Exams

It's been four months since my last update. For that I apologize.
I thought I would be done cramming after dental school, then after residency, then after fellowship... Turns out I'm still cramming to prepare lectures, grants and manuscripts...
To all my North American friends preparing their exams, best of luck everyone!!!
It does get better afterward... at least for a short while ;)

Souvenirs of Scottsdale

Unbelievable... I think everyone around me shopped more than I did in Scottsdale. That is just wrong. Next year in Baltimore better be gewd to make up for it!!!
Regardless, I have to say it felt good to see everyone again after so long. See you around the next meeting :)

Blast from the past 2

I can't believe I haven't drawn anything decent in more than a month, and I'm starting to feel bad about it... Good news is that in my last bout of insomnia, I started visiting my old blog pages (remember MySpace? Xanga? Friendster? Msn Spaces?) and found some of the lost Asiates and DMD Chronicles. Hope it brings you back good memories until I find the energy to draw new stories!

back to school

Alright, I know this is not time relevant anymore... but I drew this all the way back in Hawaii before I realized there was no wireless to post it. And when I got back, it was so busy I just forgot about it...

Anyways, I figured it would be a shame not to post it since it was ready to go :p More to come soon.

Research

Sometimes, doing research feels like a terrible quest... but it is so rewarding when you finally get to the end! Good luck to my friends about to defend their thesis :)

Professional meetings part 2

 

This concludes the PCSP chapter. Thanks for a great meeting everyone! It was a lot of fun :) I truly hope next year's meeting in Victoria will be as cool. See you there!

the value of professional meetings...

Sorry for the long interruption... I'll try to post more in the next few days to make up for it :p PCSP part 2 coming soon.

To be on time is to be late...

Some things never change: I love to snooze, and will always make it just on time... or fashionably late :p

And to my detractors who say "just wake up 5mn earlier!"... That's 35mn less sleep per week, 2h20 a month, 30 hours less a year... During a residency where you get an average of 4 hours of sleep a night, every minute counts! I rest my case. Good night people!

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Listening to our seniors...

It's not because we never listened to our seniors (because we occasionally did ;)), but because we Angels thought monochromatic life was really really dull. Residency was stressful enough as it is, we had to find something to make it a bit fun! And who knew there were actually fashion trends in scrubs??? :p

So I thought I would celebrate the 10th strip of Life starts After by publishing a colored one for a change :) Thanks for your continuous following guys and I'll do my best to release them regularly :)

PS: if the image appears blurry, you can click on it and it will forward you to the original crisp jpeg. Enjoy!

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Social life when hospital bound...

Ah my Texas gals... I can count on the tip of my fingers the number of time we actually managed to hang out all Amalfi-four together... Seems like our call-schedules never wanted to match. We still haven't done that Austin road-trip, sigh*

But every time we actually got together really felt like huge celebrations, however short they were... I do think it was a good thing, although outside observers would probably see that as borderline pathetic :s One thing is sure though: I miss you gals!

PS: This is officially my first cartoon drawn on my ipad ;) A bit awkward at first, but I think I got the hang of it toward the end... More to come soon!

Meetings are temples of learning...

Dear Director, thank you for giving us tough love, always keeping an eye on us wherever we went, so that we would become the best we could...

This year was my first Chicago meeting without my two co-angels... Miss you gals!

Never run after a Canadian...

My sweet AD, now that I am not around, I hope you are walking slowly and carefully on the icy roads of Eastern America...

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

On February 14th 2006, I woke up to a text message from my senior EE:
"Snowstorm, school closed, enjoy sleeping in!"
Best VDay gift ever! (No pun intended; when going through residency, extra sleep scores WAY higher than chocolate and flowers)

Ever since I realized school would close at the first sight of a snowflake (unprecedented for someone from Montreal), I started calling the weather alert line every morning throughout the winter :p

PS: Radi, the first draft of my research protocol was due the day after that snowstorm. If we didn't have that day off, that would have been THE one deadline I would have blown. I AM born under a lucky star ;)