This past week may just have been one of the unluckiest weeks of my life. The only way to explain all this bad karma is that I must have done something really horrible three weeks ago or in a past life or something. Or somewhere, in a parallel dimension, alterna-Tina just won the lottery, got engaged, received a MacArthur grant, and finished the ( Read more... )

I woke up after having slept in.  Watched a great Friday Night Lights.  Showered, drove to anatomy lab to get a notebook.  Bought yummy groceries.  Came home.  Cooked.  Studied.  Chatted with roommate's family and had fruit and fantastic pound cake with friends.  Napped.  Closet shopped.  Went out to Chapel Hill.  Drank.  Danced.  Was hit on.  Had ( Read more... )

I feel bad that I haven't been reading much lately... clearly the next best thing is do a meme about reading.  Ironically enough, The Selfish Gene is not, in fact, on this list.  Go figure.

106 most unread books on LibraryThing: bold what you have read, italicise that you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add ( Read more... )

The bottom fell out yesterday, but I'm nailing it back on with chocolate and scenes from North & South (the movie adaptation of the early 19th century Elizabeth Gaskell novel, not the Civil War one with Patrick Swayze).  I need to lock myself away with my collection of favorite chick flicks and quart (or seven) of Haagen-Dazs, and maybe it'll all ( Read more... )

Holy crap.  I'm in medical school.

Yesterday was the official end of orientation, and classes officially begin this coming Monday. It's been a whirlwind of activity, mostly fun, but some rather less so... policies and procedures are only so exciting. Yesterday evening we had our "white coat ceremony," which is basically just a symbol of our entry into the medical profession. We ( Read more... )

I'm in Durham now. Same old furniture, but in a new apartment, in a new city, near a new school. It's odd to be living in a completely foreign place that often feels exactly like northern Virginia or Charlottesville. The houses look the same, the stores look the same, the trees look the same... although it's true that these Southern drawls are ( Read more... )

During the most formative periods of my life, I have a tendency to pick up one or two songs that stick with me long after those songs have dropped off the Billboard Top 40. Sometimes, it's relevant, appropriate to whatever's happening in my life at the time. Sometimes, it's not. Maybe it's a good song from a newly-purchased CD, or a catchy tune ( Read more... )

Because evianlake tagged me, and I could never refuse a request from adorable sleepy kittens. Alright, so. Ten weird/random facts about myself ( Read more... )

We need Extreme Rock, Paper, Scissors. Also comes in a handy chart format.

I especially like how they differentiate between the hand symbols for "man" and "woman". Also, how "Wolf-2 launches nuke" and "bites heiny of devil".

And look! There's also an online Flash game! Oh, the novelty.