Neuro ended on a high note. It was a little weird to take the shelf on Wednesday and then show up for two days, but we had a ton of patients suddenly arrive (just for us), so there was stuff to do and without the looming exam I could actually concentrate on the patients themselves. What a thought! Really, I think we were incredibly lucky to have ( Read more... )

Sir William Osler is medicine's answer to Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and William Shakespeare, all in one. He appears to have spent so much time thinking up Important Quotes that I don't know if he ever found time to see patients. But there's no denying that some of his one-liners are particularly apt ( Read more... )

Today marks the start of Banned Books Week. Check out the list of most frequently challenged books during my formative years.

( Top 100 Challenged Books of 1990-1999, bolded if I've read them )

First day of classes went off without a hitch. We started with death (apoptosis, necrosis), which lends a delightful color to second year. The lecturer pronounced it "a-POP-tosis," which I've always found more ... onomatopoeic. POP ( Read more... )

I started reading Cry, the Beloved Country on the airplane and am now in love ( Read more... )

A few nights ago, I dreamt that I looked out the window of my room at home onto a snowy Gildergreen. Alejandro was out there, clad only in jeans and a gray sweatshirt, industriously clearing a path with a push-along snow-blower, which kept blowing snow in front of him instead of to the side. (This is a non-so-subtle metaphor for anatomy lab.) My ( Read more... )

I should not have had that second cup of coffee at dinner last night.  After getting home around midnight, I read Emma until sunrise.  I'd forgotten just how joyous a novel it is.  I'm just to the part where Frank Churchill goes to London for that infamous haircut.

I've also been reading Morningside Heights, a novel by Cheryl Mendelson.  I detect a ( Read more... )

People mad about reality TV show that gives stay-at-home mothers an outside career for a week.

It's kind of lame that people are still so worked up about the whole career vs. family issue. If a woman chooses to work in an office, let her. If she chooses to stay at home with the kids, let her. Personal choices, people. I read the blog of an ( Read more... )

A gorgeous day, and for the first time in weeks, I felt alive. So I went down to the undergrad and "studied" and walked around their paltry version of the Lawn. (I miss the University most especially on days like this, when I would have liked to sit out in the Amphitheatre or the Lawn or Garden X.)


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December 27
7:15
Fairfax Ice Arena, food after

I have Real Skates now, which actually support my ankles (what a thought). So yay.

Break's half-over, and what have I done?
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