March 2010
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“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
– Mother Teresa (via kari-shma)
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Sweet Sweet Heartkiller Say Hi To Your Mom (via...
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Wednesdays
You’d think I’d have learnt not to sit next to windows in the library, given what I said last time, but it was too tempting to be close to the light. The morning had been unexpectedly busy one, trying to organise some things for next week, so I didn’t end up leaving the house until noonish (a shame, because I kind of wanted to go to the case presentation).
By that time,...
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“We read to know that we are not alone.”
– C.S. Lewis (via kari-shma)
Cute quote.
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Concete walls and elephants
(Written earlier today)
I’d been trying to write an email Friday evening when Hein called to say that it was S’s birthday, and that everyone was going to Beer Deluxe. It had been a so-so week uni-wise, and a drink did sound nice, so we drove into the city met S, Ian and some of their friends.
It’s weird, hearing everyone swap intern stories. It’s not really medicine or...
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Silver Coin Angus & Julia Stone (via hypem)
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Someone who likes Annie Hall
I was doing something completely mundane Sunday night when I discovered that I did in fact know someone who not only had seen Annie Hall, but liked it!
You know the moments in life when you combine startled with pure happiness? Not just being glad, or smiling, but wow! how could words describe how much I like you?
Epiphany-like, really.
Who knew :)?
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I must be quite predictable...
L (who I've only met 3 times): Hey, have you done that Myer-Briggs personality thing?
Melissa: Yeah, a long time ago. Hasn't everyone?
L: Has it been long enough that your personality's changed, or is it long-enough-but-still-post-19 years-old ago? I quite like it. I think it's fairly accurate.
Melissa: I just don't do personality tests anymore. I'm pretty comfortable with the level I know myself now. I don't think they add to me.
L: If I were to guess, I'd say you're ESFJ perhaps? (Completely guessing though)
Melissa: Er...I have no idea what I would be or what that means. :S
L: Nor would you be willing to re-take the test.
Melissa: I could. Just because we're talking about it and I'm not doing anything right now... haha
L: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTYpes2.asp
Melissa: Zmg, it's so long.
L: 70 questions, give or take a few.
Melissa (10 minutes later): Hahaha. Holy cow, I got ESFJ.
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Who is better looking? Physicians, Surgeons, or... →
Setting: “Typical university hospitalin Spain, located in Barcelona and not in a sleepy backwater”
This was published in the BMJ in 2006.
I’m slaving over some randomised control trial which probably won’t be published this year and others do studies like this and hit the BMJ..?
Haha…life’s so unfair!
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot (aka Mary Anne Evans) (via kari-shma)
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The secret lives of others
Invariably, the patient was late for his appointment yesterday. Libby took pity on me and told me to get myself a cup of tea, so I bought myself some yoghurt and read some papers on micronutrients in the middle of morning bustle.
Everyday’s been so temporate this week - so not like how autumn at all. I’ve been going through echo results in the library, trying not to be distracted by the...
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“Don’t give up, don’t lose hope, don’t sell out.”
– Christopher Reeve, 1952-2004 (via littlemiss)
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Forget tides, wave interactions, submarine...
Natasha: It means a lot, so if you could send some good vibes and wishes from across the Tasman...
Melissa: I always send good vibes across the Tasman. The Tasman is filled with my good vibes. That's why there are waveforms.
Natasha: Yeah I know you do. And that's why the waveforms head back towards you.
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Saturday night in Camberwell
Went to the semi-finals of Last Band Standing last night, a competition run for band newcomers with a cash prize at the end.
We were supposed to grab dinner beforehand but starving, we ended up in the drivethrough at McDonalds and parking in some random street on the way to Camberwell. Ironically the street we randomly decided to swing into was ‘MacDonald Street’, though we ended up...
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Life as a scientist
I spent most of the morning trying to pick stains from my finger-nails. It looked like I’d worked in a coal mine or something, or just not washed my hands for ages - the product of blueberries and French wine last night, on a stray whim.
It’s barely March and I miss summer already. Soon it’ll be April - my least favourite month of the year.
The Alfred was as busy as ever this...
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“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that...”
– Maya Angelou (via kari-shma)
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The End Ellie Goulding (via audreyhepgirl)
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Grrr, autumn
Padma woke me at 8 from the cocoon of bed to say she couldn’t go to clinic and could I please pick up the patients today…?
Of course, I said, enthusiastically. Inside, I died a little. Disruptions from drunken flatmate, social things and rushing presentations the last few nights made me approximate 8 of sleep hours in 3 days. I’d planned to take the day off to catch up on...
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“We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our...”
– Chuang Tzu (via kari-shma)
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