My (1st) 6 Minutes of Fame

As Megan described, we went to Kohler, WI this past weekend as part of the Wisconsin Surgical Society. I researched with one of the doctors over in Megan's department over the past summer and got to present the research that I'd done. Kohler is about an hour north of Milwaukee and registration was at 7AM. Since I could only stay one night, I chose to stay Friday night since I would be there all day Friday. Therefore, we drove up from Milwaukee early Friday morning, luckily there was no snow, no accidents, no traffic! My fellow student colleague was the second presentation of the morning at 7:40AM. Luckily I was not until 10:40AM. It went well. I was nervous until I got up there and then I was just fine. I felt honored to be speaking to surgeons, some of who were 30+ years into their careers. It was a good 6-minute presentation, my follow-up questions were taken up by a fell0w surgeon's recapitulation of my recommendations.

Kohler is a beautiful little town built on the Kohler brand of home furnishing fixtures. We had a nice big whirlpool tub in our 5-star room with endless amounts of hot water! We also got to visit the Kohler Design Center which is a big IKEA-style showroom with examples of all the neat and new bathroom technology that they are producing. The third floor was a collection of mock-bathrooms that were fun and interesting to look at. Maybe we'll go back many years later to help design our own bathroom. . .

I'm back at school this week waiting for classes and tests to get overwith so that I can enjoy my Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks. I can't wait to see how much snow we get this year.