My dad's favorite music artists are Madonna, Sarah McLachlan, Celine Dion, and Enya. Manly playlist is exceedingly manly.

At least I rec'd Simon and Garfunkel to him.

FUCK LUNGS.

/drowns self in chicken cacciatore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvwh3r6ev9s

• The Frontier love triangle is going to be resolved, presumably more than "wings lol". (Sorry to disappoint, dasmondschaf.)
  
• He designed Optimus Prime. This was a surprise, despite Starscream totally being a Valkyrie. Why is it a surprise to me that he did Starscream's design, as well?
  
• He started working in high school.
  
• He did SDF Macross at the age of 22 with no prior directorial/writing training. Frankly, if bullshitting as you go leads to such randomness as wrangling a tuna in space, I'm all for it.

Also, I took his comments about killing off major characters to be a stab at the grimdark Gundam crowd, which pleases me.

In other news, so tired...

- It's estimated that every minute you spend smoking is a minute you take off of your lifespan. /o/
- Seriously, guys, don't smoke.
- "Manopause" (play off of "menopause") is perhaps the best term ever to describe androgen insufficiency. Apparently, the powers-that-be made everyone stop using it because it was ~offensive~ or something. Spoilsports.
- I made delicious chili, for the first time without beans or tomatoes. Nom. :9 This has nothing to do with cardiology, except possibly regarding my slightly oversalting it.
- I got hit on by another guy at work. This time, by a crackhead. :Db
- The screenshots from the Gundam 00 SE's are hilariously gay. That's taking subtext to grand new levels.

My review of this season's lineup.

( disparagement under the guise of 'reviews' )

JAPAN.

( JAPAAAAAAAAN )

JAPAN.

So being hunched over your notes for a week at a time really causes my back to hurt. Stupid muscles.

In other news, I have about 7 pounds of beef in the fridge right now, 2.5 ground and 4.5 or so as roasts. Any favorite recipes? I was planning on making a roast, but the pasties I made earlier this week are still lasting me. Things made of potatoes and beef wrapped in shortbread are highly energy-dense. WHO KNEW?

Also, the new anime season looks grim, though I am behind. Nothing even tickles my shallow fancies like CANAAN did last season. At least Reaction Faces: The Anime Kobato's cute?

Happy THIS IS THE BEST PLAN EVER Day, i.e. 1st Anniversary of His Majesty's FABULOUS Death, i.e. BAWWW Day, i.e. I Actually Fell Into A Slump For A Few Days Over 2-D Noodle Boys...Day. (Curse my escaping from reality by over-investing myself into imaginary cartoon relationships!)

New art: Oh hey, they switched colors again. Also, C.C.'S OUTFIT. Oh my.

"Live action picture drama"? Will it be as hilarious as live-action Bleach or PW? BTW, Code Geass: The Musical WHERE???

Oh, the memories... Oh, the days when a good 90% of my entries would be tagged with Geass. Was a fun run, guys.

On the plus side, I now pump out significantly less amounts of tl;dr and can devote my Sundays to football and studying like a proper Dallas student.

In other news, I woke up today with a swollen left tonsil and a sore left-side of throat/pharynx. Suck. It better not be the flu. (Seriously, how does a medical school/hospital run out of flu shots for its employees and students?)

ETA: Haha, someone compiled every single death of a named character in R2.

Dubya did the coin toss for the game.

Nevermind politics.

He was wearing a blue shirt, purple tie, blue jacket, and black pants.

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

ON WHAT PLANET DOES THIS LOOK GOOD?!

Rape. That test was absolutely incomprehensibly brutal rape. FML.

The one bright spot is that it seems that everyone agreed that it was rape. First test's average was a C. Let's see if we can get it even lower this time!

Is this:
a) angry scribbles,
b) drug-induced nightmare fuel, or
c) how current medical students are taught microbiology/pharmacology?

Okay! Stuff to do before midnight (hopefully):
- go over antibacterials again
- re-learn anti-fungals
- memorize adrenergics
- go over autonomics again
- go over pathology

Attn: Mssrs. cefazolin, cephalexin, cefuroxime, cefoxitin, cefotaxime, ceftriaxone, ceftazidime, cefepime

YOU ALL SOUND THE SAME!

No love,
Me

>:|

In other news, one of the patients I was screening yesterday asked me out on a date. Ell oh ell. I had to bite my lip.

Ken Burns has a new documentary! It's on America's national parks!

I should not be this excited about this, but I am!

September's gonna rock! \:D/

I'm not sure what is more frustrating:
- being unprepared for a test
- being very prepared for a test and then making stupid-ass mistakes all over it

Herp a derp, I should learn2english before I try to learn2doctor. >:|

Fuck it. Consoling self with farmer's market in the morning, if I wake up early enough. Already consoled myself with some grilled sirloin kabobs chased with beer for dinner. Fire and delicious chunks of cow, you never fail to brighten my day a little.

Ted Kennedy's dead.

Chappaquiddick be damned, the man brought us S-CHIP. And brought me extra paperwork via HIPAA, but I think we can agree that HIPAA is a good thing. (It also helps that I agree with a good chunk of his political views.)

Plus, the man was damn classy (recently).

Now who's gonna be the Kennedy patriarch and the Senate's iconic Democrat? So long, Senator.

Went to a town hall meeting hosted by the Texas Medical Association yesterday.

The demographics amused me:
- retirees, doctors, and a few students like myself
- overwhelmingly white, with a few Asians and African-Americans scattered about
- homogenously middle class

Anyways, I went to mainly people-watch and see what concerns the self-selecting population of people that would go to a town hall meeting about health care (reform)general populace. Needless to say, it was it was pretty much insured, healthy middle-class people speaking of individual desires and societal mores from an insured and healthy middle-class perspective. And no, I don't just mean the "I and everyone I know have awesome healthcare. Ergo, we as a society have awesome healthcare" crowd. The "I am a social warrior who has awesome healthcare, and it is a social injustice that not everyone receives my level of healthcare" crowd can be just as grating. The unicorns and rainbows coming out of that meeting put Obamacare to shame, and very few individuals were able to even begin to reconcile "what we want" with "what we can do".

Here's what I got from this:
- the public is some amalgam of fundamentally divided and hopelessly clueless (albeit not necessarily their fault)
- everyone hates politicians
- everyone hates lawyers
- everyone hates bureaucracy (Personally, unless it becomes an unnavigable pile of red tape, I think bureaucracy is pretty frickin' awesome. Every government needs people whose purpose is to JUST SAY NO.)

Perhaps the most worthwhile comments of the night came from a pediatric cardiologist who reminded everyone attendant that insurance != access to healthcare. Far greater social issues are at play that would probably necessitate vastly more ambitious reforms in how and where medical care is administered, as well as redefining what constitutes "medical care" in the first place, but that's my inner socialist talking.

Aside from being horrendously unproductive re: lectures/reading, today has been a good day.

- made 6 sticks out of 6 attempts (\:D/); finished phlebotomy an hour early tonight
- asked intelligent questions in Colleges today and did not say stupid shit like some of my classmates
- being swamped with stupidly gorgeous Koubou and Kai scans/scanlations: so much GOOD END! (KPP, in particular, made me d'awww like crazy)
- cooked delicious foods (the secret is butter)
- baked delicious cookies (the secret is butter)

Busy day tomorrow, between reading (lol), going down to interview patients at our inpatient clinic, training for a job in the trauma ER, a town hall meeting hosted by the Dallas County Medical Association, and one final round of phlebotomy at 10pm-12:30am. At least I've pretty much completed the required sticks for phlebotomy. All I need to do is not make an absolute fool of myself tomorrow. I think that's doable.

ETA: Dammit, haven't done my other human subjects IRB certification yet. Why one institution uses multiple certifications boggles my mind and wastes my time.

FML #1
1) Counselor tells us that she's going to actively and vehemently tell her patients not to work with us.
2) I pass along the message to my boss. OUT OF MY HANDS AT THIS POINT.
3) ???
4) She now hates me and refuses to speak to me because she thought I reported her to her supervisor (who, might I add, I've never spoken to outside of "Hi, how are you?") and almost cost her her job.
5) Me: "...wtf."

Being the messenger blows. >:|

FML #2
diapedesis != cytokinesis != leukocytosis

How I managed to misread "leukocytosis" as "cytokinesis" and then supplant that with the definition for "diapedesis" is absolutely mindboggling. What the fuck, head?

The FML part comes from how I actually understood leukocytosis pretty well, and how it would have been a very easy question for me to answer if it weren't for my mental reality-bending shenanigans. Goddammit, brain. I need those points.

Also: I blow at finding veins. Vein or tendon or muscle? ┐('～`；)┌

The overwhelming preponderance of shippy CG secrets on F!S makes me vaguely uncomfortable. I swear, this fandom isn't filled with shippers, shipping, and shipwars. Goddammit people. I confess it is pretty damn elitist to consider the fandom fascination with who sticks what where to reflect badly upon the fandom general, but uh... Or maybe this fandom was always shit and I've somehow managed to insulate myself from the great majority of the retardation. I dunno.

Finished Torchwood a while ago. How cheap it is to use children like that to provoke an emotional rise out of the viewer. Cheap, albeit effective. Meh. Also, Jack is a massive douchebag. Not for you-know-what but for running away. And how are they going to make a 4th season? Gwen and Jack have angsty UST? Gwen and Rhys' marital sitcom?

Started watching True Blood. Loads of sex. Disturbingly Twilight-ish at points. However, Sookie is more tolerable than Bella because she doesn't sulk and complain all the time. She's also pretty much a redneck social activist in the depths of Louisiana. GayVampire rights, fuck yeah! Jason is the manwhorest of manwhores, Sam is forever doomed to the "friend" ladder, and Bill is so broody it's hilarious.

In other news, juggling work for the lab and attempting to be a decent student for once is a surprisingly large time commitment. Go figure.

You-know-who just you-know-what.

What the fuck.

Shit fucking sucked.

A plague upon your house, Russell T. Davies. >:|