Dinner with MOM

A couple nights ago, MOM came to visit me in my dream, and we went out to eat fried chicken at Popeye's, just like we used to on the way back from the orthodontist in high school. But for some reason, they only gave us one piece of chicken; the rest was some nasty hamburger stuff. MOM let me have the piece of chicken because she knew I wanted it...

Love MOM

Winter break 2007. I had been working in a microbiology lab in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. The PI gave us each a little box filled with chocolate-covered toffee from a candy store in San Francisco. It was very delicious. I brought the box home and gave some to MOM to try. She said, 好好吃！(So good!) I went upstairs, and when I came back down, she had eaten all of the chocolate. I was angry because she ate all my candy and didn't save any for me. I yelled at her and then stormed off. The next day, she went to the store and bought some chocolate-covered toffee and put it back in the box. She put a big red bow on it. Then she gave it to me and said, "It's not the same, but it's close." I still have the box and the bow. They remind me that things that you might think are important in the moment really don't matter in the long run. Everyone has faults. Learn to accept them. Love and cherish the good forever.

All dogs go to heaven

Goodbye, Lucky. We'll miss you.

G-20 Comes to Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is very big on their sports teams. Except the Pirates, who are the ugly bastard child of Pittsburgh sports. As such, the buses usually say "GO STEELERS" or "GO PENS!"

The G-20 Summit is in Pittsburgh the next two days. As I was catching the bus home today, I noticed that the signs now say, "PITTSBURGH WELCOMES THE WORLD!"

Cute.

More mob tendencies...

Today in anatomy lab, I found out it was a classmate's birthday. I proceeded to get the attention of everyone in the lab and lead them in a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday" for our classmate. The faculty, too. It was awesome.

This made my day...

396948: Today, I was driving down the street when I saw a turtle crossing the street, so I stopped and waited for it to cross. A person going the other way stopped too, then proceded to get out of the car and cheer on the turtle until it got to the other side. This made my summer. MLIA

What's school without caffeine?

Last week during a break between parts 1 and 2 of anatomy lecture, I headed off to the Medical Alumni Association office to get myself some tea. The MAA office lies one floor down from the MS1 lecture hall, but unfortunately, the escalator was broken, fenced off while they were doing repairs (I assume). So being impatient and not wanting to wait for the elevator, I proceeded to run down the up escalator, which was indeed on and going full speed. I made quite a racket as I flew down the escalator in my flip-flops, nearly losing my balance in the process. But I remained upright! And when I got to the MAA, there were a couple people starting to file in. One classmate, Dev, was nearly finished making his hot cocoa/tea/coffee, and some people just arriving commented, "Wow, you got here fast!" Dev responded, "Yeah. When I come, I come fast."

There was a bit of awkward silence, followed by uncontrolled laughter from everyone present. Classic.