i’ve been out of school for only five days and i’ve crammed about everything possible into them. yet have managed to spend lots of time in pajamas. excellent.
this weekend i saw the movie slumdog millionaire and pretty much fell in love with it. (i actually dreamt about it, woke up the next day thinking about it, and wanted to download a bootleg version to watch again immediately. true love.)
had dinner at cuba libre in center city philly, where the food was quite good but the rum was so much better.
drove up to queens to see jars of clay performing in a christmas concert at an evangelical church. it was a very mushy experience. the lead singer’s voice was so soothing that i nearly fell asleep. that was kinda nice, actually – someone should always sing me to sleep.
on sunday my brothers & i threw my little sister roweena a 12th birthday party at the local bowling alley. her original idea was an outdoor skating rink, but ice & snow & rain that day were not going to be conducive to a stress-free experience for all involved, considering the involvement of accident-prone 12-year-old girls…
had dinner with aunt & cousins that night – lots of tasty arabic food, because our cuisine just rocks. and then all of us crammed into one tiny photo.
somewhere in there, i checked my grades and found that i definitely passed ‘clinical prevention medicine’ but ‘biochemical basis of nutrition’ is still up in the air. ooh, the suspense.
post-exams, i spent a good deal of time planning for a surgery (bunionectomy) that i ended up canceling today. i saw multiple doctors, had 2 EKGs and an echo, history, physical, bloodwork, urine culture, allll kinds of stuff. turns out i’m OK (uh, medically). but i eventually realized that i’m totally rushing this foot surgery thing, it’s not that severe, and it can wait until a later time in my life when i don’t have to study for exams and i can get a six-week medical leave to sit at home and prop my feet up (well, hypothetically that’ll happen).
now it’s christmas eve. i did most of my shopping online last week, and finally finished buying gifts for everyone this morning – got the last-minute stuff at macy’s, which was a place for crazy people today. thank god they actually had, you know, anything left. and i didn’t slip on the ice – bonus points!
i’m supposed to be studying pathology, because i didn’t do so well on the first exam, and it’s kinda an important subject for the boards / med school / life.
instead i am playing on the internets.
who knew when i first started using it that google reader would be my downfall? if only for the fact that once i get started reading posts (lifehacker, especially!) i click on one link, then another, then i subscribe to another blog because “that guy who wrote that article on wired.com is so funny!” and soon i’m drowning in blogs and news and celebrity gossip.
the only thing i check more often is twitter and, of course, my email. i try to limit my flickr use to posting photos, and my facebook use to, uh, reading stuff that other people post… but that’s enough to waste countless hours, now isn’t it.
i’ve read (mythical?) stories of “internet fasts.” how do people DO that, exactly?
in the epic words of coldplay: wish you a cracking christmas and a tip-top 2009.
cheers.
