I saw the movie "Iraq in Fragments" probably about a year ago, but for some reason i thought of it today as a metaphor for my life. If someone was going to make a movie about me, "Mary in fragments" would probably be a very good title.

I feel like i am balancing so many things and while i somehow believe that they are all ultimately interconnected, ( Read more... )

Two scores for feminism i witnessed in rapid succession today ( Read more... )

[keep it in mind, the way that it felt when the most i could do was to just blame myself]

OK I just had the best night in the ER ever. Out of a total of three shifts now, but even so. Professor Wolosin was definitely right, the foreignness of the ER definitely starts fading into the background and i do not notice the things that were so obvious to ( Read more... )

I will write a real entry soon. Hopefully.

I was waiting for you
I was standing around
I was getting older
I was going down

If you always get up late
You'll never be on time
If you always make it after work...

Oh the day never comes
and I stand up
Waiting on

I saw you down there
I know you were tired
I saw you
You looked like a SWIMMER
I wanna be ( Read more... )

Back to ND manana. I AM very excited to see people, there are a lot of amigos that I haven't seen in a really long time. Jaja, actually I am especially excited to see Mark, who i have not seen in over a year...his annual Xmas DVD made its way into my mailbox this morning which was amazing! Although not quite as great as last year when I was not ( Read more... )

Ahhhhhhkkkk, I just spent 5 hours looking at medical schools. I think I have made a preliminary list of the 15 I will apply to. Ideally, I will get into a MD/PhD program where I get my doctorate in medical anthropology. But I might not be stellar enough for that, in which case I think I would like to do a MD/MPH (masters of public health) joint ( Read more... )

2008 promises to be stellar.

How long is it okay to use a livejournal? I am 20 now, and i still write in it...is it something you grow out of? And how exactly is it different from a blog? Because blogs are okay for older people.

Semester goals:
Bring up GPA to a 3.75; frankly, I do not even know if that is possible
Run the half-marathon in <1:40 [7:40 ( Read more... )

I am going to  TANZANIA!!!
With the internship program that I most wanted to do!!
What could be a better end of finals/coming home present? This is amazing!!!
Although my excitement is somewhat tempered by my pounding heachache.

I come home tomorrow. More updates/details while I'm bored over break. Now I need to go shopping for xmas presents as I have ( Read more... )

This is the closest i have ever come to actually banging my head against a wall repeatedly.

Exams here are very strange. Biology essays? Mmmm well I think they are going okay. I hope. 2 down, 2 to go.

I finally sent out a mass email...I hope it wasn't too annoying. I tried to put a disclaimer about not feeling obligated to read it right at the beginning. But I think it might be a good idea to give people a vague idea of what I did over ( Read more... )