Just One More Milestone

I love this. This year has been full of last-timers/milestones/hoops to jump, and I have just completed one more. I presented my completed research project this weekend at our Bev Leech weekend. It was a great way to go out - on a high note. I won the "Best Completed Project" award!! I thought that was really ironic as my research essentially showed a negative result (the null hypothesis was true).
I will never have to do research or complete research ever again, unless I want to. That sense of relief and freedom is great!
I have very few of these milestones left to complete in my residency. One great big one, of course, is passing the exam. That I will have to attack with baby steps.
With this year (my years are still academic from July to July) almost over, I wax and wane, go back and forth. Sometimes I definately feel like if I just keep at it, I can do it. Sometimes, of course, I feel like I just can't. I am very lucky to have someone like Jurgen in my life. He definately keeps me grounded. He reminds me that some of the things that I think are "the end of the world" really are just not that big of deals. Sometimes you need that!
Lately, I have been surprising myself. I have accomplished a lot - "good cases" (ie. scary stuff), completed research, etc.. I just need to remember that things feel like they are spinning out of control that this, too, will end eventually.
Baby steps.