I'm not sure what precipitated this but I had a dream about Arlene last night. She had died, but she wasn't dead. All the same things happened afterwards: we sold the house and got rid of the horses (except this time we kept Arlene's horse, Gambler, and the girls never moved out). Because we still had gambler, we built a new, smaller stable (which ( Read more... )

I just wrote a very long update and just as I was clicking "Post" I somehow deleted the whole thing and now I'm too discouraged to write it all over.

I interviewed at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine on April 21st, and I have now recieved final decisions from every school I've applied to ( Read more... )

My sister squeezed out a little girl last Saturday. Her name is Brandy. My new niece's name is Brooklyn. She's a week old ( Read more... )

At the earliest, I should get a final decision from the George Washington University School of Medicine this week.

Last night at 7:15pm I was tying my shoes and rushing to leave to go see a local orchestra play down the street from me. At that exact moment, I heard three loud bangs in my housing development. I thought nothing of it, put on my sweatshirt, filled my pockets with things I would need, and stepped out into the night. On my stoop, I could hear the ( Read more... )

Apparently the chemical in beets which gives them their color cannot be digested ( Read more... )

Very briefly ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure I have an anxiety problem. It goes like this: any time I even think about medical school, I become very alert, and scared shit-less, and sometimes I feel like I need to throw up. Then, to avoid feeling this way, I avoiding the few secondary applications I have remaining ( Read more... )

I taught two more third grade classes Basic First Aid yesterday. When we were doing one of the skills, I saw a little girl with a medical ID bracelet and I asked what it was for. I was expecting her to tell me about something like diabetes or anaphalaxis or cronic seisure and I could then talk about medical ID tags to the whole class. That's not ( Read more... )