February 22, 2009
· Filed under Life, Medical, Running
As many people are aware, there are now work hour restrictions for residents which means we get to upload our hours to a website on a regular basis. I just did that and realized that I worked 84 hours this past week. No wonder I’m feeling tired. And this 84 hours was during a week where I had a golden weekend (2 entire days off in a row), which means I basically crammed all those hours into 5 days. phew. Despite that, I still managed to run 16 miles this week. Of course, most of this was over the past two days (7 miles on Satuday, 5.5 today), but I’m still pretty pleased. Nonetheless, I’m really not looking forward to going back to work tomorrow. This rotation is very high stress and very emotionally exhausting.
On the plus side, I had a fabulous golden weekend. Got home post call on Friday around 2 pm and slept until 6:45 pm when my husband called to let me know we had friends coming over and they would be there in 15 minutes. Gotta love it. Managed to drag myself out of bed for some all-you-can-eat brazilian barbeque. Delicious. Fell asleep at 10 pm and didn’t wake up until noon the next day when my husband dragged me out of bed. silly boy. Had a lovely run in the balmy 40 degree weather and then enjoyed looking at all the strange food at Super 88. Then we celebrated a belated Valentine’s Day by making some authentic Thai food (Tom Yum soup and Chiang Mai noodles). Delicious. Today I woke up and met some friends to go running and then headed over to Sound Bites for a tasty brunch. Watched O Brother Where Art Thou and then had a lovely afternoon nap before heading over the Formaggio’s for a BBQ, cheese and beer tasting. Now I’m getting ready for bed as I prepare for another difficult week.
February 14, 2009
· Filed under Life
February 6, 2009
· Filed under Life, Pictures
It may seem that all we did in San Diego was stare at cute animals, but that is not entirely true. We also slept, ran, ate and drank. Ah, the perfect combination.
Running was actually one of my favorite parts of vacation. We usually got up every day around 8 or 9 am and picked a beautiful place to both sightsee and run before lunch. We ran at Mission Bay Park, the Embarcadero, and La Jolla Cove. Unfortunately, we failed to bring the camera with us on these runs which is really a pitty because they were gorgeous places to run. All of them were on the water with great scenery. It was very fun to explore various parts of the city on our feet. To give you a brief idea, here are some pictures of La Jolla Cove. We decided it was so beautiful on our run that we had to go back later to look some more.
A view of the cliffs:
Me, enjoying the late afternoon sun:
Sunset. For once, I took a relatively decent picture.
We also had a great time checking out the awesome breweries in San Diego. As most of you know, Eddie and I are rather crazy about craft beer so San Diego was a lot of fun to explore from that perspective.
Here’s Eddie staring in disbelief at the awesome beer supply at Stone:
And here he is doing a little dance of joy:
And here I am proudly displaying our collection of glassware at Pizza Port:
Had an interesting time checking out the food in San Diego. Eddie insisted on trying numerous taquerias. Apparently San Diegans enjoy combining french fries with Mexican food. I had a California burrito which included steak, shrimp, and french fries, in addition to other normal burrito food. And Eddie had carne asada fries which seemed to basically be nachos but with fries instead of chips. Here’s Eddie enjoying this tasty dish:
February 5, 2009
· Filed under Animals!, Pictures
February 2, 2009
· Filed under Animals!, Pictures
After a visit to the San Diego zoo, here are my top picks for my next pet (not listed in any particular order). Sadly, there are no big cats pictured because they are not very photogenic. Silly animals. And have no fear, Spenser would obviously stay and simply rule over whatever animal we got.
1. Sloth bear
2. Serval
3. Wolf
4. Cheetah AND Golden Retriever
5. Polar bear
6. Koala
