We won the lottery!

Not really, because we don't buy lottery tickets. I always see elderly people in Sun City buying them at Albertsons and wonder if they really win or not. We did, however, win the rotation lottery. In medical school, some really important things are based on lottery, one of them being rotations. When we decided to come to school here in Arizona, it was said that there would be plenty of spots for many of the students to do rotations in our area. The closer we got to the day rotations were assigned, we were discovering that there weren't quite as many as we thought. Many people were going to have to go elsewhere--California, Tucson, Ohio. We didn't really want to go anywhere, so rotation assignments, or this lottery, was becoming stressful. But when they did the spin, we got "West Valley." Now we won't have to move, and Matt won't have to travel to the east side of the city or Tucson. Thank goodness. We are discovering, though, that many people didn't get west valley, people who have houses and jobs and the like. We feel bad, but are really glad that we get to stay.