Intermission

There's a short week-long intermission between intern year and residency (we finish on the 24th and residency starts on the 1st of July) where the hospital is staffed by new interns and old residents; as old interns, we spend the week rehabilitating (and perhaps thumbing through other career plan guides). Right now, I'm on a break with friends (from other residency programs in the same transition period) and it is such a breath of fresh air. What a wonder how a few days can change the way we feel. How much free time we have now! I can't even figure out what to do with all of it. We sink back into old routines, familiar hobbies, comfortable conversations. Occasionally, thoughts, diatribes, reflections of residency poke through but for most of us, we want to hush that side of our lives as we know things will start back up soon. For me, anesthesia residency orientation begins tomorrow.