dear LJ,

it's been a long time.

these days i'm struggling to understand how my struggle to understand why psychiatry is so painful for me can tell me something about who i am. if that makes sense. it's weird, i'm super interested, but it's so insanely painful. and it's not painful because it's sadder than any other illness. shit! other illnesses ( Read more... )

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sounds like an oxymoron eh? medical students protesting.... impossible!  well - i saw it.  it was really interesting. at first people were afraid to chant anything... like they all had the impression they might be doing something wrong if they were too loud... even most of the organizers had never been to a protest in their lives.  for anything.

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so... the deadline to start a medical students' club is today... what do you think of the title?

MM... SO GAY
McGill Medical Students’ Organization for GLBTQ and AllYs

any better ideas?

on campus i've been seeing some funny things. like a lady walking a rabbit on a cute little leash, a man eating a can or tuna with a fork (at second cup), and a woman (my age) with a shirt saying, "future yummy mummy". is motherhood a new trendy fetish? oh mcgill.

So these are the folks I've been spending some time with recently. Left to right, there's me (showing too much skin?), On Lee (San Franciscan, really good at frisbee), Dan (professor in Austin texas), Andrew (my ridiculous and childish supervisor), Anne-Cath (Swiss, likes cooking and horses), Dani (Swiss, likes butterflies and grasshoppers and ( Read more... )

hey everyone,

i might be moving to toronto next year. if i can figure out how to long-distance fill-in the acceptance forms with julia's help, that is.

Yeah the roadtrip was pretty great. Then, at the end of it, we (me, JS, AC, and Dani) stayed with hippies. Ridiculous! They were such intense hippiesd that they even had Tibetan monks to go with their prayer flags! I'm so fucking serious. I met them. The monks, that is. And I ate the monks' groceries because they eventually got on a plane and ( Read more... )