#381

Residency applications opened today and...I'm not submitting mine. I have a reason - and it's not the invitations, Mom -I won't meet with the pediatrics residency adviser until Thursday. Sure, it's late in the season for a meeting, but with traveling so much lately, this was the time the adviser and I could find. I've received assurances up and down from everyone that 2 days won't make a difference, but I was sitting in class today next to someone who was sending emails out to his letter writers reminding them that applications opened today...Very anxiety-inducing and, also, dare I say it, a bit forward for a student to write to a professor (at least in my opinion). And the thing that will hold my application up the most? Finding someone to take my damn head shot. I forgot about that detail. This silly picture will follow me throughout residency, so it needs to be good...

...All of which is to say, I've been feeling really down on myself lately, wishing I had paid more attention to the details compounding themselves...until I was reminded of the Amelie soundtrack, and wouldn't you know it, the dulcet music box tones work for me. (Quelle surprise, non?)

And also, this really odd song by Johnny Cash that appeared as I drove my way through the amazing Catskill mountains on Sunday. (It's not a road-trip without Cash...)

The Wanderer - U2 Feat. Johnny Cash