Archive for March 2013
the waiting room
Yesterday I drove a friend to a doctor’s visit. Not being a patient, I had about 1 hour to sit & just observe. I remember thinking for a moment that it might be an interesting study for a sociologist, anthropologist, or psychologist, to just sit and observe human behavior. A few minutes later I find…
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When I was in graduate school I had a job in Charlie’s Lab. It was a super-nerdy-real-deal-haven of scientific endeavor. Charlie had a number of research assistants, there were three of us sharing our lab space along with some fancy high-dollar equipment. There was the slutty med student who was all emo & crying about…
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