December 2008
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Recipe for a Saved Day
A couple of Frodkas...
I am Jack's nagging self-awareness
I’m not a huge fan of deeply “personal” public blog entries, but today is so sad, it’s laughable.
It’s the last day of a spectacular, transformational year. It is also moving day. The last day I am a resident of a city I even remotely like. A tick in the final countdown of opportunities I have to spend with people I love and am inspired by.
It’s barely...
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On Brotherly Love
I don’t hang out with girls, much. There’s The Best Friend, a girl with whom I’ve had an extremely stable, nonvolatile, happy friendship since we were 14. Over the years we’ve known each other, we’ve helped one another through sweat and toil as we grow into better people. She’s someone I can be completely honest with, and who can be trusted to return that...
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“I’m even pushing all the right buttons!”
– Gigi, re: her keyless entry when convincing us of her capacity to drive after dinner at the country club
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“Fuddy duddy”
– What my grandmother called my mom, when my mom refused another scotch. Merry Christmas (registered trademark)!!!
“Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of...”
– Norman Vincent Peale
Is bringing along The God Delusion for my leisure read an act of direct antagonism when visiting my evangelical Republican extended family?
Periodontal surgery:
The best diet since mononucleosis!
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and I think, "at least I have not woken up with a...
Veronica’s father has imparted to me more succinct sage advice than he will ever know. During at least two earthshattering moments of crisis, and myriad others more mundane, Veronica has looked me right in the face and told me something I know that her father has ingrained into her, despite their somewhat antagonistic and rocky relationship. This time it was, “No, this will be exactly what you...
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Put your finger on the world's pulse. →
I'm disgusted with my life, and myself... but I'm...
I’m about 20 minutes into the pilot episode of Californication and oh my god, how come I have never watched this show?!?!
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The course of true love never did run smooth
What a sexy blog we have today! Hi, Dad.
I just got done reading a sweet blog over at Who Is Jon Ray? and was reminded of Charles Blow’s op-ed piece I read a couple weeks ago on “the demise of dating” (one of my least favorite NYT contributors, but it semi-adequately explores the topic at hand and gives me an opportunity to tear apart his article). Our generation, apparently,...
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I AM ROCKING
OUT
TO THE MAE SHI RIGHT NOW
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Periodontal surgery
is the worst thing ever. This was so not worth it. And what TIMING, ugh.
Hopefully I’ll learn how to eat, eventually.
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Verdict: a 94 on the bio final
And my first ever 4.0 semester! I could cry.
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Matt & Kim - Yea Yeah, remixed by...
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DONE
Oh hai med schools, how boutcha PUT THAT GPA IN YOUR PIPE AND SUH-MOKE IT
We sailed away on a winter's day, with fates as...
Glad I got that 3-hour nap between days.
Exam is in 2 hours, then I am so done. I can once again clean my house and do laundry. I will also have more free time than I can really conceive of what to do with. The last time I had no job and no school, I was homeless in Barcelona (dramatic!).
Joanna Newsom: <3 u
Transport in vascular plants: h8 u
Okay, one last study sesh then I’m off...
Jeff: or sike a dilly, yo momma ate chili, bet you five bucks gonna knock her sillayyyy
Becca: ahahahahaahaha
Becca: i actually just LOLed.
Jeff: that's because it's the best put down of all time
Jeff: no questions asked
Jeff: it is FACT
...
Shortly thereafter
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Jeff: so, fake that deal, your mother ate hormel chili, i propose a wager that I will roughen your elder female parent with my clenched fisticuffs.
Becca: HAHAHAHA
Jeff: it still doesn't make sense
it would appear that I am a goddam genius
A in osteo. Three As down… The Reckoning comes to pass tomorrow at 9am.
Can she get her first 4.0? CAN SHE? The whole world. Is watching.
(That really is how things are playing out in my head right now.)
WHY ISN'T MY OSTEOLOGY GRADE POSTED YET
My term project partner got an A. TELL ME. TELL ME!!!!
I’m going to barf.
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Well there's nothing better than a good MONTAGE!
I get way overexcited with these music blogs, and download so much music I barely get a chance to listen to it. Recently re-discovered:
White Williams - Smoke
Matt & Kim - Matt & Kim
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
El Guincho - Folías
Brilliant, all! I’m doing the responsible thing and waiting until the bio exam is done to really examine what Pitchfork has designated the best...
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I can tell that we are gonna be friends
One more exam, tomorrow at 9am. All part of a month most turbulent and interesting.
I use the term “month” loosely, meaning the general 30-day vicinity, as I am really unsure what day it is most of the time when I’m not attending classes.
Obama’s victory was a real tide change in how I felt towards the world in general—the hurt, the anger began to...
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The best part about finals week #1
After this week, I will never have to see the small, creepy man who is ALWAYS here at the library wink at me ever, ever again.
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The worst part about finals week #2
There are actually cute boys in the library for once, but I look like I’ve been pulling all-nighters, consuming too many stimulants and failing to bathe on a regular basis.
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Do you ever feel like your life would be more...
if you wore an eyepatch?
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Como se dice buhhhh logging?
Echo de menos al idioma, la ciudad, incluso los hombres pavorosos, haha…. hola, rubia, gritaron! Echo de menos a Pedro y el cafe y hablando mientras aprendia servir transmision manual por las calles de Barcelona. Tambien a Pablo y como pude aparacer a su puerta y llorar, si quisiera. Echo de menos cocinar la cena para Nico y todo el mundo del piso. Echo de menos a Carles y como odio...
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Cesar and Kristine
gave me like a billion good ideas for witty, pithy blog entries… but now it just feels like copyright infringement.
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The worst part about finals week #1
Not having time to repaint your toenails.
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I don’t want to move.
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The downside of requiring young doctors to get... →
So, consider me contradicted. But I still don’t know if I agree completely—I don’t think anyone should make excuses for senseless hazing. However, the idea that working less (a cap at 48 hours a week? Say it ain’t so!) compromises competency—with surgeons, in particular—makes sense. I agree with the article’s suggestion that more flexibility in the...
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I really love it when
I’m sitting in a public place, snorting while I stifle a laugh every time I think of something hilarious my friends said during dinner.
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My mom
doesn’t like my blog.
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something pleasant is happening over at Google...
Google Translate - Fastest Rising (U.S.)
you
what
thank you
please
love
(thanks to Jason for the tip!)
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It's almost 2009
and In The Aeroplane Over The Sea is still the best album ever made.
And OU still sucks, or whatever.
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who would want a tumblelog that looks like the...
Anyway,
Is anyone else enraged by the process of becoming a medical health professional, and/or the state of health care in general in the United States?
LOLOLOLOBVIOUSLY
But seriously.
Everything about it. As someone with the desire and, to be frank, the capacity to do great things as a doctor, I have never felt so dismayed, so FAILED by the way an institution is set up. Clearly none but...
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if you think I didn't just drive to Amy's in the...
you seriously underestimate my ice cream problem.
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regarding sudden midday cold fronts
RUDE
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i might go back to barcleona because
I miss hearing people say “Espain”.