Sailing for Adventure

So enough of the maudlin posts. Life goes on. On a positive note, I finally picked up my undergraduate diploma (with both my majors on one diploma, how lame is that) and my M.D. diploma. Yes, it took me a long time (6 years for my BA degrees) but they are finally in my possession. So I can prove I have my degrees. Hehehe.

I was sitting around last evening and I was listening to the music that I have on iTunes. I was listening to Muppet Treasure Island and heard this song sung by Kevin Bishop, Gonzo, and Rizzo entitled Something Better. It's a catchy tune sung with a boy's soprano. And it got me to thinking, it's a brand new start and a brand new life. I also was entertaing myself re-reading my old posts from this journal as well as my Xanga page (also named Tahlmorra, I was on a Jennifer Roberson kick at the time). Entertaining times were also had re-reading Jennifer's old posts on her website. It is amazing how things have changed in our lives in the last few years. I re-read the chronicles of Jennifer's wedding and the death of her mice.

No witty witticisms to end this post. No clever observations about the mundane life. The most exciting thing in my life right now is working my way through Law and Order Season 14 on DVD (amazingly only season 1, 2, and 14 are on DVD). So I leave you with yet another song lyric.

Something Better

I wake up each day and wonder what for It seems to me there must be something more Something more than stacks of dishes And washing this old floor If I had my pick of wishes I'd wish me out that door. 'Cause I'm hungry for adventure And I'm fed up with this grind If I don't have some excitement soon I'm gonna lose my mind I want a life that is filled with thrills that's wild and free There's gotta be something better Something better There's gotta be something better than this for me I look around here and I want to cry I feel like the world is passing me by And I just can't help but wonder Am I doomed to wash and dry And is it a curse I'm under to do until I die. When I could be an explorer Sailing off to distant lands Instead of spending every afternoon just getting dishpan hands My future looks like nowhere that I want to be There's gotta be something better Something better There's gotta be something better than this for me If it's weird and wild let's go and find it The crazier the better is what I say To tell the truth I really wouldn't mind it If we found someplace with ten square meals a day

Let danger call my name If it does I'm going to hide Oh put my courage to the test And I'll be by your side We'll be by your side There's gotta be something better than this (Something more than this) I know that there's so much out there to see (to see) And I know this life I'm living can't be my destiny There's gotta be something better Something better There's gotta be something better than this for me There's something better than this for you and me facing forward

Shattered Dreams

Well, if people haven't figured it out yet, SL and I are no longer together. It happened on my birthday . . . so if I've been a little moody and cave-like that's the reason why. If you're truly interested, it's documented at the above link. I was wandering through some musicals and I've noticed that most musicals have at least one number dealing with that prickly subject of love/relationships. Some of them are affirmations, some of they are sad goodbyes. In fact, I could probably find a song to express anything I'd like. Take for instance, the song from The Boy From Oz entitled:

I Honestly Love You

Maybe I hang around here
A little more than I should
We both know I got somewhere else to go
But I've got something to tell you
That I never thought I would
And I believe you really ought to know
I love you
I honestly love you

I'm not trying to make you feel uncomfortable
I'm not trying to make you anything at all
But this feeling doesn't come along every day
And you shouldn't blow the chance
When you've got the chance to say
I love you
I honestly love you
I honestly love you

If we both were born
In another place and time
This moment might be ending with a kiss
But there you are with yours
And here I am with mine
So I guess we'll just be leaving it at this
I love you
I love you
I honestly love you

Updating on a New Year, a New Note

Well, it's the start of a new year, namely 2005. Granted, yes, I have not written on here much of 2004. Life has been extremely busy. So I guess an update is in order.

Timeline

• June 2004 - completed my intern year of the UH Pediatric Residency Program
  
• July 2004 - started my campaign as a second year resident at aforementioned program.
  
• November 2004 - turned 27 (yes twenty-seven) years old. Now I'm officially in my late 20s.
  
• December 2004 - Celebrated Christmas and all that jazz. Incidentally, the pictures from above are at Jennifer's birthday dinner at Chili's. You can see me in the reflection of Chad's video camera. Met up with Leigh Ann and gang (as Leigh Ann came down for Christmas) and had our annual gift giving exchange. And I managed to get her to promise to make me some scrubs for work.
  
• December 31,2004 - celebrated the New Year with some sparkling apple cider whilst on call overnight at Kapiolani Hospital.
  
• January 2005 - Celebrated finishing my last month on the Pediatric Wards for my second year of residency. Starting to enjoy outpatient medicine again.

So a lot of things have happened, eh? Hopefully I'll be more diligent in writing in here. Maybe if people dropped some comments it would be encouraging? No? Hint, hint, wink, wink.