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August 8th, 2009
11:49 pm - Annual Update
I live in Ohio
I am married
I am a resident physician
I work at the Ohio State University Medical Center
I helped take over The Jeffrey
My dog is named Ernie Banks
Its been a long time since I was on here. Hello world!
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June 4th, 2008
12:22 am - my first fuck you to Apple Computers
my lady just bought a shiny new MacBook and I was excited because it comes with Leopard but SURPRISE! I cannot install it on my computer without using some genius .RAR move that sounds quite technical and likely to fail for me so I am stuck with Tiger. Hey Apple, I just bought a 1300 dollar computer... can I use the $100 software on the old 1800 dollar model I bought 2 years ago? No?!! Oh, you want another $100 dollars. I see. Well nice talking to you.
Current Mood:  annoyed as balls
Current Music: all deleted for the big install...that failed.
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May 19th, 2008
11:29 pm - Jukebox the Ghost - Good Day Lyrics
To a street where we can be
Bodily free
And they would come in droves
Wearing their hearts on their sleeves
But Oh!
How good it felt to have em warm
Just like they should
But everybody here wants to know...
Did everybody say what a good day that it was for
Everybdoy who said what a good day that it was
Did they smile cuz they like it?
Did they smile cuz they like a good day?
Wha-oh
Suddenly we all got young
Running circles around ourselves just for fun
How good it felt to be young, in love and feel it in our bones
And everybody here wants to know...
(chorus)
Wha-oh
(chorus)
Wha-oh-oh
We go there when we're in trouble
We got old, and old age made us
You and I
Are alone
That it felt like this we were never told
That it felt like this we were never told
And it scares us bad so we'll have to be bold
But there's still one thing that we need to know
(chorus)
(chorus)
WHA OH
(chorus)
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Current Music: Jukebox the Ghost: Hold It In
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December 1st, 2007
08:37 am - my love for a fictional world writ wrandom
Hey! Listen! Grumble, Grumble... spectacle rock and the kid who gets kicked by his friend in the dark world, first a rabbit and then a warrior, a kooky bat who tries to take me out but instead doubles my magic, a water palace of maddening levels, golden spiders of the curse hiding every which way, the clock running down in clock town, i journey to level 8 and find the magic book but with no wand, i make no fire. surely bouncing vampires and hershey kisses will not aid ganon in his quest, gerudo though he be, and malon works so hard for her horses and embarassing that fat prick on his horse is a day of glory, but if i have to push the ice block in palace 5 through the hole the right way it may be the end of me, or the end is near, ganon returns each time a rat with a boomerang or a pit of lava consumes my side scrolling squire of hyrule, down and to the right for the hammer, fear not, and pieces of heart and whole heart containers lie about strewn for any willing soul to collect, must i push rocks and hit switches and play songs and burn bushes and bomb trees for all my days or will that princess finally be saved, in this kingdom or another, for all time, from the hog nosed thieving brute who holds the power that will always bow to my courage and the delightful wisdom of my betrothed, with a silver arrow of light i say gone with thee.
Current Mood: legend of adventure of majora's ocarina to the past
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October 24th, 2007
04:28 am - ridiculous
terrorism is evil. killing innocent people is evil. and of course, despite being a tactic used by righteous groups in history, it is not righteous. it should be repudiated. but it's primary objective is to stop people from living free lives and to trigger fear that gives the enemy control over the trajectory of the victim.
driving cars is a dangerous way to travel, killing more people in the US than any other activity. very dangerous. but it makes the economy hum and travel possible for people (it has lots of negative side effects aside from crashes of course). so we keep it going. we try to make it safer and less deadly and limit the negative effects.
i wish our government and our media and our "leaders" could take this same rational approach. we want to live in a free society. we want to protect our freedom, our privacy and our way of life. we should of course try to investigate and stop terrorist attacks, much like we set speed limits and put safety belts in cars. but we don't want to destroy our way of life to "win."
we don't win on car safety when all cars stop driving. we don't win on terrorism when we are uninformed, spying on each other, and attacking blindly anyone who is brown or islamic. be smart for the love of fuck. it makes me crazy.
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August 27th, 2007
09:29 pm - USA
oh my gosh i found the queen of england! oh my gosh oh my gosh!
i hear sometimes how the surge is working in iraq. let me tell you i have my doubts because the surgery is not working for i, mike. it sucks. i wake up super early, enter a dreamlike trance for hours at a time in a tiny workroom stifled with dull sounds, stale air and a lack of cheer, mirth, frankincense and myrrh. i dont like being in the operating room that much either. all of it seems tedious and long and there are only tiny pinpricks of light that include talking to other human beings about the plight now that we have surgically repaired their bodies.
i have a nu apartment with meg and its pretty nice. we got a big ol TV for 40 bucks a month until 2010 that is beautiful and HD and plays all of my movies big time and also will play my macbook once i get my DVI cable.
other than that, not much is brewing over here. funny how a 70 hour a week job can soak up your fuckin free time, isnt it? the bdog gets married this weekend and i am going as the silver surfer, complete with pockets full of silver dollars and nickel plated nine millimeters. word.
also, come over on sep. 8th for fraternite and liberte!
Current Mood: slow
Current Music: moonbabies
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June 1st, 2007
02:26 am - dancing in heaven, i never thought, i'd ever get my feet this far
ORBITAL BE-BOP.
Hello friends and lovers and compatriots, purveyors of fine goods, and service people of all stripes/spots/polyester-blends. How are you?
I completed (hopefully passed) the first step of the USMLE sanctioned grueling beat down known affectionately as "the boards." There were lots of questions, I knew some of them, I didn't know many of them, and I guessed right on a few which felt good. This will probably be the first test where I get more than a hundred questions wrong. Thank my lucky stars there were 350 questions to answer, so that 100 wrong is still a good score.
The last few days have been wonderfully relaxing. I had a bottle of Nigiri sake and 40 pieces of nori for dinner. I watched the Good German (a wonderful little homage to Casablanca), and also the movie Venus (which is tender and affecting, funny and adorable). I played golf and I was pleased with my consistency. I only had one 8 (it's a par 3 course) and that was because I put two balls in the deep woods. When I put a shot in the woods, my next tee shot was on the green and two put, so I turned out some 5s after spraying a bad tee shot. Nice. I even had a pair of 3s, for a total of 43 (par 28). Good times.
I also finished a long and wonderful journey called "The Wizard of the Crow", a novel by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. At 765 pages, it is the longest single work of fiction I have read aside from the Fountainhead, which I think was a shade under 800. It was funny and tragic and surreal (like Murakami), I liked the political side of it. It reminded me of a Murakami take on "The King of Scotland" meets "1984". At five months of reading, it also took me longer than any fiction I have ever read.
In 4 short hours I am on a flight to San Francisco. Should be wonderful. I plan on finishing the new Chuck Palahniuk book ("Rant") and also the new Doug Hofstadter ("I Am A Strange Loop"). I love books and beautiful cities. It will be nice to see Peter and Lucas and Julie and to walk around one of my favorite cities in the world. I also get to see a Red Sox-Athletics game. My first baseball game as a boy was an A's-Brewers game in 1985.
Anyway, I wish you well if you read this, and keep your fingers crossed that I did decently on the test and that the love of my life does the same (or better).
Adios,
Monfrer
Current Location: space-time
Current Mood:  relieved
Current Music: corinne bailey - put your records on
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May 27th, 2007
08:42 pm - testing blows
i was thinking today how great robots are. for two reasons:
one: if we design a robot, than we can have some control of how to fix it when it breaks. unlike human bodies, which are beautiful, efficient and great but also complex and messy and prone to failure. while they have modular function and modular development, they are not hypermodular, like a computer, where you can remove and put things in easily. robots would be.
two: robots or artificial intelligence could do a better job evaluating knowledge than standardized testing, because you could find out how much people know through means other than random, multiple choice questions. (p.s. i hate when teachers call it "multiple guess"). like, an AI doctor could ask you questions and then when you explain your logic, they could award you partial credit instead of 0 or 1. I suppose the partial credit adds and subtracts up over time to have a null effect, but whatever. Also, the USMLE Step 1 is horrifying and scary and i hate it and i am stressed out for the first time in my life and it sucks.
love,
mike
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May 25th, 2007
10:47 am - owl's eye cells, sterile cystitis and numerous clusters of differentiation
learning is going well. i have already learned about heart, lungs, kidney, musculoskeletal, skin, endocrine, gastrointestinal, psychiatry, and fetology. today i learn more about hematology and oncology and then neuroscience. tomorrow i review microbiology and antimicrobial drugs. sunday and monday i test, test, test and review major correlations. i am filled with a deep and wonderful sense of terror and excitement that can best be described as foreboding.
following the exam tuesday i will imbibe some beers, watch some movies, and pass out and let my brain rest. i fall asleep, dream, and wake up with factoids, disease processes and buzzwords in my head. it reminds me of murph, who said he would dream that he was studying. i do the same. scary.
i am nervous that i might be the guy who doesn't study enough, makes dumb mistakes, and gets a 187 or a 192 and looks bad applying to residency. i hope i am the guy that learns enough, thinks hard, picks up on detail, and gets a 225. please offer advice if you have any.
Current Mood: forbidden faun
Current Music: we make thunder - bombs in NYC
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May 14th, 2007
03:51 pm - is this really happening? or a dream?
let me tell you how great USMLE Step 1 looks. Awesome! In fact, it inspires me to conjure up a more ridiculous test. First it will be written in 4 or 5 different languages. The subject matter will include fashion, rocks and minerals, woodworking, shipbuilding and deep sea wildlife, as well as some less significant topics like 15th century whaling, Biblical characters of middling importance, and the greater workings of mid-level management at the Target corporation.
When you do well on the exam, you get to be a doctor! My exam will prepare you for a career in either internecine shirtmaking or unicellular protozoan energy acquisition research.
Enjoy!
Current Mood: qbank'd
Current Music: not at the library...
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