Raven Rock

Wednesday we had round two of OSCEs, a comprehensive clinical exam required for entry into level III clinic. Most of it went OK for me, but I think I bombed one of the sections. Well, if that's the case, I will have to take the consequences and do remediation, then move on from there. The world will not end.

My friend Matt H and I took the afternoon to travel to a swimming hole in North Georgia for the afternoon, as I was done with the exam at 1130 (it started at 730am). Raven Rock is rumored to be one of the best in the region, a five-star classic. So we plugged in the GPS coordinates into my little Garmin Nuvi, and off we went.

The pool is about a 45 min hike off of a forest service road. Matt's little Mazda didn't really like it... we should have taken my trucky, oops. The setting reminds me a lot of New Hampshire, except about 20 degrees hotter! The actual pool is about 30 feet across, by about 60 feet long, of running deep water, with a backdrop of a 100' wall of metamorphic rock (yes, climbable!). Cataracts bookend it. When we arrived, a group was passing thru on whitewater rafts, tho it couldn't have been a very exciting ride, since the water level is quite low.

It was a lovely, lazy afternoon. Good therapy.

Today the heat seems to have broken. Is it possible that summer in Georgia is done? This afternoon the sky was a deep, deep blue; it was the blue I remembered looking up at as a child.

Headed out shortly to my friend Annette's 30th birthday celebration, at a bar in Midtown. I won't be there long. We don't have smoke-free bars here.

Midterms this week. The slog continues... though a faint glimmer of the end is in sight!