planning
Written on 14 June 2004 at 1:26 p.m.

Yay server unbusy! Today I have been pretty lazy since taking Jason to work, although the laundry is laundering. So yeah.

This morning's task has been to research preschools. (?!?!?) Yes, I am trying to decide where to send my nine-week-old-fetus-whose-heartbeat-we-haven't-even-heard-yet-so-who-knows-if-he's-even-growing-in-there (ack. freaking out about that.) child to preschool. La la. I started deciding where to go to college when I was around nine, though, so I guess this is really to be expected. Anyway. I thought I really liked Waldorf schools based on what I learned in Early Childhood Education in college, but I found some freaky crap about them on the internet so maybe I'm changing my mind. I dunno.

Speaking of education, I am so flipping excited about my schedule for next year. I lurve schedules. I remember getting my schedule in junior high and planning out routes to my classes and when I would go to my locker and what school supplies I would need. Bliss. I'm a total nerd. Anyway, I feel a little like that about my intern schedule. I want to talk about it, like, all the time. So wanna hear it? Too bad if you don't cause yeah. Or you could click away from here, of course. Anyway. Yay. And these are all pediatric things, by the way:

• July: Heme/Onc. Kids with cancer in the hospital. Sad and stressful and every-fourth-night call but good to get out of the way early. Plus there's another intern on with me, and she's nice.

• August: Wards. Sick kids in the hospital with other stuff, besides cancer. Same call.

• September: ER. Sick kids in the ER. Duh. 12-hour shifts, can't remember how many a week. I think five? Maybe six.

• October: Wards again.

• November: Development. Supposed to be pretty easy but I don't know a lot about it. There's reading and some kind of clinic. I think no call.

• December: NICU. Teeny tiny ones. Call.

• January: Clinic. Basically healthy kids going to the doctor for whatever.

• February: Elective. Will be maternity leave if all goes well, and then two more weeks of leave in either January or March.

• March: Clinic again.

• April: Newborn nursery. Basically healthy babies. Going to deliveries if there are problems. This is the one where I might have to do circs. Call every fourth night.

• May: Wards again.

• June: Adolescent Clinic. Self-explanatory. I hear it's mostly girls wanting birth control. Should basically be banker's hours.

Anyway, it seems so much more do-able when it's laid out like that.. a month of this, a month of that... instead of like INTERNSHIP.

Anyway. I have typed a ton and I want to try to enter this while I still maybe can. Yep.

xoxo