spok-tacular!

its been a glorious couple months. 2 months of easy rotations with weekends off followed by a mini vacation.

my intern year is now officially over and i am considered a "senior resident". its sort of the same feeling i had at the transition between medical school and residency. yesterday i was a lowly intern. today i am a senior. i feel no different or smarter, yet the job changes.

great friends came to visit and we had fun. i didn't realize how much i missed john and eithne until i saw them. it was just like old times. we stayed up late, drank too much wine, hackeysacked a little. i hope we see them again relatively soon.

here they are at pike place mark.


we've definitely gotten rusty. but still- ski jumps, beaver shots, and leaping stags abounded.

we just got back from spokane. sean and i went there for the weekend and stayed at our friend's parents' house. it was my first time back in almost 2 years. we ate at my favorite restaurant, gordy's. it hasn't changed a bit. which is good and bad, i guess. spokane in general hasn't changed since we moved there 11 years ago.

we went riding a few times in the park where i learned. it was so refreshing to be in open space. i encountered less then 10 people over the course of 3 different bike rides. of course, my mountain bike skills continue to regress. i walked things i used to ride and continued to walk things i used to walk. i'm at a place now, though, where i really don't care. i'm not trying to impress anyone with my riding. i just want to have a good time. and i did!

spokane is always on the short list of places to live when sean and i grow up. after visiting, its higher on my list. we'll see.


mmm... butter.... (note my feeble attempts to utilize picassa's tools)



cool barn.

tomorrow i start back to work. i'm going to sequim, wa for 2 months. i have to go on a ferry AND drive on the world's longest floating bridge in a saltwater tidal basin all by myself to get there. i'm looking forward to it (except for the driving, ferry, and floating bridge), but i'll miss jub jub tremendously. i'll miss sean, too.

check out that tongue.



well, i'd better get packing. come see me on the beautiful olympic peninsula.