work is great. i am so happy i'm working with the coolest resident in ObGyn. super nice, patient, helpful, and encouraging. Though i realize he's just trying to teach me all he knows so he can throw all his work into my lap,. i'm still happy cuz i'm learning a lot ( Read more... )

i should probably mention that in the long hiatus I took from LJ a lot has happened-- I graduated (finally) from college, took a trip to all over the US (well, not ALL over, but I spent a week in Manhattan which i LOOOOVed, DC, then INdianapolis) and.. oh did I mention I got married..? Yay. Yes, I am indeed, Mrs Bassyouny ( Read more... )

our culture is a bit odd. When it comes to marriage, traditionally the man is expected to provide an apt with all its electrical appliances, and the woman is expected to furnish it all. anyway, today i was attempting to start buying some stuff before i leave, so i dont have a hige ass to-do list when i come back. ha ha, who am i kidding, i will not ( Read more... )

I finally saw the movie chasing amy... I LOVED it. Though ben affleck is generally a moron, i loved the IDEA of this movie.. so real. and the ending was perfect ( Read more... )

wish i had more time to do fun stuff...

like pick out furniture, paint my new apt, go to the movies and work out..

I'm in this slump where i get to 65 kilos and i CANT get below it.. i think i need to exercise really hard to lose more, but i have no idea when..

I tried solving some old exams for cardiology.. oh my god. can u say anal rape?

an earlier post just triggered a really interesting question for me-- probably one of the most intersting philosophical questons of all time ( Read more... )

tomorrow I'm going with my mom to the dr's to perform an upper endoscopy because she's complaining of pain and dyspepsia and personally I think she has a combination of moniliasis bc of the cortisone therapy she's taking for her MS as well as a gastric ulcer from all the NSAIDs she's taking for her pain..Now arguably, duedenal ulcer is much more ( Read more... )

i'm not studyng

i'm going to fail

on the other hand, i'm getting married! who cares! :)

today a college classmate of mine emailed me telling me his father was dying in a matter of days. he had cancer an now he's going into resp. failure ( Read more... )

after rereading his email, i decided that maybe he wasn't insinuating tht I was trying to rekindle an old flame, and i was just reading into it too much, but still, the rest of his letter was reall really cold. there was no mistake about that. He wasn't the same guy that I had known, and I had no need to be in contact with this new guy; he was not ( Read more... )