New Orleans!!!!!!

I had so much fun in New Orleans. There were hurricanes, flaming nipples and I slept in a tub one night. It was a blast, and I don't even think I can divulge all of the events in such a public place. Enjoy the photos I took though and the innuendo will follow.

Before we get to New Orleans pics, I took some before the trip. Here is my clinic!


This building is where I put in my long and grueling hours saving lives...and doing pap smears. After my particularly long and tiring morning Wednesday, I was enjoying that it was just a half day. While I was driving home, I decided to relax and enjoy my brain free time. That's when I saw the dairy queen!


This oasis in the sands of Pensacola meant sweet delicious treats for my belly so I had to stop and get an Oreo blizzard.


It was effing delicious! Even more enjoyable was the fact that this particular Dairy Queen is shockingly scenic. I decided to take my treat outside and enjoy the delightful view of the bay.


After my treat, I worked out, and life got better. Soon, I found myself ready for New Orleans. After I drove me and 4 of my classmates the 2 1/2 hours there, it was 6 o'clock, dark, and we were ready to party. After about ten of us got there, we started the preparty in the hotel. Everyone was excited.


Especially Monica.


We even had Marielle and Adnan to be our token leatherdaddies in our crew.


Shawen decided to make an appearance as we were getting ready to head out.


And off we were, TO BOURBON STREET!!!!


Casey and I shared our first drink of the night together, the infamous and amazing hand grenades. We did not know what we were in for.


I also made sure to get a picture of Casey with her boytoy, the best P-cola roomie that I could ever hope to have, Alex. He puts up with my snoring pretty well.


Alex and our NOLA expert Christian had to indulge in their Hopkins bromance by getting a pic too.


Then I ran into Shawen, drinking her hand grenade and looking as attractive as ever.


Shawen was chilling with her car buddy and our resident med school Sasquatch, Mike.


We then went to a karaoke bar where my rookies Elissa and Mary Kate had such a blast that MK was making the "hey girl hey!!" face on the dance floor.


All of our other med school peeps joined us and Jessica even busted it out on the stage. It was wild.


We then started scoping out new places to rage.


Niceville all-stars, Omar and Kara (his wife), were our tour guides.





Everyone was having an awesome time.


Especially Monica.


Eventually, we went on home to recover for the night.


In the morning Elissa, MK, and I started out on our quest.


Our quest for beignets!


The best beignets in New Orleans at CAFE DU MONDE!!!


We were joined there by the ever so popular Christian.


We couldn't wait for our delicious sugary treats.


I demolished mine.


MK reveled in her battle scars from victory over confections.


We then went back to the hotel to rest.


Then we invited guests over to figure out what we were gonna do that day. Also, Elissa tried to break my phone.


Eventually, we all went to Mango Mango for frozen drinks.


Keisen and Casey were happy with their selections.


We then wandered around some more before going out to dinner.


It was a shockingly long wait to get into the Acme oyster house.


People were pissed by the time we actually got to the front.


We then went back to the hotel to reconvene.





We then left to hit the town.


We went and saw some live blues. It was amazing.


After getting jazzed up, we decided to go get some drinks. Shawen was excited.


When we got to the club to dance, everyone was pumped and singing Gaga.


After we left the club, Keisen and I chilled in a lobby near the (sadly, closed for the night) pool.


After a long hard night though, we got ready and going with some more morning beignets. Christian, MK, and Elissa were there and we met up with Tahnie, Jessica, and Hamideh.








MK and I decided to go Asian for our picture.


We all look so happy cuz we're getting beignets.





MK once again wore the blood of the enemy, this time, on her face.


We then grouped it up in the lobby before leaving.


Monica was comfy.


Elissa had to yell at Keisen for waking her up.


Some people just can't handle NOLA.


As you can see, it was an awesome trip, and these are the tame moments!

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Pensacola and Doctoring!!!

The time has come, and I have arrived! P-cola town is mine for the taking. I drove up here this past Wednesday.


After 4 hours of being on the road, the sun decided it was time to come up and into my eyes. Luckily I managed to block the rays, but no doubt, at this point on the trip, I was out of it enough to think that taking pictures while driving was a good idea.


However, I arrived, got lost, then thanks to some google maps help from my dad, I found my delightfully quaint apartment and moved in. The living room is nice and the couches are comfy.


I actually took an hour out and did yoga today on the carpet. Of course, I opened the blinds to look out, on this beautiful day to see...the apartments next to our balcony, lol.


Here are some more pictures of our apartment.


Our nice dining room table where no one eats.


Our eerily overstocked kitchen.


My already dirtied room where I crash after my long days. I also share this room with my friend Alex. Well, we share it when I am not snoring that night (rare).


This is my closet where I noticed that I clearly brought too many clothes for two weeks, and if not that, I definitely brought too many belts.

I got to see my sister this Saturday, and I am so happy that I will get to see a lot more of her and her buds over the next weeks.

As far as doctoring goes, I've learned so much about so much and I don't even realize how much I still don't know. My doctor is really awesome and she is absolutely dedicated to making me ready to see (and even treat) my own patients. I'm really excited to see what else is to come.

Studying for doctoring this weekend though, I went to the mall. More specifically, I was at the Panera in the Cordova Mall studying LDL cholesterol medication guidelines. It was packed! There was barely room to breathe. People were aggressively scouting tables. It showed me that this holiday season may be just as ugly as seasons of old.


I did end up finding some nice ladies to watch my laptop. After I was done studying, I decided to go check out some of the stores and buy some Christmas presents. The following item that I found is not for the faint of heart.


Dear readers, I bring you, the fur-lined camo-Croc. I was stunned when I saw it. I would've bought them as a joke, but they're selling for $40. I ask you, what's wrong with America?!

I'm usually too tired from doctoring to picture and post, but definitely expect to see some photos from New Orleans next weekend.

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SAWZ for the lateness.

So in the line of me being terrible at blogging, I give you...the END OF THE SEMESTER. As such, I have been busy both celebrating and getting things in order for what is to come. Next up on the roster, Coster, is the pasta disasta...just kidding. (If you don't get the reference, you should. Ergo, watch THIS.) However, this upcoming week I have two days of orientation, one day of travel, and then I'm off to pretend to be a doctor! It should be fun and thrilling and I will definitely tell you more about it as it happens. The only downside should be that I don't take many pictures, and therefore will feel that I can only tell part of the story.

On a similar note, here are some pictures from a post-test party event. We went to a movie, and then meeting up after for dinner, I got greeted by John in Becca's doorway. Well, this is the sight I saw:


The event was altogether silly (as advertised, I presume). However, I ended up looking like this:


The visit got even more interesting as I entered Becca's kitchen to see:


Given the recent legal uproar, quality good old-fashioned Loko is difficult to find in these parts. For Christmas, Becca bought John 12 Loko Classics and there they were a lying in a row. It was a disgustingly glorious scene to behold.

That's it for now. Until my preceptorship folks!

Obligatory Weekly Post

The semester is over...kinda. As of 4:30p today, I have completed all of the lecture for Fall semester. Everything here on out is just reviews, tests, and then my extended doctor vacation (preceptorship).

In other news, I've been really sick recently, so I'm taking a break from doing anything non-essential, ergo blogging. Expect more updates soon with pictures.


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Slowing Down

The semester is winding down and people are starting to be more relaxed, but there is still a lot more to come before summer break is upon us. Although, seeing my friend Nik watch soccer games during class still makes me feel like I'm still more focused than some.


Relaxing before test time is still a priority for me though. The last two weekends, my friends John, Nick, and I went out to Lake Wauberg to go enjoy the natural air and kayaking. It has been so soothing for the soul. Weekends become so productive as I recharge with some fresh air and exercise at the beginning. I even felt so hippie-like from my nature time that I indulged in Krishna lunch. More aptly, I demolished Krishna lunch as there wasn't much left after I downed my second plate.


Obviously, I had to go with my resident hippies, Ashley (of the Berkley hippie stock) and Grant (of the UCF slacker clan).


Of course, John was also in attendance, but he spent all his time on the phone like a lame-o.


Well, study breaks can only last for so long. Back to the grind time starts now.

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Can I Have A Look at Your Genitals?

The time has come everyone! It is time to check out some penises and vaginas in the most legit of ways. As of last week, we have cadavers with flayed out bowels and visceral organs a plenty, but today just happened to be our last real dissection of the abdomen. Ergo, vis-a-vis, concordedly, we start on genitals tomorrow. We already got a preview of the testes over the past week where I found out a lot about my downstairs members-only club. Some highlights include that an individual testis has over three tissue layers called tunics, much like those worn by your friendly neighborhood LARPers. Although I sincerely doubt that their tunics would earn such a name as tunica vaginalis. In other news, I have started to look over the anatomy of the penis in more detail and I can't help but feel betrayed. For so long, I felt that I knew my penis and the more I learn, the more I feel like I have a stranger living in my jockey shorts. I'm sure this is just the start of it though as we have a lot more to learn about the various rides of the human sexual carnival.

As far as studying goes, I feel like I'm finally back on track and hitting my stride. Every day I feel productive, and while I may not be back to my Unit 1 feeling of being ahead, I'm definitely on par with my classmates. Hopefully there isn't too much more material left before the exam. I mean, there are only three weeks left. How much more material could there be? Haha.

Life-wise, I've recently contracted what I can best describe as some sort of transient bronchitis. My goal is to survive the sickness enough to avoid having a depressed immune system when winter flus start traveling around. Sadly, my love life seems to be floundering here in med school as everyone is so stressed with work, but I feel that if I just stay relaxed, be me, and have fun, things will work out for the best.

Time to get back to school and balls.


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Liver Boot Camp

Well, as you can probably guess, the weekend was wild. Saturday, I went to Stubbies and the Swamp to drink with some med school peeps, and then I finished the night by watching The Social Network with my friend Nik. Sunday, 5 classmates and I went to Halloween Horror Nights. It was my forefront going and it was really cool. Although, it taught me that I don't scare easily. I had far too much fun and need to get back to the daily grind. One problem, I told myself that my awesome Unit 2 performance earned me a week of no studying. Since the week is almost over, I can say with confidence that drinking and partying this much for this long has given my liver the workout of a lifetime. My tolerance has gone up so much in only a couple weeks of hearty med school partying. I just find myself feeling tired and ragged from all the festivities that it's become a good thing that I'm not trying to study. I can only imagine how hard it would be to learn stuff in this state. As is, the partying must go on. Friday is the big Halloween party that is being thrown by our social chairs, and I find myself now without a costume and without a clue for what to be. We'll see if I can manage to pull out another hit like Wet T-shirt Contest was last year.

Side note: the worst part of having this week as my party week is that this week is when we're learning about the function and dysfunction of the liver and how cirrhosis comes about. How ironic.

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