Punxsutawney Phil Wasn't Lying!

Twenty inches of snow, and an additional 10-20 tonight = 3 snow days in a row (possibly 4?)!!!!

This storm has been called: Snowpocalypse, Snowmaggedon, Snowverkill (hee), and - Eric's favorite and mine - SNOW-M-G! (haw!)

This has never ever happened before! I mean, Pittsburgh is no stranger to snow! I think we had 1 snow day during 1st year or something. Third and fourth year medical students are considered "emergency personnel" and are required to report to clinical activities regardless of weather conditions. But, as the dean has written day after day, "this has been an unusual storm", and so here I am! 5 day weekend!! = 2 day week, and that's IF we have to go in on Thursday and Friday.

Except I'm worried about how I'm going to make up these missed days. I'm praying that my attending is suuuuper chill and is like, "Jess you're fine, don't come in over the next 2 weekends!" Keepin' the fingers crossed, yep.

Thanks to the SNOW-M-G, I was able to get a nice chunk of work done on my Scholarly Project - 6 pages of manuscript writing, in addition to 4 pages of my summary paper. Hopefully I make use of tomorrow's miracle snow day to get even more done! Thank you, snow.

In other news.

I've been trying to maintain regular exercise, which has been a bit hard with all the interview traveling and early mornings/late afternoons in the NICU. But I've been doing it! Today I did both Bob and level 2 Jillian, and I thought I was going to fall over by the end. My thighs! They burn! I know I've worked out really hard when I move during my sleep, and it wakes me up because I'm that sore. I'm afraid that I'm going to be woken during sleep tonight....

The sad thing about exercise is, it done makes me hungry! I don't keep any candy in the house, but I DO have my childrens' Calcium/Vitamin D gummy bears... and lately I've been eating more than my daily value of 3 bears. Like, today, I ate 5. Oop! Groans, moans, bones, psych overtones - here I come! (I'm kidding - taking an extra 400mg of Ca/VitD is not nearly enough to give you hypercalcemia!)

Sorry for the boring blog post, y'all. I've been toying with the idea of closing this thing, since I don't really have interesting things to say any more. To reward you for getting this far, here's a picture from Groundhog Day '07, when we got up at 4am on Feb 2 and went with a group of my friends to Punxsutawney, PA to partake in the festivities. It wasn't worth it, but I'm glad we did it once in our lives!