“One’s home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life - and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up.”
~ Lemony Snicket

10 sleeps till the end of MED 4.
11 sleeps till my WinAir flight leaves Nevis.
12 sleeps till home.

we had a Pharm quiz today for a few bonus points toward our final exam grade. tomorrow i perform my Physical Diagnosis final which consists of an hour-long head-to-toe practical exam on my most willing and helpful partner, Brandon. Thursday is the Pharm NBME shelf exam. next Wednesday is the Pathology (mostly cumulative) final exam and Thursday is the written (very cumulative) Physical Diagnosis exam.

the best thing about the next 10 days is that they should be full enough to fly by.

the worst thing is that it’s still 10 days and my brain is ready to be home right now.

here’s what the rest of the month looks like…

Dec 12th - drinks & dinner with Kayla in New York
Dec 13th - breakfast and Christmas shopping (in a real MALL) with JennW in Toronto
Dec 13th - home to Maddy in Moose Jaw
Dec 16th - fly to Denver
Dec 17th - drive to Brandon’s hometown in Nebraska
Dec 18th - drive to Omaha
Dec 20th - drive back to Brandon’s hometown
Dec 23rd - fly back home to Regina/Moose Jaw
Dec 27th - pick up Brandon at the airport in Regina
Dec 30th - go to Saskatoon to see my dad and extended family
Dec 31st - New Year’s Eve in Saskatoon at the Bessborough
Jan 1st - back to mom’s in Moose Jaw to watch the Gator Bowl
Jan 3rd - fly to Toronto
Jan 4th - fly to Antigua
Jan 5th - fly to Nevis

whew.

i can’t wait!

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photo: Christmas 2006 in Prince George, BC

Comments

10 Comments so far

  1. BCWB on December 1, 2008 7:44 pm

    Sure sounds like we are way too busy… Crazy these times we are having… I love it and can’t wait for you to come to Nebraska and me to Canada for like the 16th time of telling you : )

  2. Emily on December 1, 2008 8:52 pm

    I feel you there! Instead of tests I have papers upon papers to write and instead of writing I find myself staring at the calendar hardly believing that I’ll be home in 10 days. home! :)

    good luck!

  3. Don’t forget the DRE…. – From the Plains to the Island…. on December 1, 2008 10:20 pm

    […] Tomorrow is Jennifer’s exam final.  If anyone deserves a 100% it is her.  Knowing her luck however, she will get the hardest prof and score a 94%, which to her is good enough but to me seems unjust.  Then again I suppose the real world we are beginning to be a part of is unjust so maybe I should just take the 100% and deposit it in the bank and draw interest on the fact that my hard work is paying off now with a little bit of luck here and there…. […]

  4. nonstop on December 2, 2008 12:03 am

    that’s quite the trip, should be a blast. i’m gonna be in saskatoon when you’re there, i hereby challenge you to a pickup hockey game at holliston rink, i’ll be the guy with the canucks jersey. good luck with the exams!

  5. Jenn on December 2, 2008 10:07 am

    Can’t wait until the 13th! And I’m so jealous you’re going to the Bess. I LOVE that hotel. And the surrounding area. So pretty. I hope you got a room overlooking the river. :)

  6. James on December 2, 2008 4:19 pm

    I don’t see ‘put some holiday snaps of me and Maddy on Flickr’ on that itinary :-(

  7. James on December 2, 2008 4:21 pm

    Oops itinerary- You see why I don’t play scrabble.

  8. Xavier Emmanuelle on December 2, 2008 9:18 pm

    I’m going home in 18 days, so I sorta know the feeling. There are a whole bunch of exams to write in that time though, so hopefully that’ll keep my mind off of things when everyone else has already gone back home for Christmas!

    Your Twitter asks what’s going on in Canada: plenty of snow, the light fluffy kind that falls when it’s only about -2. Lots of studying for final exams. Christmas trees. Little kids mailing their letters to Santa. People having mini mental breakdowns over molecular biology (thankfully not me!) Oh, and MPs screaming at each other :P

    Hope your exams go really really well!!

  9. RAEB on December 2, 2008 11:30 pm

    Speaking as someone who did the troubadour thing during the holidays while growing up, I can’t stress enough the importance of having sleeping days. You’ll miss them if you don’t when you start up your real life again.

    Enjoy!!

    And ya, what’s with not being government and so then bringing down parliament a few weeks after an election? As much as I’m not really pro-Conservatives (big C), the people gave them the conch and so should get their turn. Can you imagine being led by the PQ as well as the NDP at a time of “financial crisis?”

    De-stabilizing the government does not add stability to the country in an unstable situation.

    At least that’s what I think.

    Anyways, enough politika (blagh) - I’ve a neuro and a path final to go in two weeks. Can you believe we’re entering the last semester of (ehehheh) BS?

  10. RAEB on December 2, 2008 11:31 pm

    That was a pun for basic science - for all those who would think I’m not a proper lad from the land of the cold outdoors and free-flowing maple syrup.

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