May

May is here and finals are OVER!!! For those keeping score, I am now 1/4 doctor and I owe the government more money than Roger Clemens will be owing his fifteen year old mistress. Over the next eight weeks, I will be tutoring incoming medical students and working in the plastic surgery lab. My research project literally consists of burning rats and then giving them different medications. Apparently that will lead to major advances in boob jobs and botox.

Jimmy suggested I choose the book for the month, and since no one responded to my requests for a vote on suggested books, I choose...

"My Name is Asher Lev" by Chaim Potok

...It's 350 pages, but it is an easy read. I also think the fact that it's fiction will make it easier for people to get into. I'm not taking a jab at the political and economical books of the last two months, I just think they are sometimes harder to sit down and plow through in a few short weeks. Most of you have read "The Chosen" by Potok. "Asher" is similar in that it is also set in Brooklyn among a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood.

If for whatever reason people REALLY don't want to read this, please suggest something else. I am happy to comply. But if this works, be sure to get through this book! The message is powerful and I think it applies to all of us. I look forward to being able to discuss it with you all.

Congrats to those who have also finished and are now 1/2 doctor, 1/3 lawyer, 3/4 Google/New York playboy, or 7/8 Jimmy's byotch. I love you all!