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Irish Red

About Me

I'm a medical student addicted to hot tea (with milk!) and NPR. I like to travel (only three continents to go!), especially if I can help people in the process. Most importantly I am mommy to a 4lb ball of fur named Sam. I appreciate kindness, intelligence, and a good sense of humor---and I really hate condensing my life into a three sentence blurb.

My Interests

laughing, reading, singing, traveling, spending time outdoors, sailing, puzzles (most recently Sidoku), knitting, cross stich, and a series of various other crafts that I buy a lot of supplies for and that end up boring me quickly. International medicine. Did I mention reading?

I'd like to meet:

People who love what they do or do what they love.

Music:

Most everything; can even tolerate Rap and Country if it is done well. I'm currently trying to explore female blues artists. I like to sing Irish art songs, Janis Joplin, spirituals, and most churchy choral music, but haven't done much of that lately

Movies:

Most recently: Little Miss Sunshine, The Departed Some Past favorites: Goonies, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Pride & Prejudice (BBC version), Love Actually, Borne Identitiy, Robin Hood (the disney version), anything with Johnny Depp, almost anything with Leonardo DiCaprio

Television:

Must admit I'm a LOST fan. Also like most things on PBS (don't have cable), oh and America's Next Top Model (don't judge!).

Books:

Any and All! Books I've currently read part of but not finished: Dublin, Giliad, Wicked, Choosing a Medical Specialty, Basics of Cooking, Oxford Anthology of Irish Short Stories, Creating a New Medicine (on alternative medicine), The Sound and the Fury, and probably five others I'm forgetting.

My Blog

Temple of Doom

I touched a beating heart yesterday--I stuck my hand into the chest of an actual living person and touched a real, live heart!  I did not however pull it out and hold it up for all to see or...
Posted by Irish Red on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:17:00 PST

Gall-bag goes bye-bye

Note to self: If you find yourself in excruciating pain to the point of crying and moaning you should go to the Hospital ER even if you have just spent 15 hours working in said hospital and only want ...
Posted by Irish Red on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:32:00 PST

Boards!!!

Yeah!!! I passed!!!! Now the crappy academic years of medschool are finally over! AND I am finished with my two weeks on Labor & delivery and after what I saw am strongly considering adoption as th...
Posted by Irish Red on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 04:50:00 PST

Perspective

So yesterday when I was completely fed up I went home, laid down with little Sam curled up in the crook of my neck, and listened to some NPR.  One story was about veterans of the current Gulf War...
Posted by Irish Red on Tue, 30 May 2006 10:06:00 PST

Where am I going and why am I in a handbasket?

I think I have finally reached the point where I cannot possibly learn anything else or think anymore--a big problem since I take one of the biggest tests of my life in three days!  I am very tir...
Posted by Irish Red on Mon, 29 May 2006 09:48:00 PST