So, yesterday I had a day off from my San Francisco area residency interviews, and I decided to go check out the city of Berkeley (home of the UC Berkeley campus and infamous Telegraph Road).  When I discovered that the original very first ever Peet’s Coffee and Tea was in Berkeley, I had to make a visit… and here are a couple of pictures.  It’s in  a cute little area with shops and cafes all around.  (FYI – Peet’s is a place I first learned of while doing my rotation in Portland.  Berkeley reminds me of Portland, but a little more "out there" when it comes to the different types of people you see.  Still, very Portland-esque…)

I had lunch at a palce called Jupiter.  It was quite nice out, so I ate in their courtyard right next to this pretty fountain:

I had a house salad (with red peppers and kalamata olives, yum!):

And also a pizza… that was plenty big enough that I had the leftovers for dinner.

Then I went and sat at a Starbucks and used my wireless internet to look up lots of information for my upcoming interviews.  So far now I’ve done UCSF and Oakland Children’s.  UCSF was alright, I thought I really liked it until today, when I was at Oakland Children’s and totally loved it and it just out-shined (out-shone?) everything from UCSF!  Anyway, I’m trying to keep good track of all the information I’m gathering so I can keep all the programs straight when it comes time to rank them.  I want to put little summaries up here to help me with that, but it’s a little much for me to do right now, so maybe over Thanksgiving, when I have a little more time (and 5 programs under my belt).