If you have a free evening or afternoon and are looking for a good yarn...and don't mind a little violence, I'd recommend the following:

3:10 to Yuma, staring Christian Bale and Russell Crowe in a remake of a 1957 film by the same name. Both actors are at the top of their game and carry the storyline along smoothly. Additionally, the supporting ( Read more... )

I met up with a couple of good friends from college on Saturday night and we went to dinner at the Grand Lux Cafe in the Beverly Center, a chain of restaurants that are cousins to the Cheesecake Factory. My friends and I had only been there once, years ago, but we still remembered the meal we had originally had there, the Miso Glazed Salmon and ( Read more... )

I took a break from working on my residency application (a long and arduous process) to track down a special treat cupcakes! A friend and his family had scooped out the place when he was on a family vacation and mentioned that he mentioned that they were a tasty specialty treat, though pricey ( Read more... )

Given that last weekend was beyond ridiculously hot, I thought I'd try something different this weekend ( Read more... )

A good friend from the Bay Area has been recommending that I try "Beard Papa's" for a while now as they had opened a location in San Franscico. She would try to describe what they offered to me...which I couldn't quite picture, but I knew it was something warm and yummy ( Read more... )

I drove down to Southern California with a classmate on Fri, Aug. 24th in preparation for an away elective in Los Angeles. After and long and uneventful drive, I arrived at home at 2:00 am ( Read more... )

For personal reasons, I've been listening to "Book of Love", a The Magnetic Fields song, that was covered by Peter Gabriel for the soundtrack of the American Version of "Shall We Dance", which was obstensibly a Jennifer Lopez vehicle ( Read more... )

Took a break from studying for "Big, Honking Exam: Number 2" and went to "The Simpson's Movie" today and I *loved* it. Could be that I haven't really watched the Simpsons regularly since I came back to school, or that I really needed a good laugh, I thoroughly and completely enjoyed this movie. It reminded me of how wonderful it is at poking fun ( Read more... )

I went out with a couple of friends last night to catch "Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix". I *liked* it. =) Althought Hermione and Ron were in it very little (actually almost everyone else felt fairly peripheral to the story), this is the first time that I've really felt that Harry was the lead in his own story. Maybe it is because the ( Read more... )

Wow, last year I was studying for Step 1, am now officially a 4th Year student and am in the middle of studying for Step 2 (total of 3 exams required for licensing ( Read more... )