A new tradition has started- Sunday night, med girls have decided to get together and watch all the episodes of Sex and the City. We started tonight- 15 med girls crowded into an apartment with a lot of chocolate. It was fabulous.

Yesterday was AJ and Dave's wedding and good times were had by all. And Me. On another note, I've just spent the past two hours on the homestarrunner webpage and am all computered out.

Here's a list of the BBC's 50 places to see before you die. I've been to
#2- Great Barrier Reef
#3 Florida
#8 Sydney
#10 Taj Mahal
#11 Cdn Rockies
#12 Uluru
#15 Niagra Falls
#18 Venice
#22 Hong Kong
#27 Paris
#30 Nepal
#46 Zermatt Switzerland

I based on the list the next place I should go is either the Grand Canyon (boo) New Zealand, or maybe New York.

Finally- a survey as geeky as I am...

You are glucose. People feed off of you. You are
sweet, caring, and a source of energy for
everyone around you. You can inspire others
with your creativity and depth, and you can
keep people alive when in times of famine.
People love you...or at least the way you
taste.


Which Biological Molecule Are You?
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Yesterday I was in a small group with a group leader who was around 80 years old. He was having a heart- attack- not infarction, but arrhythmia- and no one noticed for an HOUR. We are the worst doctors ever.

I got my block 1 marks back and once again I am exactly average- 78.9% (average 78%). I played squash today with some of my classmates- good times were had by all.

Oh- I also saw the matrix 3 last week- and it SUCKED. IT more than sucked- what a disappointment. I was really, really ready to like it too. I loved Matrix 1, I even loved matrix 2- it had a lot of possibilities- raised a lot of questions that should have been answered in the third one. Instead, we got stupid 15 minute fighting scenes that were basically bullets being sprayed at machines, a really cheesy subplot about "the small boy who made a difference" (Rudy of the Matrix anyone?) a REALLY bad Trinity death scene that went on for FAR too long- many many things. It actually switched to being a Terminator movie partway through. What was with the gigantic face of machines at the end that could talk? It reminded me of the old star trek episodes where a giant face would appear in space randomly. They should have had more scenes in the matrix, where things are cooler- and at the end, Neo and Smith should have done more Kung-Fu ON THE GROUND instead of flying around in the air and crashing into eachother.

Yesterday I played basketball with some of the guys in my class, and while it was fun, I think i was interfering on "Guy Time" so I don't think I'll do it again. IN other news, I went to see Sam Roberts and was sort of indifferent. He was okay- the encore went on FOREVER- the last song especially. It was about 15 minutes long, and everytime you thought it was over, he would surprise you with one more guitar riff.

Block 1 is over!! I am 1/12 of the way through my medical education, and 1/6 of the way through the classroom stuff.

So much for my weekend of freedom after my exam: I've spent the time sick with the flu. Which makes me wonder why they made us get flu shots: isn't this thing not supposed to happen?

Of Interest (also, it is going to be on my exam tomorrow:) the Tuskeegee Experiment". In the 1940s, right up until the 1970s, the United States Government was performing a medical experiment on uneducated black men from Alabama: they were not treating the syphilis these men had because they wanted to watch what happened. Pretty ugly story of some fucked up ethics.

This was posted in response to a beard growing contest that is currently being undergone in our class. I thought it was hillarious. Now on to studying...

Alright you sick Fucks, I've just had about enough of this BEAR-talk.
Seriously, you guys are messed up. I mean growing bears for a
competition is just waaaay beyond weird. You all need some
proffesional help, especially those of you who just SHAVED your bears!
I mean come on bears have dignity too and to shave them is just out
and out cruel. And what's this about Andrew Lodge not being able to
join the contest because his bear is to hard to beat. Where the fuck
did he get a bear from! I know he treeplanted and all but aren't you
breaking some rental tenancy act by trying to grow a bear in an
apartment? Bears have no place in the hands of med students they're
Canada's fifth most precious natural resource behind maple syrup,
beavers, the loonie (the toonie comes in like 94th because of its
stupid name), icelandic festivals, and four-square...show the bear
some respect. Bears are also very important in teaching little
children the hazards of porriage (Canada's little k
now 4th leading cause of death...learned that in PH tutorial). So
anyway I don't want to hear anymore about growing bears, I mean
harvesting their testicles and grinding them into a fine powder to
prevent impotency is as far as I will go. Finally,where would this
country be without smokey, and the Chicago Bears, and that gay bear
from CBC, and countless other Kodiaks out-on-the-range, eating
garbage, posing for tourist pictures and occasionally being mistaken
for bigfoot. So if you quacks can look yourselves in the mirror and
not shed a tear for our furry little friends then fine go ahead and
grow your fucking bear...but I want no part of it.
Horrifyingly yours,
Owen

My exam is on Friday- and I am not worried, which is worrying me- if that makes any sense. Now i have to learn about antibiotics.