the great gazoo

so i suck at blogs, but here is a little something that a few might find interesting. an update on my motorcycle that got nudged over in a parking lot. the subsequent insurance money inspired a total makeover. thanks to my friend chris who is basically painting it for me for the cost of materials.

i went and checked out the plastics in the paint booth and omg they are pretty fabulous. im going to need to wear sunglasses even at night. the pictures do not do this justice. bass boats will have nothing on me riding around in this thing.

doctor shadowing - dermatologist

this post is most late compared to the date of my mentoring, but i wanted to get it out on the net if it might help some of the other students. i spent a full 10 hour day with a dermatologist named Dr Goodman in murfreesboro. this is one great guy. he only takes cases that are non-superficial -- no acne or anything like that. mostly skin cancer and issues of that nature. his patients were all so sweet to me and no one minded at all to have some silly kid standing there observing them in such a vunerable position. i mean, i know how i feel when i have on the paper sheet sitting in the doctor's office and its not usually a time when i want an audience. anyway, Dr Goodman claims to be terrible with names, but managed to ask about a child or family member for almost every single person. he really knew how to put people at ease, and i learned a great deal about the proper way to relate to and care for patients. thanks again, Dr Goodman!

its official, im lazy

well, not totally lazy. i did work on my med school applications and call about my shadowing program. i put all the classes im taking this summer into my schedule. it just feels like i got started so late in the day. i really dont do so great with unstructured time. to make matters worse, my car is down for the count, and its ride the motorcycle or bust. since there was rain or threat of rain nearly all day it gave me the perfect excuse to wear jogging pants all day. i did finally break down and go to the gym. so, im back from that and im about to go and dig up some protein to ingest. im opening up the voting on which med schools i should apply to. suggestions are welcome. time to forage.