Sitting Here in Limbo

My little sister, B, is celebrating her 24th birthday on Saturday. We are going to Chifa for some comidas latinas, and Matt and I are very excited. However, as of today, we are not only celebrating her birthday. It seems B got herself a job as a research coordinator in a certain Urology department. This should be incredibly fun! I am hoping that we'll be able to do some interesting work together. But, wait, there's more. Little B has applied to the Penn post-baccalaureate program to complete her pre-requisites before doing the Penn NP program. I am beside myself. How amazing to have two NPs in one family. I would love to work together, we could be such a force, and I know she wants to do psych and behavior change therapy which is so important in female (and male) urology. I feel extraordinarily torn between feeling excited about the FS life and feeling excited about what could be if I stayed here. I am trying to really compartmentalize today. We have 15 more wake ups and a duffel bag drag and I do want to enjoy these two weeks. If Matt doesn't pass this time, we have already decided that we'll try again. And, I'll remain in limbo, but will definitely enjoy doing female urology with B and A!

Mom and A will be here bright and early for our WMW (Wednesday Morning Walk) so it is time for me to turn in. What an exciting day for B, we have so much to celebrate at Chifa.

The Final Countdown!

I don't know why today marks the beginning of the final countdown, but we had 17 days until the OA when we woke up this morning, and we are pumped! Having spent the first year (almost) of our relationship split long distance between Boston (MGHIHP for NP School) and DC (GWU for Law School), Matt and I are very good at whittling down remaining days. We do the old "if you don't count today, and you don't count the day of the OA" and "if you don't count the weekends" and pretty soon, the OA is tomorrow. But, I know it actually will be tomorrow before I realize and, pass or fail, the Monday after Matt's OA is September 14th - an official fall date for sure. I am doing my best to enjoy the rest of summer 2009, and my best effort is pretty good.

My ten day vacation in Cape Cod with the Hugheses and Maine with Mom, Lisa, Becky and Matthew was sensational. I took hundreds of pictures and got a few fabulous ones. I kept saying that I have no idea how one hundred and fifty years of history were captured on film before the advent of digital photography. This is not completely true. I have a large wooden box of photos from my semester abroad in Australia that answer that question in a word: badly. But now that I have a digital camera and the magical powers of Picasa the pictures are really improving.

Matt, Toby and I have a goal to work out everyday through 9/9/09 (when we'll drive to a fancy hotel in our nation's capitol). Today we ran to, along and home from the Delaware River Waterfront. It was a lovely evening, even Camden looked good, and I am nice and sleepy now.