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Name: Alan
Country: United States
State: California
Birthday: 4/9/1981
Gender: Male


Interests: lots o stuff
Expertise: I...umm...expertise??...none as of yet...=/
Occupation: Student
Industry: Medical


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Member Since: 3/6/2004

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Monday, September 10, 2007

hhmmm

Hmm...what to say...what not to say...

Well its been a while.  The return of Kevin's blog gave me the itch to do the same.  If you haven't talked to me in a while, I have moved back home to San Diego (San Marcos to be exact, but still SD county).  New job at UCSD doing muscle physiology research. www.muscle.ucsd.edu    Awesome job so far. learning lots of new things and such.  Good opportunity for me to expand my experiences...blah blah blah...ask if you want more details.  the job is cool, the people are nice BUT I feel like such a dumbass here.  Everyone I work with is either aa engineer, grad student, med student, MD, PhD, or any combination of those.  can't help but feel a little out classed but hopefully, through the powers of mental osmosis, some of it will rub off on me.  I need it!

If you don't know already, MCATS and applying to med school kicked my ass to say the least .  Honestly, it feels like I am working against fate or something because it sure wasn't because i didn't try hard enough.  Do I still want to go be a doc...Hell yea..bitches...I enjoy nothing more than solving life's problems with a scalpel and some forceps.  but sigh, I wish i were on my way to that point in life.  I just have to remember my path there will just be different from the norm but I will end up where I want to be...

SD is nice and all but honestly, I really miss Davis/Bay area.  Mainly missing the hommies.  Miss living with the guys, working out with Kevin, Kevin's buying of random cool stuff, random visits from people, j-walking to safeway, sushi. NOT driving to work, cussing at the wii and other video games (ninja gaiden), not having to download things for myself, random outtings in SF, occaionally getting called a moron, but mostly just miss constantly being around friends.  Yea I am meeting new people, making new friends and all that stuff but its not the same.

Good stuff about SD...the weather of course, although we did have a week or two of really high humididty which was really nasty, not paying rent ( but that comes with the cost of my sanity), saving money in general, seeing some old friends occasionally...

Gets a bit lonely down here.  I have been trying to  fill up my days.  I started doing wushu at Jing,taking a first responder first aid class, running on the beach.  maybe more to come.  Keeps me busy, keeps my mind busy...

Its getting late, i need to finish reading and go to bed. Maybe I'll write again, maybe I won't...who knows


Monday, December 25, 2006

Merry Chrsitmas Everyone!


Thursday, March 30, 2006

Wow, I haven't been here in a long ass time...but in the delerium of pulling all nighters all the time I decided to check in and see whats going on...

My new job has me up at odd hours and working super long shifts but eh, I need the overtime pay.  I now help recover human tissue for a living.  Its a pretty cool job.  I will start dissecting soon instead of just assisting! Yay, I get a scalpel.  I cant go into much detail about what I do cuz its a little different for each case.  But the general idea is that some people choose to donate their body to help those in need when they pass away and someone has to go in and collect the donations.

I guess seeing dead people doesnt really bother me much.  I mean its kinda gross witht he blood everywhere and a human body torn open but I'm OK with that. 

Everytime I think i have a lot to write I don't write much...this is one of those times.  Maybe I am just tired from not sleeping.  Maybe I will come back and write more when i can think clearly...or maybe I will just forget...


Thursday, September 01, 2005

OK...MCATs #2...check...2 months till I know my fate.  Rosina requested the I post....so here I go.  Lets see...what to put on here...This summer has been full of studying and working...mostly...I am glad its almost over.   I really dont know what to post about actually...I have to be in the right mood to post things.   Moving sucked this year..had to move everything witha corolla...me and kevin ran across the street with a desk....hahah...that was kinda funny...Here are pics Rosina took of the painful process for which she stuck around for the whole time! ..crazy girl...Thanks!! 
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i am crashing at winnies for the time being....luckily the cat isnt getting to me too bad...and linda's gamecube is here...i am slowly getting addicted to mario tennis...hehehe
my eyes hurt...more later...peace out


Monday, August 15, 2005

ok ok fine i will post...
MCATs vs ALAN

MCATs:  1
ALAN : -2


please dont hurt me again....



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