I have to admit, I'm running low on topics for days that are multiples of six! :-)  Today I'm going to write about a Yale med tradition that is currently consuming my life: the Second Year Show.  It's tradition that each year, the second years put on a musical (a spoof of the professors and Yale in general, complete with singing and dancing).  Put ( Read more... )

Today (ummm, yesterday) I'm supposed to write about some sort of artwork.  I have very little knowledge of art, though I do enjoy passively taking it in on occasion.  Today I'm going to include paintings by a classmate and friend of mine who does paintings with science-y themes that are reminiscent of the classics.  For example:


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 A song that makes me cry (or nearly).  I'll go with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."  Any version, though I particularly like Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's.  This was a favorite song of my grandfather, who passed away six years ago now.  One of his favorite things in life was to sail, and his boat, named after some boat that won things at some point (I'm ( Read more... )

This will be my worst "entry" in this 30-day meme.  I must admit that I've never read a fanfic, and don't even know of one by name.  For that, I defer to the experts, blue_rhapsodies and labrt2004 .  Back soon with something to say :-)

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Caught up again!...well, for the next 3ish hours.  Today's prompt is a nonfiction book.  I just finished Better, by Atul Gawande.  I know, I know, another medical book -- but it was excellent.  Or at least I think so, but I really have no perspective from the actual trenches.  That will begin next June, which is terrifying and exciting at the same ( Read more... )

Well, I think we covered on day 4 that I haven't read good books recently, so I'm going to go back to my childhood and talk about Dr. Seuss.  I HATED Dr. Seuss books as a child, as I could not understand why someone would write these ridiculous books that didn't make any sense and didn't have interesting characters with whom one could identify.   ( Read more... )

Back to whatever tickles my fancy.  I want to share something: I am a closet 1950s housewife.  Well, not everything about a stereotypical 1950s housewife, but close enough.  Let's go reason by reason.

I started cooking last year and LOVE it.  I am a bit too in love with protocols, so I'm not so good at deviating from recipes, but I'm working on it ( Read more... )

Sorry for getting so far behind... Today (well, Thursday, but close enough) I'm supposed to post a photo of me taken recently.  Obviously there are many more of these than photos taken 10 years ago, but most look posed and awkward.  I picked the one below because while it's certainly not the best picture of me ever taken, and is more of the blurry ( Read more... )

Today I'm supposed to post a picture of me taken over ten years ago.  My parents of course have plenty, but none are in digital form.  Fortunately this picture (taken in kindergarten) was posted to Facebook a few days ago.  I'm the awkward looking one (well, we're all awkward looking, but I'm particularly so) in the last row on the right.   ( Read more... )

A photo that I took.  Well, I frequently tend to be the unofficially designated photographer, so there were quite a few to choose from, but I settled on this photo, taken last spring break.  I went with six friends to Georgia, where Victoria (second from the right) grew up.  We were all first year MD/PhD students - one of many examples of how our ( Read more... )