The second half of the season gets off to a quickie start, literally. Meredith doesn't want to wake up for work so she suggests to Derek that they have a quickie to start the day off with a bang.

Once at work Meredith and Cristina walk together but don't speak to one another. George tells Izzie happy birthday which takes her by surprise. I'm not sure if she's surprised George is telling her happy b-day or if she forgot it is her b-day. Positions for the day go something like this... George is in the pit, Alex is with Bailey for surgery, Izzie needs to get the clinic budget submitted, and Cristina and Meredith are to meet Derek and the Chief at the bay.

All eyes and ears are on the Chief at the start of this episode. He's about to name who will get to do the solo surgery. We already know it's going to be Cristina, but the catch is that she doesn't get to do the surgery and instead has to decide who should get to do it in her place. Remember this is her punishment for sort of although not really knowing about last ep's intern sacrifice experiment.

The Izzie craziness is on again this week! I don't know about all of you, but the show is really starting to lose me with her Denny visions. Are the brain tumor rumors true? Shonda Rhimes say they aren't true. But, surely, Izzie must have something wrong with her to have gone off the deep end like this, right? At this point I'd be happy if she turned out to have something wrong, at least she wouldn't just be crazy. I don't want Izzie to just be crazy.

We begin this episode with everyone finding out that Hahn, or as Cristina calls her "the wicked witch," has left the building and is not coming back. It was just about a week or so ago that ABC announced Hahn would no longer be on the show and we still do not have a logical explanation as to why, but I must say Shonda Rhimes did a nice job at gracefully writing her out of the show. Anyway, as I was saying, Cristina tells Meredith the wicked witch is dead. But, when one witch dies apparently one arrives, and the new witch goes by the name Sadie. She arrives at the Grey-McDreamy household at the crack of dawn looking for "dead," or Meredith as we know her.

Meredith and Cristina are enthralled in reading Meredith's mom's diaries. Christina says they're like the Harry Potter books she never had. Derek is not happy because Meredith and Christina are on the phone all night so he can't sleep. Alex and Izzie don't have a problem sleeping... with each other. They seem to falling into the boyfriend-girlfriend thing pretty well. I just wonder how long this will last.

Before we begin the recap I must warn all of you that no animals were harmed during the filming of this episode. Yes, really, it's going to be one of THOSE episodes.

We start with Meredith and Derek sorting through boxes and Meredith comes across "anatomy Jane" doll that she used to play with all the time as a kid. It's a doll that lets you take out all the different body parts. Izzie and Alex wake up in the same bed and Alex's first question is whether they're still going to sleep with other people. Hahn and Callie also wake up in the same bed and both seem to have had quite a bit of fun the night before, though Hahn seems to have had a REALLY good time because she's absolutely raving, crying even. Seriously, she's crying. Callie seems to be a little creeped out, understandably.

We begin right where we left off last week. Meredith is in bed reading her mom's diary learning about her time as a resident. Callie and Hahn are back at Callie's place, Cristina is out for the night, so Callie and Hahn drink some wine together. It doesn't take long for them to decide NOT to take it slow and they're on top of each other.