med school and money

From a conversation about medical training and school debt, now cont:

well when you consider than an average 4 yeears at college runs between 32000 at state school to 80000 at big universities...


then add the 30000 per year plus books, stethescopes, whit coats, room and board that med school costs...


most people come out owing about a 150-250, 000 plus dollars. I got lucky with some scholarships in both college and med school.

Originally I owed about 135, 000 but I used the money from my mom's life insurance to pay that down to about 106,000 now.

the weekend, such as it is

My "weekend" sadly has not been relaxing, but productive yes!

Yesterday was my only day off for 3 weeks, so I went shopping with one of the neighbors, Brandy, who is very sweet. We hit Winder's first "adult" store which had a great selection of incense, Indian clothing, and Chinese satin hanging lamps. I got a couple of cool skirts. It was Target that did us in. I got a bathrobe and some jewelry, sadly failing in my quest for another pair of pants that fit.

Then I realized what time it was and freaked, since I was late for a darkblade's b-day party and had to drive Brandy home before driving into the city to pick up bheansidhe and take both of us to the party. The party itself was muchly fun with some of my fav people in attendance and very low-key.

Sadly, J had forgotten I was coming home for dinner and had eaten without me. I was kinda pissed but he gave me some wings for dinner and did the dishes ...plus he making me dinner tonight!

After taking bheansidhe home I sat down to FINALLY watch Serenity that reprobayt had given me. It was verah verah cool. Interspersed with the movie was laundry and minor cleaning. Afterwards I dumped all the things I'd been avoinding putting away on my bed so I had to deal with it and cleaned my room. Then I got ready for work today, making lunch, packing bags, more dishes, etc, etc. Also, feeding sick boys many cups of tea. It was one by the time I went to sleep.

I got about 6 hrs sleep and have been dragging all day. Luckily I have 2 procedues to do and then I get to go home!