We love you Kara! Kara's friends and family have begun a "Click-it for Kara" campaign to encourage people to buckle up. I think this is just about the only way to deal with such a tragedy-turn it into something proactive; much the same as the MADD concept.

The countdown to Boards begins today...10 days till USMLE & 13 till COMLEX.  I can't wait until it's over!!!

Heartbroken

On Sunday Steve's cousin Kara, almost 16, was in a terrible car wreck. She was thrown from the car she was riding in and airlifted to the hospital in Daytona. The only injuries Kara sustained were, unfortunately, to her head. Yesterday Steve flew down to Florida to be with his family and say goodbye to Kara. Her life will continue on through the amazing gift of organ donation. I don't really feel like getting super personal in this blog, but I wanted to ask people to pray for Kara's family and friends as she leaves behind a whole ton of people who love her very much.

Please be careful on the road and buckle up.

Due to the fact that all I do every single day is study for boards, I have nothing the least bit interesting to blog about...so it will be about 3 more weeks before I resume being a normal person again. 

I did race the St. Joe mountain bike race a couple weeks ago (which was super duper fun and my Paragon is the best freaking bike a person could ask for) and I managed to have a really good race even though all I do is sit on my behind and read all day long. I've decided to follow in Dan Larson's training footsteps by expending as little energy as possible throughout the day so that I have everything saved up when I finally do get to ride my bike (I may keep using both sides of my mouth when I talk though). So the St. Joe trails were insanely twisty-turny and my Paragon tore that junk up. I think I made a couple guys who don't like to get beat by girls cry on their way home...how rewarding.

At the moment it is really "raining it's ass off" as Steve just eloquently put it so the Landahl race might be a no-go.

So Steve got a job at Wheat Ridge Cyclery and will be heading out in a couple weeks to find us a place to live (preferably not in the Mexican ghetto-apparently Denver is the capital of Mexican gangs, SWEET). We are totally pumped about the relocation, but sad to leave some good friends here in KC. I will be staying thru most of July and August, and then my 1st rotation starts September 2nd!

Okay, that's the extent of my boring update-ciao.