This Crayfish is officially Bent

(Forgot to mention earlier before I started ranting...thanksgiving was awesome and very relaxing...was asleep 70% of the time lol)

I'm back but at the same time I'm not. I don't exactly have a post planned....more like a rant. Where do I start?

I have what could be a very stressful interview coming up on Friday. From my research the school is big on ethics and healthcare issues so I kinda have to be ready to dish out ways to improve the US healthcare system in a heartbeat. I've uprooted my medical ethics book from freshman year and I've been digesting as much of this whole health care policy blah blah as possible. Can I just say the junk is complicated and boring as hell, but at thesame time mildly interesting. MILDLY. Medicare, medicaid, HMO, socialized medicine, single-payer system...the list is endless, the only thing I know is that whatever policy the US has, it makes me darn scared to fall sick because insurance companies are just trying to pay their employees and make a profit...they don't give two about me and you. Now I have to find a way to say that professionally...

I've also spent the last few weeks writing letters to the school that placed me on hold and one of the ones I interviewed at. Pretty much I've been doing some major sucking up. So major that I'm embarassed to read the letters over for fear of completely disgusting myself...but like my people say, "Na condition wey make crayfish bend", I'm bent twice over right now...

Then there are my kids taking their exams in January...we did a practice test this week and let's just say we have about 10 sessions to improve their score by at least 300...

Then there's work...

Then there's my other interview next week...

Then the deafening silence from just about all the other medical schools, can I just get a "hello"?...

I'm down under right now but gradually trying to crawl out...I say we do something fun and only loosely career related next, whenever that is...

Oh by the way...did you know that a South African, Christiaan Barnard, (yeah yeah, he's probably originally British or something but he's from South Africa) was the first doctor to perform a heart transplant, the patient only lived for about 18 days after the surgery(rejection issues) but apparently it still counts - See, I told you I've been reading.