I need to suck up my fear tomorrow and actually start making some progress on the "applying to med school" front.  I need to solidify my list of where I'm applying, actually do some work on my personal statement, email professors requesting letters of recommendation, and email/hunt down potential people for volunteer and shadowing stuff.  I've been ( Read more... )

Well, I said I was absolutely horrendous at keeping a journal.  I haven't even written in my paper and ink journal in a year.  I completely ignored the entirety of my senior year of college.  That's a whole lot of not wanting to examine one's life at work there.  I know I need to journal soon-ish; I can feel my thoughts getting more and more ( Read more... )

I just watched the 2008 Christmas special, and, no lie, I just about fell out of my chair when I realized that Jackson Lake was Colonel Brandon from the 2007 Sense and Sensibility.  Truly, the synapses connected, and I was thrown back in my chair, clapping like a seal.  I was trying all episode to remember where I had seen him previously, and then ( Read more... )

Oooh, Series 3, you have redeemed yourself.  I was still a bit iffy up until episode 6, and then you suddenly decided to become awesome.  And "Family of Blood"!  Good heavens, that won you an Awesome Card.  I forgive you for everything.  Mostly.  I'm still iffy about Martha.  But please keep being this fantastic!

I've only seen three episodes of series three so far, and I'm already rather irritated.  The Doctor has turned into this hyper-emotional, quasi-Debbie-Downer moody emo-teen, and it's quite wearing.  I was a bit iffy about Tennant even in series two because his Doctor is so needy and mood-swingy -- Eccleston was more grounded and self-contained, ( Read more... )

Oh.  Oh.  OH.  That was intense.  I -- oh.  I just finished Series Two.  No words.  Just... oh.  It hurt.  There was the appropriate amount of spazzy, random silliness -- I loved the last 30 seconds -- but still.  *le sigh ( Read more... )

Happy February!

It has been a rather sizable time since the last post, that I will admit.  In my defense, the semester has properly started again, with classes and meetings in full swing.  During my comparatively free weekends, I have not been studying.  Nay, not studying at all.  They have been a delightful combination of knitting and movies.  ( Read more... )

Behold!  I have done science on my tea kettle!

This is just one of those little things in life that I love so much.

Hokay, so.  Of late, I have noticed that the water seems to be pouring out of my tea kettle much more slowly than usual, and that I had to tilt the kettle more than usual to get the water out.  Observing a rusty-colored deposit ( Read more... )

ARGH ARGH ARGH I AM GOING TO DIE A PAINFUL DEATH THIS SEMESTER AND I WILL NEVER MAKE IT INTO MEDICAL SCHOOL AND I WILL BECOME SOME SORT OF HOBO BECAUSE I WILL HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH MY LIFE.  Sweet heaven, help me.  I just looked through my textbooks for the semester, and... *whimpers*  I'll be fine for Health Psychology, and my seminar on ( Read more... )

It's so very, very cold outside.  So.  Cold.  It's been well below zero for the past week, and my house is always kept at nearly sub-Arctic conditions.  I did, however, manage to find new snowboots today, so that should hopefully make things better when I must venture out onto the frigid tundra that is campus ( Read more... )