An Early Late Night

Literally every day this week was one of my (restaurant) coworkers’ birthdays. Happy Birthday Bourbon St! What was sexy nine months ago… Thanksgiving? Regardless, Paul, Jackie, Olithea, Carl, and Kara all had birthday outings, only one of which I attended because they typically didn’t start till like 1AM. Crazies! Last night, because I was already out at a PT/PTA student happy hour event, I decided to make a quick appearance at Kara’s gathering at a pub on the Upper East Side. I was home by 1AM.

The student happy hour was good. We got to meet the newest class the program at Laguardia, students from NYU, and NYPTA President Matthew Hyland, PT, PhD. He works hard to protect our profession and is actually a regular blogger as well. We worked up quite an appetite while socializing and decided to get some grub at Bareburger. If you haven’t had Bareburger in NYC yet, you should. They offer local, sustainable, organic burgers made of your choice of lamb, wild boar, elk (I originally typed elf. Haha.), bison, ostrich, chicken, turkey, or just good old beef. Yummo.

This morning I had breakfast with classmate Jeff to return a book I had borrowed and catch up. Now that he’s ahead of me in the program he was able to give lots of advice on what’s to come.  He also reminded me that Juan was assigned Lutheran Medical for his inpatient site, where I’m starting on Monday. Well I talked to Juan this afternoon and he was able to give me the scoop on the clinic. Inpatient really isn’t his thing, but he still enjoyed it there—a good sign. I have a few things to review this weekend and I’m still waiting on my lab coat to arrive, but otherwise feel ready for 8 more intense week of learning.