Current mood:	dirty
Current music:	Lady GaGa-Beautiful, Dirty, Rich

Maybe a bright sandy beach is gonna bring you back
Dude, guys? It's almost 2009. That's frickin' wierd.

See, 2009 has always been just this nebulous year far in the future. Put on a million forms under the "when do you expect to graduate" spot. And now it's almost here. A real thing. And it's creeping me out.

In 78 days, I find out where I match (on my nieces' fifth birthday no less). In 128 days, I graduate and have a frickin' M.D. attached to my name. In 182 days-ish, I start residency.

What? How? When did this happen? Somewhere in all that working and goofing off and complaining, time passed and I'm literally almost done with this crap. I am both ready and pee-my-pants terrified. Gah.

Also, there is the little problem that 2009 may just be The Year Without Psych. See, I have only bs required rotations left to do for med school. And any program I get into for residency requires months of internal medicine purgatory. My top two have a semester of internal medicine/semester of psych and you more or less pick which you do first. My plan has always been to get purgatory out of the way first. But that will mean that I won't have any psychiatry until 2010. Or at least no direct psych, because all patients are psych patients in some way. It's just gonna probably be the suck for an entire calendar year. One of my new year's resolutions is to keep the Anger Toast to a minimum.

Anywho, it's that time again. Time for Kate's Personal Favorites of 2008! Aren't you excited? I had to omit some categories this year. Like I didn't read enough comic book series to have a favorite. And there weren't any textbooks good enough for the textbook category. So yea, here it is!


Best Movie Seen in the Theater: The Dark Knight!!!!!! Fangirl squee!

Best Movie Seen on DVD/Video: The Amateurs. Not some great work of cinema, but one of the best times.

Best Free-Reading Book: Sin and the Second City by Karen Abbott. I just noticed that the three years I've been doing this, only nonfiction books have won this title. My mother would be proud

Best Erotica: Smut Vol. 1 from the editors of Nerve.com

Best Graphic Novel: Comic Book Tattoo by Various Peoples. Fangirl squee!

Best Album: Third by Portishead

Best New Band: Emilie Autumn

Best Song: "I Want My Innocence Back" by Emilie Autumn

Best New Food: Any one of the fabulous shrimp thingies Alia (not Federow, actually pronounced differently) has made. I <3 my shrimps.

Best New Place: Kit Kat Lounge or a hotel by the Cleveland airport

Best TV show: Supernatural! Fangirl squee!

Best Teacher: Dr. Joseph Yount, PTSD clinic. Seriously, I wanna be this guy when I grow up.

Best Factoid: That in Minnesota, it is illegal for four women to leave in an house/apartment together with alcohol. Because that is a brothel. Just learned that from my sister over Christmas. And oh, is it hilarious.

Best Class: PTSD clinic. You want anything done awesome, you have to do it yourself.


And there you have it. A lot has gone on this year that deserves reflection, but we all know my feelings about that noise. I will say this, though. Paul Newman was one of my most favorite actors of all time and I never, ever thought of him as an old man. He will be very much missed by me.

Now it's time to get these holidays over so I can get back to work. All this meaningless goofing off is officially rotting my brain. As evidenced by my sister's musical taste getting seeping into my daily life.