I'm not sure if I'm on vacation or not, but I haven't felt like it. On wednesday, we go to South By Southwest in Austin, TX to see a few thousand bands. But before that, I must take the ominous USMLE Step 3 ("The Boards"). I did not feel this unprepared for the first two steps. The clinical case stuff is intimidating. I'm going to be taking this test tomorrow and tuesday. Then we'll fly out to Austin on Wednesday.

Today, I heard a hilarious lyric by the Kaiser Chiefs:
"P-p-p-pneumothorax is a word that is long.
They're just trying to put the punk back into punctured lung."

Tonight we watched the long-awaited How William Shatner Changed the World. The man is a national treasure. He makes me smile and makes me laugh, and makes me wish I was him. The show was a documentary interviewing several scientists about how Trek inspired them. It included the director of NASA's JPL, the inventor of the cell phone, the first female African-American astronaut, etc. It was great stuff.

I need a haircut. I need to do a lot of things. I need my head infused with medical knowledge.