Obama the new US President

I'm not an American citizen but this election made me wish I was so I could also cast my vote for Barack Obama.

I woke this evening after night shift to hear the news and am so thrilled.  I feel so oddly emotional abt this election, as if I should ticker-tape my street and go around hugging ppl.

I'm thrilled the American public proved so many outside wrong - that they would vote for someone young, mixed race and anti-Iraq-war-continuance.

There's hope for us all.

Mad respect.

I'm so happy.

Today, my super fun ward clerk, an engineering student gave my stationery from Smiggle to aid in my supposed 'study'.

This is one of the sweetest gestures I've ever seen anyone make, much less towards me.

I was totally awkward abt the whole thing and i'm still trying to figure out what to give her on my last day (Friday).  She's just awesome and I've had so much fun just being daft with her while on the wards.... She made me realize that I can't help who I am - even if i wanted to project a harder, tougher exterior at work.

Aww...

Aw shucks

It's my last day of Hepatol and the term has grown on me...

Huge props to SD who's one of the nicest regs I've ever encountered and just an all round nice guy.  It's not a lot of regs who go to bat for their residents, and I hope I'll be the same when it comes my turn.

Never had a card saying I was a good junior either so even more credit to SD.

Ah.  If only all of work could be like this.

Cough

Goddamn I've got a bad cold.

Now I've lost my voice (which I'm sure may be a relief for some) which is kinda annoying.  Pity that raspy, sexy state couldn't last longer...

Back at Charlies (home again, home again, jiggety-jig), thank god.... although the return of the various knob-head stalker(s) is an unwelcome thing. ... I wonder why some folks just can't tell the difference betw my joking and actually insulting them.

Bah.

Cough.

lost in translation

I grow to love this film more every time I watch it.  

Watching it, I feel as if I'm in a dream.  Returned to the end of second year med school, all alone and full (comparatively) of optimism and hope.  Adventure afoot.

Mental note to self: go travelling alone again.

Bah

I do NOT need a career contingency plan.

A contingency assumes I will either fail or become discouraged.  Neither is ever going to happen.

yikes

righto...

i was bored and thought i'd trawl through the contacts i have to see if i'd missed any who were Facebooking. believe it or not, i actually was wondering abt Angeline and Yongren...

but somehow the system spotted Greg.

there was even a tiny photo and my heart literally stopped for a second. Asystole is an uncomfortable thing.

so, what the hell should i do?

i suddenly realized that i'm prob never gonna stop feeling guilty abt not being more sensitive. maybe there'll never be enough apologies out there. maybe we'll never be cool.

i suppose i was most uncomfortable becoz i never EVER thought i'd encounter him again... in any capacity. but i'm curious too... in a nice way (not the way I'm curious abt Lukas - where I'm wondering where he is so I can run him over in my car, twice)

advice?

Huge HUGE props to CF who is gonna be one of the nicest specialists ever coz he was nice enough to take a chance on a resident medical officer who wanted in on cardiology.

I've finally won over the boss (sorta) and couldn't have ever done it without.