ouch! i won a poetry prize! i really can't believe they picked me. now i just have to overcome my fear of showing the poem to grandparents and others, since it has the word "labia" in it...

i am now one year older. can you tell? should i make my little pout-girl drawing an inch taller? or is this the age when the spine begins to soften and slump. not such a bad thing if i think of it as "caterpillar-esque" -- these days it's all about the cognitive re-frame ( Read more... )

o i love it when i can find an excuse to squeeze a poem into a sciencey paper ( Read more... )

hereby puffy earmuff-type blocking of the world-sounds

tomorrow i have class from 10am until 8:30pm
friday i see my first patient and will be video taped
next week i have my first two particularly horrible midterm exams
i know nothing about physiology, and when i read it, it deflects off my eyeballs
a true mirror-bounce

i think i don't "believe" in the brain

isn't that funny?

it's saturday night; my eyes are burning from reading many many yibbits (word recycled from last post); i mean manyyibbits?; on OCD. what's life without a little ritualizing, anyway? anyway ( Read more... )

month #2 of school, and this new program is one of the most challenging things i have ever done, and midterms haven't even started yet... owls and bears! please supervise my meanderings ( Read more... )

as some of you know, mary travers passed away this week ( Read more... )

happy being-born to baby liam! in the fortunate care of a jane&david, somewhat sleepy but newly/greatly blissed. sky full of love ( Read more... )

so well so anyway well i have survived my first week as a doctoral student and all the raging/accompanying anxieties. this is the closest to an all-girls' school i have ever attended. there's only one male in my incoming class. i still have not yet purchased a new backpack, because my textbooks and testing materials costs have zapped my backpack ( Read more... )