Updates. Thoughts.

• Have you ever thought how you met important people in your life? What did you do together on those couple of first awkward dates, when you were still getting to know each other? My friend got me thinking about this, when she described her beginning relationship with a 30-year old pediatrician working in our hospital -- I realized that I can't really imagine it being done this way. And that I'm kind of lucky I don't have to go through this any time soon or maybe never again... It's just -- he invited her to a dinner and they went to have a pizza. Another date was in a coffeehouse. Nothing against that in particular, but if I remember well, I spent my first dates 1) walking around Prague at night and talking about stuff till the morning, 2) sitting on the ground in an overcrowded tram and then figuring out how to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew, 3) on a Jewish cemetery. Something's either wrong about the pizza or I got too old in those 2 years when I haven't had a first date.

• They should legalize MDMA. And people should take it somewhere else than on parties. They should pick a nice day, sit outside with someone they care about, drink plenty of water and eat a banana when they come home. Be prepared for a humbling religious experience of what heaven probably feels like.

• Only one week into it and I already know that school's gonna be boring this semester. All the internal medicine courses are going to kill me and it's just starting with endocrinology and zillion people with either hypothyroidism or diabetes. I miss surgery, I miss going to the operating room and I miss night shifts in the ER.

• Crohn's is O.K. now. Mesalamine working? Right before the school started, I'd had two days of joint pain and stomach pain back home, but when I walk a lot to/from school/work, it really gets much better. I found out about one more thing which makes me feel sick except coffee, cigarettes and alcohol. It's milk, which is really cruel from my bowels, cause I just LOVE milk. Couldn't it be something else -- like almost every kind of vegetable? But I cheat anyway, I just need to make sure I don't do it outside of home.

• Certain people's world view is just not meant to be understood -- by me. I'm not sure, if seeing my classmate to obviously brag about her recent one-week vacation in Caribbean, paid by her rich married older bald boyfriend and spent entirely by the hotel pool drinking coctails, should make me laugh cause it's too funny or cry cause some people apparently call this travelling.