Dr Worm

This is a real thing, isn't it? Like, for really real.

Can I freak out now? Not in a bad way. There will be a small rise in the frequency of squealing and happy dances. This is really real. 26 days to go. No one's counting. I'm so excited. That sort of doesn't cover it, really, does it?

"What are you smiling at?"
"um...I'm gonna be a doctor!"
"Yeah? Mum? We know. You deferred. You're gonna be a doctor. We know. It's not like you just found out or something..."

I suppose he's got a point. One is so cool, at ten. I am not ten. By extension, not at all cool. But I keep remembering again, and getting excited. I imagine it does actually make it quite difficult to hold a conversation with someone who interrupts you repeatedly to tell you that they're gonna be a doctor. Unless you want to interrupt me to tell me about medicine, in which case, you have my undivided attention. Bit of a one track mind at the moment.

I know it's really real, cos the inaugural class graduated last year, and they're interns now. Which was stupidly exciting, although it's the obvious thing to happen, but...well, med students turn into doctors. They really do. It was stupidly exciting in theory, but I thought I understood it fine, and then it was exciting when they started, and later after that, I realized that actually, if I went to a hospital, there would be doctors there, and those doctor could be...well, you know, someone I know. The people who were in 4th year, when I joined MSO, they're doctors now. If you were in first year when I joined MSO, you're in clinical years now. You guys are also in hospitals! This is not a revelation. It is, however, unbelievably awesome.

Med students------> docktahs!

(I know, can you believe it?!)

I'm not sure if the excitement will wear off. It's been a year. And now it's 26 days. And because I'm not ten, I don't have to be cool. Which is just as well.

So you should just assume I'm spending the rest of the month skipping around the house wearing my stethoscope. Cos I can. Cos we're gonna be doktahs, and it's gonna be amazing.