-I must have been nuts, going to medical school. What was I thinking? I forgot one of my key cardinal flaws when I signed up: I'm the type of person who likes to be the smartest person around. Now I'm not even the smartest person in an empty classroom -- the extreme mental genius of other people in my class seems to remain after they've left, as a kind of psychic shadow.
-I'm a little too chill about how little I know about everything. I'm hoping that I'll be more motivated to learn things next year, when what I know or don't know actually has an impact on people. People other than me. I don't know why screwing MYSELF over isn't enough of an impetus to study.
-The computer room, where I've been spending most of my days lately, is a fun little mecca of studying and procrastination. People come and go, to and from food, the study room, the lounge, home, or other classrooms. The same faces tend to show up again and again. Right now, the popular procrastination tool is Facebook Scrabbulous games. I don't have this application as I don't trust these dodgy little Facebook accessories, but I know all about how it works. One of my classmates in particular tends to play it quite loudly, with the entire room, whether they want to participate or not: "Is GLIM a word? GLIM? Anyone? What do you think? Hm, I'll look it up in the dictionary. OH, it's NOT. That's too bad. Hm, how many points would it have gotten me? Oh, 15, that's not so great anyway. What else can I do...?"
Other things I've learned about and discussed while studying here in just the past day: the existence, organization, history, and ethical question of NAMBLA; Anne Geddes and the fact that her stuff is really kinda creepy; the 1993 Canadian federal election, particularly the infamous Conservative smear campaign focusing (allegedly) on Liberal leader Jean Chretien's facial nerve palsy; Wikipedia as the repository of all human knowledge; the fact that Rembrandt had stereo blindness. Ok, maybe not so much about genitourinary anatomy. But that's ok.
-I really want to make these cookies: Minty Chocolate Christmas Cookies. But I suspect that that's too much procrastination, even for me.
-I'm going to see Golden Compass tonight, so I'd better get back to studying.
-But not before I post this YouTube video, which is awesome:
Here you have the random thoughts of Isolde. Isolde is: -somewhat surprised at being a medical student -not going to let her right brain atrophy without a fight -living in an actual apartment for the first time -happily dating Answerboy -prone to ramble -a reader and a would-be writer -completely nonsensical sometimes -very glad you're here
