April 2012
1 post
First year of medical school
Something I hear frequently: “this will help you to remember why you want to be a doctor”.
Somewhere between the weekly tests, the disorganized lectures, and the hours spent poring over textbooks we are already starting to forget why we started this process. Where are the people I am supposed to treat? When will I feel competent enough to provide helpful medical advice? How is all...
February 2012
1 post
Life as a Med Student:
In the real world a cute guy smiles at you and you almost walk into a telephone pole and fall on your face. In med school, a cute guy smiles at you and you almost slam into a table knocking a headless cadaver onto the remnants of its dissected rib age.
Oh, and realizing that you have bits of your lunch in your hair (it happens) is far better than realizing you have...
December 2011
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July 2009
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“To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the...”
– Hamlet, Shakespeare
The troubles of my own life as I’m growing up has kindled a new appreciation for this speech.
June 2009
13 posts
Pulling words from the ether
The tick tick ticking of time
won’t get off my mind
beautiful the afternoon when we realize
long the hours, short the day.
And the weeks wizz by.
Time won’t get off my mind.
the radio wants input
in the background the shrill buzz
reminds me again of the passage
of these hours
golden or gray, red or blue
whatever they are they are in fact sliding away
slipping into depths of...
“I’m feelin’ rough, I’m feelin’ raw, I’m in the...”
– MGMT, Time to Pretend
This may not be my chosen way of life, but I can’t say I don’t relate to it a little at the same time that I shake my head. I’ve been around people who have lived this kind of life for awhile and I start to lose my ability to judge them. There are times...
“I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised...”
– Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
Exciting evening in a small town
First we start with a random concert in the midst of town, attended by a veritable plethora of punk kids recently let loose from the suspected punk-kid factory in the woods. Think rebellious shirts, pants stitched together to hug every skeletal angle of their lower body, and the required skater shoes. Add in a few sketchy older fellas who alternate between bar and concert and quite possibly a van...
“There’s a corner of your heart for me
There’s a corner of your...”
– “Corner of Your Heart” Ingrid Michaelson
Fitting song for my current mood. Beautiful to listen to.
Nostalgia
I have been seeing familiar faces on unfamiliar people. Keep doing double takes, ‘wait, there goes so-and-so’ and then I realize that that person lives 5000 miles away. Either people look more alike than we think, my memory of my friends’ faces is blurring, or I REALLY need a new prescription for my glasses. Whatever the case, it is a bizarre feeling that leaves me feeling torn...
May 2009
10 posts
The problem with a wall...
Reflections on an odd tendency to not believe that people notice me, whether when physically present or absent, and to specifically not believe that people feel anything good about me. I speculate that this could be due to a negative self-image and self-confidence deficiency, stemming perchance from my desire for perfection and knowledge that I can never be perfect. Am I not important enough to...
“We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to Want...”
– George Sheehan
April 2009
16 posts
A bone to pick with those Twilight books
Ok, so after FINALLY finishing the fourth book, I just have to let some stuff out. a) why the HELL did I not write something like this? It’s just so obvious, I kick myself for it. Kudos to Stephenie Meyer for taking everything that an typical, girly, adolescent female could want and turning it into a series…however I have a problem with books that show no new insights and that I...
“Amazing still it seems
I’ll be 23
I won’t always love what...”
– “23” Jimmy Eat World
“All you ever dream,
Lifts you up too high,
As all your expectations,
Leave a...”
– “Sympathetic Noose” Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
“Mischief Idea: Choose the White House dog…mua ha ha. Deranged puppy from...”
– Product of my Deranged and Bored Mind
March 2009
54 posts
