I guess I ought to put a picture of my beautiful framed residency certificate on here but being as lazy as I am, it will be a long wait for you guys. Suffice to say, it was a very nice, short ceremony. We had dinner, the chicken and the beef were both perfectly done. As we were eating dinner, the certificates were handed out by the different residency directors. It was a lot of fun sha.
This Friday, we will have our end of residency picnic. It will be in the Assistant Director's community pool house. Its a lot of fun too. There the residency directors poke fun at the residents and give them gag gifts. For example, if you forgot a lot of appointments, you got a calender. If you used to get lost a lot, you got a map etc.

Last year, one of our residents used to put ketchup on ALL potato products even the bagged chips!!!!! We all thought that was so funny. So of course at the picnic, she got the biggest bottle of ketchup the residency director could find. It was really hilarious.

This year, I want to get my director the smallest toy cell phone I can find because she complained when the management team suggested using a cell phone instead of a pager for our administrative calls for sick calls and such.

She said "I want to go on record saying I think this phone is too bulky and for a woman, I don't know where I'm going to put it" Shakara oloje!!!! I almost burst out laughing during the meeting. So she will get the smallest cell phone she will not be too worried about the phone spoiling the outline of her outfit.

I think thats funny.

posted by lala @ 1:41 PM 1 comments

Random Musings

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

....Good things come to those who wait. Really? Sometimes it feels like when you wait, you lose out on EVERYTHING!!!!! Blogging now is hard because I only want to blog about one thing and I don't want to be whiney or too one dimensional.

Whoever said tough times don't last clearly knew what they were talking about. The problem however is that after one issue comes another. How happy can anyone really be? Or are we supposed to strive to be happy or pretend to be happy regardless of the things going on in our lives?

That may be the million dollar question, after all

posted by lala @ 7:46 PM 0 comments

Going Dutch

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

So its almost 11 pm and I'm in my office (went home and came back) because I don't like to work from home. I enjoy the office around this time, I'm the only one in here and ideas for things seem to flow much better for me. I'm also clearing out my stuff as the residency ends on the 29th of this month. Its been a rough, very,very,very long 2 years but I would be lying if I said I regretted it. I have learnt so much about pharmacy and about people and I am excited and motivated about putting into effect the things I have learnt.

So anyway, I met this single Igbo chick at the hospital and I was excited ... I mean sitting at home can be fun some days but not all the time. I looked forward eagerly to doing some girly stuff with a single adult. I'm not really a guy's girl ... I'll much rather spend time with females than with males.

Well, she as happy too I guess cos we called each other frequently. Made plans to go out and stuff. Then I ran into the first questionable behavior. The practice of 2 people going out to eat or watch a movie etc and everyone paying individually. I'm not gonna lie. I really, really hate that. When 2 people go out to pay, I don't see why one person cannot take care of the bill. Especially when its a small amount like 10 - 20 dollars.

So girlfriend and I went to the movies where she paid, I offered her something to eat before we went in to the movies and she said no which was fine with me. A few days later when we went out again to eat, I saw her acting so strangely when the bill came. She picked it up and was visibly shaking. I wondered why and so I brought out my card and when she saw I was about to pay, she offered to pay half. I was like "don't worry about it" So I paid and did not think much about it

Now, this girl had fallen on hard times and was going to a nursing school. She was not working so I definitely was not expecting her to pay for things we did together cos I knew she had no money. But she kept acting so strangely! At the movie theater she was ahead of me in line as soon as we got to the counter, she jumped out of the way and asked me to pay, that she would pay for the popcorn (I was al little irritated firstly cos she stood in front of me and secondly, I don't really care if I get the movie tickets AND the popcorn, its not that big a deal!!!!)
Well, the small theater only had a cash popcorn stand so I paid for the popcorn too. Don't really care.
Well we decided to go eat dinner after the movies and when the bill came, she snatched it up and hide it. I felt so uncomfortable that I got up and got some more food (it was a buffet) just to step away from the situation. As we were about to go, I opened my bag to leave a tip, she was just so irritated (maybe she thought I was trying to pay) and I tried to tell her quietly that I just wanted to leave a tip but she had moved on ahead of me to the cashier.

How about her card was declined????? She brought out another one and it was declined also! I was so pissed. Oh girl knows she's not working, instead of her to graciously accept free meals she's acting so silly. I bailed her out but I was laughing inside.

Since that day, I haven't really spoken to her cos I'm not sure I'm ready for that friendship. I call it 'frenemy". I'm not sure she likes me and I certainly don't want to hang around someone who does not like me abeg.

posted by lala @ 10:50 PM 0 comments

...Been A While

Saturday, June 16, 2007

...Sorry guys! I just have not felt up to blogging. I guess I have "terminitis" ... You know when you are getting to the end of something in this case my residency you just get too tired to do anything meaningful. Thats how I feel. But its not over yet, till the fat lady sings oh.

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posted by lala @ 6:37 PM 1 comments

Wait 'til The Weekend

Friday, June 01, 2007

Monday was magical because... I realized my 2 year residency was coming to an end

Tuesday, what a tiring day, because... I ended up working an overnight shift because someone called in and nobody else would work

My Wednesday was wild & crazy because... I was so angry at my manager, I yelled at him!!!!

Thursday made me think about...all the new friends I had just made and how bad I felt about leaving them

Friday is the most fun because of... I finally made a new single friend in Memphis who is Nigeria, here's to some female companionship

posted by lala @ 10:53 PM 2 comments

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Name: lala
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About Me: I'm an introvert. I love challenges and the "path less taken". I have discovered that life more of a journey than a destination so I try to enjoy each day. And if you've never failed at anything then you haven't tried anything outside your comfort zone. Right now, I have a love/hate relationship with Memphis. I love the city because the people are very friendly but careerwise, this place will be a dead end for me.
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