I dislike these, so I am firmly boycotting this essay! Live conversation or bust...

Sometimes it feels as if I am wandering aimlessly. However, the direction in which I am going is medical school. I hesitate to say medicine because I am quickly learning that there are so many steps in this process that one is likely to stumble at any one of them. Don't be confused, I am not doubting myself; rather, I am simply impressed by Life's uncanny ability to suddenly pull a 180.

Figuring out my zebras don't get ulcers, proselytizing Webster to introduce new colloquialisms on a yearly basis, hand crafting small plastic polar bears that defecate root beer jelly beans and/or rabeprazole sodium (whatever suits your needs), walking on water, saving small children from burning buildings, and, of course, scaling K2 with one arm tied behind my back.

Engaged in conversation where smiles ensue

Into the Wild, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Science Lessons: What the Business of BioTech Taught Me About Management, Slaughterhouse Five, Animal Farm, Survival of the Sickest, The D.O.'s, The Terminal Man, Where the Wild Things Are, anything by Roald Dahl or Shell Silverstein :)

Shawshank Redemption...i just realized i like a lot of movies and that I don't feel like writing them all. I also just realized that in writing this I could have just as easily written what movies I like. Too late to turn back now. I like a lot of movies...

Literally everything but COUNTRY! (50/50 on opera, it really just depends)

We are one of the few animals on this earth that has a seemingly unlimited food supply (provided that you are in a 1st world country)and the ability to enjoy a wide range of flavors, so..."I say we should live to eat and not eat to live."

Interestingly enough I don't need air, food, or water...however, what I do need, first and foremost, is to laugh. I need to learn something new everyday (otherwise, what the hell is the point), I need human contact, knowing that my existence makes a difference in the lives of others, meeting new people/perspectives (not that I necessarily adopt either p's), and of course, who the hell could live without pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanocon!

Ways to make this world a better place...seriously.

Studying, wishing I was out or Out and feeling guilty about not studying :?

Usually reading, watching a crummy but strangely captivating T.V. show on my pc, or randomly going out to the mission to have random conversations with random people.

I am currently in Palm Coast Florida (non-profit work), but I will be back in SF in a few months :)

1. you haven't abandoned books because they haven't been assigned to you.
2. you haven't consciously relegated yourself to a sisyphean sex life.
3. you possess life skills championing more than simply toasting bread,
boiling water, or wiping your own ass.
4. you have a sense of humor that rivals Louis C.K. and/or have feelings that
are impervious to sticks & stones.
5. you can speak in Movie, a rare English dialect.