Letter Opening Ceremony

 So, let me start out by saying that the letter opening ceremony is bizarre. This ceremony takes place on "Match Day," the day when all 4th year medical students around the country find out where they matched for residencies. They serve cheese, crackers, grapes, and melon while everyone listens to a few speakers, then gets called up one by one to get their envelope containing the answer to the question...where will we be for the next 3, 4, 5 years? Which hospital liked me best? BUT, once you get it, you can't open your envelope. Big no no. You must wait. It's terrifying to sit there in "calm" silence. WAITING. Then some more chit chat. Finally, when the speaker announces everyone can open their envelopes, the only sound in the room is the tearing of 90 envelopes with the name-engraved letter openers everyone received when they walked in. Here is how it went down for us...

GETTING THE ENVELOPE:
(Oliver was making everyone "ooh and aww" by yelling "Daddy! Daddy!" over and over while Nich went up to get his envelope, then little O clapped and "whoop"'ed for him!)

THE OPENING OF THE ENVELOPE

THE REACTION:
I still didn't know if it was good news or not...happy? Disappointment? Give me SOMETHIN'!

THE OUTCOME: We got our first choice!! Whoop! Happy day!

And here's  a picture of Oliver and me that someone shot...we were having a great time!

It's weird because all 3 medical students at our table got their first choice! How cool is that? The luck of the Irish on St Patty's Day? They DID have the professor from Ireland call out the names, so that MUST be it :) But I had been told previously that people tend to get their 4th or 5th choice, so don't hold my breath. OH THANK GOODNESS! 'Cause I hadn't mentally prepared myself to go somewhere else...I'm still not prepared that we're moving from where we already are! I am so glad we got good news!



And in case the whole medical career thing doesn't pan out...here's what Nich was doing later on that day...

Just a neighborhood barber right here! That's right, Nich was cutting our neighbor's, Justin's, hair with our tiny peanut. It started as a joke, that turned into a mohawk, then he left him with an actual reasonable buzzed head. Oh yeah, except for the bloody ear. Oh yeah, and the bald straight-edge spot by his left ear. But other than that, a great haircutting experience! Justin didn't want to buy the salon products Nich was trying to push on him, nor did he mention he'd come back for a second experience.

Hmmm, on second thought, that medical career better pan out.

Also a good thing barbers and surgeons aren't the same career anymore. :)