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Study hopping across the country: New York MTA Q48 LaGuardia → LGA → Southwest Airlines → BWI → Southwest Airlines → LAX → James Acero Express → Venice → Metro Rapid 733 → Los Angeles Union Station → Metrolink Orange County Line → Orange Station → OCTA 54 Garden Grove → home. *pant pant*.

Study hopping in Manhattan: 7 Times Square express → Ghostbusters Public Library → D → Rockefeller Center → Lego store → Nintendo World → 42nd/Grand Central Station → Five Guys cheezbrger → Grand Central Library → Mid-Manhattan Library → Times Square → Toys 'R Us → 7 Flushing express.

In order to get to a friend's party in Irvine, I have to travel 2 hours on 2 bus lines 20 hours before the Saturday event starts because no one travels around Orange County on the weekends and the Irvine Company keeps building homes in the boonies. SI/HI.

UC Irvine Healthcare is finally migrating its computer systems from Internet Explorer 6 to 7, a browser that was released FOUR YEARS ago. *facepalm*.

Where are some good places to study in Manhattan and Queens? Borders bookstores gets packed like crazy.

Conquering Manhattan: 7 local → E express → MOMA → 1 local → Columbia Univ → Harlem → Amy Ruth's chicken & waffles → 2/3 express → High Line Park → A/C/E local → TriBeCa → 1 local → Shakespeare in the Park at Castle Clinton → 1 local → 7 local.

I PASSED SURGERY OMGWTFBBQ.

Thank you, Borna Dabiri + Annie Zhujiang for making Boston (and Providence and Cambridge!) an amazing, fun-filled time. I loved visiting Harvard, MIT, the Freedom Trail, and the empty creepy streets and oil-filled riverfront of Rhode Island's capital.

What's the best way to say "happy birthday" to a friend you haven't said "hi" to in awhile? Talayeh Khatibi has a Facebook birthday tomorrow, along with Christina Cheng, Joseph Ruff, and Steve Pham this week, but are quick Facebook messages appreciated or too impersonal?

Whole Foods in Columbus Circle has 45 cash registers and is CROWDED. You can get free parking for 2 hours from them...if you buy $200 worth of groceries.

At New York city's first Trader Joe's (Union Square/14th St N R Q 4 5 6 station). There are at least 100 people in line and 20 cash registers. Crazy!

To work today. Flushing/Main → 7 Express → Grand Central/24 → 6 Local.

in Las Vegas, waiting for my plane to New York City to take off. 4 weeks. It's bittersweet, coming back to NYC alone. Really makes my heart hurt.

<24hr until 3rd year is done!! And what a smashing end, with trauma exam q's like "A 14yo boy slides down a banister, not realizing there's a big knob at the end of it. He smashes the scrotum... scrotal hematoma the size of a grapefruit." (answer: u/s) And "A 41yo man reports that he 'slipped' in the shower and injured his manhood. Large penile shaft hematoma w\ normal-appearing glans." The answer: "woman on top."

study party at Peet's Coffee at UC Irvine University Center (Bridge/Campus) tomorrow 1pm-ish. Wheee.

Coffee drinks + a seat along Metro Rail + Downtown L.A. + the soundtrack to Final Fantasy Tactics A2 = the perfect study combination.

will start attending E3, Comic-con, and Lakers games, watch Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-2, and start playing all the past decades' Zelda games on the Nintendo 3DS 2, Wii 2, and Xbox 720 in 2016. Damn you, family medicine exam and surgery exams.

2 more weeks and 3 final exams... then... neuro in New York City!! WOOOHOO!!!

Zoning out today post-call! 1 woman hit the curb 35mph on her motorcycle and fractured her arms. 1 man with 2 DUIs in the past week crashed 50mph and totaled another parked car, +EtOH, and I Foley'd him for not cooperating, to his great displeasure. Studying yet again for surgery Saturday, Borders (The City Dr S/City Blvd W).

Need advice: How can I make the most out of trauma call tomorrow night? And what helps you stay awake for 30 hours straight?