I am alive and well...just busy and find it hard to keep up with LJ these days. I do think about the people I met on here though and really hope all of you are doing well! I am very happy to see prolife continues to thrive...thanks to all of you who help keep it going ( Read more... )

So I felt it was only fair to make another appearance here. Yes, I know I suck for being away so much. Everything's just so quiet and mundane though...and that's how I like it for now. I'm trying to cherish this quiet time before med school ( Read more... )

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"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt

1982 - maranta, LiveJournal fugitive.

Of course, that's not to take away from the joyous news that Jon Voight was born today too. I mean, just THINK of how bleak our world would be without a man who helped bring us SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2.

As it turns out, things with the dog aren't as bad as I first feared. The dog had an echocardiogram and it turns out that her mitral valve is diseased, but it is minor enough (for now) that she doesn't even need to be medicated for it. Since valve disease worsens with time (unless you do a valve replacement, but hardly anyone does that on dogs), it ( Read more... )

Uh...ahem. I know I've been gone for a while. Honestly, I guess I feel like it's not worth updating just to say "Hey, everything's going great" (perhaps it could even seem like annoying bragging). The last couple of months were in fact quite good to me. The traveling I did for the interviews invigorated me spiritually, I had a couple of school ( Read more... )

( I have an awful lot of unusual/rare interests )

So, anyway, the trip to AZ and NV was great. I love the American southwest. I may not be able to move out there for school (hard to justify paying that much tuition to go there if I have any cheaper choices*!), but I think I'd like to trying living in the southwest at some point in my life ( Read more... )

I can't linger on here because the hotel charges us for local calls...so I'll just state the obvious: Quite a contrast between driving through the desolate Arizona desert for hours and then trying to find your way through the chaos of Vegas, I tell ya.