when it rains it pours

Okay, so.. not only is life with Adam absolutely perfect (I could not ask for a more loving, patient, and good-natured man), AND making plans for getting away to new corners of the world, AND everything in general is simply fantastic w friends and work and school – I just got accepted to Albany Med.  Holy shit.  I feel so incredibly lucky, surprised, ecstatic (still in the honeymoon phase), …

going places

• double dates
• Jay’s (legendary) lasagna
• dates w Ash – esp those that include trying new foods
• finally cleaning out (and organizing) the hellhole that was our office closet.  I’m going to try to tackle one room at a time whenever I have an entire day free to devote to that.
• taiko performances
• having a partner is not only willing to travel w. me to all the places I want to go, but is actually excited about doing so.
• a few exciting trips ahead – California to visit Warren (and Big Sur/San Francisco), and Istanbul!

C. Baudelaire

Get drunk. Always be drunk. That’s it! The great imperative! In order not to feel Time’s horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk. And if you sometimes happen to wake up on the porches of a palace, in the green grass of a ditch, in the dismal loneliness of your own room, your drunkenness gone or disappearing, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, ask everything that flees, everything that groans or rolls or sings, everything that speaks, ask what time it is; and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock will answer you: “Time to get drunk! Don’t be martyred slaves of Time, Get drunk! Stay drunk! On wine, virtue, poetry, whatever!”

the boys are too refined

• Saad’s
• really cheap clothing from good online sales. Even though Adam keeps making fun of my red jacket, since it apparently reminds him of Michael Jackson’s..
• Alexa for being nearby in the clinic this morning when I accidentally set the alarm off in the office
• being done collecting data/recruiting for Sara’s study. 101 patients!
• my new subscription to the Philadelphia Orchestra
• citrus
• being able to keep in touch w. Nick (who is deployed) via email and sometimes online chat
• dim sum w. Steph, Rita, & Patty
• watching stupid movies while erging, that I would never be able to justify watching when just sitting around (since I have so many other movies to go through)
• finalizing my spring semester!

back at it like a crack addict

• NOT having any classes this semester, leaving me with ample time to get as much recruiting as possible done
• recruiting going very successfully so far this week!
• my new backpack, which means I don’t have to take things out of my temporary bag every day when I get home
• so proud of Adam for being invited to his first interview!
• having Jade to eat lunch with before med&soc TA’ing
• getting a guest pass to go to the gym with Adam for a few weeks – it’s so much more motivating and fun going with him
• Dr. Geller for bringing scones and muffins to the first lab meeting for the year
• having Nancy to split up teaching the MCAT class with
• RB’s thoughtful and perfect Christmas gifts from past and present (Good magazine, and the baking book which yielded a very consistent and rich wheat bread)
• feta

2009

I feel that this past year has been more steady than anything else, which is wonderful but not particularly impressive for telling tales.  If it weren’t for the fact that I’ve been writing year-in-review’s for the last 6 years (and also that I am waiting on a loaf of bread to rise), I would feel tempted to skip out on it altogether.

cramming

In high school, cramming meant studying the morning of a test.  (Or finishing writing those darn English journals at lunch).

In college, cramming meant studying the night before an exam.

In med school (classes), cramming means one to two weeks before an exam.

I will follow you into the dark

• Rabbit Hole, at the Arden
• Google Wave (anybody want an invite?)
• baking hundreds of cookies over the weekend and mailing them out
• studying in a cozy room with the cat and dog (both of whom I fear will scorch themselves from trying to get as close to the radiator as possible)
• good books
• first snow of the winter!
• tickets to see Big Bad Voodoo Daddy in March, thanks to Adam.
• Longwood Gardens’ Christmas display
• being healthy
• discovering the joy of slow cookers
• sending in my deposit/knowing I have a place to definitely go next year, while still waiting to hear from other places
• Nancy for always bringing fantastic food to SCID training

I love Simply Recipes

And you should definitely try the recipe for maple cookies.  They are chewy, have a good balance of maple taste, and really does feel like the cookie version of maple syrup.  They are divine and I can’t stop eating them.

Maple Cookies Recipe

pet peeve

People calling themselves losers because they stay in, instead of going out to a bar or party.  Or God forbid, spending an evening alone.

Better word to describe yourself: insecure.

Don’t knock a lifestyle or choice of activity just because it isn’t what popular media defines as the epitome of success, or what people our age “should” be doing.