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Diamonds on the Inside

Thanks to Jerilyn, I have fallen prey to the Facebook beast. I now spend copious amounts of my "free time" (i.e. - when I should be working on projects) browsing the pages of the people I know and the groups they have joined. I must say, the first day or so that I was on Facebook was not the kindest to my ego. It counts the number of friends/acquaintances you have at your school and for nearly a day my page consistently told me "You have no friends at MCG." How depressing. However, I am now pleased to report that I have one friend at MCG so your pity is not necessary.

One of my favorite things to do on Facebook is to browse through the "groups" at different schools. The best one to date is "I Tried to Ford the River and My Effing Oxen Died" - paying homage, you no doubt realized, to the best computer game of all time, Oregon Trail. Others that struck my fancy include "Students Against Popped Collars," "I Secretly Want To Run Over People Who Walk In Front of My Car On Campus," "I Accidentally Mixed Dayquil and Nyquil and Now I Can See Through Time," and finally a group created by a fellow medical illustration student who is attending grad school at Johns Hopkins University, "WTF am I doing in Baltimore?"

This final group's description reads:
"This group ponders the inner workings of Baltimore to find out what Baltimore has to offer aside from: prostitution, rats, litter, drugs, crime, and murder."

To which another of the JHU medical illustration students replied:
"Plastic bag trees. As far as I know, this particular species of flora can only be found within Baltimore city limits, making Maryland the number one producer of plastic bags in the ENTIRE WORLD!"

Medical Illustrators are cool.