Keep movin'

Song of the Day: The Forgotten (Part 2) - Joe Satriani

Quote of the Day: "Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still." --Chinese proverb

Thought of the Day: Saw Joe Satriani on Friday night, this was time #3. He was awesome, and Sweewawa loved it! Can cross that one off the To Do list of life . . .

The Wards

Song of the Day: Love Thing - Joe Satriani

Quote of the Day: "A little better is a lot better than a little worse." --Dr. Kowawa

Thought of the Day: This thought just percolated its way to my lips this morning while I was talking to a patient about her condition and progress since yesterday. I think it's a keeper :)

Cheers, Dr. Kowawa

Sherlock Holmes

Song of the Day: Home - Joe Satriani

Quote of the Day: "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." --Confucius

Thought of the Day: Getting ready to start my Internal Medicine Acting Internship tomorrow -- will be a real challenge! One important thing I realized is that my last two months of Diagnostic Radiology and Radiation Oncology have been two of my most favorite months during medical school. While I did enjoy my IM 3rd year rotation, I do feel that I was happier and felt more comfortable in the company of Radiologists and Radiation Oncologists -- this for me represents an important indication that I've picked the right field. But nevertheless I'm still looking forward to a month of Internal Medicine, I think it's very intellectually fulfilling to wear the Internal Medicine Sherlock Holmes detective hat.

Cheers,

Dr. Kowawa

Obamallamadingdong

Song of the Day: Song of the Day: Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton -- this one goes out to my Sweewawa

Quote of the Day: "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." --Bill Cosby

Thought of the Day: If Obama can nail the debate tonight I think the race is settled. I'm still strongly considering a vote for the Democratic ticket this year, though I am a conservative, but am a little afraid that Obama will end up taxing us to oblivion.

Cheers, Dr. Kowawa

Skiing!

Song of the Day: One More Cup Of Coffee - Bob Dylan

Quote of the Day: "Waste not time; for that's the stuff that life is made of." --Benjamin Franklin

Thought of the Day: Over the weekend booked our ski vacation for this winter. We'll be skiing for 4.5 days in Snowshoe, WV, basically the best place on the east coast (no Vail yet for the grad student budget). I love the act of planning a ski trip, because it suddenly means that any temperature is in a way good news. If it's nice and warm outside then you get the benefit of a beautiful day for frolicking. If it does start getting cold, I can at least rationalize that we'll be more likely to get good snow in time for the trip! My glass is always entirely full (preferably with a microbrew).

Cheers, Dr. Kowawa

Imax fun

Today Sweewawa and I went to see 3 Imax films at the Richmond Virginia Science Museum Imax Theater: Everest, Ring of Fire (about Volcanos, not Johnny Cash), and a cute film about Beavers. It was a blast, I'd highly recommend all 3 films. Beavers are some hard-working little creatures, they put medical students to shame I'd say.

Song of the Day: Cryin' - Joe Satriani -- a really beautiful track from Joe, this one is just dripping with feeling

Quote of the Day: "Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman." --Ludwig Van Beethoven

Thought of the Day: I think one of the major keys to satisfaction in all types of relationships is balance. He or she with the keen mind will be adept at recognizing people's faults and hidden agendas, for we all have them. If you take this insight to the extreme, you will end up pushing everyone away and be left intellectually true but alone. If you take the other extreme and give everyone, even the undeserving, the benefit of the doubt and unconditional love, then you will be left getting walked over and abused. So while the potential opposites of having a razor sharp mind and having a completely open and trusting heart each have their attractions, happiness I believe lies somewhere in the middle.

Cheers, Dr. Kowawa

Interview season

Have gotten 5 interviews for Radiology so far and am pretty excited! I begin interviewing on Wednesday, will do lots of preparation over the next few days.

Song of the Day: Circles - Joe Satriani

Quote of the Day: "Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them." --Lily Tomlin

Thought of the Day: Cat urine is the most vile substance known to mankind. I think the military should work on feline pee bombs, any afflicted opponent would surely surrender imediately. The culprit, our cat Thenie: