Below are the most recent 5 friends' journal entries.

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
bassist	2:04p	A Spoonful of Sugar A spoonful of sugar. Taken from the BBC’s Good Foods Glossary. The best advice I ever received came from a fictional umbrella-toting nanny. “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down,” she sang. The irony is that taking this piece of advice at face value, it’s often wrong. Most liquid medicines are already sweetened these days, so extra sugar makes it sickly sweet. If you’re talking Castor oil as a punishment or Ipecac to induce vomiting, adding sweetener kind of defeats the purpose, though you’ll certainly still vomit. A spoonful of sugar makes it that much harder to swallow a pill, and putting it in your IV is just silly. A spoonful of sugar is a bad idea when the treatment is topical, and while the fetish lover you’re sleeping with may like it in your enema, you probably won’t. — I’m going to die. To a certain extent I already knew that. It’s not a new prognosis, but rather the ultimate endgame to my existence. I don’t know when it’ll happen or how; at least not right now. Yet it is an absolute. So often I hear about people running for religion when they know they’re going to die. Their proverbial spoonful of sugar is the thought that there’s something more, that their friends and loved ones await them. Heaven, reincarnation, and every variation on the immortal soul are all likely pipe dreams. Really, though, it’s just a fancy way of saying they seek hope. Read the rest of this entry » Originally published at Worldwide Ace. You can comment here or there. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
x_kikimora_x	11:09a	Mid-semester break down for my own edification. Case Study- 11/8 Therapeutic conversation write up ( 10 pages)- 11/9 Clinical presentation on Tetralogy of Fallot ( 20 min)- 11/13 Pathophysiology Exam- 11/13 History of Nursing presentation ( 20 min)- 11/16 History of Nursing Paper ( 10 pages)-??? ready, steady,go... (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
bassist	11:16a	Coincidentally I woke up this morning feeling glum, much like during the waning seconds of the tail end of my final lacrosse game in high school, where I stared from the sidelines as our team lost well aware that it was completely beyond my ability to do anything about it. It wasn’t an oppressive glumness, but a light and malleable one punctuated by a slight distaste for Zoe, who had spent the wee hours of the morn pawing at me as I attempted to hide from the world beneath my comforter. I rolled out of bed, accidentally and haphazardly flinging Zoe off the bed, and I was immediately chill in the cool morning air that had leaked into my room over the course of the night. My ankle cracked loudly with each step as I traversed our dim stairwell and emerged in our living room. I thought it was just a sprain, but two plus weeks later I can’t help but posit that something worse may have happened, like the time I got clotheslined by the parallel bars and may have broken my nose but went back to play with just a band-aid and a thirst for more tag—I’ll never know if I broke my nose as it’s long since healed. Read the rest of this entry » Originally published at Worldwide Ace. You can comment here or there. (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
bassist	10:12p	Happy Halloween from the Jack-O-Bear It’s been a tradition in my family to make a Jack-O-Bear for Halloween. Though they haven’t done it every year, my parents once again rose to the task this year. I had hoped to help my Dad carve it before I left Boston this week, but it seems to have been completed in excellent fashion despite my lackadaisical efforts. Happy Halloween! Originally published at Worldwide Ace. You can comment here or there. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
artleah	10:56a	( +3 ) Just little digital sketches. (4 Comments |Comment on this)