I thought that once I was in grad school, I would have more time to update my blog. It has not exactly worked out that way, especially since I am getting the firehose-style preclinical courses at the Hopkins med school. Still, I do want to update at least once a week -- let us see if I manage it from now on.

My new Macbook is working great. The Microsoft Office suite runs like a bear, and there is no hope of improvement until Office 2007 is released in late 2007. Apart from that, OS X has been rock stable (knock on wood), though I had to do a quick Archive-and-Install when I screwed up Rosetta with Monolingual. I am glad I did not wait for the new Core 2 Duo Macbooks, which are still expected sometime before the holidays but not here yet.

Came across this Calvin and Hobbes strip in my sister's copy of "It's a Magical World". Thought it summed up nicely how the realities of the lives we make for ourselves constrict the breadth of our experience, even as adults.

(From this searchable archive of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips)