October 2009
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Late night rockmelon snacks
If anybody asks you what could be better than rockmelon for lunch, the answer is rockmelon at 2am.
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“Today, I was working at my job at a kid’s Halloween festival, giving out...”
– from ‘My Life Is Average (MLIA)’ - Anonymous
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Ballad Of Humankindness The Dears
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Excited!
Final year placements came out today…am totally caught up in the rush of friends arguing over where they’ll be next year. It kinda makes me regret taking next year off (if by ”year off” I mean research year).
I’m definitely going to miss clinical medicine. I can’t imagine an entire life just of academics — why do medicine at all if you’re just gonna...
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“Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite...”
– From ‘Silence’ - Shusaku Endo
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3am, Sunday, on the pavement beside our front door
Drunk flatmate lying face down on the ground in the middle of an empty street (having just been dumped there by one of his friends): I'm not a useless man. I'm not some boyfriend with no future. Why are they all staring at me?
Drunk flatmate's girlfriend (in PJs, having been woken in the middle of the night): What are we going to do? We can't drag him inside.
Melissa (also in PJs): He has no neck tone. He can't stand up. He can't even raise his head off the floor. This is dangerous.
Drunk flatmate: No! I have to get up! I have to go to work tomorrow.
Melissa: Alright, just take it easy. You don't have to get up right now. You are dangerously drunk, and this is concrete. It isn't safe.
Drunk flatmate: Excuse me, but who are you?
Drunk flatmate's girlfriend: It's just Melissa.
Melissa: I live with you guys.
Drunk flatmate: Who?
Melissa: =_= Nevermind. I'll open the garage door, and maybe we can slide some cardboard under him and drag him when he passes out and isn't flailing.
Drunk flatmate: I'll show you!! *Suddenly stands up, makes a mad dash toward the garage, following the light, makes it 5m before falling to the ground, hitting his head with a sickening crack and falls unconscious*
Drunk flatmate's girlfriend: *screams*
Melissa: Oh no.
Drunk flatmate's girlfriend: *screams again*
Melissa: *Checks on him* It's ok, he's just asleep.
Drunk flatmate's girlfriend: Nooo!! It's not that. He's ruining my favourite coat! It touched the rubbish bin!!. *Runs forward, trying to pull the coat off her boyfriend's unconscious body* You bastard, you're paying for the drycleaning.
Melissa: Seriously?
Drunk flatmate's girlfriend: My coat!!
Melissa: Now what? He only made it halfway. We can't even close the garage door.
Drunk flatmate's girlfriend: Should we wake him?
Melissa: For God's sake, just break up with the jerk.
Drunk flatmate's girlfriend: What?
Melissa: Uh...nothing. :) Let's take a break and rethink our strategy.
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Glasgow Love Theme Craig Armstrong
The world at...
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A dream about the sea
Ob/gyn has been a horrible rotation.
The more I think about it, the more horrified I am. Everyday I wake up and feel like I lack something. What do I lack? Hair’s brushed, clothes are clean, teeth are brushed, have my papers and notebook, got my hospital ID and my thumb drive. I do a sentimental check — keys, wallet, ipod, phone? Yep, all there.
What is it, then, that I lack?
The...
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“Joy is not in things; it is in us.”
– Richard Wagner
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Debrief
Dear blog,
The days are getting longer; I am more grateful for sunlight than ever before. Even sitting in a gloomy basement is made better by the thought that somewhere outside is blue sky and temperate air.
Last Saturday morning I popped by AMA (Australian Medical Association) House for a leadership workshop. The AMA is located in a large, stately building on Royal Parade covered by light...
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If I Ever Feel Better Phoenix
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Pink little cheeks
It seems to rain endlessly. I wake up to a dull drumming that picks up with the wind. Somewhere a loose frame shakes. I curl further into my blanket and smile a little. I feel good. Better than good - rested. A feeling that I’ve missed for a long time. Strangely, I’d only slept 5 hours, my body rousing itself at the usual time despite a planned sleep-in. Dr. T, my mentor, had told me...
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Unconscious reaction
Dr. Pharrell: The trick to doing great gynae procdures is to to imagine that YOU're getting the pelvic exam or pap smear...
Dr. Pharrell: For God's sake...don't cross your legs. -_-
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Dear Been
The days are long and I feel bad I haven’t caught up with you properly for a few weeks. I guess you must be stressed about exams now, with a couple of weeks to go. I hope you are studying hard.
Wandering around the department store one late Friday night, I heard a song that made me think of you.
I asked the store person who it was and bought a copy of the CD for you.
I hope you...
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“On the morning you woke beside me — already thinking of going away —...”
– from an unknown piece - Alice Walker
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Se Todos Fossem Iguais A Voc Baden Powell
The...
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Gingerbread Friday
Dr. Ford: Oh wow, gingerbread men. Who made these?
Melissa: I did!
Dr. Ford: How nice of you. Do you have girl ones too?
Melissa: No, they're gender neutral.
Dr. Ford: Ah. Gingerbread people. Jolly good.
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Colours Amos Lee (Ft. Norah Jones)
A few weeks...