So I changed the look of this blog today. I was tired of the old look. I decided that may have been the reason I hadn't posted in almost a year. So here we go again. I'm hoping this new look will spark some creative thoughts and perhaps I might blog them when I think of them. The thing about blogging for the past couple of years is that I feel like I NEVER HAVE TIME!! Residency is so time consuming!! Ok ok. I'll admit it. I spend more time on facebook than I probably spend at work. But the point is that I just always feel "pressed" for time. Like blogging is not as important as all the other tasks on my to-do list. And thus it never gets done. For example, today. I'm post call today which means the possibility of getting a to-do list written and accomplished. My list for today is as follows:
1. laundry (i have not washed my sheets since my family came to visit during 2010)
2. Unpack my bag from my trip home for Christmas (the latency of this is embarrassing to my soul)
3. Study about every antibiotic I will be using as an ENT surgeon so that by some slim chance I might look like less of a fool than usual at grand rounds tomorrow morning.
4. Walk my dog. (its been so long since she walked outside that her nails are actually growing under like those people in the Guiness Book of World Records.)
5. Read a book for pleasure. (Honesty time. I never actually do this.)
6. Log all the surgeries I've done since last year. (This takes forever and I'm super bad about keeping up with it.)
7. Call family, boyfriend, friends and give my best effort to stay involved in each of these people's lives.
8. Clean the bathroom. (This has never happened in the past. Doubtful to happen in the future.)
9. Grocery shopping. (I'm not entirely certain why I continue to feel that I need to have a well stocked fridge. I eat 95% of my meals at the hospital cafeteria. And if I'm at home I'm ordering Thai takeout. It must be some sort domestic quality that I wish I could have in my life right now, but the reality is it will likely be at least a decade before I get my life settled in enough to be whipping up edible meals from a well stocked refridgerator.
10. Sleep. Oh sleep how I love you. This is so incredibly important. This to-do can make or break the rest of the week. This must be done. No excuses.
So anyways. blah blah blah. But the point is that I rarely squeeze in a half an hour to blog. But I'm really gonna try. I promise. I LOVE to write (and honesty. often wonder why I didn't become a writer instead of a doctor). I think blogging is a hobby that I need in my life. I think it will increase my joy. So here we go again.
