Ten percent

That's my success rate when it comes to entering elevators and turning to the correct side to hit the floor buttons. This means that 9 out of 10 times, when I get on an elevator and look for the buttons I get nothing but a blank wall. It's not like these are elevators …

Thoughts on being single

Being that since the age of 18 I have spent all my time (save for around a year total) in a serious relationship, this is a strange time of adjustment for me. I've gotten so used to giving myself to another person that it's hard to think of myself as a single entity …

Hero vs. Healer, the difference between saving lives and improving them

There's been an interesting change going on inside of me lately. It's coming to terms with something that I had been avoiding for a few years now.

I remember when I first became interested in medicine it was the blood and the guts that excited me. The idea of being …

How YOU doin?

In the past couple days I've passed some amazing looking women while walking through the halls of the hospital. They were hospital employees (they had name badges) and there was a part of me that wanted to stop them and initiate some sort of conversation. I mean I …

Five observations

1. I suck at taking 5 minute showers.

2. Holy shit, tangerine tickle VO5 really does smell like tangerines (I got it because it was on sale at grocery store...a whole bunch of it for only 99 cents). It's like shampooing with a jolly rancher.

3. Whoever coined the …

Talk about out of shape

I played some basketball today for the first time in months, and I can't believe how completely out of shape I am. By the time the score was 5-5 I was completely winded and hunched over. The game was to 21, and by the end I thought my legs were going to fall off. …

Birthday cakes are overrated anyways

I much prefer a birthday sugar cone with a chocolate shell

...it's hard to fit 24 candles on it though.

Losing that one hour was worse than I thought

I should have known. Last night before going to sleep I felt that all-too familiar throat congestion creep it's way in. This morning when I opened my eyes it felt like someone had taken a 2x4 to me while I slept. It's happening again. I'm sick.

This will mark the …

Fever induced thought

A starving man does not refuse a buffet laid out in front of him and then talk about how great the food on the table was.

Don't tell me you're hungry when you refuse to eat.

Karen's Visit

I'm glad you had a blast Karen, hopefully I wasn't as lame as I usually am.

If you guys want to read about some of the things we did while Karen was visiting, check out her blog here and here.

I can still read your heart

I can feel it...something's happening in there

    I've felt it for some time now, hardening

    It's welling up in the pit of my stomach now too

You're reaching out

       I can feel your hand when I'm too tired to keep that wall up

       Just when it's late enough …

It's in the manual

It's a pleasant surprise when any car-related problems are handled by my family in anything under 20 minutes. Usually, no matter what the problem is or how simple it should be, it will take us something short of two hours with plenty of broken pieces, misfitting parts, …

Between the lines

Unexpected

next page was supposed to be filled in

at least I thought so

Undecided

the pen wants to write

but the mind heart is tired

Undeterred

this new chapter will be finished

that old book will collect dust

Apartment hunt is over

After looking at several places it seems like the roommates and I have come to an agreement over where we will be moving in a few short weeks. Target date looks to be June 20 for me to get out of the house and back on my own again. I'm grateful to my parents for …

Lazy day

You know the days when there is nothing to do and no obligations to worry about?

It would be a great day to go out with that special someone and just enjoy their company, but for now I'll just sit here in bed and use as little energy as possible.

mmmm...it feels …

Never too old

Inevitably, when I'm in a bookstore studying there will come a time when the words on the page jumble together and my mind wanders off to wherever it goes when it's not locked down in the madness that is my head. While it's off stumbling around somewhere I start to …

HS alumni making it big in the world

How weird is this? While surfing the web I had the television on for some background noise. All the sudden I heard a familiar name and I looked up. On the local news I see someone I used to go to school with. Turns out this guy is a lookalike of Joey on Friends and …

The honest bloggers-only quiz

Found this while reading weblogs and decided to join in. Of course, answering these questions sets up anyone for some great hate-mail, but if you're not willing to step forward and declare what you believe you might as well not believe in anything. Hopefully everyone …

Gotta love them schedules

Here's a nice bit of info I realized the other day. The very day that I'm supposed to move into my new apartment is the same day that I start night float hours at the hospital. That means I'll be working graveyard shift basically, from 7pm until the next day and then …

Right on the money

I love those moments when you're listening to a song and you realize that either by design or luck, an artist has captured a part of your life and put it to music. Almost as if the song was written for you...

Anyways, here's a song that when I heard the lyrics I …