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viva la gloria

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“say your prayers and light a fire,
we’re going to start a war
your slogans a gun for hire
it’s what we waited for…”

buster was running around the living room like a crazy person…the center of his plush green frog was moments away from being freed from its fuzzy prison when the phone rang…


HER: hello, can i speak to mr. or mrs. garcia?

Me: I’m sorry, I think you’ve dialed the wrong number; there’s no one here by that name.

HER: oh, well, my name is Rose and I am sorry for the inconvenience…um…but i’m trying to reach a catholic home…have I reached a catholic household?

Me: no, you’ve reached an atheist household…what is it I can do for you?

HER: oh my…well i will update our records and not bother you again…would you like to hear what the catholic church means to me and what it can do for you?

Me: no ma’am…would you like to hear what living the waking life has meant to me and how it can help you?

HER: i don’t think so.

Me: ok then please take my number of your call list and we’ll say goodbye as friends

HER: that sounds like it would be best.

and this my little snowflakes is how we change the world…

Archives Redux :: Effective Study Techniques

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so February 2007 is considered by many as the golden-age of this blog. myspace was ridiculously popular at the time but when you wanted something more than animated gif’s and obnoxious profile music, you turned to the blog.

…and those were glorious times.

today’s archive redux is from Feb 1 2007…BusterTheDog was a homework-hungry-puppy and i was living the waking life in redlands, ca. finding this post made me smile and i hope it finds you with the same.

:: Originally Published February 1st, 2007 ::

Effective Study Techniques

Tuesday was my biostats midterm (yawn) and a few hours before the test, Buster decided to help me w/ a rather difficult lecture.

down

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so we had a big test today; questions were asked, answers were given. i could make percentage-predictions but that would make for a boring blog post.

i live for days like today.

i study like a crazy person for test day; test day is show time; test day matters.

i love spending my time doing things that matter.

the hardest part of test day comes hours after the test is over; coming down from the high of show time is the hardest part. i think most people have it backwards…we med students don’t need help getting up for an exam we need help coming down.

our natural state is one of engagement, competition…wanting our best to stand out amongst everyone else’s best.

fortunately the quest to quiet our minds doesn’t last long; tomorrow brings new lectures, new material and an appointment for our next show.

A New Years Message

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…we must condemn the madness of theism in all its forms, regardless of those wanting to make peace with that societal cancer. Such poison must go, else human advancement will be throttled before the potential that burgeoning technologies offer can be realized. We make our own destinies, and if the stars are to be ours, devotion to deities must be left in the playpen of primitive societies and those who cling to that delusion must be outlawed from participation in civilization global and beyond—if we desire as a species to make it that far. –Magus Peter H. Gilmore

Keurig Madness

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The pretty girl has made sure that coffee is never more than 60s away from my sleep-deprived-med-school-face. also, it has shiny-blue-LEDs which makes me feel like i’m that much closer to living in the startrek universe.

she’s a keeper.

today redux

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o i live an amazing life filled with people i love who love me right back.

still, some days are better than others and for the first time since december 19th, 2006 i’m celebrating life-changing-professional-awesomeness.

it’s been a long 3.5 years, but i’m still here and the universe has relented.

“Today”
Originally Posted 12/19/2006

both professionally and personally, today is one of the best days of my life. more details to follow, until then celebrate w/ me and enjoy ‘today’

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don’t breed–blog

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so today while i was busy at work…researching important medical research, writing important medical writings and medicalling important medicals, our department’s lab tech asked me about an experiment we had worked on back in 2005.

“you mean the 2005 that happened 5 years ago?” I asked.

it turns out that the records of this particular experiment were lost in a freak windows-pc-computer-meltdown-blue-screen-of-hell-fuckup.

after a few minutes of trying to resolve the missing dates in my head, i fired up the blog. a few minutes later, i was able to fill her in on the details of the missing timeline thanks to the archives and flickr’s photostream. had i blogged about the experiment? no. but i had posted about events orbiting the periphery of my “real” life and that was enough to put two and two together.

this is the closest my blog/flickrstream has come to serving a real-life-purpose.

so all day i’ve been thinking that the highlights of my life for the past SIX years are chronicled online and reside peacefully in the digital-ether.

that’s why we’re all doing this digital-presence-stuff, right?

the more i share the closer i get to living forever. in a sense, i’m passing on my experiences to the world with each seemingly-irrelevant twitter update, each mal-focused flickr post and even this very blog entry.

indeed, i’m satisfying my evolutionarily-programmed-need to reproduce each time i click “post“.

who needs offspring when you’ve got the internet? i’m officially calling for a new campaign to end overpopulation and unnecessary pregnancies:

“don’t breed—blog”

so why do you do all of this?

blessed to be a witness (she woke up first)

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so this weekend the pretty girl and i woke up bright and early b/c the gym gets crowded if you’re not there before 9am.

she woke up first. before i knew it she was dressed and ready to kill that damn elliptical machine—and she did.

i staggered behind with grumbling-contempt; anything less would have been out of character.

walking out of the bathroom—toothbrush in mouth—i saw buster peaking out from under the covers.

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content to only catch a peek of the nonsense going on so early on a saturday morning, he would wait for the clang of his food bowl and rattle of the can opener to commit to an early morning wake-up call.

these two are what make my life such an amazing place and when they do the things that are simply “them” i feel the most at home.

there were so many times this weekend that i would look over at her and find myself needing to catch my breath; sitting on the couch, hair twirling around her finger, buster safe-and-warm in her lap.

this is my waking life and i have no idea what i’ve done to be so damn lucky.

dust in the wind (keep on truckin’)

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so on saturday night, i met up with my buddy nick b/c he’s decided that life in socal has gotten boring and so he’s headed to the mid-west where he will—undoubtedly—become wildly successful and that’s good because if there’s one thing i’m good at it’s having friends who do an amazing job at life.

so we met up on saturday evening and hung out until we were good-and-ready to go home and roamed from joint-to-joint, remembering good times along the way.

apparently, word had gotten out that it was nick’s last night in socal, b/c downtown redlands was in the celebratory mood and they did not disappoint.

to make the night extra-special-awesome, i brought along the iPad and whenever anyone would come up to take a look at it, nick would say, “yeah and it’s a phone too!”  i would then proceed to hold the giant iPod Touch to my giant iJeff Head and hilarity ensued. i’m sure more than a few of the people who saw me holding that giant thing up against my face were convinced that it was indeed the biggest-fuck-phone they’d ever seen…and they loved it.
they LOVED it.

socal will miss you, nick, and so, i want to tell you…just…just…keep on truckin’

33 or bust!

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so today is brandon’s birthday and best efforts were made to celebrate even though he’s not the most eager of subjects.

this is concerning.

most of my life is spent working towards some sort of celebration. brandon on the other hand avoids even the most obvious of excuses to celebrate his face.

ok.

nonetheless, we made best efforts and imbibed on drinks on his behalf.

happy birthday, brandon, we’re brothers and i love ya.

2011 or bust!

my wish for us on easter sunday

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you’ve seen this before, but easter sunday is the perfect excuse to put today’s nonsense into perspective:

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my easter wish is that mine is the final generation that makes an easter wish.

UPDATE: the text reads: “christianity: the belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you smybolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree….Yeah…Makes perfect sense.”

because it’s new (a modern high)

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the strategy i employ when cleaning my apartment is seriously lacking.

i blame this on the fact that i can never seem to focus on the apartment as a “whole” and instead get laser-kungfu-grip-focus on making one part of my abode amazing.

this past weekend, my bedroom closet took the brunt end of my attention.

when all was said and done, my clothes were organized by 1) type 2) color and 3)level-of-dressiness; even i saw the dysfunction in that level of organization. after some modification, i’ve lost my hangup over “color” b/c it was driving me bat-nuts deciding where to place conflicting hues, etc. instead, i am falling back on type & level of dressiness as my go-to system.

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throw in “evenly-distriubted-pinky-finger-hanger-spacing” and you’ve got yourself a good looking closet that is both function AND not too over the top with all the neatness. (i was wise enough to standardize on a specific type/color/brand of hanger YEARS ago and never have to worry about mis-match plastic hangars. highly recommended)

oh, and for added effect, i cleared off everything that was on the top shelf bc that shit was driving my nuts. if you too are faced with an overflowing upper-closet-shelf, then take my advice and just give it all away. (you’d be surprised how little you miss any of it…seriously it’s up there just to fuck with you at night when you’re trying to get some goddamn sleep.)

now don’t we all feel much better?