That was a long hiatus!  In my absence, I have been celebrating holidays with family, doing 11 residency interviews, and visiting friends all over the west.  It felt good to be out there...though each visit was brief, I felt like I really saw a lot of people and didn't have to rush like I have the past few years that I've lived in Virginia.  

The interviews went well.  I met so many residents and faculty that are all really excited about the future of Family Medicine and I would be happy to train at any of the programs I saw.   And I think I did a good job of picking awesome locations as well.  Most places I looked have housing options that sit right next to great outdoors activities, so I could be out hiking or biking or paddling or skiing any day that I'm not working until dark 'o clock.

And tomorrow, I go back to work.  After about 2.5 months of not even thinking about medicine.  I start geriatrics at the VA hospital.  I am definitely excited to go back and to have more purpose in my day-to-day life, but also intimidated by my own rustiness.   My schedule is set up so that I can see a wide variety, starting with outpatient clinics, then nursing home, palliative care and finally house calls, plus wound care rounds when I'm with the inpatient teams.  

And this may be totally detrimental to my psyche, but...

30 days until Rank Lists are due

53 days until THE MATCH!