i received a 'happy birthday' card in the mail from my grandmother today.
imagoldfish:
damn dude.
saw a hemphiliac patient today who contracted HIV in the early 80s through blood transfusions, and then had developed full-stage AIDS by 1986. the guy is now completely healthy, and is about to have a kid. its somewhat comforting to know that those kind of patients are out there, but i think its more depressing that he is possibly the only patient i will see...
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im totally going to sleep after i master this whole coagulation cascade. seriously, after this, im getting some fucking sleep.
scylla:
" it would be like analyzing ts eliot's work through a discussion of the layout of the pub in which he wrote."
So are you saying that, for instance, if I were able to correlate Eliot's environment with the imagery of his poems, it would not work? (An obvious example of environment affecting would could be Blake and 'London'.)
I think that it is very difficult to disassorciate seminal experiences from one's life from one's creations. It would be difficult to aruge that the affects of drugs, positive or not, does not affect the user.
I have read essays which attempt to correlate themes in Virigina Woolf's work with experiences she had 20 years prior to the work's creation. Is that an illegitimate claim?
A very obvious example would be Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan', his attempt to capture the experience of the opium dream. Can we say that this poem is uninfluenced by the affects of drugs on the poem's creator? (A very cursory google search turns up this link as the first result).
So are you saying that, for instance, if I were able to correlate Eliot's environment with the imagery of his poems, it would not work? (An obvious example of environment affecting would could be Blake and 'London'.)
I think that it is very difficult to disassorciate seminal experiences from one's life from one's creations. It would be difficult to aruge that the affects of drugs, positive or not, does not affect the user.
I have read essays which attempt to correlate themes in Virigina Woolf's work with experiences she had 20 years prior to the work's creation. Is that an illegitimate claim?
A very obvious example would be Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan', his attempt to capture the experience of the opium dream. Can we say that this poem is uninfluenced by the affects of drugs on the poem's creator? (A very cursory google search turns up this link as the first result).
imagoldfish:
heh heh, don't fuck with the scylla, she's a smart cookie.
anyways, yeah, i feel you on the sleep deprivation deal pal. oh boy do i ever.
anyways, yeah, i feel you on the sleep deprivation deal pal. oh boy do i ever.
guilt, guilt, guilt.
"its not a mens college without girls, its a womens college without boys"
man, im awesome.
man, im awesome.
imagoldfish:
exactly!
heh heh.
heh heh.
for mike, the i heart huckabees soundtrack was music to drive back here to. for me, it was good music to sit next to a screaming japanese baby for five and a half hours to.
back in beantown after the holiday. my fight got in basically on time (around midnight), but then there was the wait for baggage, and then over an hour wait for a cab, and then traffic. yeah, got back around 2.00 to my apartment, and then class at 8.00 this morning.
its fascinating that when people find out youre in medical school, the first question that comes to mind is: 'what do you want to go into?' and when i tell them what im thinking about, i usually get 'wow, you must be smart.' god forbid i were to mention some other specialty, cause then i might a: 'oh, youre one of the dumb ones. go...
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last night bethany's mom took me out to a nice dinner. she was in boston for some meeting have to do with bayer, and then decided that it would be nice to see me, so we went out. it was actually not as awkward as it could have been, and it was particularly funny in a lot of ways. also, the food was amazing, and...
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dunx:
When you do get to the ER, word of advice: if you stick a big fucking scalpel and cut around in somebody when it's been anesthetized and afterwards ask, "Do you want anything for the pain" and they say "no" cause it doesn't hurt and they're tough...GIVE IT ANYWAY. HOLYSHIT WAS I HURTING AFTERWARDS...
so, im giong to see if i can go the rest of the semester without drinking. its going to be a challenge, and while i have other reasons for making this decision, ive come to realize that the fact that i dont think i can do it matters a lot. i mean, i would like to not lose the money as fast as i do,...
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imagoldfish:
Commando is one of my favorites, actually. Man, I really need to own these movies. I think my dad is burning me a bunch though, so soon, oh yes, I will have the Schwarzenegger collection I deserve. I still need to find a Remarkable Women for Arnold! t-shirt though.
tiamat:
drinking makes my brain mushy
it looks like i am going to be getting back in the lab a lot sooner than i had thought. i should have seen this coming. i mean, really, how long can i be expected to avoid trying to make rats walk again?
question on an old cell, tissue, organ biology exam: what did the elephant say to the naked man?
imagoldfish:
NICE, BUT CAN YOU PICK UP PEANUTS WITH IT?
oh man, i love that one.
oh man, i love that one.
imagoldfish:
hmm, i think i like my version better.