Yesterday I was post-call, so I went home and walked straight into my pool. I've decided that pools and rafts are the coolest thing ever, as they afford you the opportunity to enjoy the UV rays of the sun while doing absolutely nothing. Then if you get hot, you just jump into the pool to cool off. Then I drove to Houston in preparation for all my meetings today. Upon arriving in Houston, I made some lovely hamburgers with Hatch peppers (smoked at Central Market: Plano) which were very good. Then the three Club 1948 boys headed to the world famous West Alabama Ice House for some beverages. I had $1.75 Pearl canned beers and $3.00 Fat Tire bottles. We were joined by the lovely Denise, Ruth, Jenn, TODD FOX, and April. TODD FOX doesn't get mentioned enough in this here Blog which will be explained later. It was a pleasure to see the lovely Ruth, who I got to answer all of my unanswered questions about her yoga-breathing, belly-dancing, non-vegetarian, Bowen Therapy, HP ways. She seems very cool, but I still wonder if my slight intoxication was annoying to her 100% sobriety. Then we were joined by a ton of medical school people named Eric Graham, Ann Hyslop, Tara Sullivan, and Dave Timm. It was delightful to see all of them. Then we went home.
The next morning I woke up at ten and discovered that TODD FOX e-mailed me. Isn't TODD FOX the ultimate porn name? Or maybe it should be a sexy spy name or something. Anyway, TODD FOX apparently isn't all to pleased with the amount of mentions he gets in this here blog and rightfully so. He is entitled to several mentions, because as we all know TODD FOX is good people. So the e-mail is a link to a web page that he wrote for me. What the web page does is scan through the index page of my blog and search for the name you enter to find out "does Tommy Roshek love you", which apparently I did not for TODD FOX. The code is very clever, and apparently TODD FOX wrote the thing in like 20 minutes. If you follow that link however, you're not seeing the original product. After a few back and forth e-mails, we decided (jokingly I thought), that his thing should search my entire blog including archives to find out "does Tommy Roshek love you". I think it's probably pretty complicated to do that sort of thing, but by the end of the day
TODD FOX had written the code, and now the World Wide Web can find out not only "does Tommy Roshek love you" but also how many times I've loved you and how long it's been since I last loved you. I will officially work this link into tommyroshek.com's index page over the weekend. So cheers TODD FOX. I have a man crush on you. Then I had Freebirds with Nick and got my car washed.
Then I met with Steve Jones, an employee in my school's student affairs office. I needed to see all of my test scores during the third year to finish the UT-Houston residency supplemental application. While I was doing that, I had the opportunity to read all of the comments my attendings on each rotation have left, which are stunningly good. I had no idea these people liked me so much, but it's comforting to know that they feel I'm going to be a really good doctor someday. Then I headed over to Dr. Safi's office to see if he would write me a letter of recommendation. He wasn't there, but his secretary told me it wouldn't be a problem and to leave all my supporting documents with her. I felt weird about that, because you like to hand the stuff to the letter-writer and meet with him or her. But she convinced me and I told her I'd be back after my meeting with the chairman of general surgery.
I had 30-minutes before my meeting, so I decided to meet with Kim Anderson to see how she was doing. Earlier in the day, Nick bumped into her and was told a story about how Craig Messick (our class president going into surgery) was in her office all the time to have his personal statement read and little paranoid stuff. So I announced to the secretary that Craig Messick was there to see Kim. When Kim heard the news she shouted "NOOOOOO!" to the secretary at which point I revealed myself and laughs were had by all. It was classic. Dr. Anderson then read some of my stuff, and we chatted. However, as luck might have it, Craig Messick showed up! Poor Kim just laughed and laughed. Of course, we then had to explain why Craig's presence made everyone laugh. The coincidence was striking and yet further proof that my life is based on the movie "The Truman Show" with Jim Carrey. Kim is such a wonderful person. She loves to laugh and cut up, which is right up my alley. She's really taken tons of time out of her schedule to help me get into a good residency program, and I can't thank her enough. Then I met with Dr. Andrassy. We had a splendid meeting. We discussed my career plans, golf, and whatnot then Dr. Red Duke walked in to shoot the shit. He found out that I was working at Baylor Dallas and passed his regards to Dr. Jones, who is the chairman. They were actually residents together at Parkland around the time JFK was assassinated. In fact, they were both working the Parkland ER when he arrived that fateful day. The meeting ended, and Dr. Andrassy sounded as if he'd write me a nice letter. Then I went back to Dr. Safi's office to see if he was back but no luck. The secretary said everything would be great, and I believed her. So I went home.
At home I discussed the content of the day's meetings with Nick when none other than Dr. Safi called my cell phone. We had a brief meeting on the phone, and he offered to write me a letter of recommendation. WOW! So now my letter-writers include Dr. Andrassy, Dr. Potts, Dr. Safi, and Dr. Estrera. I will ask Dr. Fischer to write for me on Monday, and I have one other person to ask possibly this Friday at Baylor. So today was a good day. It was totally worth it to do all that driving (now the second time in two weeks). Someday I will look back on this day and fully understand that it was probably the day that started my surgery career.
The next morning I woke up at ten and discovered that TODD FOX e-mailed me. Isn't TODD FOX the ultimate porn name? Or maybe it should be a sexy spy name or something. Anyway, TODD FOX apparently isn't all to pleased with the amount of mentions he gets in this here blog and rightfully so. He is entitled to several mentions, because as we all know TODD FOX is good people. So the e-mail is a link to a web page that he wrote for me. What the web page does is scan through the index page of my blog and search for the name you enter to find out "does Tommy Roshek love you", which apparently I did not for TODD FOX. The code is very clever, and apparently TODD FOX wrote the thing in like 20 minutes. If you follow that link however, you're not seeing the original product. After a few back and forth e-mails, we decided (jokingly I thought), that his thing should search my entire blog including archives to find out "does Tommy Roshek love you". I think it's probably pretty complicated to do that sort of thing, but by the end of the day
TODD FOX had written the code, and now the World Wide Web can find out not only "does Tommy Roshek love you" but also how many times I've loved you and how long it's been since I last loved you. I will officially work this link into tommyroshek.com's index page over the weekend. So cheers TODD FOX. I have a man crush on you. Then I had Freebirds with Nick and got my car washed.
Then I met with Steve Jones, an employee in my school's student affairs office. I needed to see all of my test scores during the third year to finish the UT-Houston residency supplemental application. While I was doing that, I had the opportunity to read all of the comments my attendings on each rotation have left, which are stunningly good. I had no idea these people liked me so much, but it's comforting to know that they feel I'm going to be a really good doctor someday. Then I headed over to Dr. Safi's office to see if he would write me a letter of recommendation. He wasn't there, but his secretary told me it wouldn't be a problem and to leave all my supporting documents with her. I felt weird about that, because you like to hand the stuff to the letter-writer and meet with him or her. But she convinced me and I told her I'd be back after my meeting with the chairman of general surgery.
I had 30-minutes before my meeting, so I decided to meet with Kim Anderson to see how she was doing. Earlier in the day, Nick bumped into her and was told a story about how Craig Messick (our class president going into surgery) was in her office all the time to have his personal statement read and little paranoid stuff. So I announced to the secretary that Craig Messick was there to see Kim. When Kim heard the news she shouted "NOOOOOO!" to the secretary at which point I revealed myself and laughs were had by all. It was classic. Dr. Anderson then read some of my stuff, and we chatted. However, as luck might have it, Craig Messick showed up! Poor Kim just laughed and laughed. Of course, we then had to explain why Craig's presence made everyone laugh. The coincidence was striking and yet further proof that my life is based on the movie "The Truman Show" with Jim Carrey. Kim is such a wonderful person. She loves to laugh and cut up, which is right up my alley. She's really taken tons of time out of her schedule to help me get into a good residency program, and I can't thank her enough. Then I met with Dr. Andrassy. We had a splendid meeting. We discussed my career plans, golf, and whatnot then Dr. Red Duke walked in to shoot the shit. He found out that I was working at Baylor Dallas and passed his regards to Dr. Jones, who is the chairman. They were actually residents together at Parkland around the time JFK was assassinated. In fact, they were both working the Parkland ER when he arrived that fateful day. The meeting ended, and Dr. Andrassy sounded as if he'd write me a nice letter. Then I went back to Dr. Safi's office to see if he was back but no luck. The secretary said everything would be great, and I believed her. So I went home.
At home I discussed the content of the day's meetings with Nick when none other than Dr. Safi called my cell phone. We had a brief meeting on the phone, and he offered to write me a letter of recommendation. WOW! So now my letter-writers include Dr. Andrassy, Dr. Potts, Dr. Safi, and Dr. Estrera. I will ask Dr. Fischer to write for me on Monday, and I have one other person to ask possibly this Friday at Baylor. So today was a good day. It was totally worth it to do all that driving (now the second time in two weeks). Someday I will look back on this day and fully understand that it was probably the day that started my surgery career.
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