shantytown
Joe and I just started our Primary Care rotation in a small Connecticut town I'm not-so-affectionately referring to as Crapville USA. Well, originally, it was Slumtown USA, but I don't want to seem like I'm insensitive or anything like that. Honestly, it's probably a lot like hundreds of other blue collar, slightly depressed New England towns dotted all along the coast. And it's really not...THAT... terrible. I suppose. But I have to live here for five weeks. So, you know, my coping mechanism is to complain.
I'm pretty exhausted tonight, what with the moving in, my first day in a new clinic, and just general stress about being marooned in what basically amounts to My Suburban Nightmare. This town sucks. It's scary. And not in that New York scary way. That I can handle. This town is creepy. It looks deserted. It's like a ghost town. I feel like we're in "Children of the Corn" or something, and pretty soon, some pasty, saucer-eyed religious zealot kids are going to start to come after us with scythes.
But on the plus side, since we're on Primary Care, there's no call schedule, and we don't have to get to work tomorrow until 9:00am. Oh great, more time to do nothing.
xo Michelle |