sparse, like the trees above the treeline

exhausted. pooped. tired. beat. bone weary. i'm on my second week of my surgery rotation and the schedule is nonstop, the hours are grueling, the residents are mean and last week during our lovely tropical storm, my car filled with water. you are not supposed to have to bail out a car my friends, not unless you drive it into the ocean.

gah, sorry, i'm feeling particularly grumpy at the moment probably due to my constant lack of sleep- and the fact that as hard as i try i am not a morning person and getting up at 430am sucks. i'm done venting for the moment.

anyways, the nice part about this rotation is that i get to live with my friend Lizz whom i do not see nearly enough of :)

so to get up to date-- 2 weekends ago keith and i as well as keith's friend suzie drove up on friday night to bemus point ny where i dropped them off at her family's 'camp' and continued on my merry way to visit some of my most favoritest people in the world linds and ryan in erie. saturday day was filled with hanging out, football, cooking, playing with abbie and spontaneously going to walmart at 7 o'clock at night to purchase a tent then drive to NY to go camping. keep in mind that Ryan wasn't particularly feeling well and is not a huge fan of sleeping in the outdoors--was such a good sport about going camping out in the middle of the woods. abbie was in her element with her battery operated tea lights which make her look like the dog version of madonna :) and sitting around a camp fire with a cold beer, roasting marshmallows and good friends seems to make everything in the world seem alright.

you couldn't tell too much when we got there on saturday night, but it's been cold enough in ny already that we were hitting the peak change for the leaves, below are some pictures from the camp. and i cannot believe i didn't get a single picture with lindsey and ryan!! grrr.

the camp--no bathroom

tent platforms-which keith fell off of

sorry about the scatterbrainedness of this post... :/
i'll try to keep a bit more updated on this--postings may be sparse though

a bit how i'm feeling right now...
"We are socially retarded. Four years of high school, four years of college, four years of med school. By the time we graduate we're in our late 20s and we've never done anything except go to school and think about science. Time stops. We're socially retarded... I'm that girl, who sits in the back of the class and eats her hair. And Meredith, she's 17 years old, we're all 17 years old. This is high school with scalpels, Finn."--grey's anatomy