sitting in the student lounge

It's 8:15am and my attending (boss) still hasn't paged me. I've been here since 6:45.

So here I sit in purgatory (student lounge) waiting for the call to meet him and review the patients I saw this morning and write orders etc. But it's probably not going to happen. And he's probably seen the same patients already and set them up for the day without me. So me being here is redundant and a waste of everyone's time and resources (mostly mine. I'd rather be asleep, eating, or watching TV). Ordinarily this would be blessed study time but since I have no upcoming exams I am just stuck in the hospital with nothing to do until he releases me.

Also I am trying to hide from another medical student who wants me to come over to her place on Sunday and so every minute I spend in the lounge is a minute I risk running into her please please let me miss her today

My idea of a perfect 4th year rotation is one where I can see patients in the morning, round promptly at 9 and go home for the rest of the day. This sitting around is just awful.

9:35am UPDATE
Just got back from visiting another patient of his -- he's written notes in the chart, timestamped at 8:35am! Bastard! He's in the hospital somewhere (or was here) and hasn't paged me. It's time for mutiny, I'm going home if he doesn't call before lunch.

1:35pm UPDATE
Went home at 10am out of frustration. Got a call from the attending at 1:30 telling me there's nothing to do, go home. YESSSS!! Saved myself 3.5 hours of sitting in the lounge. Instead, I got to sit at home and watch PBS while eating chocolate.

I need a puppy

and this is the puppy I would like, please:

I'm OLD and you may call me Ranty McYellypants

I'm sitting at home watching the Dew tour Toyota Championship at Northstar -- Men's Halfpipe and some excerpts from the Slopestyle.
I can't handle this for the following reasons:
1. The announcers are driving me TOTALLY INSANE with their commentary. I disagree with their analysis of the trick/run about 40% of the time, and the rest of the time their diction makes me crazy. How old is this guy anyway who is telling me that Shaun White's Cab 1080 is being done with "surgical precision" but not as "technical" as Torstein's?!? I mean, ShamWow. I mean, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
2. Snowboarding is not an objectively judged event. Competitive snowboarding is ridiculous. Being featured in the Olympics is ridiculous. I'd much rather see small-scale jam sessions or contests among crews. Please see complaint 1.
3. Sideline reporter snow bunnies often don't have insightful, interesting questions for their interviews. Have you noticed this, too? Neat. I don't blame the bunnies. I blame the producers.
4. I can't keep up with all these hot young up-and-coming whippersnappers. I officially give up. There's too many of them out there and I'm OLD and there's not enough room in my brain to keep track of the latest flavor-of-the-season. They all deserve respect and they all should just leave me the hell alone with their cute little video biographies!
5. At some point, we are going to run out of new kinds of plaid, right? The snow fashion industry is going to break because it's broken me. I recently bought a Holden jacket with little skellingtons printed all over it. I MEAN COME ON I AM ALMOST 30 YEARS OLD WTF.
6. Mostly all my rage comes from the fact that I'm not a part of all this anymore. If I were still in Tahoe/Mammoth living the dream I'd probably not be having a brain aneurysm right now.
7. I feel a strange need to drink some Mountain Dew.

4 year retrospective

courtesy of Natalie Dee