Counting Down with a Former Sidekick
As a child, I was raised on a healthy diet of isolation and broadcast television. These two forces combined to shape my world view into the healthy grounded state that governs my every decision as an adult (and unwittingly prepared…
UnPawsing My Life
Let me take you on a journey to the past. The year? 2016. The month? July. The reason? Because. It was a different world back then. Everyone was wearing rompers, the nation became obsessed with a show called Stranger Things,…
Surviving The Gauntlet …. and Butterflies
A few weeks ago I was in the throes of an optometric gauntlet; a brutal week of 5 back to back finals over 5 days to cap off the summer semester of the second year of optometry school. The air…
Beauty at School, Beast at Home
Previously, on Derek’s extra hot world famous blog: (Blog #3) Derek: “Sometimes, school is stressful. *Giggles tee hee!*” (Blog #5) Derek: “It’s important to deal with stress from school in a healthy way! Stress Stress stress! Right?” (Blog #736) Derek: “Let’s talk about…
1/2 Doctor
In the 1978 smash hit Grease, as the movie was nearing its end, Sandra Dee (look at her!) turns to Frenchie and says, “Frenchie babe. I desperately need to ingratiate myself to unreliable 18 year old playboy Danny Zuko! So…
Me Doctor Meow?!
“Me is doctor?!? Right meow?” This was the exact thought that coursed through my doctor brain right before I performed my first exam on a real patient. This is the eloquent refined kind of thinking that the public has come…
Holiday Nesting
Flashback time : It was merely one month ago and I was sitting on the floor (undignified?) of the guest bedroom of my house, surrounded by a swirl of study materials (papers, charts, diagrams, books, computer …). Nestled into the…
Topsy Turvy
Life is unpredictable. Need proof, do you??!? Would you ever have predicted that I was going to show you an image of sister clams with pigtails jumping on a trampoline? Okay, so it’s not as if I’m going out on…
Derek vs Time
Time is an uncaring nuisance that was devised to thwart ambition. That’s a verifiable fact. I feel like I’m constantly running out of time and negating to follow through with the myriad of ideas that I come up with on…
Becoming Mr. Business
All throughout this second semester of optometry college, I had this constant feeling like I was forgetting something. The air around me each day was heavy with this feeling – like, I forgot to lock the doors of my car, leaving…