November 2011
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wontuan asked: I don't know much with regards to UK's medical route, but since you believe the UK's system is superior to the US's system, would you care to explain?
wontuan asked: Whoa, you're 19 and you're in medical school? How come?
this-is-a-distraction asked: Hey there man! Miguel here. I'm just reading through my follower's blogs (and I'm bored as hell on tumblr) and saw that you are also a fellow med student. Just wanted to say great blog! and amazing piano music.
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Journal Entry #4
In the past three months, I have read fifteen novels, close to a thousand articles, and countless blog posts. Some have inspired, others have moved, and a select few have provoked deep reflection long after the last full stop. My hunger for knowledge is voracious, but I believe books which are great stimulate not intellect but the heart. It is very easy to communicate an idea. However, to truly...
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@mochismochi
mochismochi replied to your post: Have you ever actually kissed a boy/how far have you ever gotten with a boy?
Youre a virgin?
Yes. Haha, people say that with surprise. Do I give off a player vibe or something? I could’ve been not, but I had a prudish girlfriend. She has since changed her views on abstinence. Well, I guess even if she agreed, technically I would still consider myself a...
anothergenericbeing asked: "And that’s about all there is, really; I doubt you want to read me whinge about how tired I feel and how much I wish they’d burn all the lectures."I'd like to here. Also, how do you think people would react one you do "come out"?
the-flying-donkey asked: I give up. I never get decent question during TMI Tuesday. In fact, last Tuesday I received no questions at all! Anyway, how are things? Any news you can write home (alias me) about?
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The problem with me and writing is that amazing...
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Get to know me! I'm really talkative, I promise. →
October 2011
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“Pride,” observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her...”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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So. I have not been doing my laundry. And when I rummaged my closet for a change of clothes this morning, I had no clean underwear. Gross. Thankfully I keep an emergency spare in my gym bag.
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Journal Entry #3
Today a police car drove through the pavement I was walking on. I was behind it, safe, but the paradox got me thinking about others like it I have seen in my life.
Laws do not apply to their enforcers. Those who teach lose sight of the mystery and wonder of learning. The understanding of the social and emotional desecration a disease can wreak is superficial in those who claim expertise in its...
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@fitnesstopractise
fitnesstopractise replied to your post: If you tell me you love me, I won’t give you my…
Can’t quite place why but I have a strange urge to give you a hug after reading that …
Hahaha, that’s all right. Hugs don’t need reasons, and I love getting them. I’m just glad that the poem made you feel something.
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If you tell me you love me, I won’t give you my trust. I won’t give you flowers, gifts, or cards. I won’t give you my money, because I know the worth of a dollar. Because savings and funds and houses are ours to build together.
I won’t placate you with compliments; Rest assured you won’t be fooled with lies. Nor will I force upon you anything That puts distance from...
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Journal Entry #2
To be a good scientist is to speak of the world through the great remove of abstraction and universal truth, but a good writer breathes life into the smallest fractions of a second and speaks in detail of the intricacies of a moment. My goals demand that I chase two ends of a stick.
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Well, that was weird. The last anatomy session I...
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@randomnoisegenerator
randomnoisegenerator replied to your post: Given that everything is subject to biological…
The last question has boggled me even as a child.For the Q prior, I think the measurement of time’s universal. 1min will always be 1min in the same space.It’s just that 1 can process more in that min.Like him running more kms in the same amt of time.
Haha, yeah, which is why I phrased the question to...
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@prodigalprosetry
prodigalprosetry replied to your post: Given that everything is subject to biological…
I think such all the darn time. lol. and, what if, there are colors we’ve never even seen or heard of? Like, not shades of colors, or mixes, but actual colors that our eyes cannot process!
Well, color is how we perceive a very, very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, and the electromagnetic...
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Given that everything is subject to biological variation, how much does the perception of time vary between people? Even in the same person, the perceived duration of a minute is circumstantial. Go to a lecture and sit for an hour, then go party with your best friend, if you don’t believe me. I think it has a lot to do with how the brain processes information. My theory is that multiple...
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Journal Entry #1
This morning I sat through forty minutes of unadulterated gore. I saw malignancies that disintegrated the upper lip, tongues with tumors the size of a closed fist, and lymph nodes near the base of the neck that had secondary metastases tearing through the shoulder. My tolerance to cruor is generally quite high. I remember only a handful of movie that genuinely disgusted me, and I thought that...
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Bedtime Rituals
When I was a child, what carried me to sleep was not the count of sheep. It seemed vulgar to let my mind drone with imaginary animals leaping over a picketed fence that had been prostituted to countless minds. It was not prayer, for even as a child I had my doubts about an omnipotent deity whose answers to my calls came on a whim and I had as much chance of an answered prayer as calling a coin...
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So I had some neuroanatomy lectures today, and guess who managed to convince himself he has Parkinson’s? I can’t wait until we hit the mental illness part of the course. Autism? Yeah, that’s me. Oh, look, manic depression, that fits the bill. Childhood Disintegrative Disorder—don’t know what that is, but I’ll take it.
I need to stop internalizing everything and...
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I don’t know if it’s because I’m still mourning the loss of all hope with Blond Boy From Abercrombie, or if it’s because the achiever in me has decided to take the reigns and steer me back to Medicine, but I just don’t feel like writing today. Or any day this week. I’m also tired. And did I mention grieving? Turns out Blond Boy From Abercrombie and the guy he...
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It's Either You Or The Baby
My name is Karen Jones.
Heart monitor beeps. Green mountains flash across a black abyss.
Breathe.
A year ago, I trailed my feet through the golden sands on the beaches of Hawaii, where two hundred of my friends and relatives watched me marry the love of my life. The waves were gentle, and so was he. I still remember his smile.
Oxygen mask. Arms fly out of blue scrubs. Overhead, lights shoot like...
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@creativecloud
creativecloud replied to your post: @creativecloud
Hahaha no one seems to notice that I’m not in the best of shape. Honestly I stopped swimming when I was young because I didn’t like getting up on the diving block and having people laugh at me :/ Oh my tragic childhood huh?
:( You were a swimming pro without a gut. They had no reason to.
People laughed at me too when I was young. It motivated me...
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It's TMI Tuesday back home. I miss home right now,... →
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Today I walked through the tunnel to get to the Tube. I saw many backs and many faces, but two stood out from the crowd. They belonged to two young men walking fast in my direction. Their clothes were simple and unostentatious—some variation of a plaid button-up and a pair jeans. They looked decidedly straight. They must have been close friends. I admit I let my eyes linger for the full five...
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The Waking Sleep
Wake up. Roll out of bed. Stub a toe. Bite back pain. What happened to night? Where did sleep go? Stolen time both infinite and infinitesimal. Too dark. Hit the lights. Too bright. Out the door. An ocean of faces. Fingers of insomnia fog my vision. I’m swimming in sharks. Sharks move fast, move forward, move left, right, center. I’m not really here. Dodge a car. I am here. The lights...
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The end is my favorite part of a lap because I can...
The water rushes, and heads turn. And who doesn’t like a bit of attention every now and then?
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I wish I never saw you sitting aisle seat, two rows from the front. I wish I had paid less attention. I wish chance had kept our paths separate, so come midday you would be out of sight and out of mind. Instead, you walked with me up the same stairwell and waited there, outside the same room, for the same tutorial. There were twenty-seven other rotations. Twenty-seven. Why did you have to be in...
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Today the dawn flared with the golden promise of a new beginning. The morning aged. Streets teemed with people, roads flowed with traffic, and cities spilled civilization. The sun watched them from its zenith. They were like ants, bold and blind to concerns outside their colony. Warriors were sent to far places, and the sun heard the grim war song of artillery fire. Its phrases were punctuated by...
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I Believe
I believe in science. I believe in atoms, Brownian motion, probability and entropy. I believe in the conservation of mass and energy—you can’t get something out of nothing.
I believe in purpose. I believe everyone has a place and everything exists for a reason. I believe that the right to decide that purpose lies with each of us. No one can tell you how to live your life but you....
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@lotsapeople
likeabtriz replied to your post: Sore throat, blocked nose, struggling to think…
Looks like you’ve got a serious case of lovesickness. BBFA should get you a kiss- pirin.
Okay, second sentence had me laughing.
epiphany-delirium replied to your post: Sore throat, blocked nose, struggling to think…
Have you been reading Homestuck? You seem to be referring to yourself in the second...
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Sore throat, blocked nose, struggling to think now, head hurts, bones ache.
But you don’t worry about that, no. You don’t care about some physical symptom you can choose to ignore. What gets you is sitting at the keyboard with mucus blocking every sinus and finding that somewhere along the way, you’ve expectorated all creativity with the phlegm.
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“You better run, better run faster than my bullet.”
– Foster The People, Pumped Up Kicks
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@mochismochi
mochismochi replied to your post: @mochismochi
Hes hiding something!!! Why aren’t you all out? I want a post on this!
You know, I never actually thought he’d be hiding his sexuality. I just figured he was insecure about being a third-time resit. I like the new perspective.
Anonymous asked: Maybe your gaydar's saying straight then gay because he's actually bisexual. :o
captain-nitrogen asked: Some infatuations lead to stress, and stress can suppress the immune system, as you well know. :) ... Ah, those dastardly infatuations. So much harder to satisfy when you analyse the logistics concerning them. Oh, what folly to be able to blindly follow where our hearts lie, and disregard the future! What matter is 8 months from now, when one can give in to current desires? Oh, what folly indeed....
mochismochi asked: Is the blonde lovey boy gay? Do you know? How does one figure it out if he's not totally out?
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I blame Blond Boy From Abercrombie for my cold.
I thought infatuation granted immunity from illness.
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Airplanes
I looked up at the sky today, and I saw airplanes. There were three of them, massive aluminum kites gliding from horizon to horizon. Where they passed were streaks of white the wind ate away before they reached the other side. I wondered if that was the color of broken dreams. The families seventy-two businessmen left behind for their work. The past five proud men and women set out to forget...