Yesterday I led a tour group on campus with three other med students. I like the other tourguides, and we tease each other quite a lot. So as we were introducing ourselves to the group of tourists (i.e. applicants) I needled one of them about the way he was introducing himself. Typically we tell them certain things about ourselves, and he had left out some stuff. "He's a bit of a dictator," one of my classmates said, referring to me. People laughed in that way that let me know that it was a funny-because-it's-true kind of statement. I got redfaced and thought "But he didn't introduce himself correctly."

Now I'm sitting in the library and there's a guy eating an apple and I want to rip it out of his hand. I can't stand listening to someone eat while I'm trying to concentrate. And he's eating it super s-l-o-w-l-y. Each bite takes him a good 3 seconds as he breaks the apple's skin with his teeth, pauses, and then tears off a big piece. Pauses again. Closes his teeth around the piece. Pauses. Chews again. He obviously thinks he's being quiet. But he is not. He's being ten times louder than he would be if he just devoured the fucking thing.

As I was weighing my options, I remembered my embarrassment at being called out for being bossy. So instead I decided to take a break from studying and write this. Back to work now.