"We used to be blinding."

I love wearing heels especially in days when I can get rid of them fast, snuggle up on the couch and enjoy a day of movies and scrumptious food :))

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I love Easter. I love it because Easter usually means a whole week of holiday and lazying around and yummy food leftover from the big Easter party. So yeah, one of my favorite times of the year even if it includes me being dragged to church when I'd rather sit at home and watch mindless tv shows. I have a bad relationship with the midnight church service ever since I lit a girl's hair on fire a few years ago and then proceeded to panic and yell and smack her over the head to put the fire out. Ah, good times.

My mother always loathes taking me with her ever since I realized the fun I can have by telling people the reason why I don't pray is because I serve only one dark ruler and master and that is God of Chocolate, Cupcakes and Apathy :))

Alas, my plans have been made for me by my Cardiology rotation. I need to get up to date with all cardiology related biochemistry, pharmacology, anatomy and physiology I've learned and quickly forgotten in the past four years.

And if I can also get a brand new brain too to help me memorize all that, all will be peachy. Any Einstein around here who would like to donate a fully functioning brain to a poor medical student? I'll even take just an hemisphere, I'm not picky, I swear!

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Because I came to the conclusion that I've been spending too much time in front of a computer, on the couch or in hospital rooms I decided two things: a) start going to the gym again and b) spend time in the sun more because I'm starting to resemble a pale and flabby cousin of one Mister Edward Cullen.

I came to two conclusions: I hate the sun and am deadly afraid of getting sun spots or skin cancer (I blame you, medical school!) and I am so out of shape that one hour of Tae-Bo means not being able to move for one week. I was this close to yelling at people I'll give them a kidney as long as I get a piggy back ride up any flight of stairs.

But! But I am trying to enjoy this spring. By having photoshoots! Win-Win for all!

Wore a bowtie in preparation for the brand new season of Doctor Who. Because bowties are cool and if you think differently that just means that you're just too uncool for real cool.





This is Fred, he's my skull pendant who unfortunately suffers from severe exophthalmy :))



Bowties, still cool.






In case you still didn't believe I'm a giant nerd: I am the proud owner of a Doctor Who sonic screwdriver, Eleventh Doctor edition. Boo-Yah baby!!












Wearing: Mango dress, sweater & skull pendant, Accessorize sunglasses, unknown tights, Zara shoes & blazer, Gourmandise bowtie.



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Spent Monday as it were a sublime Sunday: watched Doctor Who and Scrubs, did my nails, ate like the food was about to disappear from my plate in the next second and read anatomy books while The Boy played Starcraft 2.



Can every day be like this please?



Wine and magazines brought especially for me from Italy. Being spoiled from time to time is not so bad ;)



And, last but not least, Eye of Sauron marshmallow candies. Mmmm, I love the taste of fictional evil in the morning.

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Song of the Day: You Me At Six & Chiddy - Rescue Me

"I'm a runaway son of a nuclear A-bomb."

Considering I sometimes live on Red Bull, caffeine, cigarettes and sugar, I am trying to score some good points with my future doctor and at least enjoy a healthy breakfast. I might be a hypochondriac but at least I know for sure I will never die of avitaminosis :))

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Cardiology is the equivalent of bashing one's brain with a pillow wrapped around a brick and still loving it to bits at the end of the day. Every day is just a way to prove that as much as we think we know we are still as dumb as a sack of potatoes when it comes to a lot of stuff in the grand medical scheme of things. Still loving every minute of it though ♥

I am so tired that I spent yesterday doing nothing but sleeping and eating (seriously, babies should stop crying and complaining, this is the best. life. ever!) but I am enjoying it all so much, to the point that the "Guess the Diagnosis!" game I play with random strangers in the subway in the morning has gotten much more interesting with the added cardiovascular option. High-five! Anyone? Anyone? No? Damn.

Now I just need to get my head on straight and figure out EKGs. Damn them squiggly lines.

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This is what my darling Roxana calls our "modelling pose", I call it our "girls will be girls" pose :))

Spent a lovely Friday night at the Next Film Fest. Saw three really good shorts (Six Shooter, West Bank Story and The Mozart of Pickpockets) and loved them all even if we left before the end because the need to eat overpowered our need to watch movies. Let me tell you, midnight drives in search of hummus and wine do make weekends that much better.

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Sunday was spent eating and watching tv shows. The Boy bought a coconut and then proceeded to bash it into submission while I pranced around the kitchen singing the Monty Python song.






Because some days are made to be lazy.

We also went and saw Sucker Punch. I read so many bad reviews but I personally loved it. I didn't go in expecting a movie about the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything (I'll go read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for that) and it was just what I wanted: a fun, thrilling, kick-ass movie that, even with some of its really glaring mistakes, was very entertaining. I'm all for girl power and honestly, if I could fight dragons and zombie robots while wearing thigh-highs and heels I would love every moment of it :)

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And of course one week cannot go by without an improvised photoshoot. Sunny days are still the equivalent of the Holy Grail around here and that means I am milking every ray of sun for what it's worth.

I'm amused by the fact that my posing face looks almost exactly like my I-have-been-sleeping-just-3-hours-a-night-because-I've-been-going-through-all-the-seasons-of-Black-Books-in-one-night face. Hmm.



It was also one of the last days last week when my hair looked okay. I am currently looking like a poodle who has been bathed in a bathtub with a toaster because of the daily rains. It's the kind of sacrifice I make for the chance to wear my favorite wellies :P






Still had that Monty Python song in my head :))









Wearing: Depot 96 dress, Mango sweater, Accessorize tights, Musette boots, vintage belt, Parfois bracelet.



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Song of the Day: Skunk Anansie - Search and Destroy

"Now hang me up to dry, I'm pearly like the whites of your eyes"

When buying gifts for medical students follow these rules: a) has to have to do with anatomy/physiology/any other gross-and-weird-ology and b) if it says something like "For kids of ages 3 years and up" on the box then we have a winner!! Because we will screw around with it any way possible and love it.

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It's a weird day when you come to the bleak conclusion that when you find out you have a free week of nothing to do but lazy around your first thought is "I wonder if I can score some nice night shifts at the hospital?". I think it's some sort of separation anxiety given by the fact that I've finally finished my Pulmonology rotation and am now ready to throw myself (or, as it usually
happens around here: fall blindly while clutching my heart like a Victorian wench) into the new and heart-stopping exciting (ha ha!) Cardiology rotation.

At least the last month has been interesting. Here's to you patient who thought it would be a good idea to cut your central line with a pair of household scissors and then put a band-aid over the hole. Or to you, lady who used her inhaler by spraying it in the air around your head. And even you, the lady who apparently threw her boots at our attending doctor.

What can I say, people tend to get more and more special with each new rotation. I think I should be worried... but man, these are going to make some great stories on future drinking nights :))

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We proved that birds of a feather stay together when one of our own future M.D.s celebrated her birthday. What! We're not immature, we just stay forever young ;)

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The weekend brought forth sunny days with freezing cold nights but I decided to focus on the whole vitamin D production thing and lazied around in the sun like a comatose lizard. And took some photos to share with you and prove, once and for all, that I did not fall in a dark pit of despair and dashed hopes, but that I am really just an extremely dallying drama queen at heart. Ha!






This is one of those sunshiny days when the line "My glasses! My glasses! I can't be seen without my glasses!" seems to fit the scene/photo just right.



I was joined by my lovely Florina who sort of unconsciously kicked my ass in lessons of posing. Either that, or she's just preposterously pretty. Hmm, will go with door option number two!






Improvised photoshoots, for the win!






dress & blazer: Zara, scarf: Pull&Bear Men, boots & bag: Musette.



Cute, but it sure gets cuttingly chilly when you are missing half a dress. Sigh, the lengths we will go to and the cold we will get for The Pretty, capitalization required ;)

Now back to my viciously exciting life. And by that I mean back to watching reruns of Scrubs because it's an early tradition to go through an obsession with that show and JD is so my spirit animal. And back to sitting in bed reading about Atherosclerosis and Myocarditis . Why? Just because I'm bored and weird, that's why :))

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Song of the Day: Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up to Dry