I picked up the chart for my patient today and his last name jumped out at me. "H...," I said to my colleague; "I dated a guy in high school with the same last name." I set up the lab bench and went back to [colleague]'s area to get some supplies. "The H... I knew ended up being a jerk, so I'm glad that this guy has a different first name," I told him. He half-smiled and said, "yea, I could kinda tell that there was something there by the way you said 'H...' "
The funny thing is, I hadn't realized that I'd put any kind of inflection on the surname when I spoke it. I think its strange that people who you knew way back when can still evoke an emotional response when you think of them. I've read that people who move around a lot equate "home" with a set of personal relationships, and not a physical location. Is that why thinking of old contacts elicits such a strong emotional reaction for me?
I suppose that I'm thinking about "old friends" more than usual lately because I have recently come into re-contact with a couple, thanks to the power of the world wide web. [[Shout-outs to Jeni and Brian. Woop! Woop!!]]
That ol' Memory Lane sure is a wacky road!
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
The siren made me do it!
This uplifting ditty greeted me from the side of my morning cup of java:
Let go your sorrow.
Let go your blues.
Cuz I know tomorrow
is yesterday's news.
Let go your sadness,
give up the fight,
follow your madness
and take flight ... take flight.
Believe me, you crazy little siren, the world is not ready for me to follow my madness!
Let go your sorrow.
Let go your blues.
Cuz I know tomorrow
is yesterday's news.
Let go your sadness,
give up the fight,
follow your madness
and take flight ... take flight.
Believe me, you crazy little siren, the world is not ready for me to follow my madness!
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Resigned: An *almost* Haiku
You may tow my car
But you will never take...
... oh hell, here's $80. Can I have my car back now?
But you will never take...
... oh hell, here's $80. Can I have my car back now?
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Friday, November 25, 2005
News
Happy birth day Delaney! 11-20-05
I drank too much caffeine last night (... which is why I'm posting at 6am)
Blogger ate the rest of my "101 things" list, so now I have to rewrite it. Grrrr!
The DC area had its first snow a couple nights ago. It was pretty enough. Plus, it was all gone by the next morning, which was the best part about it.
I'm in the middle of two books, and about to begin a third - none of which are listed in my "Books I'm Reading" sidebar.
I had tremendous good fortune in locating and purchasing a meat thermometer yesterday at the height of the "dammit, I forgot the ___" Thanksgiving grocery store rush. I guess sometimes good things do happen to bad people!
My new favorite product is Bare Minerals face powder.
Happy Black Friday!
I drank too much caffeine last night (... which is why I'm posting at 6am)
Blogger ate the rest of my "101 things" list, so now I have to rewrite it. Grrrr!
The DC area had its first snow a couple nights ago. It was pretty enough. Plus, it was all gone by the next morning, which was the best part about it.
I'm in the middle of two books, and about to begin a third - none of which are listed in my "Books I'm Reading" sidebar.
I had tremendous good fortune in locating and purchasing a meat thermometer yesterday at the height of the "dammit, I forgot the ___" Thanksgiving grocery store rush. I guess sometimes good things do happen to bad people!
My new favorite product is Bare Minerals face powder.
Happy Black Friday!
Saturday, November 19, 2005
101 Things, Part I
The first installment of 101 insights into myself. (So divided because I'm afraid no one can really handle all that Marisa all at once...)
** I work with sperm cells.
** My high school graduation ceremony was held in front of the Giza Pyramids in Egypt.
** I love that I was raised moving all around overseas.
** I danced in a hula show.
** I've had to be rescued from a pool twice - once by a lifeguard and once by my fully-clothed mother.
** I worked as a lifeguard and a swim coach. The only kid I ever "saved" was a boy who got smacked in the face with a water polo ball. He got a bloody nose and freaked out. He was even in the shallow end.
** I came 13th in backstroke at the ISST Swim Championships in Brussels, Belgium.
** I met Dan Quayle when I was young and impressionable. Instead of just shaking his hand, I gave him a hug. He picked me up and put my on his shoulder.
** I played "I'll show you mine if you'll show my yours" with Dexter. He went first and I thought it was ugly so I ran away without fulfilling my end of the bargain. (Turns out it was just uncircumcised.)
** I have the perfect grandma. Her house smells like cookies and good food. She keeps a blanket on the back of the couch and back issues of Reader's Digest on the coffee table.
** I am a candle nazi.
** In my opinion, reality TV has never never surpassed the initial drama of Temptation Island.
** I had surgery in March. The resident anesthesiologist was really, really, really hot. Really. I hope I didn't say anything to that effect when I was drugged up.
** The hottest guy I have ever seen was a firefighter responding to an alarm in my lab in full SCBA gear.
** I jumped into the Red Sea at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve 1993 and again in 1994.
** I am most at peace when I am by or in a body of water.
** Whenever I hear the word "spelunking", I think about the time at the beach that I was jumping up and down excitedly and I knocked my Dad's contact out of his eye.
** I had a crush on Nick P. in 9th grade, and I actually felt a little bad when I beat him in one of the tournaments at the Guatemala Arts Festival that year. I knew he wanted to win, and I'd have settled for second place.
** I'm a giver.
** I developed a crush on almost all of my middle and high school science teachers.
** ...Except for Mr. Cundiff. I hated that bastard!
** I have a chronic and weird condition, Erythema nodosum, in which I develop red nodes of inflammation on the fronts of my calves. My first outbreak was in middle school, and ever since then, a few will spontaneously appear and disappear every now and then.
** I wore braces for three years. I think I still have my retainers in a box in the attic.
** When I babysat for Genny, her mother dropped me off at my dorm and said "I'm sorry, I forgot your money on the table." When I said, "that's OK," (thinking I could just swing by and pick it up later) she thought I meant that's OK, you don't have to pay me. I didn't correct her.
** The first cassette tape I bought myself was Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. The first VHS was Undercover Blues.
** I work with sperm cells.
** My high school graduation ceremony was held in front of the Giza Pyramids in Egypt.
** I love that I was raised moving all around overseas.
** I danced in a hula show.
** I've had to be rescued from a pool twice - once by a lifeguard and once by my fully-clothed mother.
** I worked as a lifeguard and a swim coach. The only kid I ever "saved" was a boy who got smacked in the face with a water polo ball. He got a bloody nose and freaked out. He was even in the shallow end.
** I came 13th in backstroke at the ISST Swim Championships in Brussels, Belgium.
** I met Dan Quayle when I was young and impressionable. Instead of just shaking his hand, I gave him a hug. He picked me up and put my on his shoulder.
** I played "I'll show you mine if you'll show my yours" with Dexter. He went first and I thought it was ugly so I ran away without fulfilling my end of the bargain. (Turns out it was just uncircumcised.)
** I have the perfect grandma. Her house smells like cookies and good food. She keeps a blanket on the back of the couch and back issues of Reader's Digest on the coffee table.
** I am a candle nazi.
** In my opinion, reality TV has never never surpassed the initial drama of Temptation Island.
** I had surgery in March. The resident anesthesiologist was really, really, really hot. Really. I hope I didn't say anything to that effect when I was drugged up.
** The hottest guy I have ever seen was a firefighter responding to an alarm in my lab in full SCBA gear.
** I jumped into the Red Sea at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve 1993 and again in 1994.
** I am most at peace when I am by or in a body of water.
** Whenever I hear the word "spelunking", I think about the time at the beach that I was jumping up and down excitedly and I knocked my Dad's contact out of his eye.
** I had a crush on Nick P. in 9th grade, and I actually felt a little bad when I beat him in one of the tournaments at the Guatemala Arts Festival that year. I knew he wanted to win, and I'd have settled for second place.
** I'm a giver.
** I developed a crush on almost all of my middle and high school science teachers.
** ...Except for Mr. Cundiff. I hated that bastard!
** I have a chronic and weird condition, Erythema nodosum, in which I develop red nodes of inflammation on the fronts of my calves. My first outbreak was in middle school, and ever since then, a few will spontaneously appear and disappear every now and then.
** I wore braces for three years. I think I still have my retainers in a box in the attic.
** When I babysat for Genny, her mother dropped me off at my dorm and said "I'm sorry, I forgot your money on the table." When I said, "that's OK," (thinking I could just swing by and pick it up later) she thought I meant that's OK, you don't have to pay me. I didn't correct her.
** The first cassette tape I bought myself was Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. The first VHS was Undercover Blues.
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