Creative outlet

I wish I had the time to do little creative things like take lots of pictures, or paint something or make etsy things, or read for pleasure.  I think there are probably some other obstacles to doing these things well (with the exception of reading, I'm marginal at best).  And technically, on this rotation at least, I can find the hours to do those things, but when I have free time I mostly want to spend it with the people I love, and getting all the people I love to paint or read or create together is sort of difficult.  Sometimes I have time to myself and I think about reading, but then I think about the shelf and how I really might be able to honor this rotation, and how I ought to study, and so then I figure I have to study in that rare moment when the mood strikes me to do so.  So I haven't read more than about a paragraph for pleasure since the beginning of school.

Don't get me wrong, I love what I'm doing, and I think it's worth it and I have made the right choice.  But I'm not sure I was quite so aware of some of the things I was putting on hold or de-prioritizing when I made this choice.

Another interesting thing is the gender dynamic and all the varieties of manifestations that can take in medicine.  But I think that's another post for another day, or maybe for never.  We'll see.