flight surgeon propaganda

ok, so today we had a whirlwind tour of randolph AFB (another AF base in san antonio to keep lackland and brooks company). it was ok, though we had a 20 minute tour of what appeared to me to be an art gallery with paintings of planes (er, jets... pardon me), and photos of former POWs. i am NOT dissing the POW part. it was actually the best part of the morning. they have this freedom flight thing where POWs who are returned get requalified to fly and they do it at randolph. so that is super cool actually. but the rest of the morning was a teeny bit... not relevant to future medical personnel. this afternoon the propaganda continued. be a flight surgeon! be a flight surgeon! with an hour long bit on be a good officer. that be a good officer bit was relevant (as we are, in fact, officers), but i don't much want to be a flight surgeon. i don't need my post-graduate medical education years to extend until i'm in my 50s.
anyway... what am i saying. right. they really want us to be flight surgeon. i really want to be a surgeon i think. flight surgeons do not operate. they are general practice docs. thus... no thanks. i wish they still had the old rotations where everyon didn't HAVE to come to san antonio. if you wanted to do surgery you could go to the surgery rotation in like ohio or something. however, i am now considering an air force residency. it does sound fairly worthwhile. we'll see though. lots of years to go before any of that will even be an issue. i'll just do my best at what i'm doing now and try not to mess up any opportunities along the way.
my current annoyance is that my shampoo (yes persnickitier it is the shampoo) which is my VERY FAVORITE SHAMPOO after trying like eight different ones changed their formula and now i am allergic to it and i get a horrible rash all over my forehead from it. of course no one has the old formula of it anymore so now i have to find a new shampoo. irksome.
on a cheerier note... fudge rounds by little debbie are truly delicious. chris is almost done the new harry potter book and then it's my turn which is good as i have only like 200 pages left of the last book i brought with me.
oh... and on a sort of in the middle note... i have jury duty on august 15th. sigh. last time i had jury duty i didn't even get called to a case. i just had to sit in a really uncomfortable chair for four hours and wait to make SURE i wouldn't get called to a case. of course i'm not sure i'd be a great juror. i tend to make snap judgements and then have a hard time getting over them. too bad that's not an automatic disqualifier. i could call them right now and be like "not only am i medical student in another state but i am a snap judger. you really don't want me" but i shall be a shining star of civic duty and go to jury duty like a good girl. and of course have an excuse to go home for the weekend, do my laundry, and eat mom and dad's food. =) so hooray! a silver lining!
now i am going to go switch the thoracic dissection manual from .doc to .html format which is less easy than it sounds. and the day will be complete.