sweet rain

i love sitting cozy in my basement nook while a cajillion raindrops pour down and the air vibrates with the force of the thunder. the thunder here isn't the same as in the midwest - it's less uproarious [perhaps a little less sure of itself?] but that's ok. it's a taste of home. sometimes i just want to put on my bikini and lay on my patio and take a shower in the pure rain. except that it's not pure, probably. it's probably full of chemicals that are bad for humans to put on their skin. oh well. it's just the price we pay for being industrialized. worth it? maybe the verdict's still out on that one.

later, alligators. i must write a paper on the role of community health centers in reducing the cost of healthcare. i'm going to tell you all about my thoughts on the health care system as it is and how i think it should be - another time.

xoxo

kate and ellie [the princess who won't step a toe out into the rain]

i love this time of year the most

except that it's hard to focus on the beautiful weather with all of the indoor studying to be done. but occasionally we get out in the clean air [except that i use the term clean loosely because i always see the ribbons of pollution streaming from the low flying planes that constantly crisscross my portion of the sky].

this week is going to be especially nuts, with [probably] three days of getting dressed up to go to clinical stuff, one day with an "evidence based medicine" [statistics, barf] class and then the longest two hours of my life during a health care reform small group [i love the topic, but this particular group session feels like it lasts for 10 years each time] as well as brain lab. not to mention studying. which is important too.

well i'm glad to be back, and we'll chat more later for sure. now i need to go do my piles of homework, horray!

kate and lil pup

a promised dose of cute

[i hope that ellie's cuteness overrides my laziness in not weeding in between the patio tiles . . .]

i'm apologizing in advance

for the upcoming blog post drought.

it turns out that the brain is confusing. and there are a lot of things to learn. we have an exam in exactly one week and i'm going to have to buckle down right now in order to have a basic (just basic) knowledge of all 30 (thirty!) lectures. i'm accepting good thoughts and prayers if you want to send them my way :)

maybe i'll talk to you soon! i'll obtain some cute pictures of little ellie's mug, ok?

play time in the big city

hi there friends! this'll be a quick post with mostly pictures, i'm sipping on a nightcap (magic hat #9, not quite pale ale . . . it is so tasty. a shout out to bre for introducing it to me!!) and about to head to bed because i'm going to really try to make it to lecture tomorrow . . .

this past saturday was one of the most fun ones i've had in quite some time. it started with a dinner picnic on the potomac with friends:

then michelle and i acted like fools at the dupont fountain while waiting on andy:
then we did some bar hopping like little twenty-somethings!

we had such a nice time, but i should say that i might be getting a little too old for these shenanigans. the older you get, the harder it is to bounce back the next morning!

thanks for the fun times, pb + j!

xoxo

kate and ellie

(i promise there will be some unbelievably cute pictures of the pup up soon. or maybe even some video of her being super cute. if you want some flipping cuteness to tide you over check out the puppy cam . . . brilliant)

an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind   

-gandhi