merry christmas

What a strange holiday season for me this year. It's the first one being totally away from any family, which is pretty depressing, because that is what the holidays are supposed to be about. I have been working so much up to Christmas that I didn't really notice until the 24th that it is very lonely spending the holidays alone. I actually asked one of my colleagues if he wanted me to work for him on Christmas. Normally I would never do that but when you are totally by yourself, you are not missing anything by being at work. He declined, so here I am talking to my dog on Christmas morning. Thankfully a friend invited me over for Christmas dinner, so I won't spend the whole day alone but it will be with someone else's family. I guess I should be thankful for her though, because she is the only person who offered to have me over.

Enough of moping! I'm getting a new tri-bike soon! 2008 cervelo p2c dura-ace! I decided to name her Brit, after Chrissie Wellington (she's British and won Kona on this very same bike) and of course my favorite pop tart, Miss Spears ;) The bike should be here any day now, it had to come from the cervelo warehouse in canada, so had to go thru customs and everything. It was the only 48cm frame left in North America. And it's all mine. Look out people, I'm going to kick more butts in 09 than I did in 08. For real.

ahh... ortho

Back on ortho this month. Even though there are things I dislike (long hours, millions of patients on the service, inefficient hospital, eternal fear of doing something wrong), I love it. Today I got to scrub in to surgery for the first time since August and got to do about 60% or more of an ankle fracture. Woo hoo! Very cool, I love the power tools. I felt a little disorganized today especially since I had 11 new patients today to learn. It'll be better tomorrow.