SHUT THE DOOR! Do you think you live in a barn!?

In fact I do reside in a barn.  Now not a red barn like you'd think, nor is it a barn like Patrick Swazyee occupies in Roadhouse, but yes, horses live in it.  So my doctor renovated 2-3 horse stalls into a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom apartment, which, surprisingly, is really nice.  There is a horse named Alfalfa who hangs out outside our kitchen window all day and he has some buddies in the lot next to him but I don't know their names.  I have a roommate from Tulane Med school who is pretty awesome.  We have 4 channels on TV but thank god we have internet.

So, the clinic I work at is a Family Med/Pediatrics, so we see literally all 15 people who live in this town, but many of them are the typical "I have had this angry looking second head growing out of my face for about 6 years now and I am NOW just coming into see you" type of people.  Also, the accents portrayed in the movie, The Waterboy, are pretty spot-on accurate as most of them sound like Bobby Boucher however plenty sound like the mush mouth coach, Farmer Fran. Also everyone calls everyone else, "Baby" or "Boo," but EVERYONE I have encountered so far has been really awesome and nice and I think this will be a very enjoyable few months.

Tonight, my roommate and I decided to go into town (aka Lafayette) to grab dinner, so we asked a co-worker where we should go and her suggestion was this place called Coyote Blues which she said "Is kind of a Mexican restaurant, but not really..." (btw-it's TOTALLY a Mexican restaurant).  It was awesome btw with homemade tortillas and everything.  Her second suggestion though was the Olive Garden, and don't get me wrong that place is the jam, especially their all-you-can-eat soup, salad and breadsticks for $5.99, but she also defined it for us as "Its an italian restaurant." Thanks, I was unaware, but a sincere thank you for the suggestions, she is a sweet elderly lady.

OH, and how could I forget, the Annual Frog Festival (remember, I said Rayne is the Frog Capital of the World) is next weekend and we are definitely going to everything.  Apparently, you can rent a frog for the frog jumping contest.  I.CAN.NOT.WAIT.  (plenty of stories to follow I am sure).

Meet Alfalfa, AKA-sweetest horse ever.