So...

Long radio silence, but just nothing much to write home about. The stack of medical journals is getting overwhelming, as is the 'required reading' for the endo rotation.

Thank god I can ignore it all and get lost in a novel now and again.

I must admit to feeling a little... well, PUSHED. I still have to take Step 3 of the US medical licensing exam. And then apply for a minnesota liscence, and then take the pediatric boards once I'm done with my residency program and then PASS the... yeah, you get the idea.

Anyway, I'm not overly thrilled with the mounds of 'extra' (as in, above and beyond the 80-hour weeks) work that's piling up every time I look over my shoulder. I keep hoping, like the laundry that's never done, that if I don't look it will get bored and go away. But it doesn't.

Reluctantly, I think it may be time for me to focus on my medical education instead of writing and/or reading for a while. The problem is balance, though: how to balance all this out. If I do nothing but medical stuff I will slowly go insane. If I do nothing but writing stuff, I will become unemployable and divorced. If I do nothing but mommy-spouse stuff, I will...

Glrgh.

Anyway, I scored a half-day today so it's off to pick up the kiddo. Onward. Upward.

You know the drill.