Friday

07-13-07

Since mom left I have a horrible empty—everything. Mom is my best friend and without her, everything is quite dull and pointless. But even with all this emptiness, I feel very lucky to have the mom that I have—only Omer knows what it feels like to have a mom like ours. And we are damn lucky… poor everyone else who didn’t get to be mom’s kid. You all missed out big time!

So, nothing is really new here because I am not on a rotation at the moment. I am on a study month. Up to this point I have had two examinations. The first was the end of the year exam to complete the 3rd year, and the second was the physical examination boards. I still have one more set of boards, and that will be next month.

I was VERY nervous for the end of the year exam—the main thing was that I had a very difficult time just sitting down and studying. I did my best as far as preparation, and was relieved that the minimal preparation I managed to complete was sufficient enough to pass. Then came the physical examination boards a week later. Again, I had a difficult time studying for it—this time around, not only it was hard to study, but also it was hard to study alone… preparing for this would have been a lot more fun and constructive if I had a study partner here… but alas, my study-buddy is in Kansas City. So, I studied as much as I could and completed the exam. The results don’t come back for another 8-10 weeks, so I hope that I passed, but will now put it out of my mind and not worry about it until that time (that’s Omer’s advice actually).

And now… studying for the computer based examination is not any easier than the former two exams. I find it very difficult to study and I feel like this is a fight. This is not fun, I am not enjoying this, and I would much rather be on rotations thankyouvermuch. Any suggestions? I’ve tried making schedules and setting goals, but it is just a struggle. Gah!

On Thursday (yesterday) I went up to NYC to be with dad for a day. I had SUCH a good time with Abba!!! I was actually in a very good mood the whole day (up to the point where I had to go on the train to go back home). We visited the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art.) Now, you’ve never visited a museum until you’ve visited it with my dad! Dad’s way of visiting a museum is the perfect way (in my opinion)—he goes in, goes around several rooms and finds the pictures/sculptures/etc. he wanted to see, sees them, enjoy them and leaves :o) :o) :o) …told you… perfect! That’s basically what we did this time around—My favorite picture is Klee’s “Cat and Bird” I actually wanted a copy to add to my slightly bare walls, but they didn’t have a copy in the shop :o( (they had everything but this one) bummer. I’m not sure which picture dad liked best… I’ll have to ask him. Anyways, we then visited the park and just sat and talked and watched people. We tried to go to Carnegie, but they are doing renovations for the next few months. Then we ate some yummy sushi and we went back to Penn station and I got on the train and left :o( It was a very nice day with dad.

Today was another study-struggle day and so I finally gave up and went out on a nice long walk. We have a bunch of geese around here, and several of them hissed at me (!) when I walked too close to them. I never heard a goose hiss, it was an interesting experience.

The quilt for my friend Elizabeth’s baby girl is almost complete! The only things that need to be done are the binding and the adding the baby’s name and year of birth. I wanted to be done with it this week, but I don’t think that it will happen. This is the first time I will bind with a binding I have cut out myself… I’ve never done that before—the last quilt I just used the back edges to create a binding (or rather, an edge as it wasn’t really a binding). So… I have to figure out the width of the binding for this. We’ll see. I read the directions several times and I can envision it in my mind’s eye now… so all I need is the energy to complete this project.

The “Furries” are doing well. They sleep most of the day and enjoy the sun.

That’s about it from here.

Reut