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Cigal

the sky is falling

About Me

I currently live in the desert in Israel, where I am a student at the BGU-Columbia Medical School for International Health. I love to travel, dance, watch TV, do logic puzzles, drink tea, eat vegi sushi, read, play with Mifi (my Israeli kitten; name short for Mifletzet=monster), and sleep. Everything is best when done with Dovi!

My Interests

travel, tech toys, strange medical stories, ballroom dance, "ketchup vs mustard", Judaism, Zionism, kittie pie

I'd like to meet:

People I once knew that I have totally forgotten about. If I was never friends with you in real life, please do not message me.

Music:

The Beatles, jazz, bossa nova, swing, ska music, Mashina, Hadag Nashash, Stan Getz, The White Stripes, Duke Ellington

Movies:

Mr. Always Prepared for Everything Guy



Real Med Students of Genius The University of Maryland School of Medicine Class of 2006 (Real Men of Genius Spoof)This is my med school personality The Big Lebowski, When Harry Met Sally, Black Cat White Cat, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Heathers, Salach Shabati, The Departed

Television:

Coupling (BBC), Scrubs, The Simpsons, Buffy, Good Eats, The Daily Show, Mythbusters, Six Feet Under, CSI Las Vegas, Spongebob squarepants in Hebrew, MASH, Grey's Anatomy, Firefly, ER

Books:

The Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy trilogy (all 6 books) by Douglas Adams, Timeline by Michael Criton, Naked by Sedaris, Exodus by Uris, Schlepping Through the Alps by Apple, Rule of Four, Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Heroes:

My mum

My Blog

Is Olmert crazy or just working for the PA?

(This post is in reposnse to an article in the jpost http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411405093& ;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull but you can probably follow it without the artic...
Posted by Cigal on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:43:00 PST

New York, New York

I know the blog is called "Life in Israel" but life is taking me all around the world this year. I spent July in Los Angeles, am in New York City for August through October, back in Los Angeles for No...
Posted by Cigal on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:07:00 PST

Laughter is the best medicine

Tonight I saw something unique.  The "Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour" (more info at http://www.ipcomedytour.com ).   It's a Palestinian guy (Christian Arab) who grew up in America and ...
Posted by Cigal on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:13:00 PST

so old

2 more days and I turn 29 years OLD.  Emphasis on old because I can't believe it's my last year of the 20's!  I'm thinking back to all the goals I had for this time and realize I'm quite a b...
Posted by Cigal on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:42:00 PST

More politics

The Palestinians are still launching rockets at us down here everyday (literally) and torturing our kidnapped men, but the world (or at least the media) seems to forget. I just saw a poor kid in clin...
Posted by Cigal on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:18:00 PST

med school

So I finished internal medicine months ago, and I even finished 7 weeks in pediatrics. Now I am in my last week of surgery.  I enjoyed internal and loved pediatrics. I decided to become a pediatr...
Posted by Cigal on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:14:00 PST

Pneumatic Medicine

I forgot to talk about the sci fi fun in the ER in my last post.  The ER has pneumatic tubes, like something out of "Brazil" (the movie) or 1984.  You put the blood draws in these plast...
Posted by Cigal on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:41:00 PST

ER

Wow, I finally have a couple of minutes of downtime.  Right now I'm typing from Israel's largest ER (which is at Saroka, where I study).  I'm on call tonight with another stud...
Posted by Cigal on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:14:00 PST

The best day ever

Today is the best day ever! Baruch Hashem! First I had a doctor appointment to get a referal to see a doctor who could order the hearing test I need.  This whole thing usually takes 6 months, but...
Posted by Cigal on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 10:50:00 PST

Having fun

Life has returned to normal and is good.  It's fun being on the wards, fumbling with physicals.  We finally get to do stuff, but are not responsible for anything yet, so there...
Posted by Cigal on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 08:00:00 PST