When I was five years old, I lived under a relatively busy flight path near Minneapolis. Every twenty minutes, the dull roar of an airplane would bubble up from the background noise until you could hear the screech of the wind right before it got sucked into the turbines. Once, this sonic bubble grew so huge and unstable that I was sure it was to ( Read more... )

I got an interview. YAY!

At a law firm. What?

This blog might come roaring back to life or it could remain dormant for another thousand years. I'm like Mt. Saint Helens--or Jesus.

Times I have had cold sores this semester: 3
Number of cold sore patches I have now: 3
Duration of progression from prodrome to monster blisters: 3

It's a layered trifecta of pain.

Somebody please bring me a cake and some lysine pills so I can put them in a blender and drink the mixture for lunch.

OMG Herpes.

Tonight is both the season finale of America's Next Top Model and the season premeire of Project Runway. The continuity is almost too perfect.


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My mom called this afternoon to tell me that I got my first medical school solicitations, one MD/PhD ad from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and another med school one from Columbia. More are likely forthcoming ( Read more... )

Through Mother's eyes I am a loser in the game show of life. She is reminded of this every time she sees me ( Read more... )

The last time I got worked up about a song was about ten minutes before my MCATs. It was eleven hours of wanting to dance and answering hard questions and I was gassy. In other words: unmitigated disaster.

The last time I tried downloading a major pop song was in the year 2003. The RIAA had flooded Kazaa with nonsense versions of Miss Independent ( Read more... )

So my non-secret is that I have this huge boner for the well-dressed. Tonight's party at the Met suggested black and white attire, so this particular trip to the museum was satisfying in a way a normal excursion to a Calatrava exhibit could never be. The dress code was intended to mirror a black and white photography exhibit. We never found it, so ( Read more... )

(I don't usually use this livejournal anymore but I feel like this is worth posting anyway ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal ( Read more... )