Ramble Strip

There's no stripping. (Sorry.) But there's rambling, usually in the area of science, politics, pop culture, signs that are irritatingly misspelled, and religion, or anything that happens to be on my mind at the time. I post on study breaks, so that I don't go insane. Insaaaaaaaane!

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Sunday, June 04, 2006

Things that don't look so good on the surface

On second thought, nevermind about that.

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Hmm. I'm a third-year medical student (which does NOT mean I'm working on a nursing degree, for goodness sakes! Not that there's anything wrong with that.) I'm taking some time off for health reasons right now. So for some side work, I've appointed myself the unofficial spokesman for Facebook. I like photography, trying to get rid of my fat, music/movies/books, honesty, fairness, obsessively buying magazines, science and medicine, Disney World, and my iPod. And the following make me want to tear my hair out in bloody chunks: following someone who drives at the speed of smell, nepotism, deceit, the ignorant usage of the non-word "irregardless", Spanish (the class, not the people or the food), humidity, and general moonbattery. My boyfriend and I met in our first semester of undergrad, and now he has a Ph.D. in chemistry - yes, yes, he blinded me with science. We've been together for more than ten years (yes, TEN). I'm from rural West Virginia, but I own multiple pairs of shoes, and I'm not married to my brother. I don't have 47 dogs and various parts from 32 different cars in my front lawn, and my fine china isn't matching Cool Whip bowls. That is all.

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"I'd trade all my Debbie Gibson albums for ten minutes on the phone with Kimmy Ramblestrip"
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"I was so depressed about all the physiology I didn't (and still don't) know, then I come to your blog, and the world is bright again. Warm fuzzies inside."
My fellow tortured medical student Ryan

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Raindrops on roses and whiskers on blah blah blah ... stuff I like.

Links in this section take you to the book/movie/artist at Amazon, where you can spend millions of dollars and I get commission. See, everybody wins. And they open in a new window and everything.

Books:

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
A Case of Need by Michael Crichton
Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Merriam-Webster's Rhyming Dictionary Oh, shut up. Rhyming dictionaries are fun and also COOL, and everyone knows it. Hmph.
Redemption by Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook of Christian Evidences by Norman Geisler, Ron Brooks

Movies:

A Beautiful Mind - Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris (2001)
Clue - Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren (1985)
Forget Paris - Billy Crystal, Debra Winger, Joe Mantegna (1995)
Frankie & Johnny - Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer (1991)
Heathers - Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty (1989)
The Joy Luck Club - Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, France Nuyen, Lisa Lu, Ming-Na Wen, Tamlyn Tomita, Lauren Tom, Rosalind Chao (1993)
Minority Report - Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Bad Boy Colin Farrell (2002)
My Cousin Vinny - Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei (1992)
Office Space - Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston (1999)
The Princess Bride - Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright Penn (1987)
Real Genius - Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret (1985)
Shrek - Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, John Lithgow (2001)
Steel Magnolias - Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts (1989)
What's Love Got to Do With It - Angela Bassett, Lawrence Fishburne (1993)
Wicker Park - Josh Hartnett, Rose Byrne, Matthew Lillard, Diane Kruger (2004)
The Wizard of Oz - Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley (1939)

Music:

Angel by Aerosmith
Anymore by Travis Tritt
Anything That's Part of You by Elvis
Anywhere by Evanescence
At Last by Etta James
Best I Ever Had by Vertical Horizon
Black Balloon by Goo Goo Dolls
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
Brown-Eyed Girl by Van Morrison
The Change by Garth Brooks
The Dance by Garth Brooks
Dream On by Aerosmith
Everlong by Foo Fighters
Fields of Gold by Sting
I Can't Help Myself (Sugarpie, Honeybunch) by The Four Tops
I'll Be by Edwin McCain
In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel
It's Only Make Believe by Run D.M.C.
It's Tricky by Conway Twitty
Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf
Magic Man by Heart
More Than a Feeling by Boston
Only You by The Platters
The Promise by When in Rome
The Scientist by Coldplay
She Talks to Angels by The Black Crowes
She's Got a Way by Billy Joel
Shine by Collective Soul
Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns N' Roses
Take It Easy by The Eagles
This Old Heart Of Mine by Rod Stewart
Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen
Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers
Wave On Wave by Pat Green
We've Got Tonight by Bob Seger
What Might Have Been by Little Texas
Where Are You Going by Dave Matthews Band
Where the Streets Have No Name by U2
Wherever You Will Go by The Calling
With Or Without You by U2

TV:

Oh, for shame!

Boy Meets World - Ben Savage, Will Friedle, Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, Matthew Lawrence, William Daniels
Coyote Ugly - Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia, John Goodman, Maria Bello, Izabella Miko, Tyra Banks, Bridget Moynahan (2000)
NSYNC
The O.C. - Adam Brody, Benjamin McKenzie, Mischa Barton, Rachel Bilson, Kelly Rowan, Melinda Clarke, Peter Gallagher, Tate Donovan
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
Justin Timberlake

People I like. And animals too.

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At The Hop - Danny & the Juniors (couples) ~25MB
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Hooked on Country (couples) ~32MB
If You're Not In It For Love (I'm Outta Here) - Shania Twain (line) ~44MB
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Currently Reading

School stuff. Bah.

Listening

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Rollin', Rollin', Rollin':

Blogs With Names That Amuse Me:

Bloggers That Share My Love of Chicken:

Christian:

Funny Ha Ha:

INFJ Blogs:

Type Your Blog

Medical Blogs:

Regular Reads:

These guys have me blogrolled, and I like that. So they get a reciprocal link:

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Add me to your blogroll! Oh, c'mon. I would be so happy.

Who sent you? WHO SENT YOU??

Lyrics and quotes that I think are funny or poignant or something. You'll know which is which, I hope:

Wadsworth: At the beginning of the evening, I was in the hall. I know because I was there.
Clue
Jack Callaghan: I'd say that she gets under your skin as soon as you meet her. She makes you so nuts you don't know whether to hug her or just really ... armwrestle her. She would go all the way to Europe just to get a stamp on her passport. I don't know if that amounts to insanity or just being really ... likeable.
Peter Callaghan: No, that's not it.
While You Were Sleeping
Vinny Gambini:  It is possible that the two yutes ...
Judge Chamberlain Haller:  Uh, the two what? What was that word?
Vinny:  What word?
Judge Haller:  Two what?
Vinny:  What?
Judge Haller:  Did you say "yutes"?
Vinny:  Yeah, two yutes.
Judge Haller:  What is a yute?
Vinny:  Oh, excuse me, Your Honor ... [exaggerated] two YOOOOTHES.
My Cousin Vinny
Frank Costanza:  Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had - but so did another man. As I rained blows opon him, I realized there had to be another way!
Kramer:  What happened to the doll?
Frank:  It was destroyed. But out of that, a new holiday was born. "A Festivus for the rest of us!"
Kramer:  That musta been some kind of doll.
Frank:  She was.
Seinfeld
Forrest Gump:  Lieutenant Dan, what are you doing here?
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor:  I'm here to try out my sea legs.
Forrest:  But you ain't got no legs, Lieutenant Dan.
Lieutenant Dan:  Yes, I know that.
Forrest Gump
Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.
The Wizard of Oz
You've gone a million miles
How far'd you get?
That place where you can't remember
And you can't forget
Secret Garden - Bruce Springsteen
Mrs. White:  He was deranged, he was ... lunatic. He didn't seem to like me very much. He had threatened to kill me in public.
Miss Scarlett:  Why would he want to kill you in public?
Wadsworth:  I think she meant, he threatened in public to kill her.
Miss Scarlett:  Oh.
Clue
Peter Gibbons:  So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
Dr. Swanson:  What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?
Peter:  Yeah.
Dr. Swanson:  Wow, that's messed up.
Office Space
Brian:  Hola, me Ilamo es Brian ... Nosotros caramos ir condustedes.. uhhhh ...
Spanish Guy:  Hey, that was pretty good, except when you said "me llamo es Brian," you don't need the "es," just "me llamo Brian."
Brian:  Oh, oh, you speak English.
Spanish Guy:  [sigh] No, just that first speech and this one explaining it.
Brian:  You ... you're kidding me, right?
Spanish Guy:  Que?
Family Guy
Dorothy: Oh, but anyway, Toto, we're home. Home! And this is my room, and you're all here. And I'm not gonna leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all, and - oh, Auntie Em - there's no place like home!
The Wizard of Oz
There's an emptiness inside her
And she'd do anything to fill it in
And though it's red blood bleeding from her now
It's more like cold blue ice in her heart
She feels like kicking out all the windows
And setting fire to this life
She could change everything about her
Using colors bold and bright
But all the colors mix together
To grey
Grey Street (Busted Stuff version) - Dave Matthews Band
Judy Geller: Rachel, no you weren't supposed to put beef in the trifle. It did not taste good.
Friends
The One Where Ross Got High
And it seemed to me the pain would last
My chance for happiness had passed
And nothing waited 'round the bend
I was sure I'd never find someone
To heal the damage you had done
And my poor heart would never mend
Wrong again
Wrong Again - Martina McBride
Lucy:  I don't want any flowers from you, I am not wearing black underwear, and I definitely do not want to move in with you, J ... Jack!
Jack Callaghan:  I don't have any flowers, I wouldn't mind seeing you in black underwear, but under the circumstances I don't think we should move in together.
Lucy:  [giggles] I thought you were Joe Jr.
Jack:  [sighs] I get that a LOT.
While You Were Sleeping
Dallas: It's Discoman, dude! I'm gettin' outta here!
Peter Griffin: I got an idea, an idea so smart my head would explode if I even began to know what I was talking about.
Family Guy
Joey:  All right, Rach. The big question is, "does he like you?" All right? Because if he doesn't like you, this is all a moo point.
Rachel:  Huh. A MOO point?
Joey:  Yeah, it's like a cow's opinion. It just doesn't matter. It's moo.
Rachel:  Have I been living with him for too long, or did that all just make sense?
Friends
The One Where Chandler Doesn't Like Dogs
Mitch:  Did you know there's a guy living in our closet?
Chris Knight:  You've seen him too?
Mitch:  Who is he?
Chris:  Hollyfeld.
Mitch:  Why does he keep going into our closet?
Chris:  Why do you keep going into our closet?
Mitch:  To get my clothes - but that's not why he goes in there.
Chris:  Of course not, he's twice your size. Your clothes would never fit him.
Mitch:  Yeah ...
Chris:  Think before you ask these questions, Mitch. Twenty points higher than me? Thinks a big guy like that can wear his clothes?
Real Genius
Sometimes, I feel the fear of
uncertainty stinging clear
And I can't help but ask myself
how much I let the fear take the wheel and steer
It's driven me before
and it seems to have a vague
haunting mass appeal
But lately I'm beginning to find that I
should be the one behind the wheel
Drive - Incubus
I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We'll walk in fields of gold
Fields of Gold - Sting
I know you're lonely for words that I ain't spoken
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
Some things in this world,
Man, they don't make sense
Some things you don't need until they leave you
Then they're things that you miss
Bright Lights - matchbox twenty
Mayor Adam West:  Thank you all for coming. We invited Jesse Jackson to open our negotiations with a prayer. Unfortunately, he couldn't make it, so in his place we have - LaToya Jackson.
LaToya:  Thanks. Um - rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the grub. Yay God!
Mayor West:  How very inappropriate, thank you.
Family Guy
[Peter, Michael and Samir are trying to figure out how to launder money]
Peter Gibbons: I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We're looking up "money laundering" in the dictionary.
Office Space
Love, I get so lost, sometimes
Days pass
And this emptiness fills my heart
When I want to run away
I drive off in my car
But whichever way I go
I come back to the place you are
All my instincts, they return
The grand facade, so soon will burn
Without a noise
Without my pride
I reach out from the inside
In your eyes / the light the heat
In your eyes / I am complete
In your eyes / I see the doorway
In your eyes / to a thousand churches
In your eyes / the resolution
In your eyes / of all the fruitless searches
In your eyes / I see the light and the heat
In your eyes
Oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light, the heat I see in your eyes
Love
I don't like to see so much pain
So much wasted
And this moment keeps slipping away
I get so tired
Working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you
To keep me awake and alive
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you, tell you I need you
And tell you I'll set you apart
Tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions
Oh, let's go back to the start
Running in circles
Coming in tails
Heads on a science apart
Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh, take me back to the start
The Scientist - Coldplay
Soap Opera Digest reporter: How does it feel to have a huge gay fanbase?
Joey: Really? Me? Wow. I don't even know any huge gay people.
Friends
The One With Joey's Interview
My hope, my dreams come true
My life I'd give for you
My heart, a wedding ring
My all, my everything
My heart I can't control
You lure my very soul
My only prayer will be
Someday you'll care for me
But it's only make believe
It's Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty
Peter Griffin: Excuse me, is your refrigerator running? Because if it is, it probably runs like you - very homosexually.
Family Guy
[at Peter Griffin's evil dictator barbecue]
Peter:  Hey, Slobodon, you made it!
Slobodon Milosevic:  I didn't know what to bring, so I made coleslaw. It's made out of people! Ha ha, just kidding. Hey, is Muammar here yet?
Peter:  Yeah, he's over there with Saddam.
Saddam (laughing, to Muammar Qaddafi):   And then Jerry guessed that her name was "Mulva".
Muammar:  That show is so funny. It really reminds me of me and my friends. You know, the way we just hang out - before I kill them for worshipping the wrong God.
Saddam:  Yeah, and I love that Kramer guy - he comes in the room like this - [braying] - well, I can't do it, but you know.
Family Guy
Nigel Powers [to Goldmember]: There are only two things I can't stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures ... and the Dutch.
Austin Powers in Goldmember
And maybe, I'll find out
A way to make it back someday
To watch you, to guide you
Through the darkest of your days
If a great wave shall fall, and fall upon us all
Then I hope there's someone out there
Who can bring me back to you
Wherever You Will Go - The Calling
If we measure lives not in time
but in grace,
in the joy with which they are lived,
and in the love they leave behind,
then we have
much to learn
from our cats.
RIP YoYo, April 1989 - October 2004
RIP Cinders, April 2000 - June 2005
RIP Lucky, August 1999 - July 2005
RIP Frisco, June 2005 - November 2005
Phoebe: Whoa whoa whoa! You guys, do you know anything about chicks?
Chandler: Fowl? No. Women? No.
Friends
The One With the Chick and the Duck
Hard for you I've fallen / But you can't break my fall
Some Devil - Dave Matthews
[Vizzini has just cut the rope The Dread Pirate Roberts is climbing up]
Vizzini: He didn't fall? Inconceivable.
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The Princess Bride
What hurts the most
Was being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away
And never knowing
What could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was tryin' to do
What Hurts the Most - Rascal Flatts
As for decent behavior in ourselves, I suppose it is pretty obvious that it does not mean the behavior that pays. It means things like being content with thirty shillings when you might have got three pounds, doing school work honestly when it would be easy to cheat, leaving a girl alone when you would like to make love to her, staying in dangerous places when you would rather go somewhere safer, keeping promises you would rather not keep, and telling the truth even when it makes you look a fool.
C.S. Lewis