I will become even more awesome than I was during the previous 365 days of my life. I'm on a never-ending upward spiral.

I've just been accepted to my first medical school! Hells yeah! Of the schools I've visited so far, it's not my favorite, but even if I don't hear back from any other schools, I know for sure now that I'm going to be a doctor!!! SWEEEEEEEET. Just don't start calling me Dr. Laura, for the love of god.

I have a final next week. I'm procrastinating. By studying to become a sex guru.



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I purchased a domain name and hosting for my first website ever! It's www.rideforthemind.org, for my schizophrenia research fundraiser. Nothing's on it yet, but I plan to learn how to build it and become a bona-fide geek. As of now, I only know the tiniest bit of HTML. I decided to go with Linux hosting because I'm under the impression that it will ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night that I ate a baby. I woke up feeling pretty upset about the whole thing - not because of the moral implications of eating children, but because I was supposed to be babysitting the infant I ate, and did a poor job of making the mother fail to notice that her baby was missing. I knew I was going to get in trouble for being a ( Read more... )

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It just so happens that the town I've been living in here in Virginia is only about half an hour away from the town of Manassas, where the Battles of Bull Run were held. The old battlefields have been turned into a national park, and it's got miles and miles of trails leading through the fields and the forest that cover the surrounding hills. I ( Read more... )

- I went down to Atlanta this weekend for my cousin's wedding. It was a fun, all day affair. In the morning, there was a traditional Catholic wedding in this beautiful little church in downtown Atlanta with stained glass windows and lots of colorful murals decorating the interior. After the Catholic ceremony, the whole party went back to my cousin' ( Read more... )

Comic relief from the grinding work of research and grant writing:


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So I made it up to the internship in one piece. It's so weird to be back in an office environment. I love the work I'm doing now, but man, just being in a traditional office space is boring. I'm going to the National Library of Medicine later this week, and I'm totally looking forward to it, as it'll be a nice change of pace! The industrial park we ( Read more... )