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name: cara l.c. kawahara
dob: july 22, 1977 (gifts accepted) birthplace: honolulu, hawaii family: dad, mom, 2 brothers, 1 sister-in-law, 1 niece, 2 grandparents, 6 aunts, 8 uncles, 17 cousins, 5 2nd cousins (twin boys on the way will make that 7) places i've lived: pearl city, hawaii eugene, oregon new orleans, louisiana metairie, louisiana schools i've attended: our savior lutheran preschool pearl harbor elementary school highlands intermediate school pearl city high school university of oregon tulane university school of medicine occupation: medical student what i want to be when i grow up: family physician |
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Argh! Well, I discovered why I can never get the stupid epocrates autoupdate to work...there's a tiny little disclaimer at the bottom of the screen at epocrates.com that says the program is not recommended for handspring PDAs on a Mac! Insane! So now more than ever am I rationalizing my desire to get a Palm brand PDA. And because I have expensive tastes, I of course want the Tungsten T2 (I've convinced my self that I can grow into the bluetooth technology because my computer can also get Bluetooth for a low $40 if i so choose). So maybe I'll just stop waiting for the dell deal to come by and buy it from Amazon since it's on sale there. Or I could use this other online site that has it for $345. And besides, to get it using the occasional dell deal, I need to buy something else to get the price over $400 and with memory of 32 MB, I can hold off on getting an SD memory card for awhile. Sorry folks, looks like you'll be getting some creative gifts for christmas this year. Last year was books, let's see if I start now, I can make some knit dishclothes for all! Just kidding, maybe I'll put together a photo album of all the gross yet cool pathology I've seen so far. I know Dad would love that...so much so that it could be used as a birthday and christmas present! Hey, I have seen something that many doctors have never seen - Pemphigus Vulgaris. It's a chronic blistering disease that used to be fatal by 5 years but now steroids and immunosuppressants help keep folks alive and it's now the meds that kill em. Sucks but at least they live longer than 5 years. Or maybe I'll go down to the french quarter and buy stuff there. Or maybe people will get cool toys/games...or drug pens. I'm growing a fine collection of those. So far I have Adderall, Advair, Avandamet, and Viagra pens. Well, back to work. Tonight is RocknBowl. It's only for the T1s but because Amber is performing with Dan's Band, I was placed on the guest list and Coach Dan told Amber to tell me that it's part of flag football training so I guess I have no choice but to go and drink with my friends and the fresh meat...er new T1s.
Ugh...I got my surgery rotation assignments. I'm doing general surgery at Tulane Hospital and got my first choice of Transplant Surgery for one of my specialities but ended up with my 7th choice for the other speciality - Urology. Bleh. Looks like 2 fun filled weeks of penis and prostate exams. Great. Well, I hear that the other ladies in my class have found Urology to be helpful in getting comfortable with male GU exams. I'm going to try and just repress the memory of this experience. I guess this will be my only chance to see a penis implant exam - such a thing exists and only people that can afford a for profit hospital can afford a penis implant. Now more than ever do I want to stay in Thibodaux and do more family med.
So apparently the email problem has been fixed...oh wait, that must be other people's emails because I still have no flipping mail in my webmail account and can't use my mail program to access my mailbox. Gee, I'm so glad I kept calling to get my mailbox restored because that helped! What the hell do I have to do to get my mail to be restored?!? Sacrifice my unborn child to the school?!? This is ridiculous!!! And yes, I'm still pissed.
The stupid Tulane server is still holding my messages hostage. I called today and was told that they were restoring my mailbox and yet it's 5:48 pm and nothing. Aaaaagh! I guess I'll have to call again tomorrow and be more forceful. Basically, I have no way of knowing if anyone wants to buy my microscope now because I can't get any of the messages. I'm so pissed!
Argh! The Tulane webmail is pissing me off! First I wasn't able to connect to the damn server using my mail program but I was able to log into the account on webmail. But the test message I sent myself using my yahoo account was lost in limbo somewhere (I still haven't received it). And the messages that were in the inbox weren't there. And now I can't log into Webmail because my username and/or password are nonexistent but I can now connect to the tulane server using my mail program. I can send my yahoo account an email using the tulane server and I received that one right away. And I can authenticate on the Library page to access medline and other services. What the hell! And of course the help desk is only open during the week because no problems will ever happen on the weekends. Of course this happened once before and they never responded to my email to the help desk - the problem spontaneously went away. I'm frustrated and pissed.
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