Confused About Army Payback

[peggyfromwastate]

Jenn- I just reread your post. Is it $300/month for resident types? We get $300/quarter in Metrocheck! The amazing thing is is that most students at USUHS still drive. You have to love your car...

Peggy

Update...

Hi Peggy!

Thanks so much for checking in. I love these email notifications. If it weren't for them, I would get so busy this board would never enter my mind.

Anyhow, we are still up in the air -- WAY UP. PM&R is such a screwy specialty. We REALLY want Walter Reed, but we could end up deferred. We could end up with a military TY and a totally different specialty. It is a confusing situation that is unique to PM&R in the military. So...

We will have to wait and see.

Our trip to D.C was postponed, but we hope to make it there in a couple weeks. Maybe we can meet up.

How does your 7-year-old like school?

Shel

[peggyfromwastate]

My daughter is liking school very well. It is really different out here in that they cancel school for anything! (I remember going to school during power outs when I was a kid.) Keeps you tuned in to the radio in the morning. She can walk to school and home, which is a blessing so that the twins can *sort of* get a nap. Right now we can't afford private school, but it seems that most people who can go that route. But here in Montgomery Cty, specifically Gaithersburg, the schools are pretty decent anyway.

Keep me posted on your progress!

[DCJenn]

Peggy-

We will have to plan on meeting sometime! There are a few of us here in the DC area now.

As for cancelling school? Wait until winter. Actually it's kind of a good thing that they cancel school because everyone in this town is so convinced they are super important to the running of The World that they insist on going to work, even though snow or sleet may be already coming down from the skies. So, what normally happens is that there are huge back-ups, tons of accidents and everyone gets stressed. (Remind your husband that sometimes Metro has to close due to ice on the rails)

I'm glad we were gone for most of Isabel!

Jenn

[peggyfromwastate]

Jenn, I'm finding that people do indeed think that the world will shut down if they are not here running it. There was a senator who showed up to congress on Friday, I believe, right after the storm and the streets were a mess, etc. The congress was basically empty b/c they'd canceled session, but this guy was miked anyway, and when he asked where everyone was, someone said that the rest of the senators stayed home. This guy said, "What a bunch of wimps". Miked and all! Gotta love it! This is so different from out west where we sort of listened with one eighth of an ear about the goings on in washington DC. We just didn't really think it applied much to us out there! This whole scandal thing with the leak and what not, I guarantee my parents out there have heard very little about it on local talk shows or even in our local paper. That's why we all have cable news, I guess...

Who else is in the DC area?

How was the wedding, or did you discuss that elsewhere? I better go look...

Peggy