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30 September 2004
FINAL SCORE
jesus how many times has bush stuttered during this debate? and how much time has he just stared into the camera with a dumb look (as if he had another look)?
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debate update part 3 or something
these debates are just bickering. bush is a lil' bitch. correction, big ol' bitch.
listening to dubya talk makes me feel like i'm driving nails into my eyes.
wait. that would actually be less painful. and probably wittier.
listening to dubya talk makes me feel like i'm driving nails into my eyes.
wait. that would actually be less painful. and probably wittier.
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FYI
george bush is a terrible speaker. he clearly doesn't know what he's talking about.
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presidential debate
the battle of idiot cowboy vs. the final hope.
OH GOODY
OH GOODY
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29 September 2004
god bless america
bushbushbushbushbushbushbush
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life on a pediatrics rotation, part II
today went a lot better than yesterday. not having to be in until 9am is great. in med school terminology, that means, "be in by 8:45am to show that you're ENTHUSED*" (*enthusiasm not necessary). still, it's nice having a late start.
this morning i began at the (far) west side clinic, which was HUUGE and pretty nice taboot. it was fairly entertaining clinic, lots of upper-middle class white families bringing in their cute and perfectly healthy babies in for well child checks. basically, this means that i play with the baby while my attending and the parent talk. half the time the mom looks my age or slightly older, which makes me feel like my life is slipping away. it's a nice feeling.
we get the noon hour off for lunch, which means i can take about 25 minutes to drive back to my apt, quickly make and devour a lunch in about 15 minutes, and then go to whatever clinic i go to next. nice and relaxing.
this afternoon, i was at the pediatric hematology/oncology clinic. for anyone that has a slight inkling of what i'm interested in (medically), this is it. i was excited. this was an outpatient clinic, so most of these kids were undergoing chemo or were done with it, and were just following up. in other words, these were healthy or going-to-be-healthy kids, for the most part. these are the success stories. and my attending was AWESOME. he was absolutely hilarious. he was able to crack jokes (funny ones, seriously) with the 4 year olds and the 15 year olds, and he even had the parents and myself laughing out loud a few times. very good doctor. after we saw our patients, he said he'd be happy to sit me down and discuss the ins and outs of peds once and what i would need to do in order get a good residency/fellowship. so i'm excited. i've been meaning to secure some sort of peds onc mentor to guide me.
one thing my attending said was that he enjoyed doing the outpatient clinic as a contrast to his inpatient work. the inpatient stuff is all the really sick kids, the kids that just got diagnosed, the kids that are too weak to move because the radiation has sapped the strength from their muscles, and just barely strong enough to allow their immune systems to be ravaged by the chemotherapy. the outpatient side was like his reward -- if he's successful on the inpatient side, eventually he'll see them on the other side. i like that idea.
and in a testament to my academic narcolepsy, when i tried to read the chapter on pediatric oncology in my textbook tonight (believing that i would be able to cruise right through it, relying on my rabid interest in the subject and desire to expand my knowledge base), i failed miserably, consuming nearly 2.5 hours just to stumble through a 35 page chapter.
but it was small print! and no pictures!
what i listen to while lying to myself and believing that i'm actually studying
Brian Wilson presents Smile
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Armand Van Helden - New York: A Mix Odyssey
Saul Williams - Saul Williams
Phil Spector - Back to Mono
Talib Kweli - Beautiful Struggle
Zap Mama - Ancestry in Progress
Takashi Wada - Meguro
now i will go set my alarm clock for 6am.
this morning i began at the (far) west side clinic, which was HUUGE and pretty nice taboot. it was fairly entertaining clinic, lots of upper-middle class white families bringing in their cute and perfectly healthy babies in for well child checks. basically, this means that i play with the baby while my attending and the parent talk. half the time the mom looks my age or slightly older, which makes me feel like my life is slipping away. it's a nice feeling.
we get the noon hour off for lunch, which means i can take about 25 minutes to drive back to my apt, quickly make and devour a lunch in about 15 minutes, and then go to whatever clinic i go to next. nice and relaxing.
this afternoon, i was at the pediatric hematology/oncology clinic. for anyone that has a slight inkling of what i'm interested in (medically), this is it. i was excited. this was an outpatient clinic, so most of these kids were undergoing chemo or were done with it, and were just following up. in other words, these were healthy or going-to-be-healthy kids, for the most part. these are the success stories. and my attending was AWESOME. he was absolutely hilarious. he was able to crack jokes (funny ones, seriously) with the 4 year olds and the 15 year olds, and he even had the parents and myself laughing out loud a few times. very good doctor. after we saw our patients, he said he'd be happy to sit me down and discuss the ins and outs of peds once and what i would need to do in order get a good residency/fellowship. so i'm excited. i've been meaning to secure some sort of peds onc mentor to guide me.
one thing my attending said was that he enjoyed doing the outpatient clinic as a contrast to his inpatient work. the inpatient stuff is all the really sick kids, the kids that just got diagnosed, the kids that are too weak to move because the radiation has sapped the strength from their muscles, and just barely strong enough to allow their immune systems to be ravaged by the chemotherapy. the outpatient side was like his reward -- if he's successful on the inpatient side, eventually he'll see them on the other side. i like that idea.
and in a testament to my academic narcolepsy, when i tried to read the chapter on pediatric oncology in my textbook tonight (believing that i would be able to cruise right through it, relying on my rabid interest in the subject and desire to expand my knowledge base), i failed miserably, consuming nearly 2.5 hours just to stumble through a 35 page chapter.
but it was small print! and no pictures!
what i listen to while lying to myself and believing that i'm actually studying
Brian Wilson presents Smile
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Armand Van Helden - New York: A Mix Odyssey
Saul Williams - Saul Williams
Phil Spector - Back to Mono
Talib Kweli - Beautiful Struggle
Zap Mama - Ancestry in Progress
Takashi Wada - Meguro
now i will go set my alarm clock for 6am.
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28 September 2004
life on a pediatrics rotation, part I
today was the first real day. since yesterday was all bullshit orientation (although there was a contest to see who could swaddle a baby the fastest/best - i got 2nd for expediency but 1st for quality). we spent the first hour today talking about nothing we couldn't have read in our orientation packet, left a bunch of questions unanswered, and just like every other rotation, were sent off and left to fend for ourselves.
i found the office my team was in, walked in, introduced myself, and they handed me a patient's chart and told me to go see him. my patient was 5 months old. i gently reminded the team that i had never examined an infant, and that this was my first day, but it was ok, they didn't mind. so i continued to see patients all morning, unobserved, with absolutely no direction. not very productive. but it was fun playing with those kids.
see, the way the peds clerkship works here at UW is that we do 3 weeks of inpatient and 3 weeks of outpatient. i'm starting with the outpatient portion, which has an easier schedule, which is somewhat unfortunate, because this means that when i'm studying for the end-of-rotation-exam, i'll be toiling under the tougher schedule.
the irritating bit is that after our AM clinic, we have a break for lunch, and then we go to a PM clinic, which is different from our AM clinic. and this AM/PM pair changes everyday. AND the clinics can be located at the hospital, at university station, on the west side, or on the east side. AND there is free parking only at the east and westside clinics. you have to pay for parking at UW, and u-station "technically" has no available parking, but that seems to be easily circumnavigated. on top of this, we have required lectures to attend at UW during the week. and if we're on call on friday or saturday, we have to come in saturday or sunday for Newborn Nursery rounds. i'm on call this saturday. this means i have to come in on sun for rounds as well. then i'm on call next friday. which means i have to go in on sat for rounds. basically this amounts to me not having a day off until october 10. UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE.
also, this means that i more or less have to drive everywhere, since i change locations at least once a day, sometimes more (our scheduled lectures can be in the middle of the day, resulting in us leaving an off-site clinic to come into UW and then go back out again). driving everywhere means paying for parking a lot.
see? already it's starting to blow.
but the thing is, taking care of kids is real cool. i really enjoy it. the PM clinic i had today was waay better. we should have been done around 4:30, but we had a particularly hypochondriac mom freaking out and keeping us until after 5:30 today. there was a korean mother in with her daughter though, and the kicker was that her translator was my old korean language teacher at UW. we were both so shocked to see each other. she said hi to me, and i said hello back, but then i realized i didn't attach the proper conjugate ending appropriate for your elders.
GOD I SUCK
i found the office my team was in, walked in, introduced myself, and they handed me a patient's chart and told me to go see him. my patient was 5 months old. i gently reminded the team that i had never examined an infant, and that this was my first day, but it was ok, they didn't mind. so i continued to see patients all morning, unobserved, with absolutely no direction. not very productive. but it was fun playing with those kids.
see, the way the peds clerkship works here at UW is that we do 3 weeks of inpatient and 3 weeks of outpatient. i'm starting with the outpatient portion, which has an easier schedule, which is somewhat unfortunate, because this means that when i'm studying for the end-of-rotation-exam, i'll be toiling under the tougher schedule.
the irritating bit is that after our AM clinic, we have a break for lunch, and then we go to a PM clinic, which is different from our AM clinic. and this AM/PM pair changes everyday. AND the clinics can be located at the hospital, at university station, on the west side, or on the east side. AND there is free parking only at the east and westside clinics. you have to pay for parking at UW, and u-station "technically" has no available parking, but that seems to be easily circumnavigated. on top of this, we have required lectures to attend at UW during the week. and if we're on call on friday or saturday, we have to come in saturday or sunday for Newborn Nursery rounds. i'm on call this saturday. this means i have to come in on sun for rounds as well. then i'm on call next friday. which means i have to go in on sat for rounds. basically this amounts to me not having a day off until october 10. UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE.
also, this means that i more or less have to drive everywhere, since i change locations at least once a day, sometimes more (our scheduled lectures can be in the middle of the day, resulting in us leaving an off-site clinic to come into UW and then go back out again). driving everywhere means paying for parking a lot.
see? already it's starting to blow.
but the thing is, taking care of kids is real cool. i really enjoy it. the PM clinic i had today was waay better. we should have been done around 4:30, but we had a particularly hypochondriac mom freaking out and keeping us until after 5:30 today. there was a korean mother in with her daughter though, and the kicker was that her translator was my old korean language teacher at UW. we were both so shocked to see each other. she said hi to me, and i said hello back, but then i realized i didn't attach the proper conjugate ending appropriate for your elders.
GOD I SUCK
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and while we're at it...
Least Likely has a short mpg film on the topic that asian-pacific islanders between 18-24 are among the least represented voter demographics. SO VOTE ALREADY .... all of you 3 asians that read this.
i also enjoy starting my mornings off with The Daily Reason to Dispatch Bush
try it, you'll like it.
i also enjoy starting my mornings off with The Daily Reason to Dispatch Bush
try it, you'll like it.
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the stupidest thing i ever heard
"President Bush didn't start this war ... but he WILL finish it."
(from a pro-Bush ad)
1. yes, he did.
2. finishing it apparently means declaring "mission accomplished" on an aircraft carrier while politically stroking yourself off, losing all credibility in the international community, having your military busy themselves with human rights violations while at the same time consistently losing numbers of troops and sending more over there, seceding major portions of the invaded nation to the terrorists whom you're so dedicated to dethroning... i mean, seriously, there are "no-go" regions of iraq where our military won't even set foot in.
how's that for finishing? i call bullshit.
(from a pro-Bush ad)
1. yes, he did.
2. finishing it apparently means declaring "mission accomplished" on an aircraft carrier while politically stroking yourself off, losing all credibility in the international community, having your military busy themselves with human rights violations while at the same time consistently losing numbers of troops and sending more over there, seceding major portions of the invaded nation to the terrorists whom you're so dedicated to dethroning... i mean, seriously, there are "no-go" regions of iraq where our military won't even set foot in.
how's that for finishing? i call bullshit.
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27 September 2004
taking drugs to make music to take drugs to
i previously had a 2 week vacation scheduled in between my neurology and primary care rotations next year. feb 14-feb 28, what a great time for damn vacation. everything is cold, nobody else is free to travel, my girlfriend has classes, and we have mandatory core days, which means days that EVERYBODY has to attend lecture. so so so lame.
so i decided to fill that time with another required rotation - either anesthesiology or radiology, since those are the only 2 week rotations. after considering the pros and cons of each, i elected to go with anesthesia, since we get to wear scrubs everyday. (shirts and ties are required for radiology - why, i have no idea, since you're basically in a darkroom all day long.) and i figure if i'm going to be working during vacation, might as well work in pajamas.
so i decided to fill that time with another required rotation - either anesthesiology or radiology, since those are the only 2 week rotations. after considering the pros and cons of each, i elected to go with anesthesia, since we get to wear scrubs everyday. (shirts and ties are required for radiology - why, i have no idea, since you're basically in a darkroom all day long.) and i figure if i'm going to be working during vacation, might as well work in pajamas.
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moving on
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from www.moveonpac.org
President Bush is going on the air with his first campaign ads of the season. I've joined MoveOn PAC's campaign to fight back -- a massive grassroots-driven effort to take back our country in November. I'm hoping you will, too -- you can sign up right now at:
Click here
President Bush has already raised hundreds of millions for his bid. Our great hope is in our collective power to get out the vote. We'll work via the Internet, the telephone, and face-to-face conversations with voters. And we'll take back our democracy, city by city, block by block, and voter by voter.
Are you in? Please join me and thousands of others in pledging to help defeat Bush this fall:
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Thanks.
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26 September 2004
the dream is over
THIS IS A REBIRTH
i had to change the template. it was so incredibly lame. actually it might have been one of those "so stupid it's cool" things, but i doubt it. i think i'm going to try to turn this thing into my primary site, since i find the livejournal interface to be pretty annoying. plus i have all that other crap over here on blogger anyway. i'm going to need to work on this redesign, since i'm not such a huge fan of these blogger templates. i'd really like a simple, clean design, a la mcsweeney's or something.
the other thing i don't like about blogger is that the archives are pretty retarded. i hate having to wait for the entire month to reload to find an old post. not that anybody is really looking for old posts. oh, and i hate how when i send pics from my phone they all have the same subject heading. i suppose i could go back and change them. that would be time-consuming.
i had to change the template. it was so incredibly lame. actually it might have been one of those "so stupid it's cool" things, but i doubt it. i think i'm going to try to turn this thing into my primary site, since i find the livejournal interface to be pretty annoying. plus i have all that other crap over here on blogger anyway. i'm going to need to work on this redesign, since i'm not such a huge fan of these blogger templates. i'd really like a simple, clean design, a la mcsweeney's or something.
the other thing i don't like about blogger is that the archives are pretty retarded. i hate having to wait for the entire month to reload to find an old post. not that anybody is really looking for old posts. oh, and i hate how when i send pics from my phone they all have the same subject heading. i suppose i could go back and change them. that would be time-consuming.
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11 September 2004
G-SUS
i have to say that i am floored by this latest redesign.
WHAT IS HAPPENING
WHAT IS HAPPENING
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