| | I went to my first drug rep dinner tonight. It was at a really fancy restaurant called the Lodge, and it's featured in a book of top "spectacular" restaurants in Texas. (Their word, not mine). The building used to be a mansion, and we had the dinner in this smaller cottage-type house adjacent to the mansion. Four courses: salad, orecchiette pasta with duck confit, salmon with pineapple salsa, and a "Nutella souffle-inspired flourless cake" which I would sum up in a word: "decadent." Top that off with a couple glasses of wine, and now I'm sitting here trying to "inspire" myself to study for my pharm final that's on Thursday. Let me tell you, life's hard at times. Chase got invited to this dinner by his residents who got rewarded with this dinner for the best attendance at lunch conferences. Whatever, a room full of doctors, a little promotional talk for a new insulin pen, and I get an excuse to stop studying for a few hours.
An aside: Gina gave me some gummy vitamin bears that tasted good, but now I have this chalky, nasty aftertaste that's bugging me.
Earlier today while studying, I looked out the window and saw one of the campus landscapers removing old flowers from some giant pots we have in front. I liked watching him work because you could tell he enjoyed doing what he was doing. He would carefully dig his trowel into the soil, lever the roots out, and gently shake out the soil from the root hairs before throwing the old flowers into a plastic bag. It seemed a job that could be hastily done, but he took a lot of great care in doing it. If the plant was still producing flowers, he placed it in a smaller pile on the truck bed. I wondered what he was going to do with the good ones - move them elsewhere? put them in his own garden at home? It made me want to garden. I couldn't help but think of the analogy of God separating the sheep and goats (which always made me wonder, what were so bad about goats and so good about sheep?) except in this case, he literally threw away the plants that weren't producing fruit and kept the ones that were. Anyways, that was my deep thought for the day.
By the way, this entry's for you, Paul Park. 
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