Violence ( Read more... )

After 3 months seperated I went to America for the sole reason to see Em and spend 9 days getting aquanted with the place that has been her world during that time. Her university, apartment, the town itself. The town is Harrisonburg in Virginia, about 200km from Washington DC. It's an interesting dichotomous "little" town, consisting of a "anytown ( Read more... )

Ah summerish weather. The lovely sunny days coupled with a heat of wonderful. The problem of course is that every night becomes an exercise in will power to NOT walk around the streets, marvelling at the world's golden glow with several beers in hand. Which now that I think about it is pretty much like winter, although more confined to the house ( Read more... )

The person I studied for the GAMSAT with today found out she got into med school at the University of Notre Dame. Our scores were similar, but instead of deciding to pay the 100$ "interview fee", I decided they weren't good enough to get me into the course and went on to start my Ph.D ( Read more... )

It seems the space between updates decreased, then increased again. Such is the power of facebook to give a short statement and allow the user to feel their quest for venting / understanding has been fulfilled. Only when a person feels the need for a long emotive cartharsis do they return livejournal; fresh with witty anecdotes, or tales of woe ( Read more... )

Because I don't want to be that person. Because now I'm going through an all too infrequent moment of sanity where my emotions and thoughts align instead of being in dysharmony as they typically are. Because I don't want to be the selfish, uncaring, violently short tempered, forgetful, confused horrible person that's ruled by (in the Freudian sense ( Read more... )

Em left on Saturday for the US. She's spending 4 months there finishing her degree at a nice looking Uni in Virginia. It's lonely here without her, but interestingly I'm getting by much better than I thought I would. Thankfully I've got the APA scholarship or else things would have been very difficult financially. As it stands I'll be able to lead ( Read more... )

Much like day 2, except without pants.

It's 1pm and I'm still in my pj's. Woke up, did a search for some literature on my topic and thought about how I'm going to start this study without a clinical population to draw from ( Read more... )

So it's been a few months since my last update ( Read more... )