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Single worst day on Ob/Gyn yet. More to come. For now, sleep.

That's Right, Baby

236 Days, 23 hours, 14 minutes, and 7 seconds until graduation.

Given recent events on certain baby-delivering rotations and their stress ill-adapted residents, I cherish every second that passes. That's all I got to say.

"Tell Me MORE About Zyour Mohzer"

Just received my residency interview request from my home institution! Wahoo! And although I'm (still) waiting for one more letter of recommendation to come in, this will do quite nicely. Seeing as though I'd LOVE to stay here in Houston at a department that I both meld beautifully with and is only getting better, this is great news.

Maybe a mid-century modern couch for psychotherapy?

"Y'all Are Where?"

In an effort to navigate the masses and meet up with the people you came with, some at Austin City Limits Music Festival were bright enough to fashion flags. I just thought I'd include a few here.

Austin City Limits

Austin City Limits is probably the single coolest music event in the country. Apparently homeboys in Texas' liberal bastion know how to put on a good...ahem...great show of quasi-underground music for 65,000 of their closest friends. In any case, I got to see an amazingly entertaining band Brazilian Girls (albeit, there is only one girl in the band, and no member is from Brazil). I had their debut, self-titled album before courtesy of an internal medicine resident from New Orleans. I loved it. Then, after having seen them in person, they've catapulted up my favorites list to join Erykah Badu, Jamiroquai, and Fila Brazilia. Their new album Talk to la Bomb is hotter than a whore in church as the saying goes. Very high energy and very fluid fun lyrics, in English, French, German, and I think Portuguese. Apparently the lead singer above, is a lanky world citizen now living in New York's underground party scene. The most obvious thing of course is that she apparently likes to cover her face when performing. Word on the street is that despite dripping with a narcissistic and borderline personality traits, she sees her eyes as too intimate; they're the window to her soul. Right. Faces are generally hidden only during bank robberies, trips to certain Middle East Countries, and other semi-clandestine activities. In short, creepy but SOOOO much fun. Hands down the best performance at ACL.
The drummer of Brazilian Girls has incredibly high energy. At the end of their grand-oeuvre (whose title tongue in cheek title rhymes with 'wussy') he threw his drum stick to the audience MUCH to the elation of the frighteningly territorial recipient of said drum stick. Not that serious chica.
I also go to the see the Federico Aubele, this Argentine much in the style of Thievery Corporation that has somehow managed to be a very contemporary expression of culturally Argentine music. I had trouble finding his CD over a year ago at the indy CD shops in town, but there he was! He previewed some of his songs from an upcoming album and they sounds amazing. Waiting on pins and needles.

All in all a great time with the roomate and his sister, and an irreplaceable music experience. Brazilian Girls, Federico Aubele, The Shins, Thievery Corporation, Calexico, the Raconteurs. All amazing. Hopefully I'll be able to swing by next year.

Non Sequitur

"Tell me About Zyour Mohzer"

Wahoo! Got my first psychiatry residency interview today at 10:03a. Imagine that. I'm not quite sure all of my application is complete in that one of my letter writers has recently become quite busy, but nonetheless interview. I'll have to go pay my home state a visit.

I'm overjoyed to be closer to having my very own ultramodern psychotherapy couch.

India & Brazil, eh?

A video clip of garba two weeks ago. Also, if you look carefully for a Black guy in a light green shirt in the front of the dancing masses, you can spot me here. Apparently the Brazilian Arts Foundation decided to put together a little video of their Samba in the Heights program from earlier this summer. Lucky for Houston, there's another on Saturday!

Pregnant Imperialists

"In the Roman era it was: pregnant, lactating, pregnant, lactating, pregnant, lactating, then you die." - Obstetrician/Gynecologist

Non Sequitur

The Houston Ebony Opera Guild put on a showing of 'Carmen' in Miller Outdoor Theater the other weekend. Bella, bella, bella.

Top 10 a la Gonzo

In the style of Gonzo, the premier psych intern in these here parts, I'll also share my top played song on iTunes. They come highly recommended.

1. Digital Vibrations - Jamiroquai
2. Everyday -Jamiroquai
3. I Am the Black Gold of the Sun - Nuyorican Soul
4. La Femme d'Argent
5. Butterfly - Jamiroquai
6. Twisted (4 Hero Remix) - Ultra Nate
7. Today - Erykah Badu
8. Conceptions - 4 Hero
9. Shadows of Ourselves - Thievery Corporation
10. Otherside of the Game - Erykah Badu