in case you are still reading this blog i created so so long ago (almost 5 years! can you believe it?), I have moved to a new blog host.

http://tilmyheartstops.blogspot.com/

love and kisses, dear livejournal.

on monday night you would have found me in the emanuel hospital emergency room. apparently what i experienced upon leaving the grocery store parking lot is called an esophageal spasm and can feel more or less like a heart attack. so there i was, laying in the back of my car, curled up in a ball, just trying to breathe ( Read more... )

"keep roni weird ( Read more... )

this weekend started pretty badly...


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after what i hope was a serious talk with my brother, i think we will go to vietnam and japan in march after he graduates!


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i need to get out of here--like, real bad. japan, china, canada, la, seattle....anywhere ( Read more... )

hey everyone! in case i don't survive today's bombing, it's been nice knowing ya.

i work near ground zero, and mass casualties are expected.

what a wake-up call applying to medical school is. if you ever want to reality check yourself, i recommend applying to some form of competitive graduate education. i turned in my last secondary application today. that means the application portion of the process is done and now i get to kick back and pray/hope/beg for interview invites. among ( Read more... )

today, simon and i were assigned to go to the hospital to pick up a BRAIN! well, part of a brain. the part that causes people to have seizures (the hippocampus), which was removed from a patient's BRAIN! it felt so right carrying my silver metal pail full of liquid nitrogen, with two little cryo-vials full of brain making little plinking noises ( Read more... )

ahhhhhhhh! (hear the angels singing ( Read more... )