully they will be putting it back up.
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This is at Vandeventer and Forest Park.  Not very interesting. Oh well.
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And here’s Vandeventer and Lindell – if you turn right here you’ll get to AJ’s school.
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This is the parking lot for the VA.  Kind of empty … guess I’m early. 🙂
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This is the semi-scary alley I have to walk in to get between the parking lot and the VA hospital.  I think homeless people might take refuge there sometimes, but I’ve never seen anyone there.  Today was my last day at the VA so I don’t have to walk there anymore.
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And here’s the front entrance to the VA.  The big black building with the air conditioner is the smoking shelter.  But it doesn’t do a very good job of sheltering the smoke so my lungs get just a little bit blacker each time I walk past it.
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