Do you LIKE working here?

I've never had a poker face. When I'm less than enthused to be working on a certain service, I can't hide it. I'm not actively saying, "Man, this is SHIT!" but you can pretty much read it in my face.

The other day, while I was looking up some old EKGs from many years ago to compare to a newly admitted patient's EKG to see if and how the current abnormal one was different from the previously abnormal ones (fffffUCK), the attending comes and sits down next to me, scrunches up his face with a look of expectant doubt and asks, "So.... do you LIKE Cardiology?"

This is tantamount to being a work, and your boss comes up to you, looks at you doubtfully, and asks, "So... do you LIKE working here? Because it sure doesn't seem like it." AWKWARD!!! What the FUCK do you think I'm GOING to say, man? "Yeah, I hate Cardiology, it blows. I know it's your field and all, but it SUCKS! BIIIG TIME! I feel bad for you. Feel free to quote me in my evaluation."

So yeah, I'm doing really well in the CCU. I'm the best intern ever. I always feel like I know what I'm doing, and I love what I'm doing. It's rewarding. The teaching is excellent and relevant to patient care, it's never so esoteric as to be completely not useful or narrowly focused on the areas of the fellow or attending's research. The patients are pleasant, all of them. I love all of the CCU nurses. They never page me on my day off, especially not with text pages since they know they are not supposed to send those. The call shifts are a reasonable 30+hrs straight working without sleeping, and I look forward to them. I hope I get assigned to extra CCU weeks next year! Since I have no control over my schedule, I'll just keep my little intern fingers crossed!