A medical student that hates the rules against visible piercings. How is a nose ring unprofessional? What does unprofessional mean anyway? Other than ranting about that, I enjoy: wasting time, sleeping in, rainy days especially when the trees start to shimmer and sparkle, piercings, dogs of any kind especially the kind that just have to say hello to everyone because they just might scratch them behind the ears and that feels so good, defying expectations, avoiding studying, wine and lambic, cheese, reading wonderful things (like the New Yorker, anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Moviegoer, Pnin and the work of Nabokov in general, all kinds of crap by Updike, short stories, my friends' blogs, various kinds of poetry, Cormac McCarthy, Hemingway, Sartre, Kerouac and other beat stuff, Douglas Adams, Graham Greene, Terry Prachett, and children's books), listening to wonderful things (like Alpha, Bonnie Prince Billy, Spoon, Modest Mouse, The Whitlams, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The National, David Bowie and his oddly wonderful/hot self, Dismemberment Plan, Arcade Fire, Bebel Gilberto, Bernard Fanning, Beulah, pretty much any Bedroom Electronica, Bjork, Broken Social Scene, Death Cab, Elliott Smith, Aimee Mann, Cat Power, Grant Lee Buffalo, Sigur Ros, Hilltop Hoods, K-OS, Iron and Wine, Nightmares on Wax, Seafood, Rilo Kiley, the Shins, Super Furry Animals, Sopwith Camel, The Decemberists, UNKLE, Wilco, and anything else that catches my fancy), looking at art, writing, going out to eat, laughing until it hurts, watching movies, cooking, playing rugby, watching the moon, confessing embarassing things about myself while blushing, brushing my hair, lying in bed, buying shoes or soft things, drinking tea, and sneezing. I also enjoy touching my boobs when no one is looking (or when someone is looking) and tugging on facial piercings (always fun). I am also very easily flustered and I become tongue-tied for no apparent reason which often makes me look stupid or boring although I swear I'm not (well, maybe boring).