Friday, January 19, 2007

valeriana officinalis

mood: level.
state i'm in: sampling sweet valeriana.
tune: mylo "otto's journey".


orientation day... quite the waste of time. just a bunch of email addresses, phone numbers, and pronouncements on what to expect this year. could have been covered in about the first 20 seconds of each of the domain head's first lectures for the year. MBBS1 and 2 co-ordinator, ieva ozolins' comment regarding our performance in the 2006 assessment will go down in MBBS history though:

"many of you are lucky to be here."

ever the effervescent beacon of optimism for the cohort, she is.


hoping to get this insomnia thing sorted out. i don't particularly like going without sleep, even on the holidays. there is no way i will be able to handle erratic sleeping patterns in a few weeks. approaching the problem bottom up - by alleviating stress and anxiety, it should hopefully subside. perhaps i will be indebted to the plant above in about a week - valeriana officinalis; valeriana, from the latin word valere, meaning "to be strong or healthy" - boy i hope so!

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