becoming the most boring person you know...

i think there's something to be said for it--i think that intensive medical training probably does quite a bit towards turning you into the most boring person in your peer group... nothing like studying near 24/7 to slowly sqeeze all of your awareness of pop culture, current events and popular topics... the normal, quirky anecdotes you used to amuse your friends and familiy with about that time at the bar, ballpark or beach will soon be replaced with clincal "pearls," which are likely to only be of mild interest to your professional colleagues, and some sort of negatively-scoring interest with people living in the real world who have free time, and the hobbies and interests to go with it...

orientation is over, and tomorrow begins the descent into a medical black hole, and i've got to wonder:

will i be anywhere near as interesting (in my own high esteem) as i used to be?

probably not...

anyway, school starts tomorrow, so i guess i'll just have to settle being valuable to society and economically productive as the trade off for having to watch my friends roll their eyes back into their heads when i start into a conversation with something about that "cool thing i saw the other day at the hospital..."

nothing to do about it now though...

oh, and if i'm lucky, hopefully i'll get to post some of the career couneling and psych stuff from orientation... it's pretty interesting... gotta sign off though--i've got a lot to read about the back...