piranha

3.5 miles in 25 minutes. Not so bad, 7m 08s miles. Sigh.

I don't want to go up to Davis with R&D just to run a 5K. It would be very uncomfortable and awkward being alone in a car with him for that long.

Other accomplishments of the week: I finally have an entry in Pubmed! A collaborator's work finally got published into Cancer Cell, and I'm the last student author on the list haha. It's something at least!

Met a Sudanese volunteer in the ED today. She is actually a medical student who has already taken her PGY1, and has volunteered in the states in order to apply for residency here. As in England, the medical system in Sudan involves enrolling in medical school immediately after high school. They take exams equivalent to the Steps 1 and 2 for the USMLE, and these tests only qualify them for residencies in Sudan. She said something about the program specialties not being rigorous enough, so she and her family immigrated to the United States. She still has family there, but wanted to spend her time in the United States trying to get into a Family Medicine program.

Being the person that I am, I asked her if she knew of any excellent Sudanese restaurants in town. I told her that I knew Ethiopia was pretty close to Sudan, and listed New Eritrea as a restaurant that I frequented when Poorneel was in town. In fact, she actually knows the owners of the restaurant. Things like these do not really surprise me anymore in San Francisco- it is a small world upon itself.

Authorship. Better times on runs. Secondaries coming in, even before my primary application is verified. Things are looking up this week!