Winding Down

My year in Denver is coming to a close. I've got one month left and it's gonna be crazy busy.

I've secured my apartment back in Boston. I'll be back in Beacon Hill, and I got a great deal for a 1 bedroom. The realtor was kind of a douchebag and relatively incompetant in my opinion, but I had to go through him to get this place. BTW, I had NO IDEA that a realtor fee in Boston would be an entire month's rent. So heinous... but in the long run still a good deal.

NotMexican has already booked his trip for 4th of July, so I'll only go a week without him, which should give me plenty of time to fix up my place. It's now my turn to book a trip in advance to come back to colorado to visit him... but I'm feeling hesitation.

I know that if I book the trip, I'm truly comitted to making this relationship work. And I've never been truly committed to making any relationship work. I still haven't told RedSox about him because I think it's rude to break that kind of news over facebook, email or text. I'm just overall feeling nervous I guess.

Plus I'm kind of down about work. My year of internal medicine didn't go as well as I hoped. I can't fake enthusiasm and in a female dominant field, the attendings made it very clear that they did not like my lack of interest. My only goal was/is to take care of patients, and for the most part I think I did as well as any other intern. I'm kind of annoyed that I was targeted for lacking enthusiasm when I know all my other co-preliminary interns had the same attitude... but fortunately for them... they had male advisors.

So much to do and hopefully this last month will fly. Of course, I'll be keeping you posted on the drama to ensue once I return to the Bean.

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Denver Dash

I just got back from a quick trip to Denver to house hunt. After figuring out my salary for my first year, I realize that I have quite a bit I can drop on rent. The plan for the trip was to rent a car for the first 2 days and drive around to find a place.

Unfortunately those plans were foiled when the day after I arrived, the city was hit with a blizzard. I haven't driven since high school, so needless to say I stayed indoors. I was actually crashing at WhiteRapper's place and he lives about 20 minutes south of the city.

Saturday, we braved the rain and checked out a bunch of high-rises. Each one had it's ups and downs, but for the rents they were asking I just was not impressed... until I walked into the 16th street high-rise. It is the closest to the hospital. It is the newest of all buildings. It offered the most amenities for the price.

Let me tell you what I would get. First of all, since they're so new, they're trying to fill up the vacant apartments. The current special includes $250 off PER MONTH on studios. Included in the rent is concierge service/security, 24-hour fitness center, entertainment room with 3 huge flat screens and full kitchen, business center with free wifi and free printing, OUTDOOR patio with an outdoor fireplace and 2 large grills, a PRIVATE entrance into the upscale restaurant on the bottom floor with priority seating, gratuity-free valet parking, washer-dryer in EVERY unit, brand new appliances (dishwasher, microwave, stove, etc) in EVERY unit.

I mean this place is a dream to live in. It's exactly 1 mile from the hospital with a bus stop right out my door. It's on 16th street with FREE shuttle the entire length of the street. I just could rave on and on.

And I did rave to my parents... who predictably took a nice sh!t on my parade. They told me the rent was too high for denver, I could find closer to the hospital, blah blah blah. I had told my mom I was going to ask her and dad to pay my rent as my graduation present. They bought my sister a new car for her graduation, so I should get the equivalent cost in rent.

After mulling over everything, I've decided that I am going to pay my rent on my own... and just ask for the graduation gift as a check. If they don't wanna give it, I'm not really going to care. As I have a nice cushion under my butt from all the money I've saved since high school.

I put myself on the priority wait-list for this apartment building, and I'm confident I'll get what I want, since the office has already emailed me with a few openings in my time frame. I CANNOT WAIT!

And for all my friends who read this, you only have 1 year to visit me in Denver. Start saving and keep an eye out for flight deals!

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