Fitter Happier

Most of today spent on studying for the USMLE Step 2 CS (the clinical skills portion of the exam). Uggh, am pretty tired from just having completed the CK. Got back a little while ago from a nice run in Deep Run Park, a park near our apartment. Did my hard run while listening to Radiohead's OK Computer on the iPod. Quite an album. Two songs from it I'll single out for songs of the day:

Songs of the Day:

Let Down - Radiohead

Fitter Happier - Radiohead

Quote of the Day: "Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body." --Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thought of the day: Just a comment on the quote above -- typically I really geek out while exercising and listening to audio lectures about different medical topics on my iPod -- I know, GEEKY! But today I listened to the whole of OK Computer while running, and it was quite a refreshing experience. My mind whisked away from the stresses of medical school and was left only to enjoy the sounds of Thom's floating lyricism over seas of guitar and keyboard melodies while watching the ponds, branches, leaves and bugs fly by. This really helps to "reset the clock" and make me feel nice and relaxed. Unfortunately, now it's back to the books . . .

Cheers, Dr. Kowawa

p.s. lyrics for Let Down:

Transport, motorways and tramlines,
starting and then stopping,
taking off and landing,
the emptiest of feelings,
disappointed people, clinging on to bottles,
and when it comes it's so, so, disappointing.

Let down and hanging around,
crushed like a bug in the ground.
Let down and hanging around.

Shell smashed, juices flowing
wings twitch, legs are going,
don't get sentimental,
it always ends up drivel.
One day, I am gonna grow wings,
a chemical reaction,
hysterical and useless
hysterical and

let down and hanging around,
crushed like a bug in the ground.
Let down and hanging around.

Let down,
Let down,
Let down.

You know, you know where you are with,
you know where you are with,
floor collapsing, falling, bouncing back
and one day, I am gonna grow wings,
a chemical reaction, [You know where you are,]
hysterical and useless [you know where you are,]
hysterical and [you know where you are,]

let down and hanging around,
crushed like a bug in the ground.
Let down and hanging around.