Weekly Update: Happy First Day of Spring!

• Current Scholastic Pursuits
• God, there is so much work to do for family medicine. I have 4 papers, 2 presentations, and an exam this week. Wanna know how much I'm done on Sun afternoon? 1 presentation. 2.5 papers. No exam prep. Ungh. Shoot me.

• Recipe I've Been Drooling Over
• I plan on trying to make pickled beets this week with my candy cane beets from the market. I hope they're as tasty as they look!

• Also, as you all know, I will be making honey cakes this week. Normally, I make them on the 1st day of spring. However, with the ridiculous work load - I'm going to hold off and make them next Sat instead. Place your orders now! The recipe is a secret and I only make them once a year!!

• Favourite Thing on Etsy this Week
• I don't know why I'm so into dresses right now but they seem to always be catching my eye. Maybe it's the nice weather. This one would be lovely for summer...

• What I'm Reading Right Now
• I'm still working on the Munk Debates. You can probably guess that I haven't had a lot of time for leisure reading in the last week... but I will persevere!

• TED Talk I Watched This Week
• Robert Thurman was the first american to be ordained a Tibetian Monk by the Dalai Lama. Here he is discussing compassion...
• My favourite quote from his talk: "You give birth in your mind to the idea of compassion because you realize that you yourself and your pains and pleasures are finally too small a theatre for you intelligence - it's really too boring - whether you feel like this or that - it's no longer enough... the key to compassion is that it is more fun. Because when you open up like that, what good does it do to add [your own] misery to other people's misery? Compassion means to feel the feelings of others. When you stop focusing on the self-centered... when you get up in the morning and think, what can I do to make another person happy?  And you do that, then your perception broadens. And that is nirvana."

• Song of the Week
• Because it's still stuck in my head even though I watched the 1st Year's video 2 weeks ago...

• Thing I'm Most Grateful for This Week
• Sunshine!! The weather has finally turned nice. I was really starting to feel down with all the rain. What better remedy to feeling blue than spring bursting forth and warm sunshine on your shoulders.

• Thing I'm Most Looking Forward to This Week
• Finishing clerkship on Friday. Wow. Unbelievable, eh?

• Bunny Photo of the Week
• Hoyle, at his finest (and most indignant).