Mens sana incorpore sano

Since it's almost the New Year, I've decided to get all mainstream and whip up some resolutions. All the cool people do this, right? Right.
Six months of internship has been good, bad, exciting, aggravating and fulfilling all at once. I go from being completely out of my depth to striding into patient's rooms, cool as a cucumber and ready to kick some General Surgery butt. Overall, the stress levels on a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being "I could do this with one hand and my eyes closed", and 10 being "Somebody stab me now. In the eyeballs, and make it quick", range from 3 to 8. Basically, I need to figure out a way to relieve stress, get down with some R and R and generally, not turn into that bitter, angry and jaded surgical resident I used to hate when I was a medical student.
There are setbacks to this:
The administrative/paper work/scut crap I have to do in order to get things done, that is, Care For My Patients, is just atrocious. Does there seriously have to be a form for everything? Do they seriously have to be placed at opposite ends of the hospital? And whose job is it to stock those things anyway?! Grr! But, I digress.
And...well, I can't think of anything else right now...but I tell you, there are setbacks!
I went from working out 6 days a week and eating like a champ on my Neurology rotation to not working out for the entire month I was on Vascular Surgery and shoving down chocolate chip muffins and regular sodas like they were umm...candy. (They were, basically). This month, I am on Plastic Surgery and have been somewhat better - a grand total of 4 trips to the gym during a three week period and some concern about how many grams of sugar enter my insides.
But, like I said, New Year, new resoulutions, yes? Yes. Listen:
I decided to hop onto the Weight Watcher's bandwagon. It can't hurt to have killer abs, glutes you can debride a sacral pressure ulcer with AND be a Neurosurgeon, can it? I agree.
In order to reward myself, I plan on using my last week of vacation sometime in May or June and jetting off to an exotic land of white sand, gorgeous beaches and unending Pina Coladas. May it be so.

In other news, I start work in the Neuro Intensive Care Unit on New Years day, which is AWESOME! Enough with this General Surgery ish.