I recently received this letter from a doctors' office I used to go to when I was living in another part of NJ:

"Dear Patient,

On May 1st of this year Aetna reduced their reimbursements for office visits by an average of over 20%.  This puts their fees for office visits at less than 70% of what Medicare allows.  We are not able to deliver quality ( Read more... )

from Matthew Guerrieri's review of the SICPP Iditarod concert in the Boston Globe....
"Among unfailingly excellent performances, a few stood out...soprano Pamela Stein’s rich dramatics in George Crumb’s “Night Music I’’"

Check out the full articlehere.

Yay!

I actually cried tears of joy when it was announced that Obama won.

My hope is renewed in my country, my future, and myself.

Senior year I took a class at Princeton called "Medical Anthropology". On the first day of class, the professor showed us this Brazilian film called "The Isle of Flowers". It stayed with me for years after I saw it. So I'm sharing.

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This is the Island of Flowers. It is a real place. There is no God.

I'm doing a friends clean-up and then this journal is going friends-locked.

If you want to continue reading, please identify yourself in a comment. 

Protesters in Belgrade attack U.S. embassy

"In the short term, analysts said an anti-European Union backlash would gain force after the West's support for an independent Kosovo."

Um, did the analysts say this before or after this riot broke out?

I have more opinions about this but I'm curious to hear what other people think about the recognition of ( Read more... )

I am still so restless.  I can't sleep because I feel like I'm crawling out of my skin.  Something needs to happen, soon.

I am so disillusioned with music.    Some thoughts...

As a senior at Princeton, I went to a lecture sponsored by the department of anthropology where a professor from the Universtiy of Cambridge Genetics Knowledge Park posed ( Read more... )

 At the beginning of my Russian textbook, the "cast of characters"  who are going to speak to each other in dialogue throughout the book are introduced.  Here is the actual page.  Check out VIKTOR:

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Can't I just get paid to get people drunk and get them to spill dirt while I listen and take note?  It seems I'm really good at it.  My life is the information super highway.

I keep thinking of that woman from the University of Cambridge Genetics Knowledge Park who came to give a lecture at Princeton when I was a senior, and she said something ( Read more... )

I found another program I want to apply to.  It makes even more sense than med school:

Center for Global Affairs

Think about it.  I like languages and other cultures, I like to travel, I'm interested in history and political science, and I get restless being in any place for too long,   Hell, that's half the reasons I wanted to study opera in the ( Read more... )