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After I get out of my hamburger sheets and start my day, this is the car I plan to drive to work in...
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Between the buns
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Grown men can have hamburger bedding too. I will not rest until Chera lets me adorn my bed with this fantastic slice of heaven.
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Hitting the road
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I've hit the point where it is about time to start my externships. I'll be hitting the road to track down where I want to do my residency and where the fam damnly and I will park our behinds for the next 3 years after school. It's a big deal and I'm looking forward to it all. It'll mean leaving Chera and the kids behind for 5 months of the next year which will be tough (really tough) but it's a necessary evil to get where we want to go.
Our road map is different than we would have thought a few years ago - heck, even a year ago. But the good news is that we are going to all of the programs that we want to check out. There are a couple more I'd like to visit too but I'll have to make short trips later because they wouldn't fit in the schedule for this round.
So, here are the places that I'm going to be playing doctor for a month at a time next year (in the order I'm visiting them):
1. New Orleans, Louisiana
Our road map is different than we would have thought a few years ago - heck, even a year ago. But the good news is that we are going to all of the programs that we want to check out. There are a couple more I'd like to visit too but I'll have to make short trips later because they wouldn't fit in the schedule for this round.
So, here are the places that I'm going to be playing doctor for a month at a time next year (in the order I'm visiting them):
1. New Orleans, Louisiana
2. Kansas City, Missouri
3. Jacksonville, Florida
4. Albuquerque, New Mexico
5. Mountain Home, Tennessee
So, hopefully one of these places feels like home and I love the programs. The game all starts in March!
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The knitted brain
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Today is the first day I've ever considered taking up knitting and it's all thanks to this picture.
I can imagine myself sitting with a bunch of old bats talking about our hemorrhoids and adult diapers while we knit intricate models of the female reproductive system or lower limb vascular trees. It would be a hoot.
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Book Review: The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
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The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I had heard so much praise for this series prior to reading The Eye of the World that I'm not sure it was destined to be given a fair run. I had also read every positive and negative review about the book - from the masses of people claiming that Robert Jordan copied Tolkien to the other half that worship Jordan as the best writer that ever lived. The truth is, in the end I just simply didn't care enough to consider over 1000 pages worth of content worthy of taking up so much of my time. Sure, it was extremely well written and overall a pretty brilliant and entertaining novel. And on the other hand, it was definitely very similar to Lord of the Rings (although more readable/enjoyable, in my opinion).
So the problem for me is that in the time it would take me to finish the 12,000-odd pages in the Wheel of Time series, I could read 25-30 completely unique books of a variety of topics, many of which I would surely enjoy a great deal more. It's hard to commit myself to the idea of a series that I only half enjoyed when I consider the investment involved. With that in mind, it was an okay book but I certainly will not be reading any more of the series.
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The Eye of the World by Robert JordanMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I had heard so much praise for this series prior to reading The Eye of the World that I'm not sure it was destined to be given a fair run. I had also read every positive and negative review about the book - from the masses of people claiming that Robert Jordan copied Tolkien to the other half that worship Jordan as the best writer that ever lived. The truth is, in the end I just simply didn't care enough to consider over 1000 pages worth of content worthy of taking up so much of my time. Sure, it was extremely well written and overall a pretty brilliant and entertaining novel. And on the other hand, it was definitely very similar to Lord of the Rings (although more readable/enjoyable, in my opinion).
So the problem for me is that in the time it would take me to finish the 12,000-odd pages in the Wheel of Time series, I could read 25-30 completely unique books of a variety of topics, many of which I would surely enjoy a great deal more. It's hard to commit myself to the idea of a series that I only half enjoyed when I consider the investment involved. With that in mind, it was an okay book but I certainly will not be reading any more of the series.
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Book Review: Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
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Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I consider it a feat of masterful writing that Dennis Lehane was able to take a subject matter that I don't care about in the least (prohibition era gangsters) and turn it into a story that I couldn't put down. Dennis Lehane is, in my opinion, one of today's most brilliant authors.
Like all of his books, Live by Night was a very character-driven book and from the moment I started it I was sucked in. It's hard to imagine empathizing so strongly with a murderous mobster but Joe was so likable that I couldn't help but have my heart go out to him, even when he offed a rival or taught someone a lesson. This is a book about a hard life during a hard time and the brutal consequences of being a decent person in a dog-eat-dog organization.
While this is definitely not Lehane's best, it is a stunning work of literary excellence.
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Live by Night by Dennis LehaneMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I consider it a feat of masterful writing that Dennis Lehane was able to take a subject matter that I don't care about in the least (prohibition era gangsters) and turn it into a story that I couldn't put down. Dennis Lehane is, in my opinion, one of today's most brilliant authors.
Like all of his books, Live by Night was a very character-driven book and from the moment I started it I was sucked in. It's hard to imagine empathizing so strongly with a murderous mobster but Joe was so likable that I couldn't help but have my heart go out to him, even when he offed a rival or taught someone a lesson. This is a book about a hard life during a hard time and the brutal consequences of being a decent person in a dog-eat-dog organization.
While this is definitely not Lehane's best, it is a stunning work of literary excellence.
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