{"id":362,"date":"2004-12-18T23:36:20","date_gmt":"2004-12-19T06:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?p=362"},"modified":"2004-12-19T00:39:08","modified_gmt":"2004-12-19T07:39:08","slug":"stupid-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Stupid phone."},"content":{"rendered":"

I got this phone because all my calls were going straight to voicemail. I figured this was a problem with AT&T’s TDMA system, but I now realize this was a system-wide problem. My sister tried to call last night and the first time NOTHING HAPPENED. The second time, the message went directly to voicemail. I think I’ve decided that I really don’t trust the cell phone companies. No surpise there.<\/p>\n

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So last night my sleep was interrupted twice. The first time I was in the middle of a dream where I was in a classroom full of premeds and I was explaining how I never made it into medical school. Plus the usual parts of why I gave up after all those years and all those rejection letters. And why I’m not trying again, not going to the Carribean to an offshore medical school, not applying to a D.O. program, etc, etc. All I could think was, WHY IS THIS STILL TORMENTING ME? I suppose it was because I talked to a podiatrist at the gym who said I was better off for never getting in. I told him, yeah, but now I was a different kind of bitter.<\/p>\n

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And back to my cell phone, the pictures aren’t all that great. For example, see the beautifully clear picture of Mt. St. Helens this morning?<\/p>\n

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Or the beautifully red sunset over the hills of Scappoose?<\/p>\n

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Or the clear lettering of the Korean bidet store?<\/p>\n

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I got this phone because all my calls were going straight to voicemail. I figured this was a problem with AT&T’s TDMA system, but I now realize this was a system-wide problem. My sister tried to call last night and the first time NOTHING HAPPENED. The second time, the message went directly to voicemail. I think I’ve decided that I really don’t trust the cell phone companies. No surpise there. So last night my sleep was interrupted twice. The first time I was in the middle of a dream where I was in a classroom full of premeds and I was explaining how I never made it into medical school. … Continue reading Stupid phone.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}