Here are my pics from the crazy tree falling night, on Thursday.
By 6am Friday morning when I left the house, they had cleared the street so I could drive past. By the afternoon when I got home, there was hardly a trace!
I should take another picture of the tree where the branch fell off. Half of that surface is black, like it was dead there and not really connected. It's no wonder it fell.

Anywho, we're enjoying temperatures in the high 80s here in Philly -- almost too hot! It was 75 when we left this house this morning and that felt great. They're saying 90 for the high tomorrow. Where is Spring??

Timber!

Half of a giant tree just fell across 9th St, blocking the whole street, but miraculously landed into the alley Addison St. It may have scratched one illegally parked car, but overall no one and nothing was hurt!
Pictures to follow, tomorrow.

0.38!!!!!

For lack of original material (my inner monologue is currently a panicked yell) I will direct you to a recent post in blog that I follow:

One True PenI concur.

Yesterday I was driving home from Christiana on 95 in the center of three lanes and I had a truck in front of me and a truck behind me. There was also a truck right next to me in the right lane. I noticed that I was in a truck-sized space and thinking back to my horrific commute Friday evening when I got cut off and such so many times I wanted to scream, I realized I should make sure that the truck to my right knew I was there. I looked and I could see the driver's face in one of his three side mirrors, so I knew if I could see his face, he could definitely see my car.

So in the next minute or so I see him doing some looking around. Then I notice that one side light on the truck, parallel to me, is blinking. I check and none of the side lights on the cab are blinking. Before I can decide whether this one rogue light is some kind of turn signal, the truck starts PULLING INTO MY LANE. I quickly realized that his looking around was to see when the leftmost lane cleared up so I could pull over there AS HE PULLED INTO ME.

WTF.

He purposefully pulled into me! Thank god no one was speeding up the left lane at 95 mph, which is more common than not, or I would have been smashed.


Today was less danger-filled, but more stop-and-go filled. It should not take and hour and 20 minutes to drive back from Christiana Hospital. I could drive home from New York in that time period.

That was only day five of commuting. 2 1/2 more weeks to go now, and another 4 in late May / early June. Pray for my safety and my sanity.

Apples and Oranges

So I was sent to an Internal Medicine outpatient office on Friday to shadow the doctor. I was hoping it would be the first step in figuring out whether I want to train in internal med or family med.

When I did my family med rotation I was at Jefferson's offices... about 40 exam rooms, run by residents, in the middle of the city. Friday I worked with a solo practitioner with his two exam rooms, one nurse, one receptionist, and his wife doing the billing, with his office in a 'commercial park' that apparently was a cornfield two years ago. It was south of the canal in Delaware, which = middle of no where.

So I got some more data points to use in my personal life forecasting model. But all I've really seen are two extremes of practices, with no indication as to what should be attributed to the specialty training (probably very little).

How do I make this decision??