September

i want to say that i am going to start posting on this blog again - i don't know why i ever stopped, but i think it has to do with my increasingly high stress level - but i don't know if it's going to happen. fall feels like it's here and i don't know where the summer ever went, work is getting monotonous and i no longer enjoy going, my applications to medical school started off well but have started backing up and now i feel like i will never get done - basically i am in a huge rut and i need to dig myself out. i am still excited about some things - kp moving to philadelphia, my new apartment, canning (i made some really good bread & butter pickles), interviews (i have 3 so far), swimming (i joined a gym w a pool!) - but my stress level is too high to really enjoy anything right now, especially because i feel paralyzed when it comes to the application situation.

i think i will start posting here though because it gives me a place to stay focused on things i am excited about, which i think is important. i need to get back in the groove, big time, and i think the first step is definitely UNPACKING, because after a month our apartment still looks like it did the day or so after we moved in. after unpacking i will post some pics, which will give me motivation, i think. i feel like i have been in transition for so long, being away every weekend, which has been fun but ultimately i need some routine in my life and it needs to start at home. new apartment has yet to feel like home.

so maybe this will become something that is more for myself than anyone else and no one will read it but i think that is ok - although i guess that defeats the purpose of a blog, but i don't really know. i feel weird about this but i'm just going to take the plunge.

the above picture is of maude, for no other reason than that i love her even though i have only met her 3 times. luv u maude.

the eighth wonder of the world

DRIVER FAIL

I'm bummed cause this would be infinitely better if you could see the
guy inside

L

i can't imagine anything more majestic than dog sledding right now








via

HOTTUBBIN

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This mirror does not produce a "mirror" image, making it possible to read reflected text normally.

Hicks, a mathematician at Drexel University, Philadelphia, used computer algorithms to generate the mirror's bizarre surface, which curves and bends in different directions. The curves direct rays from an object across the mirror's face before sending them back to the viewer, flipping the conventional mirror image.

HA

places i wish i were instead of work

J

joseph priestley's oxygen-isolating apparatus - THE MAN THAT GAVE ME THE GIFT/CURSE OF SELTZER

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i don't much care for the text in the background, but this has been mesmerizing me all morning

next week on 90210

todd??

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happy luv day

also,

quilting was always cool

buffy 2??

i have no proof, but i'm pretty sure this has something to do with our landlord

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EMMA:

DO YOU STILL HAVE THIS TEE?!?!?

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plus

minus

it's good to be in love

twinkykats

G: "gonna write a novella about leon's dark sexuality and pinky's
erotic naïveté" or something like that

I can has cheezburger???

vic's last meal

pink sees snow

scared baby

my babies post-op

:(

F

E

calculus class. so boring. got a sweet lil valentine.

D

driving to new york the moon is huge yellow and low. spooky.
happy birthday dad

C

note george's homoerotic cocktail on the upper left

B

l laid out my quilt for the first time today - it's not all pieced
together yet, but I think this is basically what it's going to look
like. I'm excited!

I'm at my grandparents house and I just read an article about how
Tetris is "so demanding of the brain that it blocks thoughts of all
else...scientists at Oxford University believe that Tetris so
dominates the brain's resources that it can act as a "cognitive
vaccine" that could prevent soldiers or crime victims from developing
post-traumatic stress disorder." Deirdre: can you believe this???

also, apparently in a year there is going to be a major "solar storm"
of heightened sunspot activity that is going to, like, end the world
basically. has ne1 else heard about this?? it's time to go off the
grid!

A

i can't tell if anyone else will think this is funny, but i have been laughing for SO LONG


lost tonight!!!

MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE

SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY
OF THEE I SING

just watched the inauguration on my boss's computer... i was crying and trying to hide it from everyone else.
now i am reading the nytimes inauguration blog and wishing i had been there.

tuning in before work

gonna be late for work...

holland tunnel homeward bound

cold day soup day

at nan and gran's for lunch on a cold day. heaven!