interview day tomorrow

Pre-interview checklist:

brushed up on Obama health plan...check
brushed up on my application...check
remembered doctorship is not about the money...it's about the people...check
haircut...check
freshly shaven...check
blackheads squeezed...check
briefs so that my pants look streamlined...check
slight fever, body aches, malais...check
back coined...check
pants hemmed...check
meaty fatty breakfast planned...check
car ready to go to drive to COM campus and credit card for cab ride just in case...check

Interview is tomorrow, hopefully I can remain alert and interesting...haven't been very much of either lately...bad sign...hoping the meaty fatty breakfast will assist as it did with my exams

here's to my one and only chance to realize a dream...i'll look back one day at this post...if google is still around...and either shake my head or smile at the nervous kid standing on the precipice with the future just out of reach...its metaphorical ya dig?

vomit blogging

these late night vomit blogging binges where I vomit random thoughts over and over again have always come in 5's...that is 5 posts per late night vomit blogging binge...actually, there's only been one other late nighte vomit blogging binge (on that fateful evening in late september, if you may remember)...but it's never too late to start a tradition...

i'm thinking whether to shower right now, or go to bed and shower in the morning or go out and catch the last bar hour to fill my belly and poison my blood with that goodness of nectars...the fermented ambrosia of wheat, barley and hops and maybe some hard liquor to warm my esophagus and flood my belly with its tender loving arms...ooooh i have wine...

I don't think you could put the word vomit 4 times in a paragraph more eloquently if I may say so myself and I do...

watch redux

I'm starting a pool on the next number to fall off...you've got 1 through 11 with a logo in the 12 position, see picture above. I've got my money on a 1 falling off...

=)

the weirdness of my life

So not sure if I ever told you about my watch...well let me do so right now.

My watch has...character...why you ask...well for one when the big minute hand goes to 12, the small hand isn't exactly aligned to the hour that it's on. You see, up till several months ago, the watch had been dead (battery) for several years and all that battery gunk leaked out and stopped up the gears. When the battery was replaced and I adjusted the time, the hands skipped some gear teeth and thus you have "character"

Secondly, a couple of weeks ago, the number 5 on the watch face started falling off. Hmm, no problem I thought, I'll just have to remember that 5 comes after 4 and before 6 o'clock...simple enough even for me, right. Well then things got complicated a week ago when the 9 also decided to fall off...complicated because I have to now remember that 9 comes after 8 and before 10 you say? Please, give me more credit, I can at least remember those two things...

NO, the problem was that while on my ADL's (that's activities of daily living to you laymen), the numbers would float around inside the watch like styrofoam in a snow globe and on a few occasions would jam up the watch hands, causing delayed time...and sometimes it would even bind two watch hands together to prevent their movement....character, a heckuvalot of it!

So I got it fixed, I told the guy to remove the numbers so that it would have more "character", but instead he glued it back on...so no extra character for my watch...

the end

back to work...chinatown clinic

I'm not really sure how to make this post as entertaining as the previous one...so here goes.

Got back to volunteering at a clinic again...this time working as an Indonesian interpreter. It's really fun and eye opening as usual to see the state of health care for people here in chinatown. They have it...difficult to say the least...

There's a lot of med school students working it and a couple of doctors, it's hard to get more docs to come out I guess because they have family, as a friend pointed out earlier tonight. But after the first day, I'm looking forward to more days at the clinic...it's exciting to be back among patients and people

The doc in charge wants us to start a project...I'm not sure why, but I guess it's good to fill the time now that I only have 2 classes for the next month or so and one class from then to the end of May....at which point I will give up these shenanigans, grow up and return home to take my rightful place as BMICOO (that's big man in charge of operations to you laymen) of IHGS Inc, where I am proprietor of an organization in charge of the upkeep and maintenance of entity/entities who are under my umbrella of responsibilities.

i got hit by a car again

Well technically not again...last time I hit a car, well technically, this time a car and I came together. It was hard enough that the impact caused the car's glossy painted surface to sort of grab on, or perhaps more appropriately, bond to the skin of my knee and rip it away off my bones. Well not nearly that dramatic, but you get the picture, skin ripped apart and now big chunk missing and it won't stop bleeding. I showed that car though...it's fenders will never be the same...I've shattered its inner sanctum of steel...I've penetrated the impermeable defenses of Japanese automotive sheet metal door...I think I cracked a glass window, I have some random bruises all over my back and sides...It was a thoroughly pleasant encounter on my part, thank you, come again.

It is, by the way, on the same knee that I fell on HARD a few weeks ago while riding in the rain...just when it started to heal it breaks open again...just great

In a few weeks, if you find that I haven't posted in a week or more...expect an invitation to my funeral...which will be a cremation to limit my carbon footprint...

...OR maybe if I loose a limb or two or four...which will also limit my footprint...expect an invite to a party with free booze and alcohol!

ps, betadine is expensive...almost 20 bucks a bottle

pps, betadine isn't as painful as it use to be when it was applied during my childhood years...damn these watered down american betadine solutions!!!

reason #1213434 that Costco is GREAT!

I've been looking for a dental plan because I need dentures fixed or replaced but as you may or may not know, individual (non-employer sponsored) dental plans are really expensive and require a 12 month wait period after enrolling before being able to get dentures worked on. Well in comes Costco, who in their wisdom partners up with Delta Dental to bring you an individual dental plan that has no waiting period and pretty reasonable coverage for dentures and great for everything else. Even AARP/Delta partnership doesn't offer you this and you know how much more pulling power AARP has.

...in short, I

allergic to crabs

I ate a 3 lbs dungeness crab (much like the one above, but less...saucie) the other day for dinner and I woke up the next morning at 6 AM with constricted airways and hives all over my body. I seriously was wheezing for a good hour trying to breathe. I still itch...That crab was good though. Hopefully I don't die when I eat my next crab, although the Surgeon General would say "STOP, No more crabs for you young man!"

But without crabs, life is just not worth living I tell ya...I mean look at that thing, how can something so ugly taste so good and be so deadly at the same time???? It's an amazing animal...it must be eaten...by me!

I think I'll drink some benadryl before bed next time I eat a crab.

FACT OF THE DAY: did you know that benadryl has antidepressant properties and it led to the discovery of that phenomenal pill of placidity...prozac.

2ND FACT OF THE DAY: did you know that you could have an allergic reaction to benadryl causing hives? Well you could, so if you're taking it to get rid of hives only to find more hives, well don't be surprised

...the more you know

thinking makes you lose weight

So I just finished a round of exams, 4 exams in 7 days. It felt like I was thinking so much that I lost a few pounds, or at least I was able to eat a LOT more and not gain any chub. I still don't get how people can pull all nighters and still function in the morning for a grueling exam. It's crazy man!

disappointments

It's disappointing and maddening when you find out that you can't even rely on your own family for important things. I guess the old adage is true, when you want something done, you have to do it yourself. I guess I should be glad I have a family.

Pre-exam breakfast

I've found the perfect pre-exam breakfast. Basically it comes down to a lot of fat and protein. It's not the healthiest, but it gives you enough energy while not bogging you down w/ digestion. It's eggs w/ cheese, sausage patties, a little bit of carbs in the form of some form of potato and also a little bit of fruit, preferably w/ lots of antioxidants to combat the cancer causing fried foods you're about to eat, like blue or blackberries

It sorta worked for me, it should work for that meeting to ask for a raise w/ the boss or if you have an exam.

Siem out

weird weather

Its probably a sign of the coming apocalypse when yesterday it was 50 degree shorts/sandals weather and today its 20 degrees and snowing all day.

I have 4 exams between now and next wednesday and I just got my first interview request from Drexel. I can't believe it still, it's a huge shock even though I was expecting it. I'm supposed to reply back to the email but I'm scared to, I think I need to absorb it or sleep on it and make sure it's real before I send someone a random email thanking them for giving me my imaginary interview.

Still need to get my suit to the tailor to get hemmed and such and lose 20 lbs...it's like a date...with destiny...a sexy Destiny! Gotta make sure I can see my shiny black interview shoes...

i hope i don't screw it up...still can't see anyone letting me hold a stethoscope to someone's chest...are they kidding...do they now know who I am????

In 2 wks I'll be looking at this sweating in my suit and 32 degree weather.