Four days ago I graduated. A week ago a friend of mine died. I had a job interview Friday. Four years ago I opened a fortune cookie that said I'd find great success in medical research. I thought it was so weird that I carried it in my wallet until two years ago, when I got a new one ( Read more... )

Today I'm not happy. And I haven't been very happy lately. In the middle of a whirlwind of unhappy things attached to fly paper, attaching to me. Will I always have these memories?

Tomorrow is a new day after all.

The foundation I was applying to in order to volunteer in Nepal sent me an email instructing me to fill out the new 2008 application. The bottom of the application indicates that the "Application is not complete until making a $30 dollar donation..." Am I wrong to be completely turned off by this? Am I still just being naive by thinking that ( Read more... )

Got drunk and when I woke up the next day my computer was completely drenched in water and destroyed. Still pretty much a mystery how that happened. Good news though! I might be going to Ghana to set up a clinic. Bad news! The doctors are planning on leaving before I graduate. Good news! If it's universally possible I'll finish up earlier, and

Found kittens a home. Dropped them off this morning. Saw Jono cry, which if you knew him you'd understand has some mythological significance. Seeing that was like capturing a unicorn and setting it free. After weeks of rain it's genuinely beautiful in Berkeley. This weekend we're going to San Francisco to paint and listen to music and to live out ( Read more... )

I have a niece. Akira has a little sister. Things move fast.

I've been studying a lot lately. Tomorrow at 9 a.m. the prompt for my essay exam is released and I have three days to write a ten page essay. It's due right after I have a three hour immunology exam. There was a time when I would have been amused by the task, but my writing has deteriorated to such a point that I've been re-reading three year old ( Read more... )

Doing really badly in school. And it's funny, because I don't do much else. I'm halfway through the year. So many things are going to change. I just think it might be nice, to record things before it all does.

It's always funny having a journal and reading things written a long time ago. It's too bad I deleted my personal entries, I think ( Read more... )

I drove back to berkeley at 5 a.m. yesterday and it was obscenely hot. I didn't use my air conditioner for fear of my car overheating. My solution was to drive very quickly, and so I did, arriving in Berkeley some four hours later ( Read more... )