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Wednesday, January 04, 2006
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OKAY, Aditi wanted me to post this link, which is a good approximation of my grandpa's new folding plastic cane - seat. Enjoy.
Monday, January 02, 2006
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Currently Reading
Saturday
By Ian McEwan
see relatedThe end of another christmas break. I guess my wording would make the neocons happy. :) We just had a whole shitload of people over for the last night of Chanukah which was nice. I got a new wallet, which was even nicer, given that the one I had before is the one I've been using since 8th grade and was purchased for a whopping $10 at the Esprit outlet. This one is real leather. I feel classay.
Just because I haven't had my mile-long walk to school (and mile back) I think I've gained weight. Ugh. I can't wait to actually go back to boston where I can't drive everywhere. Even though I never make it to the gym, that walk saves me. My mom's latkes didn't help, either. mmmm. Well, back to this cardio reading. I managed to follow through and get a good chunk of reading done for the next bit of class so I won't (hopefully) get too stressed out while I'm trying to do this second year show thing. The best part is this ghetto workbook about how to read EKGs that my mom pulled off her bookshelf. It is copyright 1970 and it ROCKS. It's almost as stupid as Sidman and Sidman, but you are actually learning how to read EKGs as you progress through questions like: the P wave signifies contraction of the ________. :) Best part is that it's apparently still popular with med students and I ordered myself the 6th edition which will hopefully be waiting for me when I get back to boston tomorrow.
Not too much more to report; saw Pride and Prejudice, oohed and aahed over the newest incarnation of Mr. Darcy; 5 minutes after the movie my mom ruined it by complaining that he was weird looking. Thanks, mom. UGH. Still, "you have bewitched me, body and soul" is the best line that Jane Austen never wrote.
I also spent a week in Florida with the g-rents, doing absolutely nothing and loving it, as usual. I think I read a lot, and slept a lot, and probably ate a lot too. Just lovely. Cousin Ben was there too so I had some comic relief when my grandpa started going on about his new cane that turns into a seat for the 50th time (it is like, a 35 dollar piece of plastic and metal that we got at a flea market).
Back to the books! tra la!
Sunday, December 18, 2005
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Currently Watching
Emma
see relatedI am SUCH a sucker for a good Jane Austen movie...I just finished watching Emma (only the 2nd time; the first time I saw it, I couldn't keep all the guys straight because they all look the same, apart from Ewan MacGregor whom someone convinced would look hot with a shaggy long wig. ew.) Anyway, the consensus is that Mr. Knightley (well, Jeremy Northam) is probably tied with Mr. Darcy (Pride & Prejudice) for #1 Jane Austen hottie. God I love this stuff. God I am so mushy!
At home in D.C. now, and have been for two days. Amazingly, haven't indulged MTV or E! yet-- I got motivated and am almost done unpacking boxes in my room and turning my room back into its proper mode -- a shrine to 1998. A few changes had to be made though -- like the pic of Tom Cruise from People magazine had to go, and I decided that I only needed 1 picture of Blink182 and that that one picture of Freddie Prinze Jr. really wasn't that hot. Luckily, the other one I had was. KIDDING. well, sorta...
Let's see...other exciting events of the day included straightening my hair (an HOUR because it is so damn long now, but it was worth it), hammering pushpins into my wall to put up my posters (the walls are plaster so you can't just stick them in, UGH, and when you try to hammer, the little plastic ends of the pushpins get knocked off. This is a hard core endeavor, people). Oh, and introducing my Dad to the Debbie Downer skit on SNL -- I found a clip online and made him watch. Next time on the Doroshow SNL tutorial, Celebrity Jeopardy. :)
I basically zoned out of school the second PD finished Wednesday afternoon, so it was a relief to have break start in reality. I was lucky enough to snag a ride to the airport from Jane (love you!!), and even luckier to spend Friday night with Eric and his (completely wasted) brother in Fairfax. Can we say bright red face? Pictures available. :) Anyway, my mom's been on call and my dad is working like crazy as usual, so my mom and I went for Chinese for dinner around the corner, and she actually wasn't paged until we needed the bill! amazing.
What the hell am I going to do with myself for the next week? Work?? Damn needing to get ahead because of the 2nd year show...and finish up all the pulm I missed on Friday (doctor's appointment, people, I have an excuse!)...
Thursday, December 01, 2005
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Another successful rehearsal!! We staged and "choreographed" (I use that term very loosely) the "America" scene (think West Side Story, but HMS version....I want to be at HMS, OK by me at HMS, etc). And it went really well! Even my stupid dance moves ended up looking pretty good! And we finished 25 minutes early!
And I even read a good chunk of my respiratory book. Here's the thing -- the lungs suck when you have to do all that PaO2 shit with the equations, but just learning about emphysema and asthma is AWESOME. I am so much more interested than I was in physiology last year. Let's hope this continues.
I also made a whole thing of rice pudding tonight, and [oops] because we didn't have enough bowls, put 2 little servings into 2 little glass bowls and then [oops] the rest into a big bowl for me. MMMMM hot rice pudding.
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
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Currently Reading
Life Stories : Profiles from The New Yorker (Modern Library Paperbacks)
By David Remnick
see relatedIt's been dark out for 3 hours, and that's just not okay. But today was our last psych visit so no more sitting in that yellow room with no decoration for 3 hours without a bathroom break. phew. I will miss LGiudice arguing with Greg Harris -- our two preceptors either hate each other or are totally falling for each other -- they interrupt each other constantly!
Tonight's a little break -- we just finished derm today and are beginning respiratory tomorrow. I don't really feel like doing any more derm tonight, and I don't have the resp book, so darn! Might just have to relax a bit. It wouldn't be a crime!
Most fun weekend EVER was had at Harvard-Yale with the girls (Aditi, Gail, Becca, Alyssa) and some new groupies (Vinod, Saritha, Anjali)! We won the game in triple overtime, but most importantly we went out...a LOT. Yay ghetto places in New Haven like BAR which charged a cover. Bars should not even be able to charge cover if they are located in New Haven! Anyway there was tons of catching up, a little belated birthday dinner for Aditi involving West Haven (yeah, new haven has suburbs....who woulda thought?) and lots of wrong directions but some great mango chicken, and of course lots of tea and gossip. I even saw Mr. Mather Hottie himself for a couple of minutes -- are we ever going to get over him? Probably not.
This past weekend was just about as great. I went to DC and spent Thursday with my mom getting Thanksgiving dinner ready. Then we went to Thanksgiving dinner at our neighbors' house with their prepubescent sophomore in college son (trust me) and family friends including a nasty zitty nerdy Israeli MIT kid. ewwwww. He also had no chin -- and not just from being fat-- he was skinny -- but because a chin had never been created in the first place! Friday we had our own Thanksgiving dinner because it was when everyone could come to our house, and the best part was that Alice was there! She is doing an internship in DC right now and it was SO cool to have her finally see my new house and hang out with her on Thanksgiving and ditch everyone in the middle of dinner to watch Friends on the basement TV. I wonder when I will be too old to do things like that? Anyway, Saturday we went to the Montgomery Mall where I scored some new boots and soforth (and ended my way too long Nordstrom hiatus), and Sunday my mom and I bought out Ann Taylor Loft. Shitloads of cute clothing were bought, all of it hospital-appropriate! Amazing.
On that note, a brief shoutout to Angie C. Marek '03 of Mather House, who wrote this week's cover story in US News!!! So proud to see that FM staffers actually go places...
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- Name: Debbie
- Country: United States
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- Metro: Boston
- Birthday: 2/7/1983
- Gender: Female
- Member Since: 6/19/2005
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I'm an almost-second year at HMS, I like to read trashy celebrity magazines and talk about my minority status as a white Jew growing up in Arcadia, California, and I got school to pay for me to live in London and do history "research" for the summer.
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