Adventures in LA - no medicine needed.

Back to the Future: Today was so great. I felt like I was living - really living and it felt good. Friends, good food, good chai, biking on the beach, driving to pick up a towed car. It was just too good to be true really. Venice Beach and Santa Monica are two places that everyone needs to explore. So many characters to see, so many little places to explore. There is a little coffee shop called Novel Cafe that we grabbed chai at in Venice and its just too great. Its connected to a used book store and its just perfect. We explored Venice and the canals with bikes (which weren't allowed by the way) and I've decided if I ever have enough money I need a vacation house there - which would be more like a vacation room because it would be so outrageous to buy anything of decent size. Anywho, its too bad we didn't do this more often when we were in undergrad. LA has a lot to offer and I think we take it for granted when we are so caught up in our little bubbles of school. I have lived in LA for 4 years and moved away and I'm just finally getting to know my surroundings here. The Griffith Observatory, the Hollywood Sign, Melrose Ave, Santa Monica, Venice Beach, the Block, the Irvine Spectrum. We really are missing out. If you ever make it to LA - dont act too cool to be a tourist. We are all tourists.

Past - I have only a couple of minutes to talk about PA school. I'm on vacation and avoiding thinking about it. Make sure you go on rotations in places you might live and diversify your demographics. Work at places with wealth and poverty and a mix of the two. Go to a different state if you can... Go anywhere and dont settle for what you have been handed to you on a silver platter. There is always something better out there to explore than what you have done today.