Category: Events and Happenings

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It’s a Hooligan wedding!

Hooray! It’s a wedding! It’s official!

Two of my very good friends and fellow Hooligans are getting hitched in a couple of months. I am no doubt one of the last to receive the invitation, which was postmarked a week ago. For some reason everything takes a week to get to me by mail.

The wedding is only a couple of months away, and there isn’t much time left to make arrangements. Now I’m wishing I hadn’t procrastinated on getting a new passport. I wonder how long it will take to get a new one… And I need to apply for advanced parole from USCIS too. And there are flight arrangements to make also.

Oh dear, this could be a bit of a challenge. So much to get organized.

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A midweek vacation

A view of the ocean from the Holiday Inn on Folly Beach.

Tuesday a collective sigh of relief was heard all over campus as the first year med students finished their final exam for the summer Gross Anatomy class. The next sound heard was the screeching of tires as they all took off for the beach.

Tuesday night one of my wife’s friends was flying in from Albany, so we picked him up and headed off to spend a couple of nights at Folly Beach. Wednesday was spent doing nothing but loafing around on the beach, soaking up the sun and warmth, and playing in the water. It was an exhausting day. Oh the life. I could definitely get used to it.

Then today for her, it was off to the mall to shop. Sadly for me, it was off to work.

Then tomorrow we’ve got more friends and family coming in for the White Coat Ceremony, where MD wannabes get inducted into their class.

I think I need a vacation.

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Chillin’ on the beach.

Yesterday’s beach picnic turned out reasonably well. The rain stayed away long enough to get everything grilled, people to eat and spend some time playing on the beach. As expected, I spent most of the time walking back and forth between the two grills we had going to cook all the food. Didn’t have quite as many people come by as we expected, so there was plenty of food left over. And just as I planned, setting out the pulled pork a little after most people filled up on burgers and hot dogs (“Oh wait, there’s some pulled pork barbeque too!”) meant that there was plenty of pulled pork left over for me :). Excellent…

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Grok make fire. Grok cook.

Just about to head out to the beach and grill my face off. The wife decided to organize a picnic/barbeque and invited a bunch of her classmates along. She’s completely incapable of planning any kind of event without turning it into a huge production, so I expect I’ll have my hands full grilling stacks of hamburgers and hotdogs while she entertains. Her planning skills usually make for memorable events though.

My pulled pork pseudo-barbeque came out very nicely again, but I’m hoping most people will want burgers so I can take most of it home with me :). I’ve got about 3 dozen burgers and a Sam’s Club sized package of hot dogs to cook. That and the 10 pounds of pulled pork ought to keep people happy.

I just hope we don’t get rained out before everything gets started.