I have been trying to think of something to give up for Lent, but have been largely unsuccessful. I thought about giving up meat again (did that last year and once before that 5 years ago), but it requires a lot of extra work on my part to plan and research meals, time that is already in short supply. So rather than give up something, I came ( Read more... )

I haven't done a survey in so long! This one's from yerfxdog:

What iTunes says about your life:

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In class today, Ron and I were discussing the top 5 best words in medicine, but we only came up with four. My rankings are as follows:

4) phlebotomy (fli - BOT- uh - mee)
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"Among [a group of British 11-15 year olds] who said that they would not like to be scientists, reasons included: "Because you would constantly be depressed and tired and not have time for family," and "because they all wear big glasses and white coats and I am female."

Science 'not for normal people.'Brighten up, kids! Really, it's fun to ( Read more... )

Yesterday I spent the morning working at one of the free clinics in the area. Don't get me wrong, I love the academic/book-learnin part of med school too, but after almost two years of memorizing lists and working to understand physiological concepts, it is utterly refreshing to be able to apply my knowledge to real people ( Read more... )

Dear LiveJournal,

I have been very remiss in my updates in the latter half of this year, but I will make a lame attempt to remedy all that by posting about what I have been doing ( Read more... )

8K results ( In Living Color! )

Today Chickfila, bless their hearts, is giving out free chicken sandwiches to anyone who has an "I Voted" sticker. In front of me in line was a 40-ish woman who hadn't heard the news, and was (understandably) disappointed that she was missing out on a free sandwich. But then she said, "Oh well. You know, Shirley, I don't vote. I've never ( Read more... )

Good week - Halloween was busy in our neighborhood as usual. We went through several bags of candy (even only giving out one piece per kid), and we had to turn off the porch light just after 7:00. Back in my day, when the porch light was off, you didn't even approach the house. Universal sign of either "We're out of candy" or "We're not into ( Read more... )

It's been almost two months since I last updated, and I only have a good excuse for 10 of those absentee days ( Read more... )