Like going to a singing this Saturday for the first time since April, and doing well on the PID practice test even though it's only Wednesday, and lounging on Bekah's fabulous couch in my room, and raspberry seltzer with lime, and Life Drawing class at lunch today. I am terrible at figure drawing, but I managed to do one that was good enough for ( Read more... )

Whenever I read about a new disease, at some point my eyes glaze over and I spend about five minutes imagining how I would break the diagnosis to a patient before I realize what I'm doing and snap out of it.

Today I told four imaginary people they had: adenocarcinoma (colon cancer), leiomyosarcoma (uterine cancer), adenoma in the adrenal cortex, and ( Read more... )

She's right. I severely restrict my recreational internet time. When you're aiming for superhuman levels of productivity, the internet is toxic.

What have I done since returning from Brazil? I saw Minh for the first time in over a year, which is ridiculous. I visited Elizabeth, who fanned the flames of my obsession with making cupcakes. I ( Read more... )

In honor of such an auspicious date, WBCN played every recording by Nine Inch Nails in alphabetical order, including tracks from the soon-to-be-released The Fragile. I sat on the floor of my room meticulously taping the whole thing while reading Bio and US History II. I was thrilled. I eventually wore those tapes into the ground.

"If you treat every situation where you don't know the answer as an opportunity to shame yourself, you're screwed. You're screwed forever."

I was all ready to love pharm BUT THIS FIRST LECTURE IS SO BORING.

AUGH I HAVE SUCH A HEADACHE I AM SO DEHYDRATED, THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR SPENDING ALL MORNING IN THE CAMPO AND WANDERING THROUGH THE REST OF MY DAY WITHOUT INSPECTING MY WATER INTAKE.

but then I had a much better, much lazier idea: cut and paste the email I just sent to mom. Yesssss.

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Well I hope they don't play any good movies, because I'm hoping to sleep soundly. I never sleep on redeye flights, not because I have trouble sleeping on planes but because I'm always so darn excited about where I'm going that I just want to ( Read more... )

Tropical birds in small cages.

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