Countdown

The MCAT is in 2 weeks and I'm SO sick of studying I can't even tell you. At this point I want to have it over with and move on with life! In fact, if I could just begin my 3rd year of medical school that would be nice. That's where all the fun is anyway. I still haven't heard back about my Africa thing (Global Health Corps) and I'm afraid I didn't get it :/

Bleh oh well, I'll figure something out. As an exciting update, we got over 100 people to sign up at my bone marrow registry event. Very exciting! I'm also a Bone Marrow Ambassador now...I should put that in my CV.

All in all, I'm ready for summer, ready for something new, and ready for an adventure. Africa or not.

Be the Match: Bone Marrow Donor Registry

Happy New Year!!

I’m in the process of planning a Be the Match Registry event at NIH sometime in mid-February. I’m trying to get as many participants as possible to register and of course, the more publicity, the better our turn out will be. Could we put something on the IRTA website once we have a date/details worked out? Perhaps even a link to the registry site so people who can’t attend in person can sign up under our event. I’ll also be sending our reminders on Club PCR and a notice on the grad student and IRTA listserv would be awesome. I would like to focus on getting NIH employees, and of course young healthy IRTAs! I’m working with a couple people from the blood bank and a Be the Match coordinator to get things moving. I'm really excited to get this project going. I want to get as many people as possible! Let me know what you think!

Christmas!!

Thanks to my fabulous girlfriend Amanda, I got this awesome new cupcake book called: Hello, Cupcake!!  It's GRAT (Bruno voice) and has so many intricate and beautiful cupcake designs.  We are both so excited to start trying some of the projects out.  We were fantasizing today about starting our own cupcake business. Wouldn't that be fun!   We could have a "cupcake coming out party" to showcase our forthcoming treats.  We would get a professional photographer (obviously) to come and shoot the get-together. Depending on our feedback from friends and family we could start making our fantabulous creations at home and advertising in the HoCoMo Freddie newspaper for custom orders. We thought it would be sweet if we could buy a Land Rover and drive around delivering the orders.  But then Tyler interrupted our fantasy and said we would realistically be cruising in Tom's busted up Buick from 1983 with the passenger seat in permanent recline and the crinkled bumper from his run in with a deer 4 winters ago....ANYWAY... back to the fantasy: we would be driving about in our Land Rover taking our exquisitely designed cupcakes to our customers until we got a good fan base going.  Then we could set up shop near the Little George's in Sykesville renting out some empty space and making cupcakes part time while I went to medical school and Amanda worked at her job at NSA.  We would have to hire some people full time as the business got bigger.  But for now, it would be wise to try some creations from the cupcake book and interview a few friends who already have small businesses to get a feel for what it's like.  Tyler could be the accountant.