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09:33 pm
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11:34 pm
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lyrics game, the MJ version
The lyrics game from songs on my hard drive, in honor of Michael Jackson:
1. It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark.
2. When I had you to myself, I didn't want you around. Those pretty faces always made you stand out in a crowd.
3. She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene. I said don't mind, but what do you mean I am the one who will dance on the floor in the round?
4. Your butt is mine. Gonna take you right.
5. Lovely is the feeling now. Fever, temperatures rising now.
6. Where did you come from lady? And ooh, won't you take me there?
7. Looking out across the night-time, the city winks a sleepless eye.
8. She always takes it with a heart of stone cause all she does is throw it back to me.
9. They told him don't you ever come around here, don't wanna see your face, you better disappear.
10. Hey, pretty baby with the high heels on, you give me fever like I've never ever known.
How about you? What's your favorite MJ song? My favorite is either Beat It or Billie Jean.
Tags: lyrics
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05:16 pm
[Link] | Poor Farah Fawcett. I'd hate to die on the same day Michael Jackson died.
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09:35 am
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FYI
I'm going to be locking all my future entries for a little while, for obvious reasons. My trust level is very low right now.
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05:50 pm
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transcription errors
My attending today actually wrote an article on some of the more ridiculous transcription errors that got missed by residents and actually became part of the patient's permanent record. These were my favorites (he's an orthopod):
baloney = below knee
cashews = cast shoes
free jerks ataxia = Freidrich's ataxia
grandma seizures = grand mal seizures
hell fracture = heel fracture
herb palsy = Erb's palsy
kind box syndrome = Kienbock's syndrome
Kay ciel = KCl
psychoceramic = psychosomatic
rotator cough = rotator cuff
screwliosis = scoliosis
range of emotion = range of motion
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09:57 pm
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question of the week
I know it's early for the AV question of the week. Usually I save it for Saturday night, which is a slow night on LJ. (Sad that I know that.) But I thought of a question, so I'm gonna post it early. After all, I have a goal of 90 pages for this month and I'm not even close yet. I have some serious writing I need to do.
What 3 songs from the radio do you hate the most? We all dislike some songs, but which songs make you physically ANGRY every time you hear them because you just hate them SO MUCH. (You can't cop out and answer an entire genre of music, like "country".)
I'm going to have to say "Satellite" by Dave Matthews Band is one of my most hated songs, mostly because it was playing a lot on the radio when I was in high school and used to listen to music constantly. So if I was doing shit around the house and listening to z100, I was guaranteed to hear that awful song like 3-4 times, which made me hate it exponentially more, to the point where it made me sick when it came on.
"Mo' Money Mo' Problems" by Puff Daddy for similar reasons. Also, it's a song I most associate with z100 turning from an alternative station into a pop station, and the general death of grunge.
I'm having trouble coming up with a third, but right now I really hate "Icky Thump" by White Stripes. Every time it comes on the radio, I have to immediately change the station. It just sounds... extremely dissonant to me, like nails on a chalkboard. If I listen to it for more than a minute, I get a headache. Plus I think the song insults Americans or something.
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05:47 pm
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$$$$$$$$
Top earning actors in Hollywood for the last year...
( can you guess? )
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02:10 pm
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yes, i am that stupid
Considering we're moving in a couple of weeks, I thought to myself: gosh, what a great time to buy some new shit.
Seriously though.... there's a small chance I might actually be able to read a little in the next few weeks and on the plane, so I want to take that opportunity to buy myself a birthday present. I have never read House of God, so I figured what better time to read it than when I'm finishing residency? Then I also need one or two other books to get my free shipping. Then I'll just... I don't know, give the books away.
OK, so need advice: a book that is totally unputdownable, fantastic, a page turner, something that will draw me in and I won't be able to stop reading!!!
And please: don't recommend anything that might conceivably ever be assigned in an English class. Or short-stories. Or non-fiction. Or anything that takes place before 1960.
EDIT: I think I've decided on "One For the Money" by Janet Evanovich, which somebody (lneef?) recommended in the past, and "Proof Positive" by Phillip Margolin, which my mother claims is unputdownable. Anybody want to stop me before it's too late?
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11:00 am
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question of the week
The Onion AV is still sucking, so once again, I will present my own question of the week:
What is the worst movie you ever saw? You can only name ONE MOVIE, but you can explain why. Sequels are allowed.
The worst movie I ever saw was Very Bad Things. It's the reason why I don't want to see The Hangover, because I'm afraid it might in some way remind me of that other awful movie. It literally made me feel ill, without any kind of redeeming features. It was just horrible for the sake of being horrible.
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08:54 am
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10 Things I learned in Residency
With one week till my graduation from residency, I've decided to share 10 very important things that I learned during residency:
1. If you're sick and nobody has seen you exhibiting signs of being sick, go to work. Nobody will believe you're sick if they don't see you vomiting in the recycle bin, snot rolling down your face, and/or your appendix exploding in mid-air.
2. The attending is always right. Even when they're being a total idiot and completely wrong, they're still right.
3. When there is any kind of pimping going on and nobody is picking on you, keep your fool mouth shut. Even if you think you know the answer, you might not know the answer to the next follow-up question, and probably not the answer to the five questions that come after that.
4. Patients are really hard to kill. I haven't succeeded yet.
5. No matter how good and thorough your history is, your attending will come up with a question you don't know the answer to. What time did your patient have dinner last night? What is their shoe size? Who sold them their car? When you don't know the answer, they will give you a look and tell you to get a better history.
6. There is never any reason to run to a patient's room, unless you're the senior resident on the code team. So relax, get yourself a cup of coffee.
7. At some point a med student will unintentionally make you look bad. You will vow to get revenge by making his life miserable for the rest of his time with you. Welcome to the dark side.
8. Having a child during residency is easy. Unless you need sleep or something.
9. When you're sleep deprived, it helps to make a checklist of things you need to do. Later you may not remember making the list or who did any of the things on it, but the checkmark means it somehow got done.
10. Man, the med students have it easy...
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10:04 pm
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question of the week
Onion AV's questions of the week have been sucking ass lately (songs of the summer?), so I am forced to make up my own:
What movie do you think that EVERYBODY needs to see at least once? Like, it's so ingrained in popular culture, that you're basically a cinematic idiot if you haven't seen it (and Jack Black feels sorry for you).
I always react with shock and horror when someone tells me they haven't seen The Godfather. That is definitely a must-see. I think The Graduate is also must-see because it gets referenced so much that you probably haven't understood half the movies that followed it if you never saw it (and several dozen Simpsons episodes).
As for the 80s, I think Back to the Future and Ferris Bueller are the two big ones that everyone has to see. And Spaceballs, because at some point in your life, someone is going to make a "She's gone from suck to blow" joke and you don't want to just stare cluelessly.
More recent must-see movies are Pulp Fiction. Because that is one tasty burger. And The Matrix... obviously. (But not the sequels.)
I hesitate to say that Lord of the Rings is must-see because I freakin hate that movie, but I sadly do feel like it's a strong part of popular culture right now.
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05:34 pm
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Schwarzenegger
Microsoft Word impressed me today. I misspelled our fine governor's name and it successfully corrected me.
I cut out from work early today and saw Drag Me To Hell. It was really good. Sam Raimi is definitely master of the hilarious horror movie, but I've decided that I am not really into horror movies for the same reason I'm not into roller coasters (anymore). I don't like being scared, even pretend scared. I liked the tacked on, cheesy happy endings.
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03:49 pm
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fake news
Cowboy wins lottery
Is it just me or did Yahoo News accidentally take a story out of The Onion? I think what really cinches it is the fact that their neighbor is named Dave Assman.
Also, the Onion has an article on something that I think is a great idea: an ugly Barbie.
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02:25 pm
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mountain dew apple dumplings
urbunnie recommended a recipe for Mountain Dew Apple Dumplings. I know, Mountain Dew on apple dumplings? A little crazy, but they sounded so good that I decided to give them a try.
One thing I will say is that it is confusing how long you're actually supposed to cook the dumplings. Usually when I bake crescent rolls, I don't let them stay in the oven for more than 7-8 minutes. But this recipe uses crescent rolls and tells you to bake them for 35-40 mins. I could see how pouring mountain dew on the rolls could change the baking time slightly, but I didn't think it should add 30 mins to the baking time.
I set the timer for 10 mins, then checked on the dumplings. They looked close to ready, but I wasn't sure. So I set the timer for another two minutes then checked them, and now they looked even closer to ready. But I still wasn't sure and I didn't want them to be a mushy mess. So this time I set the timer for three minutes.
Well, I think when you come into the kitchen and there's smoke pouring out of the oven, you've probably cooked the dumplings for too long. And then, of course, the fire alarm went off. It was quite the event.
Amazingly, the dumplings were not burnt at all though, just crispy. I'm afraid that they're going to turn into rock hard lumps by tomorrow, but the one I ate out of the oven was pretty damn tasty. I can't say what the mountain dew added to the recipe though, aside from prolonging the cooking time to the point where I nearly burned my apartment down.
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05:18 pm
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What's your major, baby?
Mdorkus was taking a census and he inspired me:
Poll #1409530 major
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 47What was your major in college?
Just know that if I left out your major, it's only because you suck. (Just kidding.)
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11:11 pm
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handwriting
I'm writing this entry in lieu of writing something of content, studying, or sleeping:
I just want to say that I'm totally in love with my handwriting lately. It's funny because I spent most of my life hating my handwriting and always trying to change it. If you look at my handwritten essays over the years, you'd probably notice distinct eras in which I used to write Y's or R's a certain way or whatever. (I thankfully never went through a phase where I dotted my i's with hearts.) But I never got it even close to how I wanted it to look.
I used only print until I was in middle school, then I used only script until I finished college, but then in med school I started printing again, because the only way I could stand to take infinite notes was to attempt to make them look pretty. (I also used a four-color pen. Yes, this was a low point in my life.)
Anyway, somehow my print merged into that print-script hybrid, which is kind of what I was going for all along. Here's a sample:
(Bonus points if you know what I'm writing about.)
I like my handwriting because it's extremely readable, especially for a doctor, but it's not too girly, I don't think.
EDIT: Mdorkus just read this entry and told me my handwriting sucks.
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07:47 am
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Music of the 90s
When I was in high school and early college, some of my friends would tease me that my taste in music sucked. But honestly, in retrospect, I think I had great taste in music. Generic, yes. But I've realized that my top five bands have stood up pretty well to the test of time:
1) Green Day: This was the first band I really loved, and I adored them in a way that only a 16 year old girl could. Dookie was one of the first albums I only and I listened to it ad nauseum (my poor family). Green Day was really popular in the 90s, but my friends would joke around that their songs all sounded identical. Admittedly, Green Day kind of seemed like a band that was going to have one big album and disappear into oblivion. And when Nimrod came out, which didn't do very well commercially or critically, that might have happened. Yet the song "Time of Your Life", which never even got released as a single, propelled Green Day to a higher level. I mean, the damn song got played at my brother's graduation. And now last album American Idiot shows that they are capable of playing more than just the same three cords... even mdorkus liked the album. Unfortunately, their new single sucks, so we'll see.
2) Weezer: I think everybody loves the blue album. I mean, how could you not love Buddy Holly or the sweater song? And also, Suzanne from the Mallrats soundtrack. But I think Pinkerton was the album that made me really love Weezer. If I was pressed to name my favorite album of all time, I'd have to say it was Pinkerton. Yet at the time, Pinkerton did not do well and kind of killed Weezer's career. But I think it's brilliance was eventually embraced and Weezer returned with the kind of catchy songs they do best. Still going strong over ten years later.
3) Sublime: Well, the lead singer died, so what are you gonna do about that? Still, over ten years later, they still get lots of radio play.
4) Blur: I started to like Blur later in the 90s, but I think I have all their albums at this point. Half the reason I liked them initially is that Damon Albarn is HOT, but as it turns out, pretty talented. They had a completely different sound when they started out, evolved into something more techno-y, then dissolved. But Albarn's "side project" the Gorillaz has proved itself to be a great (or possibly even better) band too, so it still counts!
5) The Offspring: These guys are still around too! After the phenomenally crappy Conspiracy of One, I gave up on them, but I downloaded "You're gonna go far, kid" and that song rocks.
I mean, my favorite groups could have been, like, the Spin Doctors or Superdrag. I am very impressed with myself for picking bands to worship that actually had staying power. Maybe they should hire me to replace Kara next season on Idol.
What were your five favorite bands in the 90s?
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09:07 am
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the best part about graduating residency
I won't have to record my duty hours online anymore. Man, I hate that shit. I've never even come remotely close to violating them in three years.
Actually, there are other things I don't like about residency. But right now, duty hours are way up there.
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07:24 am
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interesting.....
It sounds like Obama's new choice for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor may be pro-life.
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10:39 pm
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movie day
We ended up seeing Terminator Salvation. It was aight. I liked the previous three better and I'm still not a Christian Bale fan. How come Bale always has to do his gruff Batman voice? What happened to you, Christian Bale? You used to be cool. (Like in American Psycho.)
Watching Terminator motivated me to watch the Trapper Keeper episode of South Park. That is one of my favorite episodes.... a cyborg from the future is sent to destroy Cartman's Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper before it fuses with a main computer that takes over the world. I leave you with some hilarious quotes from the episode:
"I have come to destroy that Trapper Keeper, because it was the Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper that belongs to an Eric Cartman in South Park which three years from now manifests itself into an omnipotent superbeing, and destroys all of humonity. In the year two thousand and four a hybrid-assimilating computer linked with a satellite uplink computer. From there it was able to slowly take over every computer in the world. It became stronger and stronger! Until, by the year 2018 it broke away from mankind and there was nothing the humons could do. It wasn't long before Mighty Trapper Keeper started to destroy everything as useless, including humons. The nations tried everything to stop it. Nuclear devices, seismic missiles. But nothing worked. The humons built robots of their own, whole armies of them But nothing was strong enough to stop Trapper Keeper. And so finally, the humons decided to send one of their robots into the past to destroy the Trapper Keeper before it even got started."
Cyborg: "And so, Eric. Now you see why we must destroy your Trapper Keeper."
Cartman: "...You guys. Did I mention that it has a pencil sharpener and a crayon sharpener?"
Stan: "Cartman, it takes over the world and destroys all of humanity!"
Cyborg: "I'm afraid I have no other choice! For the sake of humanity I have to kill him."
Kyle: "Oh. Okay."
Stan: "Yeah, that's fine... No, wait!"
Cyborg: "What?!"
Stan: "Can I do it?"
Cyborg: "Oh, well, I suppose..."
Stan: "Sweet! Kiss your ass goodbye, fatboy!"
Cyborg: "Wait! Perhaps there is another way. If you could take me to where Eric Cartman lives, I could try reasoning with his human mother."
Stan: "Yeah, or we could just kill him."
Kyle: "Yeah, that'd be faster."
Stan: "He's right there."
Cyborg: "I'm afraid I can't. I think I'm actually starting to feel what you humons call 'compassion.' It is an amazing feeling!"
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