BECAUSE I WAS ALSO ACCEPTED INTO THE COMBINED MPH/MBA PROGRAM AT JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH WHICH IS, BY THE WAY, RANKED #1 IN THE NATION

I was accepted to Stony Brook School of Medicine.

I got into medical school!

I still have a lot of health care admin/policy programs to hear back from, but now I have two very solid, and very different, options. Now we begin to make the difficult decision about which direction to head next...

I just got home from the Irish festival up near Boston. As much as I appreciate living in a multicultural country such as our own, there was something very comforting and exciting about being in a throng of a couple thousand people who each look like someone in my family. Something about being surrounded by freckles (so. many. freckles.) and red ( Read more... )

I am a sharer. When I was young, I learned how to share, and I learned pretty well. When I have something, particularly a food item, I like to offer it to other people, and it delights me when they partake (though people rarely seem to accept - it's possible that it's because I am a terrifying ogre, but my theory is that people don't like to feel ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, Nic and I embark for Nova Scotia. We will *not* be arriving by boat, although we will have SIXTEEN HOURS of driving during which I will have plenty of time to teach him shanties for singing as we triumphantly cross onto the island. Our only real plans include joining the St. Anthony Club of Nova Scotia for a bit ( Read more... )

Ellen's Doctor (looking over a lab printout): Ellen, have you been feeling lately like you are mildly retarded, inexplicably irritable, boring and unadventuresome, generally uninspired and not your exciting self, and like you have the memory capacity of a goldfish?

Ellen: Actually, that pretty much sums up the past few weeks, maybe a couple of ( Read more... )

laying on my back digesting a slow, slow supper, the leaves on the branches above me were laid out against a canvas so white it seemed as though someone had forgotten to draw in the sky. i could almost reach over and brush the morning glories with my fingertips, but they were twisted up and pinched tightly shut, not in the mood to share.

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(Key quote: Hatebeak pecks your eyes out and assaults your ears in a flurry of pummeling riffs and grey feathers that leaves you lying in a pool of blood begging for more.In case you still don't believe it ( Read more... )

awesome idea for st. a's community service

the last few days have been tough because my brain is off. i've been depressed - not depressed in the common use of the term, which is more along the lines of bleak despair, but depressed in the more physical-medical sense of the term - complete lack of motivation. in fact, i've been feeling just fine. it's just that i feel underwater. it's ( Read more... )