Aydia Mayan Caplan
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TIL that voicemail does have a limit and will cut you off

11/9/2025

 

cursed take: i think OBGYN should be pronounced "Ob-Gyn" instead of "O.B.G.Y.N." bc its not O.B.stetrics and G.Y.N.ocology

10/28/2025

 

its kind of wild that i was a writing center mentor in college because i genuinely thought that i had discovered a genius life hack when i realized i could keep my papers under the world limit by relegating large portions of my arguments to the footnotes

10/22/2025

 

"hamlet was so slow to act" uhhh well he SAYS he is, but he isnt exactly famous for having a reasonable self perception. half the play takes place over a DAY. could YOU go from abject paralyzing grief to Murder Time in a single day? didnt think so

10/16/2025

 

thinking about the guy who called up the family medicine practice where i work every day for a week to ask if wed gotten his chlamydia test results back. stay strong brother

10/8/2025

 

sometimes cream cheese and nutella on a cracker just really hits. i call it poor mans cheesecake

9/27/2025

 

this one goes out to the patients who start a med to control their symptoms, start feeling better so they stop taking it against doctors recommendations, then are all Surprised Pikachu when their symptoms come back

9/24/2025

 

today i realized that "bethlehem" comes from "beit lechem," meaning house of bread. im so shaken... they named an important biblical location Olive Garden...

9/8/2025

 

As an author, Joyce mastered his art, / Then applied it to matters of heart. / He waxed on at length / With lexical strength / About how he adored his wife's farts

8/26/2025

 

partial list of my greatest medical fears: trenchfood, prions, fatal insomnia, the euthanasia roller coaster, osteoporosis, antibiotic resistant UTIs

8/21/2025

 

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