Things have definitely turned out differently; I"m feeling a bit down and my inspiration is down also.  I feel like I've neglected the awesome/crazy side of me for an incredibly long time.  I knew this was a marathon but it's definitely a different deal when you're in the middle of it and you stumble during a stride ( Read more... )

It's been a while and I should write here, but what I'm feeling shouldn't be written.

Honestly.  Vancouver?  10 Months?  Seriously?

So due to my grandfather passing away I am so far behind that it is incredibly hard to catch up.  I'm taking some extra days that I hope will not be a problem to account for them but jeeze . . . .. especially since it's memorizing drug names which to my "concepts" brain is SOOOO hard.  Ugh ( Read more... )

I think I've balanced the ability to study and keeping myself awake by intermixing some video games in.  Crazy.

Ok so here's how it's gonna go down ( Read more... )

I had a dream two nights ago about Randy Pausch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Rest in peace, my hero and mentor.  He died this morning.

Why is it that this is the most screwed-up schedule ever?  Seriously.  It's all over the place.  Did someone see this before they printed it?  Wow.

In other news, it's nice to get randomly asked for your number.  mm-hm!

How would you feel if you found out a friend of yours had an abortion without ever telling you?

I find it really interesting when I'm reading things with regards to medical ethics in this day and age (and I'm considering doing a mini-stint in toronto at the medical ethics centre at UofT) but most interesting of all is the hippocratic oath.  There's so many people at school that are whining and complaining and some didn't even say the oath ( Read more... )

Well, after many setbacks including messed up things in the Mexican administration system, giving up more than my fair share to the Medical School Gods including what young Ms Hawke went through, and the messy Immuno exam from hell, I slightly questioned if there were any positive sings of me risking and giving everything just to be out here in ( Read more... )