May 2013
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Foreign Words We Could Use in English →
nevver:
Kummerspeck (German) Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.
Shemomedjamo (Georgian) You know when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it?
Tartle (Scots) The nearly onomatopoeic word for that panicky hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you can’t quite remember.
Mamihlapinatapai...
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April 2013
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living at home
pet peeve: when people open my mail, or when they simply don’t give it to me and keep it on their desk with unpaid/unopened bills. wat
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March 2013
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The Not Quite Doctor: My Shaken Faith →
thenotquitedoctor:
I first heard my mom was sick on Monday afternoon. I had seen her the night before but nothing had been said. I was visiting on break from med school and I am sure she didn’t want to worry me. Five days earlier at a routine eye exam they had checked her blood pressure. It was 223/130, which is…
Some docs in my ER, after practicing for many years, become so immune to...
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February 2013
5 posts
Seeing an old friend
Friend: We weren't fighting last time we talked were we?
Even if we were, it's been so long... There's good things to be had in this new meeting together and I don't want to waste it
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“People will be really sick and people will die. And that’s okay as long as...”
– ER Physician on admitting patients to the hospital from the emergency department
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“I recognize your face but I don’t know where from… but I remember we had fun”
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“Either the sense of wonder leads them down an analytic path, or it leads them to...”
– On Doctoring, Melvin Konner (via lungpeiling)
January 2013
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hello, world.: The 100 Most Beautiful Words in... →
thelearningcurves:
The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English
Ailurophile A cat-lover. Assemblage A gathering. Becoming Attractive. Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks. Brood To think alone. Bucolic In a lovely rural setting. Bungalow A small, cozy cottage. Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye. Comely …
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Jury Duty
I draw and sketch in my jury duty notebook despite not being allowed to take a picture or keep it in anyway. They destroy all our legal notepads at the end of the trial. At least I’m drawing!
Hopefully they don’t go through them and wrongly interpret my largely disfigured scribble-portraits as a small act of rebellion and dislike towards the criminal defendant.
Also was bummed I...
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Artist: Michael Reedy →
He has extensively studied the figure and human anatomy, and combined these into surrealistic works in his later pieces. I’m floored by his talent. And I can’t believe an artist like this exists! It’s something I’ve always pictured in my head but could never get down on paper. If medical illustration falls through, I’ll pursue the fine arts like this and do whatever...
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December 2012
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دیگران را ببخش، نه به خاطر اینکه لایق بخششند، به...
kawakunii:
Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
hm…
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“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other...”
– Dalai Lama XIV (via kari-shma)
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Hmm. Apparently not kissing ass turns around and bites you in the ass.
November 2012
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Shrug. I say “yes” a lot though I’ve noticed that it’s easier to say “no” to people you don’t see everyday — people you’ve learned to live without.
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hello, world.: In Love or In Lost? →
theangrytherapist:
I think many believe love and a healthy relationship are intertwined. The stronger the love, the healthier the relationship. This is not true. The more you love someone doesn’t necessarily mean the healthier the relationship will be. They are interdependent. And…
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“Your gloves are paintbrushes and the bag is your canvas. I want to see a...”
– Coach
(via lungpeiling)
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Joyrides
I can’t even begin to describe how beautiful everything was about the past day and a half. The places, the weather, the people, the friendships. I was so happy my whole body smiled.
Tired, but happy.
You can be sad and happy at the same time.
October 2012
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to change days →
lungpeiling:
My dad announces to the family to get our jackets ready because come Monday, it was going to “變天“ Those words literally mean “To change days”
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“Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it...”
– Robert Brault (via jinsei)
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“不管手上有好或壞牌，還是要玩
It doesn’t matter if life gave you good or bad cards, you still...”
– my dad, on suicide (via lungpeiling)
August 2012
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Reunion
Cherishing each moment with them - each laugh, each hug. Each person there a part of my life for a reason.
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Afternoon nap
I am needing to assist this older, diva lady on a project of some sort. She is very concerned with her dancing and thinks I’m young, undedicated and incompetent. She really is a diva with large curly hair. I forget her ethnicity. A manager tries to alleviate the arguing; she is obviously on my side and thinks the diva is a little crazy. We look like we’re in the library of a community...
