Test Me Already!

My eyes are just about to pop out of their sockets from reading and re-reading topics, questions and case scenarios. Knowing that the certification exam I am about to take entails facing a computer for 2-hour blocks to complete 5 (or is it just 4?) sets, I try to read topics through the on-line textbook (that thankfully, I still have access) to assimilate my eyes with this gruesome staring-at-the-screen-non-stop task. I can just imagine myself on Tuesday: eyes squinting in the cold computer room, awkwardly slouched in an attempt to be comfortable in the plastic chair, and reminding myself to read s - l - o - w - l - y so I don't overlook clues and make stupid mistakes.

So it's fitting to exercise my testing skills with a few questions. This one I got from my sis, and I'm surprised mine turned out so unlike hers. I say that because on the previous random occasions that I would take her suggested quizzes, I'd inevitably get exactly her result that I actually quit doing it.

You Are Sunset

Even though you still may be young, you already feel like you've accomplished a lot in life. And you feel free to pave your own path now, and you're not even sure where it will take you. Maybe you'll pursue higher education in a subject you enjoy - or travel the world for a few years. Either way, you approach life with a relaxed, open attitude. And that will take you far!

What Time Of Day Are You?

And nope, I'm not done. Here's one more. I love quizzes without a wrong answer (although the Monica Geller in me yells: But then you'll be just a loser?!). This was originally a total of 20 questions, but I deleted the last one because no one really tagged me with this meme.

1. How often do you blog?
When I feel like it. Sometimes after I’ve written something, I decide against posting it and would just save it in my journal.

2. Online Alias?
Way too many. I won't reveal my split personalities. (Insert an evil grin here).

3. Have you ever stood up for someone you hardly knew?
Definitely.

4. What do you do most often when you are bored?
Daydream about eloping with George Clooney.

5. When bathing, which do you wash first?
Hmmm, I think I'm bound to start with my head because that's what gets wet first when I turn on the shower (except of course I'd do the once in a blue moon bubble bath).

6. Have you ever been awake for 48 hours straight?
Yes, more than once. Not a pleasant experience and a ridiculous way to train future docs. It was during my neurosurgery rotation as a 4th year medical student. This was within weeks of starting purely clinical rotation, and one of the rare times that I actually thought: What the heck am I doing here?! (i.e., why in the world did I choose a profession that demands me to be up when most people are asleep?! Or to work during holidays? And weekends?!). It was here however that I fully understood that adrenalin can definitely keep you up, but that you can eventually end up with lapsed judgment.

7. What color looks best on you?
I never would have thought this – Red.

8. What’s your favorite alcoholic drink?
I don’t have one. But if you insist, I’ll have anything with Bailey’s or Kahlua. Or maybe just anything except beer.

9. Do you believe in heaven and hell as a real place that each of us will go to after death?
Yes.

10. Do you find that you have more online friends than offline friends?
Definitely not.

11. What was your favorite subject in school?
Math before college. Math the first year of college. Genetics and Histology late college (although the coolest subject I had was Field Biology! Where else do I get to be in class while outdoors – the mountains of Los Banos, and the beach and marshes of Puerto Gallera!). Gross Anatomy in freshman medschool.

12. Are you a perfectionist?
I consciously try not to be.

13. Do you spend more than you can afford?
Never. That’s why I can afford to be out of work for several months and not ask a penny from anyone. Even my spontaneous splurges have limits.

14. Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved before?
Didn't I say before I'm a sucker for the tragic?

15. Do you consider yourself creative?
Yes.

16. Do you give yourself the credit you deserve?
I consciously try to.

17. Do you donate time or money to charities?
Does donating hair count?

18. Have you recently done something that you’ve criticized others for doing?
Haven’t we all?

19. What’s on your mind right now?
Leishmaniasis in a traveller in Africa. K103 mutation confers cross resistance to all NNRTIs. H5N1 has higher mortality than SARS.

OK, ok, I better stop.