march 29, 2002
so here goes my three-times-a-year update...
i thought my website was completely dead and forgotten until I checked my guestbook on
a whim and found that people were still checkin in every so often. here's a sampling:
"you're lame. it's been 3 months since you updated." - allegedly this was jessica kim
"what a lame website. why don't you update it every once in awhile?" - ivan shin
as you can see, my fans are clamoring for me to update...ha ha...
since I haven't updated in a while, i decided to answer some of the questions i get when
i come in contact with folks i haven't talked to in a long time.
1. so why don't you update your page?
sorry guys, med school keeps me busy! when i started this webpage i was working
(i.e. i had free time). now i'm back in school. instead of messin' around on the
website and other fun things, now i have fun studying. ha ha.
2. how's chicago?
it's cold. apparently this has been a "mild" winter. so it's supposed to be worse
next winter. ha ha, it's not that bad. and chicago's a pretty cool town (san francisco's still in the lead though) -
i'm lookin forward to getting to know my way around this place for the next 3+ years.
3. how's med school?
it's good! yeah, it keeps me busy but i'm having a good time. it's been good being
back in school - not that i didn't like working or anything like that. i actually
wouldn't mind having positive income. this school's pretty expensive. i've become a negative thousandaire instead of
a regular thousandaire. but i digress...med school hasn't been as hard as i thought it might be. i
thought undergrad was tougher at times - of course i didn't study as much back then, which
may be a factor. it's not the actual material that's tough to learn, it's the volume of things we
have to learn, which can be a lot.
4. SOOOOOOOOOOO...how are you and JESSICA doing?????
we're doing great :)
thanks to cingular wireless, we're able to talk everyday (after 9pm pst). someday
i'm gonna write those nice people at cingular a thank you card. and we've been able
to see each other as regularly as possible (usually after exams and during the holidays). since i'm on spring break
now, i'm gonna be going home to southern california for a few days and then on up to the bay
area to see her the rest of the week. and the answer is "yes! i'm excited to see her"
yeah, the long distance thing has been tough at times, but i know the both of us
have been able to see past that and become better and closer friends over these last
almost-eight months. i know that i wrote earlier about being busy with school and
all of that, but i really look forward to being able to come home and put that aside
and talk to her about my day and to hear about hers (unfortunately for her, it's
usually more of me and less of her. i tend to blabber. who woulda guessed it???).
for me it's the best time of the day...
there are nights when we're busy and we don't get to talk as much as we want. and
sometimes i wish i could do more for her - being out here in chicago keeps me from
doing some of the things i know we could share if we lived in the same place. more
than that though, more than my physical presence, i'm seeing how much i want to support and comfort and provide for her emotionally. spiritually. she deserves my
best and i'm praying that god will help me offer that to her. i pray that god will
make me into a person that understands how much *he* loves jessica and let that be
the model for the person i want to be for her...
thanks for asking, y'all...i really do appreciate it...
peace,
phil