i'm a little teapot

1. When I went inside my brother's room, he and our cousin were watching a documentary on Discovery Channel. I asked them what they were watching, and my brother replied, "We're learning about the workings of the cosmos! Did you know that dark matter holds the universe together with gravity?"

Sometimes, hearing him talk, I could almost forget that he's just 7 years old. Hanging around adults so much gave him weird speech patterns, I think.

2. Our required internship at an industrial setting just reinforced my belief that I'm not meant for a desk job. I don't mind the thinky part of it (which is what we do for our MBA subjects anyway), it's the whole claustrophobic setting of the office in close quarters with everyone doing their own shit that makes me want to wreak havoc just to break the monotony.

3. I can't wait for classes to start. (And I can't believe that I just wrote that.) They say that the second year of med school is the zombie year (or possibly the robot/android year, it depends on the type of geek you're talking to I guess). Well I say, BRING IT ON. I've been looking forward to tackling the more clinical stuff since my the first biochem lecture I sat through last year.

1. I'm currently editing feature articles for the orientation kit we'll be giving to the next batch of freshmeatmen. If I see the phrase "with regards to" one more time I'm going stab someone's eye out with a fork. (And chances are it'd be mine, just so I could stop. Seeing. That. Phrase. EVERYWHERE. Argh.)

2. I still haven't finished House of Leaves because I get too involved with the story and the house freaks me out so much that I can't move on. I've never flinched from reading horror before, so I don't know what my hang-up is with this particular novel.

3. I've had a low-grade fever that comes and goes the past few days. I don't know if it's because of the weather or if it's psychosomatic or something else entirely. Whatever the reason, it's pissing me off. I can't concentrate on things properly, damn it. D:

4. Re-watched The Social Network the other day. My favorite part was the beginning, where we got to see LJ's old-school interface :D The rest of the movie is just one big "meh" though. Still can't see why people believe that it was worthy of a Best Picture nomination.

Chris Jericho is my NEW HERO GUYS. Him, on dancing the quickstep:

I want my frame to be sturdy like it's built from oak from Denmark with the Vikings, tempered in the 18th century. And a blacksmith named Gandol was a wizard and created the PERFECT FRAME! And that is what I want to be.

He's obviously a fantasy geek at heart, though I'd have to dock him points for incoherence and historical inaccuracy. 18th century Danish Vikings who TEMPER OAK? Really?

But I guess he did find a blacksmith named Gandol who is also an 18th century Danish Viking wizard, because he managed to hold his frame up rather well:


Dancing With the Stars is my new crack. SERIOUSLY.

Comment and I'll give you a letter. Then, post five songs that start with the letter.

xenokattz gave me the letter "N". I don't have a lot of N songs @__@

( Youtube videos under the cut )

I spent most of today asleep. I'm irritated that I wasn't able to utilize independent study time to the fullest. Stuffing 130-odd students in an airconditioned classroom while the weather is wonkier than a wonky thing just turns said classroom into a petri dish for pathogens to thrive in. Urgh.

Things to do:

Monday: Neurological Examination practicals (AM)

Tuesday: Neurophysiology lecture exam (AM); public health/management report for the module integration activity (PM)

Wednesday: Module finals (PM); email public health research proposal to adviser

Friday: Submission of research proposal hardcopy for panel reviewers

I just want to sleep until I feel better. D:

1. Oh my god I almost peed my pants when I found this:



I love everything about this trailer, especially the awesomely bad "Carry On Wayward Son" cover in the background. HEE!

2. Today's SGD made me seriously consider specializing in Radiology. Radio images are so darn PRETTY. My only problem is that I find studying for anatomy difficult. D:

3. Why hello there, strama paper! Don't go anywhere, I'm not finished with you yet!

I just discovered Wordle. Be afraid. Be very afraid.



In other news, I had a venti cafe latte with an extra espresso shot from Starbucks this morning (the first time I ordered anything coffee-based that size @__@) so I crashed hard when I got home this afternoon. But it wasn't enough, giving me only about 3 hours of sleep in the past 60 hours. It's a wonder that I'm still this coherent. I still have a case analysis paper to start and a group paper to finish polishing, both for my Management Dynamics class. And I haven't finished studying everything I have to study for this Friday's exams. GO ME!

I woke up early to work on stuff because the Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns reared its ugly head last night and I realized I wasn't going anywhere with what I was writing. (I actually wrote "cupcakes are integral to women's health" around 3 times in a 500-word paper. WTF, self?)

Instead of answering discussion questions or reading ahead or studying past lectures, I read approximately 20,000 words of SPN fanfic in an hour.

Clearly I have no self-control.

ETA: Scutmonkey is now probably one of my favorite webcomics.

Also, I wish med school students on their clerkship year here are allowed to wear scrubs to work instead of our school uniforms + a white coat. Because that's a shit load of white cloth for patients to stain with bodily fluid. Just saying.

Gakked from hells_half_acre:

Your main fandom of the year?
Supernatural, with a bit of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Austen for some flavor.

Your favorite film watched this year?
Hmm...this is difficult, as I tend to watch a lot of films, not all of them necessarily released this year. Here's my shortlist: Slums of Beverly Hills, Donnie Darko, Let the Right One In (which is what the perfect vampire film should be, IMO) and Inception. If the question only referred to films released this year, then it's Inception, hands down. I watched that four times at the cinema, and I never got tired of that shit.

Your favorite book read this year?
Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell, the most darkly hilarious book I've read to date. I bought it when I found it on the top of the "Below P300" pile at National Bookstore. (You'd have bought it too if the cover looked like this.) You'd also be interested to know that the book has its very own trailer posted at youtube.

Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?
If iTunes is to be believed, it's a toss-up between Led Zeppelin's "The Rain Song", Thursday's "Standing on the Edge of Summer", and Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" (...DON'T JUDGE ME). If it isn't obvious, I don't really keep myself updated with today's music: I just stick to what I already know and listen to it obsessively.

Your favorite TV show of the year?
BBC's Sherlock. And Supernatural, which is the only series I followed this year. (I stopped watching SYTYCD faithfully after two of my favorite contestants left the show due to injuries and I couldn't take Kent's small-town boy antics anymore. Alex and Ashley, why did you two have to leave so soon? *sob*)

Your favorite community of the year?
Hmm...I think it'd be rec_hymenated, because a.) no one can send me enough recs to satisfy my urge to read good fics; and b.) I love Dean and Castiel together whether as friends or lovers, so any community that gives me both makes me squee with glee.

Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
BBC's Sherlock, hands down. WHY CAN'T IT BE AUGUST NOW, ARGH.

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
ALEX FREAKING WONG GETTING INJURED ON SYTYCD. God, did I really get the urge to sob uncontrollably when they announced that he ruptured his Achilles tendon.

I also hated the fact that I missed out on Neil Gaiman's visit here in Manila because...well I forgot why I missed out on it, actually. I'm fairly sure it was important, though.

Oh! And Glee's second season! It's such a weak follow-up to the first season (Sue's characterization is all over the place, it's not even funny anymore) and Will makes me want to bash his head in every time he appears on-screen. The only good things that came out of S2 are the Rocky Horror episode and Kurt's relationship with Blaine.

Your TV boyfriend of the year?
I really don't know, haha. Maybe Alex Freaking Wong (if he swings my way), because damn can that man dance. I hope his injury heals well and that he's back dancing his heart out.

Your TV girlfriend of the year?
Kathryn McCormick, who's my favorite female dancer out of all the seasons of SYTYCD. I love her personality, she really connects with her partners, and I envy her legs (they're awesome!). She was really good in her season, but IMO she really shone as an All-Star. My favorite routine from S6 was her contemporary routine with Jakob, but I felt that she really stood out in Dee Caspary's contemporary group number in S7, and not only because she's featured in the choreography (she's the one in the white dress).

Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Oh...I don't know. Maybe when Misha Collins tweeted this picture. I don't know why, but the combination of Jensen's WTF face and his...mini-motorcycle?...and Jared's 'huh?' expression and uber long legs had me squeeing with glee. I love it when "cool" people act like total dorks. :D

The most missed of your old fandoms?
Hmm...I think it'd be RK, because not a lot of people produce quality fic for that series anymore.

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
I haven't tried watching any new stuff yet because with the amount of fic that I normally read, my course load, and real life shenanigans, I really don't have time to get into new stuff. I did borrow my mom's copy of Modern Family (to be watched over the holidays--hopefully), so maybe I'd get into the fandom? (But I never really get into the 'mainstream' TV show fandoms because I find the fans either too crazy or too vanilla. Um.)

Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?
Sherlock, Avatar: The Legend of Korra, and the rest of SPN!

Yahoo is shutting down Delicious. Do you know what this means? This means fandoms are fucked. ARGH.