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Arsenic said:
i get my 3rd year schedule this week. we're going to have a class lottery tomorrow or tuesday to assign registration times. if you win you can register early in the day, if you lose you have to register in the afternoon. thats HUGE because going early will allow you to pick the schedule in the order you want. if you want to be an ob/gyn for example you want it in the middle of the year after you know what your doing in terms of the hospital computer system, patient notes, etc...

If you lose the lottery and have to do ob/gyn in as your 1st rotation, you're gonna look like an idiot to all the residents who you need rec letters from. then the other extreme is that you get it as your last rotation. then it'll be late in the year to get rec letters. blah... lets see what i get.
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!! MADNESS!!!
i dont want to pick my schedule - you want to do it for me next yr?
thats crap
id rather just get something random by the computer
i dont like thinking about this stuff
u haveto do it all anyways grrr
 
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TypeA said:
That's my "puppy"!!! Well, one of them. Thanks for asking. She just turned 7. When I got her she was 9.5 weeks old and about 15 lbs. Today...she is a back breaking 114. But, the sweetest 114 we could ask for! 😍
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aww shes so cute! 🙂
i bet she still thinks she can fit on your lap and stuff. my dog (12yrs old this year) doesnt realize hes a bonecrusher!!! i think he believes he is still 20 lbs or something.
 
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Nikki2002 said:
have u guys seen those doggy step things? they are stairs to help your lil puppies get up on the couch and bed and stuff. I mean--couldn't you just pick them up??
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My sister got one for her toy poodle. It gets to be a drag to "just pick them up" if they're jumping up and down from the bed all night long....
 
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gujuDoc said:
Oh and I agree with Q, A-man you are the bestest ever along with Princess Cyanide Jellybeans and Q and everyone in random thread!!!!!!!!!!!! Well everyone but that troll Mr. Premed Machine aka the tool.
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Oh..but you left out UglyBoy and his counterpart UglyBoy 2. :meanie:
 
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DieselPetrolGrl said:
aww shes so cute! 🙂
i bet she still thinks she can fit on your lap and stuff. my dog (12yrs old this year) doesnt realize hes a bonecrusher!!! i think he believes he is still 20 lbs or something.
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Oh no kidding! Her paw is as big as the palm of my hand and I can palm a b-ball! No doggie step thingy for her! Maybe 2 could handle it?

What kind do you have? Pup that is.
 
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Nikki2002 said:
who else in here has a puppy? i want one.....only i would never be home to take care of it.....
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My parents have a miniature dachshund who I just adore. I was trying to find a picture of her to show but I couldn't find one. 😕

I am posting pictures of the tornado on my blog and it is taking FOREVER. I don't know why.
 
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beary said:
My parents have a miniature dachshund who I just adore. I was trying to find a picture of her to show but I couldn't find one. 😕

I am posting pictures of the tornado on my blog and it is taking FOREVER. I don't know why.
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BEARY!! you have a blog? i like reading blogs......

a mini weiner dog....aw!!
 
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TypeA said:
Where's BEARY? Did OB/GYN get her?
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Here I am! 😀

OB/GYN hasn't gotten me yet. I finished gyn onc yesterday, thank goodness, and started obstetrics today. I had to drive all the way out to Davenport (an hour away) for an outreach clinic and nobody else from here showed up. 😡 So I waited two hours and then came home. I was really irritated but now I get the afternoon off.
 
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TypeA said:
Beary! Hey long time...

How ya been? How many more hours 'til moving day?
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Hi! Yeah it has been a long time. I will blame it on the tornado. :meanie: (Everybody is blaming everything on the tornado. Late for work? Tornado. Fail test? Tornado.)

I am doing pretty well, how about you? How did the church take your hubby's resignation? I don't have an exact moving date yet. I am going up to Ann Arbor this weekend to look for a house! 👍
 
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beary said:
Hi! Yeah it has been a long time. I will blame it on the tornado. :meanie: (Everybody is blaming everything on the tornado. Late for work? Tornado. Fail test? Tornado.)

I am doing pretty well, how about you? How did the church take your hubby's resignation? I don't have an exact moving date yet. I am going up to Ann Arbor this weekend to look for a house! 👍
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well did you get take home tests because of the tornado? that is the only real benefit of natural disasters i would have to say
 
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beary said:
Hi! Yeah it has been a long time. I will blame it on the tornado. :meanie: (Everybody is blaming everything on the tornado. Late for work? Tornado. Fail test? Tornado.)

I am doing pretty well, how about you? How did the church take your hubby's resignation? I don't have an exact moving date yet. I am going up to Ann Arbor this weekend to look for a house! 👍
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I am doing pretty well. The church is horrible. I literally left the Easter service in tears. They are so horrible to him and he has done nothing but give to them for the last 7-8 years. It breaks my heart. He was going to tell a few select people personally today that he was leaving before it became public, but he was inundated with pastoral care issues. One person went by EMS to ICU last night, one person died, another is now receiving hospice...busy day. He was beating himself up because he wasn't able to see this man who was very sick on Friday. Hubby was filling in for people who weren't doing what they should have been...it broke his heart because the man died on Saturday. He has a funeral on Thursday for the last of his "originals". (People he began visiting many years ago.) Sounds funny, but it worked out well...he never had to tell her he was leaving.

We don't anticipate a warm response to his resignation. I will let you know.

Now, aren't you sorry you asked?? :laugh:
 
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Nikki2002 said:
well did you get take home tests because of the tornado? that is the only real benefit of natural disasters i would have to say
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No, I haven't had any tests lately. I bet some folks did. Most of the university has cancelled classes (except the med school, of course) and the undergrads were acting like it was a big block party.
 
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TypeA said:
I am doing pretty well. The church is horrible. I literally left the Easter service in tears.
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I am so sorry to hear that. People seem to just expect everything from their pastors. I adore my "college" pastor here (even though I'm not in college anymore) - he baptized me. But so many people adore him and he is so accessible that he just got inundated with emails with questions, concerns, needs, doubts, etc., everything all the time. Finally he got rid of his email address just so he could have some time to get things done, and everybody was mad. 🙁

Anyway, I am sorry and hope things work out better. Is he going to continue in the ministry? Does he have another job lined up?
 
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beary said:
I am so sorry to hear that. People seem to just expect everything from their pastors. I adore my "college" pastor here (even though I'm not in college anymore) - he baptized me. But so many people adore him and he is so accessible that he just got inundated with emails with questions, concerns, needs, doubts, etc., everything all the time. Finally he got rid of his email address just so he could have some time to get things done, and everybody was mad. 🙁

Anyway, I am sorry and hope things work out better. Is he going to continue in the ministry? Does he have another job lined up?
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The time is part of the job. He says that no one "chooses" this line of work. You are called and have no choice. I can't imagine him doing anything else. He doesn't want to do anything else. In college, he got a degree in Russian Studies and International Affairs b/c he wanted to work for the CIA. I can't imagine it. (And, yes..I am sure he is not an agent..I see him at work way too often :laugh: :laugh: )

So, yes...he is going to remain in ministry. I think it is wonderful. Our faith is very important to us. People don't realize that it is probably harder for pastors and their families to remain "fed" when they are expected to "feed" everyone else. He really enjoyed chaplaincy, so he found a program at the hospital where my post-bacc has linkage where he will be doing another chaplain residency and earning another Masters.

We don't mind the time commitment. I knew what I was getting into when I married him. What we mind is the rudeness. The week his mother died (last May) he didn't skip a beat. He did all his visitations, etc and then was there when they took her off of life-support. But, everyone acted like nothing had happened. It was awful. I have watched this man cry himself to sleep. I have watched him read the Bible to a dying woman (week before last in fact). He has paid for a homeless man to have a hotel room for 3 nights out of our pocket. The man would give you the shirt off of his back, but no one that I know would do anything close for him. It hurts like H3II to be treated like this and watch him being abused.

I'm sorry for going on like this. It is so heavy on me right now. 😳

What kind of house are you looking for in Ann Arbor?

And....give up the link to your blog!!! 🙂
 
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TypeA said:
The time is part of the job. He says that no one "chooses" this line of work. You are called and have no choice. I can't imagine him doing anything else. He doesn't want to do anything else. In college, he got a degree in Russian Studies and International Affairs b/c he wanted to work for the CIA. I can't imagine it. (And, yes..I am sure he is not an agent..I see him at work way too often :laugh: :laugh: )

So, yes...he is going to remain in ministry. I think it is wonderful. Our faith is very important to us. People don't realize that it is probably harder for pastors and their families to remain "fed" when they are expected to "feed" everyone else. He really enjoyed chaplaincy, so he found a program at the hospital where my post-bacc has linkage where he will be doing another chaplain residency and earning another Masters.

We don't mind the time commitment. I knew what I was getting into when I married him. What we mind is the rudeness. The week his mother died (last May) he didn't skip a beat. He did all his visitations, etc and then was there when they took her off of life-support. But, everyone acted like nothing had happened. It was awful. I have watched this man cry himself to sleep. I have watched him read the Bible to a dying woman (week before last in fact). He has paid for a homeless man to have a hotel room for 3 nights out of our pocket. The man would give you the shirt off of his back, but no one that I know would do anything close for him. It hurts like H3II to be treated like this and watch him being abused.
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He would actually have to tell you right after he proposed and you accepted. (Don't ask how I know this.) There is no one in so deep that their spouse doesn't know, the company picks single people for those assignments.

I'm sorry about what your husband is going through. That really sucks. I hate it when good people are taken advantage of but especially when the people who are taking advantage are self-professing Christians. That just makes my blood boil. (I didn't really have anything construct to say, just sending you some 😍 )
 
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Well I shadowed a physician for the first time today...primary care-ish type treatment. Pretty cool!!!
 
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It sucks being busy. I feel like I only have time to *stop in* for a quick hi/bye. I can't wait for the semester to be over. 3 more weeks!!!!!

Unfortunately, A&P II starts up the week after the Spring semester ends. 🙁
 
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We're getting really funny emails from the university about the tornadoes. Things like "Statement on tornadoes." :laugh: We're opposed to tornadoes. All of us. Working together, we will prevail. We cannot let the tornadoes win. (I'm being a little facetious, but that's the point).
 
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Thanks so much for the kind words y'all. It almost sounds ridiculous...ok, so it DOES sound ridiculous...it really means a lot when everyone around me seems to have abandon ship.

Right back at you all x100! 😍
 
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TypeA said:
Thanks. It really means a lot. 😍
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Ok, so I apologize in advance if you've already explained this and I missed it, but I don't understand why the church members are being mean to your husband. If they don't like him, they can just get rid of him and replace him with another minister, can't they? It's not like he's tenured or something, right? I know very little about how churches work, so if I'm missing something important, please feel free to educate me.
 
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i see some dog owners on here... so i have a question... our puppy is like a year old and she doesn't eat anything.. sure she eats treats but like she won't touch her food and we don't know what to do... we used to be able to get her to eat it if we put a treat at the bottom... shed eat it to get to it.. but now she doesnt even do that... she only eats properly like once every two days .. in between she'll take a few bites but thats it. we've tried a few types of food and she's not sick... she's not getting too skinny.... why doesnt she eat??? any ideas?
 
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QofQuimica said:
Ok, so I apologize in advance if you've already explained this and I missed it, but I don't understand why the church members are being mean to your husband. If they don't like him, they can just get rid of him and replace him with another minister, can't they? It's not like he's tenured or something, right? I know very little about how churches work, so if I'm missing something important, please feel free to educate me.
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I live it day to day and everything confuses me about the way the church works!

The thing is, they DO like him. They can't stand me (never given a reason, that's just the way it has always been), but they love him. Unfortunately, we live in an extremely affluent area of both the state and the country and people get their kicks here by belittling others. They are rude and want everything done for them. They have ideas and want someone else to execute them. They make mistakes and want someone else to blame. This church has seen millions of dollars come its way because of the actions of my husband. I bring up $$$ because that is all that seems to matter to anyone here.

The senior pastor is never here as he has started a non-profit and utilizes the church only for furthering his personal mission. That leaves hubby to do 85% of his job as well. He turned down a job in Texas (where I am from) to go to work for this church. The first week, they came to him and said that his salary was being cut. He fought it and they claimed "oops, mistake." they have honored NOTHING in his contract. His motive for serving is SERVING GOD. They want him to SERVE THEM...ALWAYS. He never takes a weekend. I am thrilled when he takes Saturdays off. Weekday evenings I know that I will not see him. I have taken classes that he taught just to "spend time with him". People have walked across the room for the sole purpose of grabbing him by the belly and told him how much weight he has gained. But, as we took care of his dying mother for 3 years no one could reach out to hug him...they could only ask that he do more - and then complain about it. People approach him as he is running around on Sunday mornings to express their disgust about a misspelling in the bulletin.

He has said that he feels like a second class citizen.

Why don't they fire him? Simply, they "like" him. They are ruder to me. I am apparently not the stereotypical pastor's wife. Duh. Most people don't believe that I am when I tell them what hubby does.

It's a difficult thing to explain really. I don't mean to be so ambigous. The church is not an easy thing to understand nor explain.
 
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