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I know what could make an already globally ominous day even creepier. Solzhenitsyn could die of heart failure. Good thing I'm the master of safe hypotheticals.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2276650.stm

Wow. This NYTimes page makes me want to cower in a corner and wilt. Must snap out of self-induced feeling of powerlessness in negative 10 minutes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/world/asia/04india.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/us/03deport.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/health/03aids.html?th&emc=th

Twilight zone. Feeling ( Read more... )

I'm a little concerned about tomorrow, with regard to my sister's camp: they're having their "wear something from your favorite sports team" day. She's going to wear a blue and white dress, I specifically instructed her to say that she likes all the teams if anyone asks, my mom told her to say that she likes ice skating as her favorite sport; ( Read more... )

1. I have little interest in doing research. Especially when I'd be doing the kind of research that I'd rather be learning about while doing the actual legwork in talking to patients. All the Ph.D. and even Psy.D. programs feel like foreign limbs. I'm also underprepared, research-wise, for a Ph.D. program, though that could technically change ( Read more... )

When we walked in, she was sitting up on her bed. Have you seen my picture? She asked Dr. H. You look wonderful, He said. No, she said,  Have you seen my picture? Unrolled a sheet of paper with paint and glitter, the average of a child's Little Mermaid painting and a finger-painted nude; This is from my class on Thursdays. It's too sexy for me, He ( Read more... )

What's a good [safe, etc] place to get pierced in northern Jersey/NYC?

Under the cut, an incoherent log of my 7 ER hours, not well-written, sort of self-indulgent... Want to keep a record of people and cases, without knowing exactly why. Wow, latenight splitting headache, maybe I have encephalitis; Imma get me a spinal tap the next time I come in. Here goes.

Summary: If yesterday was the chemotherapy-associated sepsis ( Read more... )

I had forgotten how nice/happy/fuzzy/shiny orgo is, and that I actually liked it at one point in time [at some point before its stomach acid completely dissolved my brain and possibly even before its proteases digested my GPA, still surprisingly post-ingestion]. It is kinetic, responsive, and physical ( Read more... )

Here’s how we pull our shades closed here: self-consciously, silently

Plugging our ears from the moans of the neighbors next door

Spending our flickering evenings obstructing the violently

Humid, the desperately dimmable, breathlessly sore.


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