David Sedaris is-um-an interesting author. I was able to read 1.25 of his books (I read about a fourth of his second book, and that was enough). But the first book I read was hilarious-and shocking. When Sedaris was in Charlottesville for a reading, I brought my book for him to autograph. Personally, I […]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 at 3:20 pm and is filed under Psych. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Vancouver–my kind of town! Why didn’t Frank Sinatra sing something about this magnificent city? Maybe we can get Canadian crooner Michael Buble to spin a song about this Pacific Northwest gem.
I recently spent eight days in downtown Vancouver, and I only heard a car honk once (unlike NYC where cars honk as if they […]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 at 8:01 pm and is filed under Patient Behavior. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

DuPont used to advertise “better living through chemistry.” Couples usually talk about the “chemistry” that brought them together. (In Britney Spears and K-Fed’s case, I think their chemistry involved ethanol, among other things.) Bad chemistry between Moonlighting’s Cybil Sheppard and Bruce Willis made the show a smash.
When I was taking organic chemistry, our […]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 at 4:14 pm and is filed under Food, Health & Wellness, Cardiovascular. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

“I’m on hold,” is something all of us have said. With companies facing increasing demands but less profit, we’re being put on hold everywhere. Even on the computer-help chat rooms, I’m put “on hold” sometimes for 30 minutes– which isn’t so bad because while waiting I can play Solitaire and read the latest entertainment pages. […]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 at 5:09 pm and is filed under Bones & Muscles, Pain. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

The life insurance business doesn’t make sense to me. Why would a company base earnings on the hope that none of its clients bite the dust? It’s so Russian Roulette. My college buddy works for a major insurance company, so I decided to apply for term life insurance through him. Little did I know that […]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 at 4:33 pm and is filed under Infections, ENT. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.