The Walking Dead

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Tell me someone else is watching this show. I've been mainlining it during study breaks and gah, it's killing me.

I need someone to over-analyze story points with.

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[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

I blame Kyle making me read a heap of zombie fiction a summer or so back to help him out. (Having said that, it turned out to be quite fun, and kinda made me stuck on the zombie genre. Like I said, as a vehicle for analyzing human complexity, you can't get much better then disasters.)

[x-barrier.livejournal.com]

Ugh, zombie fiction is a genre? Keep it away from me.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

It is these days, and while those that try to make medical explanations in their writing often have hilariously bad explanations, they actual story part of the stories aren't too bad.

[x-barrier.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I hate that. I got so annoyed when everyone was so into that Gray's Anatomy show. Residency is NOTHING LIKE THAT.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

Don't I know it - although I'm only first year medical school at the moment. I've been hearing horror stories though. Should I listen to any of the older students, or are they trying to pull a fast one?

[x-barrier.livejournal.com]

My guess is they've got some exaggerated stories, but not exaggerated in the places you might think.

But yes, that surgery rotation is killer, and you'll see some horrifying things in neuro/psych if you're in a hospital worth a damn.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

I haven't been looking forward to that, although I've heard the NICU is where there's some real nastiness waiting if it's a bad time. I'm not sure what I want to really settle into yet, so I guess that's what the whole residency thing is for.

I've helped with a few surgeries just due to being on the spot, but I'm not sure yet if I'd want to go that route entirely. And I'm not sure general practice would suit either - dealing with the day to day stuff seems a little boring.

[x-barrier.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I didn't volunteer for any extra pediatrics during med school - knew it wasn't my thing. Dying children? No thank you. I'll stick with adults. (Then you get into a general surgery residency, and you end up having to cut kids open anyway.)

But you have so much time to figure this out, so I wouldn't sweat it. Something will suddenly click.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

So Jean said, and Amelia, and Clarice. I figure with you guys in my corner I'm not going to stress overly about the whole thing. It's nice to have people who've been there, done that.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

One book is not a heap! .. unless you also have that zombie trilogy that Dori was reading and if you do, a) She's been looking for those and thought she lost them and b) That's not my fault!

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

A) I do, and I'll bring them back to her. Why didn't you tell me they were a lender? B) So your fault. Entirely your fault. I blame all my reading on you.

C) Did you see Mira Grant's new series? Sort of Parasite zombies rather then medical, so much more interesting and actually has some truth in science rather then faux medical illnesses.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Dude I didn't even know you had them until now! When I was like "Yo, rummage through the pile" okay they were probably in the pile so maybe my fault.

What happened to Laurie "I don't read fiction" Collins? :)

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

Shh, you infected me with your literariness. It's like a virus, but instead of bleeding out of the eyes, I just end up doing further reading on my own.

See? This is what happens when you let people rummage through your books. I told you you should have let someone organise them for you. This is why they have such things as the dewey decimal system.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

They are organized! It's just not how you organize things, and it's a very complicated system.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

Organized by Gremlin's maybe. Have you been feeding the books after midnight, Kyle? You know that's not a good idea.