That being said, you’ll understand how completely thrilled I
was last November when UVa announced that Mr. Colbert would be the valeciction
speaker at UVa’s 2013 graduation. I fully planned on attending the speech.
Ok, fast-forward 6 months….
Friday night I got a text from a friend. This friend’s sister
was flying into Charlottesville to visit. As she was boarding her plane in New
York, she ran into Stephen Colbert, who, as luck would have it, was headed to
speak at graduation and on the same flight to Charlottesville. So of course she
texted my friend who then texted me. Next thing I knew, I was driving to the Charlottesville
airport to “help” my friend pick-up her sister at the airport. And by “help,” I
really mean “attempting to track down Stephen Colbert while pretending to help
my friend pick-up her sister at the airport.”
Annnyways, long story short, I saw Stephen standing at
baggage claim waiting for his bags. Deciding I had nothing to lose, I went up
to him, told him I was a huuuuuuuuuuuugee fan (yeah, I said it just like that),
and asked him to take a picture. He laughed (probably because I drug out the
word huge for a good three seconds), snapped a picture with me, and told me it
was nice to meet me. And that was it. As I walked out of the airport, other
people approached him for pictures. He had every reason to say no. I’m sure he
was exhausted after a full day of work and a late night flight. But he was
extremely kind to every single person. I was impressed. So there ya go. That’s the story
of “Nate meets Stephen Colbert.” Here is photographic evidence:
And here is Stephen's valedictory speech:
Other stuff:
- Happy birthday, to my beautiful lil’ sis, Emily! The big 2-0! So proud of you!
- We had an eye dilation lab this week. At first, I was really excited. I'd never had my eyes dilated before. Plus, it gave me an excuse to wear these bad boys:
- But then, 8 hours of my right eye being dilated (we only did one eye) and a massive headache later, I decided that getting your eyes dilated wasn't as fun as I imagined:
- Moral of the story: Eye dilation is more of business thing and less of a pleasure thing.
- This past week we were assigned a prerecorded audio lecture on anti-emetic drugs (Emesis = throwing up, so anti-emetics are basically anti-nausea drugs.). As I listened to the lecture, I typed notes at breakneck speed (per usual). After I finished, I glanced back over my notes and noticed that every single time I typed anti-emetic, my computer auto-corrected anti-emetic to anti-Semitic. Apparently, my computer has a beef with Jews. For future reference, I apologize in advance to any of my Jewish friends who my computer inadvertently offends. Mormons love Jews! No seriously we do: Check out this article.
- Lauren moved on Friday. Sad day. We were so consumed by finals and exams the past month, that we barely even saw each other. This is basically what it was like:
- And then I finished an exam and Lauren finished finals a week ago. The past week was like:
- But then she left on Friday, and now it's like this again:
- Oh well, I suppose that's part of being a med student who is dating a law student. Life is busy busy.
- Well, that's not even a tiny bit of my week, but I have to run. See ya next week!
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