Island Med Student

I’m officially back in Brooklyn. As much fun as I had out of town, there’s something wonderful about being home again. I have some more interviews coming up this week and then it’s back to the hospital on Monday. Micah and I have finally begun a project we’ve been trying to work on for a while. We are converting all of my family’s old and mold-covered videotapes into a digital format. Micah has been watching my old home movies all day and sending me hilarious updates. He just sent me the above photo which was a screen shot of a video he was converting. At first I thought the picture was from LATFH.com, but then I realized it was me as Scrooge when I was around 11 years old. Apparently I was a hipster way before hipsters were cool (well, not-cool, in my opinion).

Perhaps the coolest thing my parents’ ever did was buy us a video camcorder. We didn’t have cable television and we lived in the middle of nowhere, so one of the things we did for fun was make movies. We recorded random events and also re-made blockbuster hits including A Christmas Carol and The Princess Bride. I will definitely give my kids a camcorder (although it won’t be an old school VHS one), so that they can get creative like we did.

In other news, I turned on the Christmas lights in my apartment. I’m not a very Christmasy person, but I actually do really enjoy the lights, and my apartment now feels all cozy and fun.

I’m tired from traveling and unpacking so I’m about to go soak in a super yummy bath with the wonderful soap that Laura gave me while I was in Baltimore. G’nite!