Haiti

this is the kind of event, for which scale becomes meaningless, numbers become fatuous, suffering becomes unquantifiable, and where one is in complete awe of the ungraciousness, brevity, and capriciousness of life.

2010

Because I am craving the cathartic feeling lists give me, here's 2009 in review...

Joined a gym, worked with a personal trainer for 8 weeks, finally shed freshman 10.
Played kings for the first time.
Best Valentine's day ever
Weird "relationship".... eww.
Abstract on implementation of decision aids presented in Boston
Read lots of Nabokov, Chekhov
Family vacay to Hearst Castle, San Luis Obispo, San Francisco, memories of the endless drive on California One, the "whale" we stared at for 30 minutes before realizing it was a rock, Yosemite
Re-wrote personal statement 3 times
MOVED
Applied to medical school
Maine <3
Reunited with the love of my life
Family reunion
Duke visit
Hosted not one, not two, but three fantastic parties at the BOMB
Got bangs
3 trips to Charlottesville, VA
Health literacy abstract presented in Hollywood
Discovered awesome and cheap manicure place near work
Discovered awesome and cheap yoga classes
Sunday potlucks
Seeing Built to Spill twice
Career crises: rural medicine, primary care, research in health disparities, Masters in bioethics, neuroscience and decision making, PhD in decision sciences???
Thanksgiving in Maine and meeting Gus
Deciding the gender and names of my 3 future kids
Seeing old friends on new year's eve

And things I am looking forward to in 2010...

Birthday!
DC trip in April with Laura
Mayyyybe finally finishing that paper and getting published?
Perfecting my crepe-making skills
Life after MGH
THERESA JACQUIE CHINA SUMMER 2010