Like last year, the final month of our academic calendar was once again filled with a plethora of celebratory events. The exhaustive string of wining and dining reminded me how too much of a good thing can sometimes be just … too much. Over the past 2 weeks, we had a graduation dinner at the downtown Harvard Club, an alumni meeting dinner at the Liberty Hotel, and a farewell dinner for visiting Shanghai physicians at the Harvard Faculty Club. The most memorable, however, was dinner at Hammersley’s with my co-residents, courtesy of our department chairman, for achieving the highest average OKAP exam score for a second year in a row. Excellent food, good company, and the beautiful spring weather were plenty incentive to study even harder for the exam next year. We also dined out with several friends from out of town, including a cousin from Germany whom I have not seen in about 20 years. As expected, there was a lot of catching up to do, and it took two meals to do so. It didn’t help that I was on my Oculoplastics rotation, which despite the fancy new digs and free candy/coffee, was a mental and physical drain with 6 weeks of near-continuous call. Luckily, we did manage to break out our tennis gear for the summer season, and even managed to finish our adventures in Dragon Age 2. More importantly, after staring at the water damage at home for the past 12 months, the final repairs are complete. We spent the weekend like a normal couple – shopping for groceries, doing the laundry, and cleaning the apartment. It feels that my life has returned to some level of normalcy again.