As expected, students who graduate from college or grad school usually look for and get a job. Well, I was in that boat ( Read more... )

So today is my last fairly quiet day for about 2 weeks. The sisters and the future brothers-in-law are arriving tonight for my graduation and a family dinner tomorrow. Then Friday is a kamikaze laundry/packing day, because Saturday to next Thursday I'll be in Philadelphia for the American Academy of Physician Assistants National Conference (the ( Read more... )

Well, I think the last real entry I posted was roughly 5 months ago. I suppose it's been long enough that I should make another ( Read more... )

So there's this movie apparently coming out in December of this year about a world where souls exists outside of a person's body in an animal form (more info available at http://www.goldencompassmovie.com/). This seems like an awfully interesting idea. I did the "create your Daemon ( Read more... )

A picture showing what my new car looks like, along with a description of it ( Read more... )

So since that [censored] deer wrecked my car, I've been doing some research into a new vehicle. At first I was taking the typical "insurance is giving me xxxx dollars, what can I find in the paper" route. Then mom, dad, and I conferred, and decided that that xxxx dollars would be much better spent as a down payment and several months' payment of ( Read more... )

So I had a rather exciting day today. I started off heading to Planned Parenthood, the site of my OB/GYN rotation, for a 12-8pm shift. As I was going up the road, I was rather displeased to find that a large deer doesn't look both ways when hunting season starts. He came across the road, gave me no time to react, and hit my car right on the ( Read more... )

So my grandmother is getting rid of some of her old classical music CDs. Among the latest additions to the collection that now resides at my house are various Bach things, a CD of Prokofiev (there you go, Andrew!), a couple of Mozart, and *GASP!* Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring! :D Copland is probably my favorite composer of all time, and ( Read more... )

Brief and exciting update... My little sister is engaged! Dan, Amanda's now-fiancee, proposed to her Friday afternoon, and as you may have guessed, she said yes. So there's a wedding to look forward to at some point in the future. :)

I've been absolutely deluged with a request to update my LJ (Manda), so here goes ( Read more... )