Happy 2008!/Not out of it, yet

This is officially my first post of the new year, and I'm just as excited as you, I can promise you that.

Well, after waiting on pins and needles, I finally received a letter from KU Med (they actually sent it exactly when they said they would, but I was up in McCall when it arrived). As expected, this letter asked me to be patient until the middle of March when they complete all of the interviews and rank all of the applicants. By the way, when I say,"as expected," what I mean is that I either expected this or to be rejected outright. The fact that I wasn't accepted at this stage of the game merely means that I wasn't in the top one or two interviewees of my group, but the fact that I wasn't rejected means that I wasn't in the bottom 1/3. My point is, I'm very glad to still be in the hunt, even though it means a few more months of patience and carefully controlled terror.

In other news, I went skiing today with Megan and Molly (Amy had her wisdom teeth out today, so she declined [rudely] to join us). It was a lot of fun, though it was cold and windy. It was a little sad, because this marks the first time that I've gone skiing for real without the rest of my family (my mom, dad, brother or some combination thereof). I got to spend some good time with them over the last week or two when they were up here for Christmas, though. That's probably it for now.

Oh, I just came across Patton Oswalt's blog. It's pretty funny stuff, and it led me here, where a bunch of people review pretty much everything (a lot of it's pretty funny - I think they are in some way related to the Onion, but I'm new to it and don't really know yet). I probably could have sold both of those links better, but whatever. Go there. Or don't. But do go to erikebelingart.com. Especially if you live in Chad.