Busy times

Once upon a time as a premedical student with grand ambitions, I asked a panel of med students at UCSF how was it possible to find time for marriage/married life/their spouses in med school or residency.

One replied, "How could you get by with not having a partner during this extraordinarily busy time?"

It's taken several years for me to circle back to this point.

During my 7 weeks of surgery, I...

• Ate way too much fast food  
• Made slow cooker chili once and then ate it until I'm pretty sure it went bad...weeks later 
• Forgot to pay my rent
• Forgot to renew my lease 
• Forgot to pay my university bill 
• Did laundry once  

 I'm not saying I needed a partner to help me with these things, but I suppose it couldn't have hurt.