musings from a couch potato

      Now that I am home sweet home, I’ve been missing a few things in America. I miss the California weather because it’s cold but not freezing. Thank God my dad bought an industrial fan so we don’t have to sweat like pigs here in Dagupan. I also miss my daily Colbert Report!  I discovered with much dismay that Jack TV no longer seems to be available here. I can’t even watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Since I’m the only bum among my PGH resident friends, I have no one to talk to during the day. So, I miss my unlimited AT&T calls with my fellow AT&T subscriber friends and relatives. But of course, nothing beats being at home. I wake up to the sound of birds a-chirpin’. My parents are here to make fun of me everyday. I so enjoy being at home I haven’t gone out since I arrived in Pangasinan. I hope Globe also gives an unlimited minutes promo so I can pester random people.

My friend Mae came up with this phrase when we were in college. It’s what you use when you believe that you got a bargain but then actually end up feeling you got cheated. You go into a McDonald’s and think, a burger for 20 bucks? Great! Then when you taste it you realize all you got was starchy crap. I went to Walgreens to buy an artificial sweetener. I saw one made by the store itself. A hundred sachets for 99 cents. Then every coffee I drank with this sweetener tasted like I poured pee into it. (Not that I know how pee tastes like). During my interviews for residency matching, one of the doctors from my first interview told me that I was a “good, average, solid candidate.” I then remembered my Burger McDo moments in med school. All those times I thought I was doing myself a favor by not “overexerting.” And so I ended up as being just a solid, average candidate. When you’re actually trying to convince others that you are good enough or even better than the droves who have come from all over the world trying to get a position, it’s best to remember those moments when you tried to be stellar. So aside from resolving to be a diva spinster, I’m also going to be a diva intern wannabe. I’ll try to minimize the Burger McDo moments, even if in the US, 99 cents is 40 friggin’ pesos.