Playing catch up

Jen here...


We have pictures to post and hopefully that will happen soon. Both of us have been swamped with work stuff. Sanjai is on call, again, tonight. My grades are due on Thursday and my quarter calendar is due on, um, yesterday. However, I explained to my principal that I've not yet received any training on the upcoming curriculum, so it would not be possible to produce. She was understanding. However, it means I have to crank it out in lightning speed after tomorrow. It just kind of feels like I can never get my head above water. I keep telling myself that the first year of anything is hard. I will get this curriculum figured out. Then it won't be so tough. Sanjai is on his last "primary" call of his second year. He rotates to Cook County next week. So, he will have in-house call, but he will get to go home the next morning and sleep. We are both looking forward to his third year when he will only have to take primary call once a month.


We had a glimpse of warm weather in the latter half of last week. We took the opportunity to walk around the Bucktown neighborhood. We've seen the funky shops from the car, but this time we got the opportunity to go inside. I had to laugh at the store that I thought was selling second-hand stuff that had price tags in the hundreds of dollars. Really? Plus, I could not believe the number of people a little bit younger than us who were smoking. I thought for sure that was out of vogue.

Later we watched UNC play Kansas. I had tears in my eyes and my lip was quivering five minutes into the game. I kept watching, cheering, hoping. The Heels came so close but fell so short. I guess my only consolation was that Kansas would go on to win it. I was pretty bummed.


We got up the next morning to go for hike. That is where I will end, because our hiking day extended into an event-filled day that I'd like to go into more detail about later. Hope all are well.