Eight More Days!
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mood
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trying to be busy
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of montreal - wraith pinned to the mist and other games
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17 exams and 5 papers.
Just another exam week in medical school.
So why exactly am I not studying? Simple really. At this point cramming all the topics will be nothing more than pointless and I did the math. No matter how "bad" I am and no matter how many transes I skip the worst exam score I got was still well above the 65% mark. I average 75% and when I'm extra diligent I get 80-85%. Not much difference between the numbers when finals is only 7.5% of the grade. At most my grade can only go down by less than 1 point. I'm not one to work so hard for something that adheres to the Law of Diminishing Returns. While my grade economy is generally flawed because those few extra points could really spell the difference between scholarships dropping left and right, the time frame for this should be considered. So if I started to add an extra 2 hours to my study time at say the beginning of the second semester I could easily be sitting pretty in the top five. Again the key word is "if" so at the moment I'd rather not be bothered by such trifling matters.
Yeah, I'm a geek that way. I but you have to admit that the math helps perpetuate and justify the laziness and the economy of cramming.
With that aside, I still can't seem to decide which I like better. Je Suis Gourmand or Aubergine. Both are French restaurants with the same price range (yeah, yeah I spend too much on food... and clothes... and books... and ugh practically everything else) and quite arguably one of the best restaurants I've ever been too. Mind you my family has all sorts of food and ingredients shipped from all over Europe for special occasions and I've eaten at five star hotels and restaurants in different countries, so that's saying a whole LOT.
The lamb and the duck foie gras from both restaurants are just very different. I really can't decide which I like more. Je suis gourmands larger foie gras servings make me very happy but Aubergines duck foie gras platter is a vastly different dish with more complex tastes and infinitely prettier presentation. In a nut shell Je suis gourmand definitely provides a cozier, homier dining experience while Aubergine gives a more upscale-bordering-ultra-rich-sinful-intimidating experience. They're entirely different experiences altogether and being the spendaholic that I am, find they're both restaurants I don't mind paying an arm and leg. OK so maybe I'm exaggerating it's probably more like a finger and toe.
Again yes blogging about food and thinking of where to eat next is more important than my 17 exams. Well... not really but right now I'd like to pretend that it is.
"Thinking through the noise you get back to bed with your tinker tinker toys you gotta think it, think it, think it, thinking it through."