Archive for May, 2007

HELP! I’M OUT OF COFFEE AND GOING TO THE STORE WOULD MEAN GETTING OUT OF MY PAJAMAS.

Writer: n. one who writes.
Author: n. one who writes books.
Novelist: n. a semiautonomous, finicky machine used to distill an exact mixture of coffee, toast, tea, heartbreak, triumph, wine, whisky, companionship, solitude, and ergonomic keyboards into fictional works longer that 6 x 10^4 words. If the input of coffee, toast, tea, etc. is out of [...]

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SMS 2nd Look = Science Camp on steroids + EtOH + Partial Nudity

So after one gets into a medical school, said school invites one back for a weekend to win one’s heart away from competing wooers. Such weekends are called “second look” weekends or “revisit” weekends.
Stanford’s revisit was this past weekend and I’m still recovering. In my case, no wooing was needed; I was already convinced that [...]

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