I saw the inside of my head today. My ventricles, my corpus collosum, my optic nerves, the lenses in my eyeballs, and even the bit of fat that gathers at the back of my neck when I tilt my head back. It was pretty darn nifty. It looked a little like this, except it was MY brain:

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As a whole, a bit of a dry read, but condense it, and it is incredibly powerful, moving, angry... It will resonate with anyone who has a passion for international health - but  I really hope that some of those that don't care read it!

"The headlong stream is termed violent
But the river bed hemming it in is
Termed violent by no one.

The storm that ( Read more... )

And I feel incredibly disoriented.

1 month until med school! (also disorienting)

No more chemistry! (except one lab)

Friends, brother, more friends - and not enough time.

Puking and packing do not go together, but I feel 100% physically better now.

4 hours of LOTR at a time is definitely enough for me.

I love this heat though!

Inspired by 
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I'm going to be a doctor. U of C told me so! So if you're likely to be ill in the near future, you should get it over with now so that you are safe from me in the hospital. =P (I'd rather you didn't get sick at all, but I thought I should warn you ( Read more... )

I'm still madly in love with India. I want to move there, work there, live there, get married there, raise my children there, show my parents around, and belong there. I want to give back all the life I've gotten and know I will continue to be given ( Read more... )

What Your Taste in Chocolate Says About You


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I'm currently dog-sitting at my cousin's. Mac is a handsome male bull mastiff - aka huge, but lazy and sweet! My cousin's fiancée did an undergrad in nutrition studies, so her kitchen is well-stocked with interesting grains, nuts, spices, dried fruit, fresh fruit, frozen fruit, coconut oil, and other things I don't really know how to cook with, but ( Read more... )

I'm in music geek heaven. Alternate lyrics to "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana: http://carmina.ytmnd.com/

I couldn't quite get it to line up, but this was the suggestion given to me:"When the page loads refresh so that the images line up with the audio." Still well worth it.