It’s Sunday night. My weekend was eventful yet not. Friday night I went into Seattle with my friend Pete and Gwen – we ate at a good Italian place called Tulio Ristorante downtown. With 2 bottles of wine on the bill, it was like 75 bucks per person. Kudos to me for yet another demonstration of outstanding fiscal responsibility.

After dinner, we headed to a bar/restaurant called the Pink Door, which is right by Pike’s Place market (or where they throw the fish in Big). There we met Michele and two of her friends. There was a drag queen singing very badly. The whole event, was, awkward. Fun, but awkward. The highlight of the night was me getting a drunken phone call from Jim Kim, my old med school buddy who was down in New Orleans for Jazz Fest. He called me from Cameron’s cell phone and boy was he drunk. It was good to chat with him.

Saturday I did very little during the day. On Saturday night, I went to a military formal event sponsored by the Department of Medicine. It’s called a Dining In. I don’t know how to describe it, other than it’s a very formal, very military game of Asshole (like the drinking game) only without cards. There’s a president, there are weird rules, there’s lots of drinking. I was in my fancy uniform. It was actually a lot of fun. Right up until the guest speaker went into his Iraq slideshow. Talk about a mood killer. His talk was disturbing, as a lot of these military sponsored things tend to be.

I could comment a lot more on this event, but for some reason I don’t feel like going into it. After the event, we changed and went to a bar. Stayed out to late. Hit Denny’s at 2:30 in the morning – later regretted it.

Today, Sunday, I lazed around the house. Worked out. Then I played a whole lot of Madden football for no good reason. I just won my third straight super bowl with the giants. It has become too easy. My team is too good. I win games by an average of 40 points and I score an average of 60 points a game. So this season coming up I’m adjusting the setting to All-Madden, which could also be called Blatant Computer Cheating mode. We’ll see how I do. The one thing I love, is that all the players do really well one year and then you can’t afford to re-sign them or keep them because they demand too much money. Realistic, these games today. So my team going into this super season will not be as good as the team I just had. I had to take some serious cap hits!

Other than that, not much. I just finished 4 weeks of an allergy/immunology rotation. It was a mellow month of allergic rhinitis (aka seasonal allergies) and me prescribing flonase and zyrtec. I read a lot of skin tests. I tested myself – my biggest allergies are grasses, followed by dust mites and cats. Zyrtec knocks em all out though.

This month coming up I’m on cardiology. It’s not a fun month. The hours average out to about 60-70 per week. There’s overnight call. There’s a lot of stress. At least it’s shift work, only 12 hour shifts, day or night. But the shifts are exhausting. It’s kind of like the wards, but focused completely on the heart. I’m on the wards again next month. Boo.

More coming through the week.