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About Me

I'm part snowboarder, part doctor... How much of each really depends on how much snow has fallen in the last 24 hours. (Its hard to work on a powder day!). I love what I do for a living, though... I aspire to be a physician revolutionary--champion of the underserved, but I believe its also really important to have fun. I guess I'm not sure how it's all going to shake out when I grow up, but I suppose I'll be doing cross-cultural medicine here in the US and hopefully overseas. The main problem is that the places that need help don't have snow, and the places that have great snow don't need more doctors. I'll somehow find a way to balance it all... and that is a beautiful thing!

My Interests

Snowboarding, hanging out with friends, music, playing in Truckee, playing yoga, traveling, and Zolie (Bernese Mtn) dogs... Don't tell Catch, but I still miss Zolie, working on my house, fly fishing, tattoos, flickr, ooh and playing pool badly!

I'd like to meet:

Dalai Lama, Jeremy Jones (big mtn, not jibber), Victoria Jelouse

Music:

KEXP, Shins, Modest Mouse, Decemberists, DMB, Mos Def, Franz Ferdinand, Mason Jennings, Bluegrass, J5, Tegan and Sara, Jedi Mind Tricks, Beck (Guero), Stars, Midlake:) Rogue Wave, Tapes'n Tapes, Bloc Party, Band of Horses, Architecture in Helsinki, Silversun Pickups, Feist, Viva Voce, CLOUD CULT!, Spoon, Vampire Weekend, New Pornographers, and Arcade Fire.

Movies:

Princess Bride, Rabbit Proof Fence, Garden State, Finding Neverland, Motorcycle Diaries, Amelie, City of God, Out of Africa, Babe (yeah, the movie about the pig), Little Miss Sunshine, Juno! Snowboarding movies: Optigrab, Paradox, TB8 but I'll watch them all...

Television:

Don't watch much TV, but I do like Lost, Weeds and Big Love on Netflix!!! God bless Netflix!

Books:

Desert Solitaire, Seven Years in Tibet, House of God, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Interpretor of Maladies, The Coming Plague

Heroes:

The kids at the hospital who are way tougher than I'll ever be!

My Blog

Obama speaks at Ebenezer Baptist Church

Please watch this speech!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf0x_TpDris
Posted by Vicki on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:20:00 PST

Cloud Cult makes me feel...

So back in August I went to the KEXP BBQ and saw a bunch of bands. What I didn't expect was to fall in love.I mean I've listened to Cloud Cult before. I liked the Advice from the Happy Hippopotomus al...
Posted by Vicki on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:36:00 PST

Satellite Radio vs. KEXP

My mom got me the best gift for Christmas-- satellite radio. On a recent trip to Montana, I had an oppportunity to spend some extended time listening to it. I started thinking about all the different ...
Posted by Vicki on Thu, 03 May 2007 10:11:00 PST

The things you learn at work

So I was hanging out with one of the cystic fibrosis kids last night at work and I asked him about how he managed having a chronic and degenerative disease (seemed relevant). He said, "At first you sp...
Posted by Vicki on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:47:00 PST

Belly ring

You have to take all metal out of your body to go into an MRI tube... (unless you want to end up glued to the magnet or having the metal ripped out of your flesh)...So belly ring is out for the first ...
Posted by Vicki on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:15:00 PST

Going blind in my right eye

Hmm... until a week ago I could see fine out of my right eye. Now it's blurry... Makes depth perception hard, and if my pool game was bad before, it really stinks now;) What a pain in the butt! I don'...
Posted by Vicki on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:12:00 PST

Lockdown

So, I'm on call at Harborview... scary enough in it's own right... But I come to find out that we are currently on "lockdown". Sounds like something that happens in jail... not a hospital... We have 7...
Posted by Vicki on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:00:00 PST