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What have I been doing lately? I make my own hours at my work now, so i tend to have a good amount of time to take care of other things. I'm applying to medical school, studying for gmats and eventually applying to MBA programs. Basically, I want to go back to school. I found that life, as it was constituted while i was working full time, was not for me and a waste of my existence.
My shadowing experience in Missouri was amazing. I was with 4 doctors there, and I really wish that my experience with doctors here in charlotte was as nice. I was in a really rural are, and the docs there were all home grown, went away to study and then came back to practice, so they basically knew all their patients (it kinda reminded me of little house on the praire), it was all pretty surreal. They were really patient and caring, and they all took me under their wing for the short time i was with them. At the risk of sounding really juvenile, it was frickin cool.
Since (and before) then, I made a discovery in my house that has led to wholesale changes. I was rearranging my room and accidentally pulled up some carpet in a corner to discover that we had beautiful hardwood floors underneath! Ironically, i had been pushing the family to change out the flooring anyway. Well, as it turned out, this "beautiful" flooring was covered up a few months before we bought the place in 96. The previous owners (a nice old italian couple) had many pets. So the more carpet we removed, the more stains we found. Pretty nasty stuff. So over the course of the last couple months, we stripped and sanded and buffed and varnished and clear coated, etc. And now the floors are beautiful again. Since we were doing all that, and another big event is coming along, and it was hindu new year, we also decided to repaint the house, and I've been in charge of redesigning the layout of all the rooms. You would have to have seen the house before and after to really grasp the dramatic change, its friggin noice. I guess i actually did get passed to me some of my dad's handiness.
So this "big event" is that my uncle and his family (the only sibling of my mother) have finally gotten their immigration papers and are coming to america right around thanksgiving. Its him, his wife, and my two cousins who are both now college aged. I think it would be a much bigger deal if I hadnt seen them last year during my sabbatical to india, but its pretty cool anyway.
I went up to blacksburg, Va last weekend for a basketball tournament. As usual we got to the finals, and as usual we lost in heartbreaking fashion--this time a last second heave off of a long rebound. Absolutely unreal. This one is really haunting me, i still have dreams about it. And what really bugs me is that we were absolutely distroying this team, up 18 at one point. Regardless, it was fun to see all my teammates again. Since college we've spread so we dont really see each other anymore unless we get together to go play at one of these tourneys.
So, after all this excitement, I'm back to working on applications. I'm looking forward to this weekend too. I'm going to Chapel Hill, its a friend's bday, its homecoming, and some other people who'd scattered are coming back into town. I wonder sometimes if other schools have the same draw for people as Chapel Hill does for me. |
