2 weeks left

i cant believe there was a time when i had 56 days to go...crazy...ok plan...
finish FA by monday and do a u world assessment--that means doing a goal of 5 fa chapters/day--while still trying to keep up with world qbank (1100 left to do!--wanna finish that but still have some time to go over marked/wrong ones)--also as anxiety sets in..to keep an exercise log

so hoy day one of 14:
goal: finish 5 ch FA: blood, skin, microbio, muskuloskeletal + something easy and short
gym at night
100 qs (1000)

tomorrow (sat) (13 days left):
8am yoga, run
5 ch FA
100 qs (900)
run

sunday 12
spinning at cupertino---8am, run
5 ch FA
100 qs (800)


monday
go over path pics in FA
take a self assessment--Uworld
start reviewing weaknesses in kaplan book
piYo sunnyvale 8pm/run

tuesday 10
review weaknesses in kaplan book--make plan to finish kaplan book
100 qs 700
swim/gym

wed 9
kaplan book+100qs 600
pilates at sunnyvale  @ 8pm

thurs 8
kaplan book 100qs 500
gym

friday 7
finish last parts kaplan
self assessment nbme
gym

FA memorize week 400 qbank left, review all marked/wrong carefully
take uworld practice exam (for timing practice on tuesday) then chill

memorial day! or...18 days left until the big quiz

not quite june..which helps make me feel a little less anxious...anyways...happy memorial day...so far its been a happy day...

woke up around 730 and went to the gym (24 hours in cupertino)---it used to be a curves or some woman's gym...and maybe thats why i like it better than the other 24 hours ive been to. its CLEAN!!! ran 1 mile...but almost fell off the treadmill as i was trying to figure out how to play chris brown on repeat on my ipod touch (god rest his rihanna beating *done* career). anyways my sympathetic system went on overdrive when it thought i was going to die by being skinned to death by the treadmill and i could feel a vasovagal response coming on...so i went to the teeny locker room and sat down on the teeny bench. finished the rest of my 3 miles on a treadmill reading men's health (full of hot ads with hot men....do men really like reading this mag?) and read an article written by a female on how to relive college sex amazingness o_O.....

studied some embryology at coffee society then came home to do some practice q's on the computer--got 93% on all the embryo questions in uworld! (they only have a measly 43 tho and for full disclosure i had already seen/done 38 of them...hehe LAME i know)

so far its been a glorious food day as well...iced coffee+banana for breakfast...two peaches for snack and then a spinach, goji berry, egg white, soy chicken concoction i whipped up with my green/white tj's tea.

okayyy i think i'm going to try some of the goljan embryo questions and then tackle pharm (i've vaguely assessed that pharm and embryo/anato are my greatest weaknesses so i'm going over them a little extra before my practice test on wednesday....)

18 days!!! tomorrow i see the dentist and wed i have my practice prometric

notes from a dentist's office

1.) ucla trained dentist >> usc trained dentist
ucla trained dentist did not know i was a medical student, yet still pre-empted all my medical related questions. he somehow read my fears of unnecessary x-ray radiation and infection spreading through my premolars into my sinuses and ultimately, brain (i'm not sure how common these fears are in the general public) and humored me with a quite lengthy discussion on the chances of my developing endocarditis. he also hooked it up with analgesics. YUM.

2.) after seeing my x-rays i could hear the aforementioned ucla-trained dentist discussing my case with the x-ray technician through the door...

"how old is she?" (i thought this was because my teeth looked like the teeth of 99 year old homo habilis (i spose that is an oxymoron--i don't think they lived that long)--but really it was because my age would implicate his recommendation on whether i should get dentures or not (sad!))

*pause*
response: "18 or 19 or i think..."

18 or 19!!! holymacaronis!!! i have tiny female asian classmates who pay for expensive haircuts to try to make themselves look older to gain more credibility with patients. i never really worried about this since i'm large and in charge and have a hyperactive stress response that ages me...so this response was quite pleasing.

after my visit i walked across the street to cash in my painkillers to double my dose of joy for the day.

^__^

davin!

davin came to visit and wanted to try roscoe's chicken and waffles. i thought...niice...a visitOR who knows what he wants...i am here to pleeease! who knew his request would be so challenging...it took three...THREE...attempts (and who knows how much gasoline) to finally get those chicken and waffles and satisfied (and soon to be satiated) smile on/in davin's face. the first two times there were 90324802934832 waiting outside to get in so we had johnnie's pastrami sandwiches and umami burger, respectively and not too shabbily, instead. finally-ultimately we were able to breeze into the hollywood location (which has a kind of upscale wooden lodgey feel to it that i like better than the boothy-diner ambiance on pico) for lunch. davin got his coveted (and somewhat elusive) chicken and gravy with waffles and i had fried liver and waffles...mmmmmm livaaaahh

we did a lot while davin was visiting...here are some (but not all) of the highlights:

1. eating out of boxes:

empanadas from empanadas place and donuts from spudnuts (that chocolate chip donut competes with stan's peanut butter and jelly donut for top donut--i'll have to do a side-by-side taste test sometime (yay!)) i know the chili cheese fries from johnnie's pastrami look gross but i love how it comes in a cake box (though...i spose i would love anything that comes in a cake box)

2. having supersized asian food:

taro boba in a STEIN!

giant bing sooo 

hope you had fun davin and that you come again soon =)

prob why i love LA

Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, Animal
from their interview in food&wine, best chefs of 2009 

On the L.A. food scene:
Vinny: “People out here eat like kids: hamburgers, hot dogs, doughnuts. You can tell: So much fast food started out here.”

Advice to future cooks:
Jon: Eat out. “When we were 22, 23, we went to see our accountant, and he said we’d spent $150,000 on dining. Imagine, 22-year-old kids spending that much money eating out. It’s worth it—you can’t imagine what products you’ll get turned on by.”

I wish I could justify that(!)

i thought this was funny but apt:

"It's hard to get worked up over a piece of chicken after you've been in the game for 20 years. The girl with a blog and a digital camera for whom every cutlet is a new adventure spreads excitement, while her jaded rival serves up mostly ennui."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1972335,00.html#ixzz0iPGNeim2

2 posts in one day...i must really not want to catch-up on my arrhythmia lectures o_O

im very fortunate to live in a pretty foodie friendly neighborhood in LA. here are a few places i noshed at last week (all within 2 miles of my (very) humble casa)

my favorite thing about samosa house (other than that its SO CLOSE BY!) is the jackfruit curry (upper middle box, in between raita and eggplant); its so fresh and so clean, and the three times i've been so far the lady at the counter has been so cute and given me (huge) samples of 3/4 of the dishes they have out for the day. i haven't had the chaat yet, but the cycling dishes are enough to keep me busy (when is the lotus coming baaack!?)

this was my breakfast last thursday. empanadas: pollo, beef, and my fave guava and queso (my spanglish is pretty awful i know)+cuatro leches cake---soggy creamy milky heaven

the best thing about this place are the millions of miniature plastic toy-things they have lining the walls: shelf to shelf to ceiling(!)--all shapes and characters you can custom order to have dancing on top of your cake...the next time i need a cake i will have a battle of disney princesses and transformers last samurai style on a giant sheet cake painted like a football field (complete with plastic goal posts)

an old favorite of course, recently been neglected due to all the other desserts that i want to (and do consume)....however yogurtland never fails...now they have red velvet flavored yogurt (oh my!) but they were out of it so i settled with the yuzu (also new...and very tangy). i almost always get the same thing...bunches of fruits then almond slivers, cookie dough and chocolate sprinkles....my birthday twin...who i had the pleasure of sharing this yogurtland visit with, always ends with a sour gummi worm for palate cleansing purposes...or so he purports...

then we waited for the kogi truck to appear. that truck always makes me smile...even when it makes me wait in line for 2 hours in flip flops (on an unusually chilly los angeles midnite). even seeing the long ass line, still as long and as hungry as ever, makes me happy...good business, inspiration, and ghrelin in action..

the kalbi short rib taco 3/99 take that jgold ;) 
Samosa House East

10700 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232

(310) 559-6350 

www.samosahouse.net

Coppelia's Bakery & Cafe

10825 Venice Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034

(310) 838-0375

Yogurtland

3817 Overland Avenue
Culver City, CA 90232

(310) 202-7900

www.yogurt-land.com/

 

Kogi Truck (twitter it...obvs)

Los Angeles, CA

(714) 697-4683

www.kogibbq.com