Right Now

I’ve taken a suggestion from some of my favorite bloggers and added a dynamic Now page in lieu of a long-winded description of my life. I include a picture from our current or most recent escapades for good measure– see above.

Professional

Back on service as an intern while the current first years prepare for the USMLE Step One exam, for which they get six weeks. I worked 89 hours last week, which actually isn’t too bad. Obviously I don’t have time to write much more than this.

Reading

Senlin Ascends, by Tobias Bancroft. Essentially a historical view of a world where the Tower of Babel prospered and became, at least superficially, the world’s center of commerce, innovation, and curiosity. Bancroft, previously a poet, appropriately serves up tremendously melodic prose and a startlingly accurate allegory to the costs of greed and naivete with a fast-paced story with engrossing characters. I would recommend it to any fiction lover who wants an escape and a new perspective of humanity at its best and worst.

Drinking

Hospital coffee. I think it’s the same roast they serve in one of the superficial levels of hell. If I were writing Dante’s Inferno right now, Fireball would probably be in purgatory’s waiting room, dishwater from a dive bar would be the only refreshment available in the next, and hospital coffee would follow shortly thereafter.

Current Project

Well, I’m back working as an intern and being on call every fourth night. In oral surgery circles, where we don’t have enough residents for a night float, that means going in to work one day around 5:30 in the morning and not leaving until evening on the next day. No time for projects–just trying to stay afloat!