Sup, folks.
It's apparently Student Day in Iran. Or, as my parents said, Beat The Crap Out Of Students Day (They would know, they were the students. >_>)
Finished my third day of working in the nursing home. It's still really awkward sometimes but I'm getting along with the people who work there and the clients. Still a bit insecure, it feels like they tolerate me because I'm going to be an OMGdoctor, but maybe that's just my paranoia. The clients are really nice, and their reactions to my name and ethnicity are hilarious (thankfully not racist). I rather like working hard, but... nursing is not really my thing. I'll stick to the whole ivory tower doctor thing, I think. XD
Apparently my special subject in January is going to be gen therapy. The following macro will show you my med school friends' reaction.
The special mandatory course had 16 different subjects. We have about 380 students in our year. My subject has 10 people enrolled. I'm pretty sure everyone is imagining greasy nerds who toil away over their little test tubes far into the night. Oh well. XD
So, in case you didn't know, 5 december was No To Berlusconi Day. It amused me because it was on the same day as Sinterklaas. It made me happy because more than 150 thousand people protested against Berlusconi. It made me LOL because a Dutch program spent 5 minutes on it, first showing a collage of Berlusconi-moments (and man, he has a few, what a douchebag) with Justin Timberlake's SexyBack as background music. This, my friends, is a stoke of genius. And then came a moment where I was just completely flabbergasted. Apparently some people are lobbying for a Nobel Peace Price for Berlusconi. Just. What. This beats Sakozy's nomination, by a mile. Apparently he stopped a war between Russian and Georgia (I think it was Georgia?) by making a phone call, or some such. I'm pretty sure the Nobel Committee would lose all credibility if they considered Berlusconi.
Every few years I try to get into DCU comics, especially the Batman related ones but... I fail at it. The really weird discontinuity and dozens retcons (not to mention the fact that most characters don't have just one personality) just confuse me. I guess I'll just have to stick to the cartoons (Especially Batman Beyond ♥). Anyway, I was cruising through scans_daily (both the IJ and the DW version) and it made me discover Black Cat's Bat and Sons fancomic. GUYS, YOU TOTALLY HAVE TO CHECK THIS OUT. It's the best thing ever and possibly my favourite version of Batman. Batman and his weird four sons (The three first Robins and TERRY, the Batman in Batman Beyond. This just fills me with glee.). The Rivalry story is so awesome. This is so ridiculously hilarious and cute. And the other JLA members are so awesome too, like Superman and Wonder Woman and, well, ALL of them. (Also check out the Mr. Bat-mom comic. HAHA!)
Also found on scans_daily. Oh man, the part about the camp vs. DARKNESS thing, it's SO true. I guess I mostly like campy Batman with a dash of darkness. Or just darkness with some humour (Hello, Batman Beyond).
Okay, and there is this character meme going around on jesteros. I had to relinquish my Aemon and Samwell award but I got nominated for:
Rodrik the Reader
Asha
Kevan
Sarella
Jon
Loras
Garlan
Tom O'Sevens
Meera
Willas
Jaqen
Okay... What do I do? I suck at this whole campaign stuff. I can only pick two but who do I choose? I got a bizarre amount of nominations for Loras (He's one of my favourite characters! But I'm not really like him! But he's one of my favourite characters!). And people like me for Willas (I mean, I like him. Even though he's a bit of a blank slate, but we see some hints and I like that, I could be like him.)
I also got quite some nominations for Tom O'Sevens! I didn't even consider this, but I guess playing string instruments helps. I rather like this! But I have competition here. XD
I also got a few nominations for Sarella, which I also like, what with her wanting to become a maester, but in a really cool way. I'm going to become a maester doctor!
Okay, and then I got some stray votes for characters who are pretty cool and obviously going to other people. (I admit I'm pleased with the Jon vote. I embrace the angst in me. :P)
I think I'll decide on campaigning tomorrow.
Finished my third day of working in the nursing home. It's still really awkward sometimes but I'm getting along with the people who work there and the clients. Still a bit insecure, it feels like they tolerate me because I'm going to be an OMGdoctor, but maybe that's just my paranoia. The clients are really nice, and their reactions to my name and ethnicity are hilarious (thankfully not racist). I rather like working hard, but... nursing is not really my thing. I'll stick to the whole ivory tower doctor thing, I think. XD
Apparently my special subject in January is going to be gen therapy. The following macro will show you my med school friends' reaction.
The special mandatory course had 16 different subjects. We have about 380 students in our year. My subject has 10 people enrolled. I'm pretty sure everyone is imagining greasy nerds who toil away over their little test tubes far into the night. Oh well. XD
So, in case you didn't know, 5 december was No To Berlusconi Day. It amused me because it was on the same day as Sinterklaas. It made me happy because more than 150 thousand people protested against Berlusconi. It made me LOL because a Dutch program spent 5 minutes on it, first showing a collage of Berlusconi-moments (and man, he has a few, what a douchebag) with Justin Timberlake's SexyBack as background music. This, my friends, is a stoke of genius. And then came a moment where I was just completely flabbergasted. Apparently some people are lobbying for a Nobel Peace Price for Berlusconi. Just. What. This beats Sakozy's nomination, by a mile. Apparently he stopped a war between Russian and Georgia (I think it was Georgia?) by making a phone call, or some such. I'm pretty sure the Nobel Committee would lose all credibility if they considered Berlusconi.
Every few years I try to get into DCU comics, especially the Batman related ones but... I fail at it. The really weird discontinuity and dozens retcons (not to mention the fact that most characters don't have just one personality) just confuse me. I guess I'll just have to stick to the cartoons (Especially Batman Beyond ♥). Anyway, I was cruising through scans_daily (both the IJ and the DW version) and it made me discover Black Cat's Bat and Sons fancomic. GUYS, YOU TOTALLY HAVE TO CHECK THIS OUT. It's the best thing ever and possibly my favourite version of Batman. Batman and his weird four sons (The three first Robins and TERRY, the Batman in Batman Beyond. This just fills me with glee.). The Rivalry story is so awesome. This is so ridiculously hilarious and cute. And the other JLA members are so awesome too, like Superman and Wonder Woman and, well, ALL of them. (Also check out the Mr. Bat-mom comic. HAHA!)
Also found on scans_daily. Oh man, the part about the camp vs. DARKNESS thing, it's SO true. I guess I mostly like campy Batman with a dash of darkness. Or just darkness with some humour (Hello, Batman Beyond).
Okay, and there is this character meme going around on jesteros. I had to relinquish my Aemon and Samwell award but I got nominated for:
Rodrik the Reader
Asha
Kevan
Sarella
Jon
Loras
Garlan
Tom O'Sevens
Meera
Willas
Jaqen
Okay... What do I do? I suck at this whole campaign stuff. I can only pick two but who do I choose? I got a bizarre amount of nominations for Loras (He's one of my favourite characters! But I'm not really like him! But he's one of my favourite characters!). And people like me for Willas (I mean, I like him. Even though he's a bit of a blank slate, but we see some hints and I like that, I could be like him.)
I also got quite some nominations for Tom O'Sevens! I didn't even consider this, but I guess playing string instruments helps. I rather like this! But I have competition here. XD
I also got a few nominations for Sarella, which I also like, what with her wanting to become a maester, but in a really cool way. I'm going to become a maester doctor!
Okay, and then I got some stray votes for characters who are pretty cool and obviously going to other people. (I admit I'm pleased with the Jon vote. I embrace the angst in me. :P)
I think I'll decide on campaigning tomorrow.