30 Something Baby Doc

Last night I went to dinner with a few of the residents. It was a going away celebration for one of our recently graduated cheif residents T. She's moving to North Carolina to join an ob-gyn private pratice. We went to Carrabas on the northside of town. I'm not a huge Italian food fan but it was pretty good.

T is hilarious, she's been single throughout her entire residency , but plans to end the cycle when she gets to NC. She already signed up for multiple speed dates and is combing the internet personals trying to set up dates before she even get there....LoL

The check came, which is quickly becoming a delimma for me. I want to be generous and pay for the entire check, but I also don't want to offend the husbands of the female residents by implying they cant afford to pay for their own wives. I decided to just pay for T and myself and picked up both bottles of wine, desserts and the tip. That was acceptable to all;-)

After dinner I was planning on going home and completing my case list, but TH a 3rd year resident suggested everyone meet at my place for drinks and a few games of Texas Hold'em (poker). I didn't want say no because I appreciate the fact that the residents feel comfortable hanging out with an attending (myself). Fortunately I keep my place fairly clean, but unplanned parties kinda suck. You always hope you don't have dirty underwear lying in plain site.

Once the residents got back to my place, they invited even more people:-) we actually had a really good time. I was even able to introduce some them to hpnotiq.

Texas Hold'em is a cool game, I even won a hand. Just one. Every one left around 1am mainly because most of them had to work on Sat, (I'm glad I'm not a resident anymore).

I actually woke up early this morning with slight hangover, I went to the gym and worked out and I hope to complete this case list today or tommorrow. I got to get some rest this weekend, because I'll be super busy next week including major surgery planned on a 400 lb patient ...what joy!!!!!.