June 2012
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My eyesight recently took a sudden turn for the...
Evidence it’s not improving: today, one of the moms was holding up a tabloid in our waiting room and she said, “I can’t believe how thin she is now!” and I agreed that Beyonce bounced back incredibly.
It was a picture of Jessica Simpson.
May 2012
18 posts
I am terrible at human interaction.
Spot your doctor getting into your subway car. You know, the same doctor you’ve been to twice in the past 6 days for your rotting eyeball.
Turn around and hope he doesn’t notice you.
Turn up music so that if he says something, you can pretend not to hear it.
Get off subway at your stop, having successfully avoided interaction with said doctor.
Glance over shoulder while walking up...
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Things that just happened on NJTransit.
“Fuck you! I went to Harvard! I’m gonna barf.”
Texting my doctor symptom updates on a Saturday...
Is this a thing now?
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Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? →
This article gives a great perspective on the challenges faced by those studying youth & adolescent psychopathy. Can we call them psychopaths? Can we treat them and “cure” them? How do we deal with this population?
I wrote a pretty lengthy paper on this topic just a couple of years ago, and there was relatively little research to look through. I was consulting chapters in text...
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“Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy. No one of achievement has avoided...”
– President Barack Obama, in his commencement speech for Barnard 2012.
Contagious Disease Achievement Unlocked
I get to eat takeout and watch the POTUS give his commencement speech at my alma mater! And then Judge Judy! Contagious diseases never felt so good.
I miss my friend.
That is all.
April 2012
14 posts
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"I've had a rough week."
That’s what I keep telling people when they ask me why I look so miserable, or why I’m staring into space, or why I’m snapping at everyone, or why I’m crying into a cardboard cup of soup in the corner with the door closed.
The truth is that I don’t really want to talk about it. I feel weird saying anything to people. I feel even weirder writing about it on the...
“You just have to remember that you’re three to eight times smarter than...”
– My friend Sasha complimenting me.
“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect...”
– Anna Quindlen
(via nprfreshair)
I really like Anna Quindlen
(via eoporto)
Anna Quindlen is my giirrrlll.
“When we are too far away from a sublime event, the tingle subsides; overly near,...”
– Eric G. Wilson, “Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck”
Ian Axel - Say Something
Saw him perform this on...
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March 2012
20 posts
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Things That Just Happened on NJTransit
A girl applied hairspray. A lot of it.
Like, she’s still applying it.
Excuse me while I...uh...do some...research. →
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For those of you playing along at home
We last left off with me waiting by my Inbox, desperately hoping for something to pop up that said, “YAAAYY YOU GOT IN TO GRAD SCHOOL! YOU’RE AWESOME!”
Well, I still haven’t heard from the school. After a month of waiting, I emailed the department earlier this week to see if maybe my acceptance letter got stuck in the pipes that connect our interwebz.
I was told that if...