Fortunately, Ivy Medical School is very supportive of those who have been out for a few years. My experience is that many schools (especially the top ten) are biased against those that take a non-traditional path to medicine. They question our motivation, which is perverse to me. After all, we are the ones that are making the biggest sacrifice by leaving our existing careers (in many cases, vs Paris going to Heaven?

I don’t think I need to say much more here…go to jail, find God. Do you think she got that Bible from the dresser at the Hilton? Way to go Mr. Publicist. Way to go overboard, that is.ery profitable ones, and medicine ain’t what is used to be in the money-making arena). Fortunately, Ivy does recognize the talents and diversity that non-traditional students like me bring to the table. So I’m not alone here. Ok, I am irked. Some of my fellow bloggers have been critical of me referring to presidents by just their last name, and not always attaching the title of “President” whenever I refer to any President. Well, what happens when the White House disses a former president?

I am referring to the sta bilder 1 2 |tement from the White House Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto today, “striking back” against statements that President Jimmy Carter made about the current Bush administration. Carter said in a recent interview that was published in an Arkansas newspaper, “I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history.” The White House responded by calling Carter’s opinion “reckless” and “I think he is proving to be increasingly irrelevant with these kinds of comments.”
It’s going to be a wonderful four years. Let’s get started.Hide your bears and don’t plan inviting any strange guests to your fancy southern dinner parties - plans are in the works for Borat 2, a sequel to follow up the 2006 howler. No word yet on naked wrestling in hotel lobbies or if they are looking for another ice cream truck to drive across the country.

“Sacha Baron Cohen has signed up to do a sequel to his popular Borat movie based on the controversial Kazach journalist, according to Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corp, whose film division last year released the first Borat film.

New Computer and Vegetarian Hooha! I’m getting a computer in my room!! But I don’t get it in untill it’s redone.
For the Re-doing of my room:
-New Curtain
-New Bedspread and sheets etc.
-Paint my walls a different color.
- Moving around my furniture and getting rid of a piece
-Getting rid of a bunch of old junk
-New artwork and such for my walls.
….I hope i can get Nighmare before Christmas and Invader Zim sheets to switch off….
“The past year, 2004, has not exactly been a banner year for the pharmaceutical industry,” says the S&P evaluation prepared by credit analyst Arthur Wong. “While the industry has been criticized in the past several years for the relative lack of research and development productivity, despite the increasing billions poured into research, there are several very promising product candidates that may form the core of major pharmaceutical companies’ future drug portfolios.” S&P picked the drugs not only for their prospects, including the ability to reach $1 billion in annual sales, but also for their relative importance to their manufacturers. “The commercial success, or lack thereof, of these products may have credit rating implications,” says the S&P report issued Friday. Some of the top 10 drugs already have reached the market, and early sales are promising. They include Vytorin, the cholesterol drug from Merck and Schering-Plough; Tysabri, the multiple sclerosis drug from Elan (ELN:NYSE) and Biogen Idec (BIIB:Nasdaq) ; and Cymbalta, the antidepressant from Eli Lilly (LLY:NYSE) . Other drugs have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration but haven’t reached the market. They include Lyrica, from Pfizer, which has been approved for nerve pain related to diabetes and shingles;
ooh, i just dropped jello down my bra–i want to lose weight, hopefully not in my chest!

i just had a salad with leftover grilled veggies, then some of that fake crabmeat with a little melted margarine over it. I was still hungry, so i put a few more chunks of the faux crab on my salad. Not shabby. Now eating the jello which is not my favorite thing. In fact I usually bitch about jello, so don’t tell anyone i am eating it.
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Made it this far..
Well,its midnight or so, and I think I’ve done pretty well for day one. I had a decent dinner–boiled shrimp with Old Bay, some grilled veggies, which I picked up at Harris Teeter–I was too hurried and hungry to cook, so I picked them up when I went to get my jello and ricotta. I ended up doing the cauliflower “mashed potatoes” I think its an exaggeration to think that they taste like potatoes, but it was decent-I need to get a real potato masher, I added garlic. I am going to try roasting the cauliflower as I believe I read a post on egullet about how good it is. The ricotta dessert sort of sucked, but it was b/c I was in a hurry and I ended up putting too much chocolate in it which made it bitter. Screw the three miniscule chocolate chips–its really a “why bother.” and Lunesta, the insomnia medication from Sepracor (SEPR:Nasdaq) .

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Both drugs were approved in December. Lunesta’s launch has been delayed until March because the FDA says the drug is a controlled substance, and Sepracor must obtain clearance from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. Lyrica also has been classified as a controlled substance. Pfizer hasn’t said when the drug will be available. The biggest challenge for S&P’s picks involves drugs still being tested or under review by the FDA. Bristol-Myers Squibb has two compounds on the list — the rheumatoid arthritis drug, abatacept, and the diabetes drug, muraglitazar, which is being co-developed with Merck. “While it has made significant strides in resolving past business issues … the commercial success of high-sales-potential, near-term prospects such as abatacept and muraglitazar are critical in stemming the three-year slide in Bristol-Myers Squibb’s ratings,” S&P says. The arthritis drug, still in late-stage clinical testing, has been granted fast-track review status by the FDA,
Vegetarian Stuff
I’m gonna try this out. I really hate eating meat, even thouygh it tastes good. When I was younger I realized meat was animals and i felt so bad. So now i’m finnaly gonna try this. But i’m still gonna have like eggs and milk. But i am gonna drink Soy Milk regularily now..
Well ima gonna go. Maybe i’ll work on this template more. Anyone notice the Tag -Board is back up?!?! I need to put the parade and comments back up. Mandy wont tell me where there the second code for comments goes!!! ARaghh!!!
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I give the Knicks a lot of shit, but, I have to hand it to them for at least making it “interesting” this season. The evil empire of James Dolan and Isiah Thomas have indeed struck back. What happens when you put the top five movie-trailer voiceover artists in a limo together? Well, if it’s for a skit written for the 26th Annual Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards, you get this:
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Professor solves 1200 year old “divide by zero” problem. So what?
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So a computer science professor from the University of Reading has apparently shown that it’s possible to divide by zero, making all calculators and versions of Excel obsolete. But so what?Been quite busy here @ work today with a mailing. I started my day off properly with two eggs and a piece of turkey bacon, I brought the rest with me to put in my salad, but I ended up running errands with a friend @ lunch..we went to this Taco Bell/KFC combo (the girl is skinny) That is definitely one place where you can not do the SBD. I did my best as I was famished, and got a burrito and a soft taco and just ate the insides. I must say, I held the empty tortillas in my hand afterwards–pretty heavy. Its a few hours later and I am eating my ricotta dessert. I made a few last night and put them under the broiler in hopes that it would improve the flavor. Not really. I think its the texture of the fat-free ricotta that does not thrill me. I am using plenty of spenda and vanilla, and i am using good unsweeted chocolateghirardell.

http://www.recipeseasy.com/menu/chili-recipes.php
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http://www.recipeseasy.com/menu/chocolate-recipes.php

There is one of those Delites places near my house, and they supposedly have good sugar free low carb ice cream, I am going to check it out.
It’s a neat concept, but what can you do with it? He starts by saying that if a flight computer in a commercial airline encountered a “divide by zero” error in the programming, the plane would fall out of the sky — which is not necessarily true, but shocking statements like that will at least help get him in the news. Next, he shows his equation by defining the value of 0/0 to be a new number called “nullity”, which “doesn’t exist on the number line. So what are we supposed to do with this wayward number? If it doesn’t exist on the number line,
how is it going to help keep a plane in the sky? Instead of a calculator printing “Error”, it will print “nullity”. So what? What’s 3 x nullity?
Maybe it will have a use in physics and higher-level mathematics along side values like i and infinity. In the mean time, I’ll just assume he’s assigning a fun name to “divide by zero error”.
Ahhh it looks like there might be some fight in them afterall. However, the long term survival of Madison Square Garden is still at stake, we cannot let the death star that has invaded the Garden to get any bigger. If that should occur, we could be facing the possibility of seeing decades of mediocrity. The James Dolan “plan” MUST fail.

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—– Must-read: George Will writes “The Case for Conservatism” - which makes me long for an honest-to-goodness real conservative president and Congress. Sigh …

—– Why oh why has the media virtually ignored the story of the AQ torture chamber found in Iraq? Maybe because they’d rather focus on how ‘evil’ our troops supposedly are rather than the real evil that those troops are combatting in Iraq?

—– Interesting: According to former Kerry strategist Bob Shrum, Kerry has since said that he regrets having picked John Edwards as a running mate in 2004.
I had some chicken going begging here, so I decided to make some chicken kabobs on the grill. Since the boys don’t like much of anything with or on their meat, that kind of limited what I could thread on the kabobs. They figured the green peppers were big enough to pull off and put in my plate. I promised them that the grilled green peppers would not jump over on the chicken and change the taste.

The chicken kabobs turned out good. I just used a basic homemade style Italian dressing to soak them a couple of hours before tossing them on the grill.

One thing I’d say about kabobs is that it sure would take a lot of them to fill a body (especially boy bodies) up. You can’t jam them too tight or they don’t cook even. With the food spread out over the kabobs, there’s really not much on each kabob.
—– Senator Sam Brownback gives his thoughts on evolution in the NYT? Ooookay.
Did I hear “check you for ticks”? No, I must have just heard wrong.

cause I’d like to see you out in the moonlight
I’d like to kiss you way back in the sticks
I’d like to walk you through a field of wildflowers

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Donuts - Donuts
abandonware - abandonware

and I’d like to check you for ticks oooh you never know where one might be
and oooh theres lots of places that are hard to reach

No, clearly, “Check you for ticks”. Maybe it was an ad, maybe for Frontline or some other product, because it must be about some old boy and his dawg and it’s kind of cleverish, in a wink, wink “It sounds like I’m talkin’ about my girl, but I’m really talkin’ about my dawg” way. Dogs do not commonly drink from beer bottles or have slutty peek-a-boo tats on their lower backs, but…

I’d like to see you out in the moonlight
I’d like to kiss you way back in the sticks
I’d like to walk you through a field of wildflowers
and I’d like to check you for ticks
—– Great news for Democrats: The economy “slowed” in the first quarter - the worst quarter in four years.

—– Former FBI director Louis Freeh is endorsing former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani.

—– Yawn alert: “Outed” former CIA agent Valerie Plame is suing the CIA, accusing them of “unconstitutionally interfering with publication of her memoir.”

When oh when will this story go away?

—– Congrats to ST reader Karl, who passed the 100,000th visit mark on his blog on Tuesday. Way to go, Karl! Keep up the great work.

—- Last but not least, the Rev. Billy Graham’s library was dedicated here in Charlotte today, and included in that dedication were all sorts of well-known public figures including former presidents Bush, Clinton, and Carter. I can’t wait to visit the library. Bush got a little teary-eyed talking about Graham.