Yesterday, after my Alter Ego, Cranky Giraffe, posted about my son’s crazy little love letter to his newest idol, Lady Gaga, an old old blogging friend tweeted it, with an idea that maybe he could meet her! I know the likelihood of it being re-tweeted by anyone other than myself is pretty low… But who […]
“It’s been a long time since I came around Been a long time but I’m back in town And this time I’m not leaving without you” ~Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga) I know I haven’t been here blogging for quite a long time (almost a year and a half…), but there was something about blogging that […]
The airplane seat map shows that the emergency exit row seats are considered “less desirable.” It’s a little ironic since they come with extra leg room, even if they don’t recline (really, who needs to recline 2 inches when you have two extra feet of leg room?). I think the real reason they are less […]
This month I’m traveling around the country to check out fellowship positions. It is exhausting, trying, lonely, and often confusing. Most of all, I miss my kids. I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how fellowship and moving to one of these places would fit into the current, ideal, little life of […]
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing. ~John Butler Yeats, 1909 Is there a difference between pleasure and happiness? I had never really thought much about it until today. My husband sent me an interview by Dr. Robert Lustig, who just […]
The Cranky Giraffe 
Oh my god, I love that cartoon!!!!
But 😦
I know it feels like crap, that you weren’t chosen and think you stepped on one-too-many toes and that’s what caused you to fail… that’s what I hated most about the Match. It’s not about that, or shouldn’t be at least.
Have you considered talking to the program director of O+G where you are now? Perhaps getting some answers might help you move on and say goodbye with a clear conscience?
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I guess I should tell you that this is the first time, in probably 10 years, that this program didn’t preferentially rank it’s own students. More than half our residents are from here and there are only 4 spots per year. Last year we had 2 match from here and one spot went unmatched. Everyone who wanted to stay here did. This year is kind if an anomaly… And of course, it’s my year! But it wasn’t just me; my friend also ranked here first and she didn’t get it either.
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Aw, you’re not a gallbladder! I wish I had something to say to make you feel better, but honestly, if this program doesn’t want you then good riddance – you’re better off without them. (That’s how I’d feel, anyway!)
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Yeah, I’m coming around to that. Every day is different… Today I feel much better, but yesterday (when I wrote this post), I was feeling bad about myself.
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Awe, thanks! It is a little more motivating to be a superstar once I’m gone… They can miss me!
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That cartoon made me cry a little. For reals.
I’m sorry. I really don’t think that it is the case though. You are amazing, Cranky, and they missed out big time. I don’t know why you didn’t get your first choice, and maybe you will never know either – but I know that you are going to be AMAZING.
(P.S: you’re not being yanked out and sent to histology and then to incineration. You’re being transplanted. No gallbladder gets transplanted. The really important organs do.)
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You’re so kind! Your last comment really made me laugh! I am the awesome gallbladder who is the exception and is going to an awesome program who like creative and resourceful gallbladders!
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But don’t forget, without the gallbladder, eating chocolate cake very swiftly loses its joy 😉
*hugs!!* Anyone who cuts you out is a ninny.
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