Come Live With Me, and Be My Sweet Fluffy Ball of Love

Every month in my life right now is a new beginning. Every month, I start over at a new job. Every month, I get a new boss, a new workplace, a new kind of work, a new population of patients, a new boyfriend. And usually, a new place to move.

Just kidding about the boyfriend.

However, not this month! This coming weekend is, truly, a free weekend! I continue my rural rotation for another month and have only one thing to study for... a drug list for Dr. King and I'm golden.

The main priority for today is to search for an apartment. One thing has been blatantly missing from my life these last few months: my cat. For the previous year she had been my constant loving companion; the last few months, she has been living with Ashlie and Lewis as I move all around. Which she loves.. :/ But I miss her and I'm ready to cohabitate with her sweet fluffy little ball of goodness once more. And, as it seems everyone I know has a pet-free lease, it appears I'm going to have to find something by myself for at least the next 6 months.

So, the apartment search begins. Once it is completed, the job search will begin. As the Indian man on the plane said with a smile... the world is my oyster. I hope cats like oysters.

Marlow Is Busy

Apparently, Marlow isn't as slow as I'd thought it might be. All the old folks are getting sick in their nursing homes, high school girls are needing their sports physicals, everyone in the hospital has to be followed, oh then there's the free clinic; and did I forget to mention Dr. King's clinic where we work 40 hours every week?

Marlow is definitely where its at. It being the work.

Mr. Lucas Strikes Again

I'm always forgetting to put new pictures of us up. Here we are a few weekends ago at Quartz Mountain. He went for a climbing thing and I was there for a women's retreat. Here he is in action, making me breakfast. What a sweetheart!

Beautiful Marlow

Well, time is flying. The spring has come and spring in Marlow is one beautiful thing. Everything here is green and the trees lining Main Street are old. There are gorgeous multicolored wild flowers all along the drive from the hospital in Duncan to the clinic in Marlow. Bright little flowers and old, beautiful trees lining the street of your new town in the rain... I'd say its a treat.

I got here on Sunday night after a not-small detour which included me getting to visit the Wichita Mountains once again. They are beautiful at sunset if you are driving in from the north. I hope I can go out there a lot on this rotation, but we'll see. Supposedly the hours for this stint are somewhere in the 9:30am to 9:30pm area. It looks to be no lie, so far.

I think I like small towns. The people here seem almost the exact same to me as everywhere else that I have been so that's no different. The hospital I get to live at is nice. Dr. King, my preceptor for May and June, is a great person and a good doctor. More good news... there might be someplace to go horseback riding around here that lets you gallop on the horses. People in small towns seem like they might be more likely to let you gallop on their horses than just make you stick to boring old trail rides. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and looking into it.

On a more personal note: I need a break. I feel worn out.