Happy National Cheesecake Day!

Made my cheesecake dip in honor of the wonderful national holiday that occurred yesterday. :)

Bruce Springsteen On The Meaning Of Music

npr:

Bruce Springsteen offered much to take away from his keynote address at Austin’s annual South by Southwest music festival. He advised young musicians to believe in their own greatness — and to admit it when they suck. (Springsteen used that word frequently during his apparently wholly self-penned speech.) Chronicling his own artistic development, he talked about how doo-wop taught him about sex, country music helped him understand despair and Woody Guthrie revealed the political roots of the fatalism he’d heard in Hank Williams — then he made the crowd feel Guthrie’s complicated passion in their own throats by leading a singalong of “This Land Is Your Land.”

What does music mean to you?

Man, I love me some Bruce. Inherited it from my dad.

"Could a club drug offer 'almost immediate' relief from depression?"

A fascinating short article from NPR - ahem, Nolan - on the possibility of using Ketamine (colloquially known as “Special K”) to provide quicker relief for symptoms of depression. It discusses something I’ve heard before - that maybe the field of psychiatric pharmacy is changing.

In case you didn’t know, I’m heavily considering going into psychiatric pharmacy once I graduate from pharmacy school (sorry for the redundancy - I didn’t know how else to say it) in a couple years. It’s articles like this that make me think that maybe that really is the right decision for me.

It’s just so fascinating.