Broad spectrum WTF

Okay, so it's been a mood swingy sort of day for me for no increasing reason other than the whole taking the step 1 in a week thing.

So I get my mood leveled off to "could be mistaken for catatonic schizophrenia instead of paranoid schizophrenia and I can only differentiate between the two now because I'm anal retentive and went on a snipe hunt on Wikipedia after seeing it in the book" and so in a full state of passive anhedonia, decided to take the NBME 2, which alleviated my stress by having my frigging internet flip out in the middle of it several times, including having it do "loading next question" for like 10 minutes, and then bringing it to a "can not be viewed" page. That helps the stress out, like hugely. Because nothing calms your nerves like trying to take a mock practical and having the computer bug out.

The Suddenlink people advertise that they have the "most improved" customer service. They never say "best".

So come out post exam having finally gotten the internet to cooperate after 4 hours of chewing cinnamon gum until it dissolves and that cat starts yowling at me because she thinks it'd be awesome to pick now to go into heat.

I had a little breakdown on that because my moods weren't unstable enough, so I get on a whole "I hate my life; I miss the Rock; I need a paying job, dammit" thing for a while, and that improves, so I'm back. For now.

So then on the broad spectrum WTF and speaking of animals in heat (and a tie in to my other WTF article on the weird upswing in bestiality spam mails), I see this article attached to my Yahoo mail, because since I'm studying, it only likes to tell me about the really important news stories.

Now, instead of trying to figure out which of 17 billion cephalosporins I would use for a self-limited infection, I'm stuck trying to figure out what the most fucked up part of this story is, because it's a toss up; it is.

Happy That Holiday Between Halloween and Christmas

In lieu of my normal blog post lampooning this non-holiday, instead, in the spirit of multiculturalism (and since a friend of mine is cooking me a free meal, so I can be thankful for that, and the whole 'new president that may not be a provincial jackass thing' and the end of basic sciences), I'll instead post this extremely hilarious if four year old blog post from a guy that attempts to explain American Thanksgiving to the British.

This is contrasted to the Grenadian Thanksgiving, which is a celebration of us bombing them to supposedly liberate our "I don't think we were actually in danger of anything other than contracting dengue in our tented lecture hall" medical students, which makes perfect sense.

And the Canadian Thanksgiving, which I believe is when they celebrate the invention of the hockey stick.