Countdown: 5 days until medical

Countdown: 5 days until medical school.

OHSU Orientation begins next tuesday. Its so odd. I feel the need to make very good use of my last few (very few!) remaining days of freedom. I am caught between the desire to accomplish a vast array of tasks and projects (see aug 16th entry) and the pressing need to relax and enjoy some free time. Additionally, my assumption that my life will change and i will become a different person come next tuesday kind of gives me a feeling of dread - i should be excited! I should be looking forward to this - its medical school, for god's sake - all i've ever wanted and planned for myself since i was 7. Ok, so i am excited. But its a dreadful excitement. I think that makes sense.

My thought for today: maybe i should go downtown and protest our friend George W. Bush when he arrives in portland today. It should be a big fun party. Some people were talking about getting dressed up all fancy and respectable and sauntering down to the hilton, where he will be raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for Gordon Smith's (aka the rat bastard)'s re-election campaign. Then the cops wouldn't beat us! Good idea.

The issue at stake today is the unveiling of Bush's new forest plan to allow commercial timber companies into our National Forests, currently protected under Clinton's roadless act. Allowing them to cut mature trees will apparently relieve us of that pesky forest fire problem. Read a good analysis of the issue here.

Hmmm. Should i go? Or should i just stay inside and work on my new website while listening to the PULSE cd of late nineties dance hits? Its a tough one.
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