February 2010
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Ask me anything →
Go on, try it.
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“Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third...”
– Raymond Chandler (via thelegalpit)
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Just dreaming
My alarm went off at 8, but I woke to what looked like 7. Autumn must have be coming. Mornings arive later, are less inviting. I was still pulling clothes on when I left the house, bobby pin in my mouth and a shoe in my hand, late for the medical therapy unit.
It turned out that the patient arrived over 2 hours later than me. We tried to kill time the best we could, moving old samples from the...
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Remember Lali Puna (via hypem)
New album?
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Anticlimax
There was a patient pick-up in the morning, followed by a mad attempt to add to my literature review (last minute as ever), then a trip to the Alfred for a meeting that was 30 minutes late, and 15 minutes in duration. The feedback today consisted of: “You should include some tables” and “I’ll see you next week. Let’s make this a weekly thing.”
That was it. Just...
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“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”
– Murakami Haruki (via mylifeasateacup)
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Wishful thinking all around
Another Tuesday afternoon at the Alfred, the majority of which was spent kneeling on the floor of Professor R.’s office trying to dial through to the thalassemia consultant at MMC.
“I hear he’s notoriously hard to reach,” he’d said. “Just get him on the phone and I’ll talk to him about withholding vitamin C. He never returns phone calls.”
So...
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“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
– Mother Teresa (via kari-shma)
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Writing the perfect literature review, and why I...
When I was a little girl, I wondered why things inside my head never could translate perfectly outside it when it came to creating things.
I tried to draw a clown once. I was really determined - I could picture every hair on his head, the shading, the texture of skin and pores blocked by a layer of paint, where to shade shadows, the direction of light…almost like a photograph. So convinced...
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“You can’t always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best...”
– Sarah Dessen (via kari-shma)
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Fact of the week
If you have 2 copies of the CCR5Δ32 gene polymorphism, you are immune to most strains of HIV.
Most types of HIV virus uses a CCR5 co-receptor to enter T-cells when infecting the host. In people homozygous for CCR5Δ32, this co-receptor is non-functional, making viruses are unable to enter host cells.
CCR5Δ32 alleles have the highest prevalence in Northern Europeans (around 10%). Scientists...
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Just saying
M: Your Body Is A Wonderland is such a lame song. Musically generic. John Mayer looks like a retard. And the lyrics are stupid.
Melissa: I know.
M: I don't get why you like it so much.
Melissa: Can I ask you something?
M: What?
Melissa: Do you have a girlfriend?
M: No?
Melissa: This is why.
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Hard boiled wonderland, and the end of the world
A friend and I drove out to Carrum at 1am on Friday night. The Napean highway was empty - not even a single car in sight. Strange, last December was the first time I’d ever been down it, despite needing to go to Frankston everyday for all of 8 weeks. I’d always thought that a highway would wide and multi-laned, but driving down the Napean is always like driving down any other road.
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She’s Too Much Duran Duran
Bring back the...
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A really depressing story
A friend called a few days ago, wanting to debrief about a patient of his who died of a massive infarct.
While listening to him, I got thinking: people always ask if it’s difficult working with already dead people when they find out you’re in medical school (cadavers). Nobody ever asks you what it’s like working with living people who die on you.
Why is that, exactly?
When I...
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“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.”
– Rose Franken (via kari-shma)
So true. Look at my parents.
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The science of sleep
It’s 11pm, the end of a long but fairly good day. I like Wednesdays. You can see Friday floating in the distance, like some kind of beacon you should swim to.
I had to go back to campus for something yesterday.
Do you find that if you walk through a place you used to frequent a lot in the past, you go into a sort of time warp? Even though they’ve renovated everything on site, I still...
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“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
– Josephine Hart (via kari-shma)
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