kind of at a loss where to start. i think i'm going to do the numbers thing again.
1. i signed on an apartment in the east village! it's in a nice little area just off of tompkins square park, it's near plenty of wonderful restaurants and bars (some of my most favorite ones that i've found in the city so far), and it's a little bit farther away from the subway than i'd like to be, but honestly i couldn't be too picky after all that huntin'. living in the bronx, 1 hour away from downtown, working 6 days a week, makes for difficult apartment hunting. after spending 2 full weekends looking for and finding awesome apartments that i would then lose out to other applicants because they either saw it before i did (i could never get into the city much earlier than 5pm) or they didn't need a guarantor (since i definitely do not make 40x the annual rent for most places), i decided to bite the bullet with this one. it's undersized and overpriced and it's going to be probably the smallest bathroom i've ever had, but i will be in the city and i will be happy.
2. one of my apartment hunting stories is kind of funny. it involves car accidents and lost and found cell phones. supposedly my broker's office was contacted by the new york times for "funny apartment hunting stories" and they want to interview me for mine. if they think it's funny enough, i'll be in the new york times. i'm totally going to put this on my CV if i get it, since i don't have any research publications to list.
3. i start at NYU in 6 weeks! only 5 more clinics to go! i move in 3 weeks!
4. i need to hire movers.
5. living in the bronx, in hospital housing has been very cheap and frugal and i've saved a lot of money. then i spent it all on first + last month's rent + broker's fee + (movers). my tax return came and i was excited and then paid off the credit cards and then bye bye tax return.
6. my computer's hard drive died. i was very sad because i thought i lost all my digital photos and my music (as in the stuff i composed, not the stuff i put on the ipod). turns out long ago i had moved my iphoto library to an external drive, so most of my photos were saved (hooray!). turns out i didn't move my music stuff over though. booooo.
7. so now i have an old computer with a brand new hard drive.
8. my rotation right now is at the county hospital. it fucking blows. my attending, who isn't even a "real" attending, but a teaching attending (who is basically just supposed to give us lectures and stuff but we don't follow his management), who retired and came back as a volunteer attending JUST to do teaching rounds, is a COMPLETE FUCKING ASSHOLE. he's condescending, demeaning, belittling, arrogant, narrowminded, sexist, loves to beat dead horses, loves to ask esoteric questions and then sigh and groan loudly when we say "i don't know," yells at us for management decisions that were not ours (i.e., for a patient that was admitted overnight by the nightfloat resident), and today decided to make an example of the meek 3rd year medical student that follows me (i.e., is on call with me) and berated her to the point where she was crying. fuck him, that fucking asshole. medicine should not be taught by means of fear and shame.
9. and while i'm all pissed off, good fucking riddance, jerry falwell
10. congratulations to zamelia! thankfully i have secured their wedding weekend off and will be flying back to the midwest (on the same flight as tamz and bard, interestingly enough) for the first time since last october. very excited for what will undoubtedly be in the lead for wedding of the century!
11. see you there, chasbot!
12. have you guys heard the new battles album? straight heat
13. packing up my things in the studio makes it feel like a dust bomb went off.
14. there is a 10 year high school reunion in early august, back in wisco. haven't decided if i'm going to go yet, assuming i have that weekend off. not sure if i'll be able to justify the flight home, though i know my folks would love it. besides, i gotta save up the bucks for c-wiggle's wedding in september.
15. it is so damn humid.
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