Robot Mode

Sorry for the sporadic posting.

I've hit the point in the semester where I feel that I'm on autopilot and start counting the weeks until my life is my own again. I feel like I get up, go to work, get home, eat dinner, chill out for a minute, go to bed repeat.

Anyhoo, presented last night in class, my only one for the semester so I'm glad that's done. The next hurdle will be my instructor coming to see my in clinic, I'm not sure what she does when she's there...if she comes in to see patients with me or what.

Cat update: they're doing well. Not the best of friends quite yet, but they are playing with each other somewhat, but inevitably, one gets annoyed at the other and smacks him in the head and one walks away.

Trip planning: I am in the middle of looking up hotels in San Fran. I asked one of my friends who used to live there about the best places to stay in terms of neighborhoods. She steered me away from the super touristy areas and into either the Castro or Mission neighborhoods but I'm having problems finding a selection of hotels in those areas, and hence, reviews. And tripadvisor.com is my friend...Also, SF isn't the bulk of the trip so I will want to do more of the touristy things than exploring eccentric neighborhoods so I'm leaning towards staying in Union Square of the Financial District because it seems that's where most of the attractions are.

Real estate: M and I went to 6 open houses last week in a town about 20 miles from where we are now because it's the closest affordable town to our current jobs. Out of the 6, we liked one and luckily we both agreed. Not that we are even quasi serious at this point. We have too many things going on...the overall economic strife, me being in school, the housing market still tanking, still saving up for a nice downpayment. But at least we agree at this point what we are looking for and the price range we want to be in. Incidentally, two of the houses have an offer pending..one I saw online and one via a phone call I got from the real estate agent who is soliciting offers for the house based on the sign up sheet. He left me a message saying that he got an offer and just wanted to give everyone at the open house a fair shot...me thinks there either is nothing cooking with this property or they did get an offer and it was totally low ball.....needless to say we didn't call him back. It was one of our least favorite houses.