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shalmestere discovered that somebody had posted to YouTube many entire episodes of "Doctor In The House", a BBC sit-com that she remembered fondly from the 1970's, and we started watching them, one or two a night (now that we've figured out how to cast YouTube videos reasonably reliably to the living room TV). This presumably inspired....
Dream: I was about to start the first day of a medical residency. It occurred to me during the dream that I was in my fifties and hadn't actually taken any medical school, but it sounded like an interesting learning experience. I had moved back in with my mother for the purpose, and she was living on the south side of Lexington, KY; the hospital was on the east side of Lexington, KY, less than 90 degrees around New Circle Road [yes, that's the real-life name of the Lexington "beltway"] but for some reason the map I had been given directed me to go the long way around, and estimated it would take me 54 minutes to get there; I anguished over whether to go the short way, or whether the hospital knew something I didn't about traffic. I had a tan medical coat/gown I was supposed to wear, and it was oddly arranged so it took time-consuming fiddling to figure out how to get it on. So I was worried about getting there on time for my first day. And... that's all I remember.
Addendum: In Real Life (tm), I was born in Lexington, KY while my father was in medical school at the University of Kentucky, which is in fact near the center of the New Circle. I returned to UK thirty years later to spend a year as visiting faculty in the Computer Science department. During that year I had a hernia surgery at the UK medical center, and was amused to notice that they assigned me a patient number from 1964, the last time I'd been there.
shalmestere discovered that somebody had posted to YouTube many entire episodes of "Doctor In The House", a BBC sit-com that she remembered fondly from the 1970's, and we started watching them, one or two a night (now that we've figured out how to cast YouTube videos reasonably reliably to the living room TV). This presumably inspired....Dream: I was about to start the first day of a medical residency. It occurred to me during the dream that I was in my fifties and hadn't actually taken any medical school, but it sounded like an interesting learning experience. I had moved back in with my mother for the purpose, and she was living on the south side of Lexington, KY; the hospital was on the east side of Lexington, KY, less than 90 degrees around New Circle Road [yes, that's the real-life name of the Lexington "beltway"] but for some reason the map I had been given directed me to go the long way around, and estimated it would take me 54 minutes to get there; I anguished over whether to go the short way, or whether the hospital knew something I didn't about traffic. I had a tan medical coat/gown I was supposed to wear, and it was oddly arranged so it took time-consuming fiddling to figure out how to get it on. So I was worried about getting there on time for my first day. And... that's all I remember.
Addendum: In Real Life (tm), I was born in Lexington, KY while my father was in medical school at the University of Kentucky, which is in fact near the center of the New Circle. I returned to UK thirty years later to spend a year as visiting faculty in the Computer Science department. During that year I had a hernia surgery at the UK medical center, and was amused to notice that they assigned me a patient number from 1964, the last time I'd been there.