Weekly Update: Back from CaRMS!

• Current Scholastic Pursuits
• After ‎15 flights, 18 hours in the car, 8 Canadian cities, 14 days, and $280 for taxis... CaRMS is finally over! Overall, everything went really well. I only had one crash and burn interview but it was at a school I considered not even applying to, so I didn't sweat it too much. In fact, it was good experience how to keep my cool under fire. The rank list has been submitted and Penguin has agreed to come down for match day on March 7. We've agreed to have both champagne and whiskey at the ready when twelve noon rolls around. If the news is good - we'll pop the champagne. If the news is not so good, we'll start taking shots of whiskey until my new destination for the next 5 years grows on us or we're too numb to care. Let's all keep our fingers crossed for good news, ok?
• In the meantime, I've started my last rotation of clerkship: family medicine. The clinic runs from 9:15 to 3:30 on weekdays and there's no call. It's about as fluff a rotation as you can get. Fortunately, this means that I've had a good chance to (a) catch up on my exhaustion post-CaRMS and (b) develop and initiate my LMCCQE review/study plans. The end is nigh and I can see the light - on Match Day, we'll find out if that light is sunshine or it's an on-coming train. Woot woot!

• Recipe I've Been Drooling Over
• the recipe this week is called "Badass Beet Salad!" and it includes candycane beets, which are pretty much my favourite veggie ever. I hope you try it out!

• Favourite Thing on Etsy this Week
• Compass Cufflinks! That's brilliant!

• What I'm Reading Right Now
• I just finished The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. It was a tremendous book made all the better for me thinking that it was a fiction novel until I was halfway through and clued in that it was actually very real and autobiographical.

• TED Talk I Watched This Week
• The Story of Stuff is a great video by Annie Leonard that will really make you think twice about your current lifestyle and the impact it's having on our future. Not a TED Talk, but definitely worth watching.

• Song of the Week
• King of Anything by Sara Bareilles

• Thing I'm Most Grateful for This Week
• Spending a weekend of complete R&R with Penguin! We went to bed early and slept in late. We ate until we were stuffed at every meal. We laughed and cuddled. We spent hours in an outdoor hot tub becoming human raisins. There was sunshine and snow. There was good wine. And now, there is no more stress. Thanks so much, Penguin. xo 

• Thing I'm Most Looking Forward to This Week
• Writing my last PPI EVER on Wednesday! Sadly, I hear that everyone walks out feeling awful but I plan to raise a glass of victory later that night regardless.

• Bunny Photo of the Week
• Bunnies have it tough, too, you know. It's exhausting to be cute 24/7.