smooch!

My brother Shum and sister-in-law Diana are married. that's the big news. I don't have the pictures to prove it because I was using a manual camera, but I swear it's the truth. Instead, I will just have to salute them with New York's Finest:



congrats, family!


please return your seat to the full upright and locked position
I stepped today off the sixth plane I have taken since I got back from Ghana exactly 16 days ago, and the 8th in 17 days. And we're not done yet, folks! Aaron's Maine Birthday looms brightly next weekend. I was very nearly run right over today by a young woman racing to offer herself to be bumped for a free flight. She smiled at me and said, as if it excused her shocking behavior, that she especially needed it because she, a pesky med school applicant, was going to have to fly all over for her interviews and didn't get reimbursed. I started to explain that I, too, might have such flights in my future, but it wasn't worth explaining what a clerkship was. Her elbows would fit right in in Ghana, though. And in med school, probably. This is starting to sound a little like a medical school rant, which is unnecessary (but maybe a little bit funny?), and dumb, since I really have nothing against med school or med school applicants. Let's explain it away with the confession that I'm feeling feverish, and not from excitement. Hopefully just exhaustion. But that isn't allowed to stop me from stuffing my clerkship applications tomorrow. School starts Wednesday. Thank heavens above Jessie will be here to help ease the pain.


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p.s. neither the elbower nor I received a free flight.