We got cable installed yesterday.

We got cable installed yesterday. Go interwebs! The countdown has officially begun... I have 11 days until orientation at OHSU. That means 11 days of relative freedom before i give my life over to the pursuit of medicine. Is that equivalent to the pursuit of happiness? Probably not, atleast at first. But that is the eventual goal. So in that 11 days, I have various important things to accomplish. These include, in no particular order, starting an indoor herb garden, buying a scooter, making a website, transcribing the interview with my grandma, buying a stethoscope, finding a kitchen table, hanging out with my friend Annie who's visiting, hangning out with my friend Jill before she moves to Vancouver, hanging out with my Dad when he comes to visit, starring in a silent film of a rock opera, and getting the mail key fixed so i can see what important med school documents have been sent to me in the past three weeks. This last one is particularly pressing, being that i probably have bills and such.

Impromtu THE STATE quote:

Jake the mailman: So your concern is the importance of getting your mail.
Man: Yes. Yes.
Jake: For bills and such.
Man: Yes. Yes!
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Jake : I just dont have the same passion for delivering mail as I do for making and distributing tacos.

GOD, that was a great show.

Anyway, point being - i have lots of things to do. And not much time in which to do them. Will my life end? Will i relinquish my freetime? Will I lose all interest in friends, music, drinking, and all trappings of the outside world? Will I become a boring medical student automaton who forgets how to communicate with normal people? Well, I hope not. Time will tell. In the mean time, I will just worry about going to find something to eat.

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