I’ve watched ER for a long time, and I’ve heard of “The Match” before, but were I not about to marry a doctor I don’t think I would have known about all that really goes into this match process.

So for basically all of December and most of January, Ashley and I were on our own little mini tour evaluating cities and residency programs all over the United States. Here is where we went (in order):

• Chapel Hill, NC
• Rochester, NY
• Pittsburgh, PA
• Wilmington, DE
• New Haven, CT
• Boston, MA
• Minneapolis, MN
• Springfield, MA
• Cincinnati, OH
• Ann Arbor, MI
• Nashville, TN
• San Diego, CA

We drove to almost all of those places, spent a few days in each for the interviews and then to get a feel for each city. We found some cities we liked and some we didn’t like so much. By the end we were ready to be back home and in the same place for a while.

We have submitted the rank list and now we are just working on getting the house ready to sell. Even if we match in Chapel Hill, we’ll need to move closer to the hospital.

March 15th is “Match Day” and when we’ll find out where we will be headed to spend the next 4-5 years. It is going to be a crazy 2007.