in the summer, in the city

after a much-needed week at home in merryland, tomorrow it's back to cleveland for a summer of work. lots of people have asked me why, for this, my last free summer ever, with the chance to go anywhere i want, i decided to stay in cleveland. sometimes, i wonder the same thing. but right now i'm excited to go back. i have a sweet sweet job waiting for me--an exciting project on the genetics of heart attack. and now, unlike earlier this year when i started the project but was utterly lost, i have a handle on the basic physiological processes--hemodynamics, cardiac function, inflammation--that underlie my research.

in other words, like the detroit pistons, i say, "bring on the heat." it'll be nice to experience the working life for a change. 9-to-5 weekdays, carefree weekends, no studying constantly hanging over my head. but, masochist that i am, i'll be updating this blog daily again, mostly with reviewed material from the past year. also, now that i'm no longer haphazardly studying for my comp exam, i'll be reading up in a more organized fashion, so my posts should make more sense from one day to the next. or at least the actual medical content will. my metaphors and mnemonics, on the other hand, will likely become bizarrer and bizarrer. after all, this blog is still all about me and me trying to learn my stuff. ya'll will just have to deal.

yay? yay.