From PBS’s “Bachelors of Highbury Quiz, I got:

Quite right, too.

I’m apparently not a Mr. Elton kinda girl at all: only 1% of the vote.

You should all take the quiz too! It can be found here, but remember, Mr. Knightley is mine. 🙂

I celebrated finishing my applications (I’ve heard back from 8 of the 14 programs) by finally watching Cranford. Overall I enjoyed it a lot, although I’m starting to see why people compare Elizabeth Gaskell with Dickens. It’s available on PBS until Jan 10th, if anyone is interested. The Return to Cranford christmas special will be playing on your local PBS station the next two Sundays.

Speaking of costume dramas and Elizabeth Gaskell, have you seen this?

I sent off my applications this morning. Two of the programs who had the 12/31 deadline listed have already contacted me, stating that the information on the Match website was false. They either had no deadline or it was later this month. And two have bounced back as “delivery failure,” so I’ve got to do some more searching. One program just hired one of our fellows here and stated that he was “looking forward to meeting” me. So I may already have an interview. Downside is that I strongly dislike working with this particular fellow and I’m not sure that I’d want to go to a program where he would be in charge of me and my education for 2 years.

I need to contact my letter writers and make sure they are on target for sending out letters by Friday/Monday. And then fill out any secondary applications.

I’m mailing off the request for my board scores today. I’m sending a copy to myself and another to my neurology program, which they will copy and then give back to me. Hopefully, this will mean that I won’t lose it again (of course, I’ll go to all of this trouble and never need it again. But you never know).

And after all that, I think I can sit back for a little while and wait for the invitations. What a relief!

And a big thank you to all of you for your support and words of encouragement. When I’m overwhelmed, I don’t get a chance to respond, but I really appreciated your suggestions.