Crazy weekend stories

Some random stories about the guys I meet this weekend on Friday and Saturday night…

- Filipino guy named Antwon, seriously Antwon?, who is 22. Asks me if I like kids and says “Oh I want ten kids” while holding up ten fingers. He probably said this about five times then saying we should go start making babies. Wow…

- Another young guy, can’t remember his name, but is a club promoter from Vegas. Stupidly in my drunken state I forgot to give him a false number and he wouldn’t stop texting me that night when I got home. Should have told him “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, well uh technically it is San Francisco”. But basically had to tell him to lose my number, ouch.

- Guy that my friend meet a couple weeks ago, Ray, who is a 35 year-old stock broker. He tells me I’m just what he’s looking for and he wants to get married and have kids soon, like real soon. Scary!

- Friend of Ray’s from Miami. Total meathead. Kept giving me crap for drinking water at the end of the night and asking me annoying questions like “What drives you?”. I should have said “Telling people like you to f* off”.

All of this leaves me with a lot of good stories but gets me wondering when am I going to meet some quality guys??

Update

I haven’t posted in awhile maybe because I’ve been preoccupied with my new distraction, facebook, and also my mom has been in town for over a week. Her visit has been good, but long. Once we hit five days I kinda started counting the days. Feel bad saying that, but I just wanted to get back to my life and not have to be planning activities everyday.

So I got my boards score back last Wednesday and it was pretty good, better than the national average and probably good enough for the more competitive specialties in case I change my mind about what to go into. It feels pretty anti-climactic though. Didn’t really get to celebrate and now it’s been almost a week. I’m getting my tattoo on Monday though, so I guess that will sort of be a celebration. I’m hoping it won’t hurt too much, it’s been so long since I got my first one I can’t really remember what it felt like. It will probably take a couple hours too. But it’s going to be great…

Also have a new idea for a painting I’m going to do. I just need to get some more canvas and frames. It’s weird I would like to have some nice landscapes to put up in my place but the only time I feel inspired to paint something is when I’m going through some personal turmoil and then I end up painting something symbolic that I don’t feel like hanging up. Oh well. It was kinda cool my mom mentioned that she thought I was going to be an artist growing up. Sometimes I wish I had and that I had spent more time doing art since high school. I probably could have been pretty good. Just got to try to make time now. I think it might be a good thing to keep up during grad school and something to do in my free time instead of drinking and partying.

So that’s about it, I don’t feel much like posting any stories or anything, I’m pretty tired and also sick. I’ll post after the tattoo and maybe even a photo…

Sucks

It’s good to see my classmates but it sucks when I run into someone who is outside my small circle of 5 or 6 friends and they ask me how my husband’s doing. I’m like oh yeah, he’s fine. And they say, oh I bet he’s happy to have his wife back after all that boards studying. And I’m like, oh yeah, ha ha. But what sucks even worse is when I see one of my classmates at the restaurant I’m at on a date and they think I’m cheating because they don’t know. Or when a mutual friend who we haven’t talked to in four months leaves a voicemail and says we should all hang out, the four of us. I just can’t bring myself to tell these people. It’s just easier to pretend…

You know you’re a grad student when…

You check the balance in your checking account and it’s -$1.50, then you go to the ATM to deposit two dollars. It doesn’t help either that the balance in your savings is 7 cents. Seriously where did all my money go this month? Alcohol and gas maybe?

Facebook

If you’re linking in from Facebook, congratulations you’ve found my blog. After a year and a half I’ve decided I’ll open it up to people I know and not just random strangers over the internet. Welcome to my crazy life…

On second thought, I removed the link. There was too much gossip going around at the adcom meeting tonight and I think publishing this blog might come back to haunt me.

Tip #3

If you invite someone to dinner on a date then buy a freaking entree not an appetizer. I swear this has happened to me twice, one guy ordered guacamole and that is it, the other ordered a salad appetizer. What am I going to do, order a big dinner and sit there eating by myself? So I have to sit there hungry and sipping on a drink wondering what time I’ll be home so I can eat dinner. And trust me I’m not a fun person to be around when I’m starving, I get really cranky and irritable. Maybe I have fasting hypoglycemia, hmmm, or did I totally make this up? Three weeks and I’ve forgotten everything already!!

Tall girls need love too

This match.com experience has been interesting and at the same time really really frustrating. I think what makes match difficult is that you can see a person’s interests and lifestyle but you have no idea about the physical chemistry, or even basic things like the person’s height, weight or body-type, until you meet them.

This past weekend I went all the way to freaking Santa Cruz, to meet up with a match guy. He was a chemistry grad student and we seemed to have a lot of the same interests. It actually wasn’t so bad, the beach was really nice and I hadn’t been to Santa Cruz in a couple years. But seriously, don’t tell me that you think I’m lying about my height. I have been the same height since high school and every time I go to the doctor it’s 5′ 9.5″. I guess I should go back to saying I’m 5′10″ and not 5′9″ so it won’t appear that I’m deceiving people, but does half an inch really make a big difference? Seriously. He said he was 5′11″, but he definitely wasn’t that tall. I should bring a freaking tape measure with me next time. I mean if I guy is going to “be intimidated”, that’s what he said, by tall women then make sure you look at that in the profile next time. It’s not like I’m a big intimidating person, I’m just tall and skinny, jeez. I have heard from a friend that all guys on there add a couple inches to their height. This does seem to be the case which ends up screwing me over. If the guy says he’s 5′8″ he’s actually 5′6″ which makes him really short compared to me (this happened last week). Man can’t people just be honest?

I’m not sure this internet dating thing is really going to work for me. Maybe I should just go back to meeting people in bars or where ever.

Boards is over!!!

Took the boards yesterday, what a relief! I am so happy to have it over with. It was tough but pretty much like I expected it to be, nothing really outrageous.

A week or so before the test I discovered these online tests you can buy (or get from a friend) that were very representative of the real thing. I wish I had done more of those and I would highly recommend doing a couple to see what the real thing might be like. You can find them on NBME website. Also USMLE World was very representative of the real thing, with a little less pathology than is on World and instead a more wide mix of pharm, physio, biochem and path.

So being done feels great! I went out to watch Kansas win the NCAA basketball tournament last night and that pretty much made my day! Kinda have a hangover today but it was worth it. I’m not up to much this month, have people visiting me throughout the month and an MSTP retreat, then I’ll be starting a lab rotation in May. Definitely feels good not to have to study :)