I’ve been tagged!
Posted by enrico | Under Blogs/Blogging, Personal Monday Jun 18, 2007
No, I don’t get a new Tag Heuer watch (I am partial to Movados, myself), but I have been tagged by Dr. Rob over at Musings of a Distractable Mind. So the meme is “8 Random Things” whereby I list 8 random things about me and tag 8 more people in chain-letter fashion. 
So, in random order, here they be:
- This is the first official “tag”/meme I’ve actually been asked to participate in. I feel like one of the “popular people” now. Watch as I wave with my rotating wrist (that’s pronation and supination for you smarty-pant-types), fingers fixed and extended…
- My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20 in 5th grade (the “monitor” was a 13″ color TV). I had mononucleosis at the time and was home for two weeks as I devoured the manual. My life has never been the same. (and I’m not referring to why I got mono…)
- My #1 choice of profession outside medicine/science would be an orchestral conductor. I have had some experience in the past, so this said with serious familiarity. I have a stack of orchestral scores and collect more all the time. To actually conduct any of Tchaikovsky’s last three symphonies would be a dream come true (I dream little things, don’t I? ;P)
- I hate dust and am always doing battle with the miniscule beasties.
- Pertinent to the above, I have a vacuum cleaner fetish. For the dust.
- I have the time management skills of an amoeba. How I’ve gotten this far is beyond me.
- In high school, I’d call from the pay phone next to the attendance office pretending to be my dad (in proper, business-like, attorney voice and all) informing the school that “my son” will not be able to attend school because of blah blah reason, then take off. Why was I at school in the first place, then? Duh, to see my friends! I’d also steal hall passes, write passes for friends, so I’d have someone to hang out with when I wasn’t attending classes. And yes, I was in the top of my class, with honors…just bored.
- I am working on the future-cover-of-Nature and Nobel-winning article whereby I prove that in spite of years of being told I am overweight, I am in fact, undertall. The data are irrefutable.
Well, there you have it! No doubt, the world is no different with this information (save the article, once the editors stop throwing it away), but it’s there nonetheless. I now tag the following: Dr. Schwab, Fat Doctor, Dr. Charles, Punchberry, Keagirl, Dr. Iñarritú, TinySurgeon, and Colin. No offense if you don’t want to participate.
Hi Enrico:
Thanks for the tag! I am supposedly already working on that one, and well,,, I’m almost done! And I’ll be even closer to done when I actually start!
I hope that things are looking up for you, and that you are ready to show the boards who’s boss! I am sorry I have not commented in a while, but believe me, there are many other things I have been putting off. I have been reading though, and I really value the sincerity with which you describe your experiences. So, thanks!
Ory
Well done. It is an honor to be your inaugural tagger. I would say your time management skills may relate to your dust fetish/aka OCD. Many good docs have OCD, so that is not a bad thing, but getting caught in details is often the ruin of the best laid plans.
We sound strangely similar in a lot of ways.
Rob
Thanks, I suppose. I may or may not respond, given my general sense that I’m not very interesting.
Don’t get rid of the vacuum cleaner.
Ory: Thanks for having always been there. I, too, lurk w/o commenting much of the time, but I read all the time, always coming away with a smile.
Dr. Rob: Astute observation, and given the title of your site, I’d say we’d share a lot in common. Speaking candidly, my tendencies stem more from perfectionism/impossible goals than OCD, but these are flip sides of the same coin, I know.
Dr. Schwab: Not interesting…please! We all relish the snicker-snack tales of your vorpal scalpel.
In high school I wouldn’t DARE miss class… I was very obedient. Besides we always had a laugh- I think we were a very cheeky year
Thanks for delurking! Sorry it took me two months to get your email–good thing I filled out this meme already! Thanks a bunch!
I am also a doc, at the other end of my career, at age 60. I have children your age. I am finally getting to the place (working 1/2 time) where I can really play my cello a lot.
I found you while looking for orchestral scores of Arturo Marquez’s “Danzon No.2″, and J. Pablo Moncyo’s “Huapango”. I played those pieces with the Campeche state orchestra during the year (2005-2006) that I, my wife, and our last child lived there for the cultural immersion. What I really want are orchestral parts, to offer them to the local the local college orchestra. I know I can get a study score for the Huapango from SheetMusicPlus for $35. The parts we played in Campeche were photo copies of parts in possession of the Orquesta Juvenil Mexicana. Neither has the name of a publisher on it. One was hand written. The other may have been trenscribed into someone’s computer program.
If you haven’t heard these pieces, you should. They are great fun to play (hard). Have you run into any sources of sheet music/scores down there?
Don’t neglect your music for the medical stuff. The latter, unopposed, can drain your soul, a little like Rolling’s Death Eaters. Also, if you are getting ready to finish up down there, be sure to read “House of God” by Samuel Shem (aka Steven Bergman), before you head off to an internship.
George Jolly, MD