Oh, hello

It's hard to pick back up when you haven't blogged in so long. I want to do a huge recap and tell all the crazy stories from the last two months -- TWO MONTHS! -- but that would be a novel in itself. And I have very little free time these days. So maybe it's better to just start back as though I never left. Even though that would be weird, too. So here are a few references to some of the things I would tell you about if I had all the time in the world, and maybe someday I'll come back and tell you about them for real.

• My graduation speech was awesome, thank you very much. I got the DVD in the mail last week, but haven't watched it yet.
• The two weeks between graduation and the wedding were crazy. Crazy fun, but still crazy.
• The wedding was amazing. I love looking at our pictures. I need to share the Flickr link with everyone.
• The honeymoon was amazing. We need to write it all down before we forget all about it.
• Moving to Philadelphia was not much fun. We were tired -- no, exhausted -- and packed everything up in 36 hours. Then drove 12 hours to Pennsylvania. The moving truck got damaged mysteriously, and of course, we had declined the damage insurance. We just got the estimate this week. It's bad, but we were imagining numbers in the 4 or 5 figures, so it's really not that bad at all, by comparison. I drove through the night, slept at various roadside stops, arrived at my mother-in-law's house at something like 6:30 in the morning, and slept for two hours before we had to wake up to go to our mortgage closing. We pushed through it, said hi to our new house, and went back to Downingtown to sleep all afternoon. We saw Up that evening, and I cried and cried and cried. There were a surprising number of touching moments, and I was just so emotionally drained that the tears kept flowing. "This is what residency will feel like," I thought.
• And now I'm a doctor! My white coat is ridiculously too big and I haven't had a chance to get it tailored. I took care of a former Eagle for a week, and I told him he needed to finish college. I've felt maybe 3 cervices, and have had no idea how dilated any of them were. I'm an expert in hypertension and diabetes -- which will be useful in OB/Gyn, no doubt -- but I know even less OB/Gyn than I did as a med student, because I'm spending my first two months on medicine/ICU. I've had three overnight calls so far, and a "good night" consists of an hour of uninterrupted sleep. I have not had to do CPR on a real person yet, and I have not delivered any babies. I haven't cried at work once (there was one almost time), and I haven't come home and cried since the first week. I've had two golden weekends (this is #2) and no black weekends, and I've come very close three separate times this week to discharging all of my patients, which would mean I wouldn't have to come in the next day. Each time, though, the patients foil me at the last minute. Oh well.
• Our house is 85% set up, which means it's very functional. It's not completely put together, though. We have lots of little projects, and some big projects. In some ways, we have less space than we did in Louisville, and in some ways, we have more. The net effect is that we will still need to get rid of some stuff, so that's happening slowly.

And I think that's it for the updates. If, next week, I all of a sudden tell you a good medical story (I know you like them, after all, and I've got some good ones!), I'll consider it fair, since I've now updated you, and you know I'm an intern in Philadelphia, and no longer a med student in Louisville.