I finally realized why I've been loving basketball so much. It's reminding me that you can feel passion about stuff *just* for you. I mean, I love the team aspect to the game (I'm no ball hog by any means), but sometimes it's really nice to just RUN and want to win for the sake of winning ( Read more... )

Everyone should grab some Tea Party if they like rock. Good band. Some of the better cuts are "Temptation", "The Bazaar", "Walking Wounded", and "Psychopomp".

My intramural basketball team took home the gold today. We went 5-1 in the regular season and today we won the championship game by default. The other team didn't show up. That was kinda a hollow victory, but I'm confident we would have beaten them ( Read more... )

In other less fun news, Uncle Dolph's biopsy results indicate he's got lung cancer. We're waiting to hear from the oncologist and surgeon now. I'd wager he's going to lose the lung and the kidney.

Today we find out if the unidentified growths on my uncle's lung and adrenal gland are cancerous or not. It's like some ugly lottery nobody wants to win. Or lose, depending. I'm not overly worried about Dolph, but his two kids are only 11 and 13, so that would kinda suck for them. If it winds up being cancer, I'm not betting on the near-50 smoker ( Read more... )

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Look. I have a new userpic. Adore it. Buttsexx0r it.

It was a long, hard weekend. The flooding was very bad, still is very bad, and may yet grow worse. We shall see ( Read more... )

Med school interview #3 is slated for Feb 28 at 10am. Hopefully third time is a charm.

You know, in a lot of ways life is like one of those optical photos that you have to stare at until your eyes adjust and can make the picture appear. It's all about perspective... sometimes you look at your life and it's just a blur of colour and dots, then something occurs to shift your perspective and suddenly something jumps out at you as clear ( Read more... )