So...I guess I should update about real stuff now. In regards to my last post, the answer is, I don't think anyone really knows for sure. We switched to Aspirin, which was MUCH easier. School is going good, I finished the last of my presentations today. We had 2 today and we did well on both of them. I'm printing slides right now. I'm really behind in lectures and need to catch up. I just don't really feel like it. And it takes forever to print! Thanksgiving was good. It was a nice break. As of right now I'm passing all my classes. But that can always change, even at this late a date. There are still lots more points to be made or lost. I tried to call Lori again and no one answered, and she never calls me back and I know they have caller ID, and I'm a little worried there. I mean, is something wrong or does she just not want to talk to me? I just hope she is okay. I meant to call her this weekend when I was home but I was so busy. I never had a chance to call her.
I got my ears pierced again. On Friday. It didn't hurt to bad when they did it. And the stuff they put on them after made the pain go away completely, it was really cool. They didn't start hurting until Yesterday. Now they are sensitive when I touch them, but it's not bad. They are uneven though, and it bothers me a little, I'm still considering taking one out and having it redone. I think I want to get a third hole and that will be hard if they are not even because one is high. I think that they actually aren't that uneven, its just more noticeable because the bottom holes were uneven and I just didn't notice before. So it's more like the uneveness of both of them combined bothers me. So I'll think on it.
Soooo...How does Cyclosporine cause uric acid build-up? This is the question of the day.
So, I've been a member of the blogging world for a while now. Soon after I entered the blogging world I found a site that I really liked, so I took the opportunity to follow a couple of the links there to this
site. It's linked over on the left there. He has some really great writing and I really enjoy it. Recently I took the opportunity to follow a couple links and I found this
site. I've been taking the time to read some of her stuff in between studying for biochemistry, because let's face it, I need a break from that. She is very funny, and I can't help wanting to read more. When I read
this, and thought it was so funny I would post about it so that anyone unfortunate enough to stumble on my site would at least get the opportunity to read something worth while. Then I read
this and laughed so hard that my roomates probably think I'm crazy.
And since I'm taking the time to post about the blogs I read for fun I guess I will continue and list a few more. I am dissapointed that since I started blogging several of the people I started out reading have stopped writing, so my list is dwindling at best, but here is what I have.
I read
this, because there isn't much that she says that I don't completely agree with and because she is more informed than I am. I like people I agree with, and who are able to voice their thoughts and opinions so well.
I read
this because he's a pharmacy student also, and because I'm nosey and I want to know what people do at other schools.
I just stumbled on
this the other day but may keep reading because how cool is it to start a horse breeding farm?
And...of course I read a few of my old highschool friends' blogs because I don't talk to them in person often and how else would I know what was going on with them? But I won't link them because I don't have permission (and it's personal life stuff), and you don't know them.
Okay back to biochemistry. You'll have to take my word for it, fatty acid metabolism is boring.
Have a mentioned yet that I hate this time change thing. It's dusk and it'a only 5:30. I still have a good part of my day to go and I feel like it's practically over. It probably does't help that I was up very late last night working on an assignment and so I didn't wake up until nearly noon. But I would have liked more than five hours of daylight here. And only crazy people wake up early enough in the morning these days to get the optimum number of daylight hours. We have a serious problem here people!
On a completely different note I have come to the conclusion that my studying is so completely unsuccessful because my brain is full. In fact it will probably explode soon. It will not be pretty, there will be information about the TCA cycle the cardiac system and solubility staining my carpet soon. I'm sure of it. It's not as if any of this information is useful to me anymore. It is completely jumbled and incoherent. It's breaking down and I can't make sense of it anymore but it isn't falling out of my head. There is simply no more room.
On an up side I was up so late last night because I was finishing my PSR exam. I did better than most of the other poeple I talked to on the last one. So Woo Hoo! Regardless of the fact that it is the most arbitrary and unnecessary class we have to take it is one of the few that I'm doing well in. Yea for me. I need the GPA boost. I just hope that I do as well on this exam, the grading for them really is arbitrary so it's really a toss up, but at least I did well on the first one.
Yea for Thanksgiving!!!
So, when you pull into an apartment complex at 11:30 it's probably not cool to leave your car running with your stereo as loud as it can go. It's probably less cool to open all your doors and your trunk to make sure everyone in the entire place can hear it. Okay, let me change that, it's not cool to do that at any time of the day. You're not impressing anyone but yourself. I'm not even trying to sleep right now, I just don't appreciate your DJing abilities. Trust me, I don't think you have a bigger penis because your radio is loud, and neither does anyone else.
I'm so not living in this place next year.
My goal is to find a house, in the area I'm living now. So I need some furniture. I will work on this.
So...My first free day in forever. I told myself I would take the morning off and I would play catch up this afternoon. That didn't really happen, but in all actuality I knew it wouldn't. All day long I was craving more pudding pie, I ate all of the other one. So I decided today I would go get stuff to make more. That didn't happen until after dark. I hate day light savings time. It's light at the crack of dawn and pitch black before 6pm. So I went to the store and got pudding, milk, and pie shell, and a whisk. It was really hard to make pudding without one the first time. I got a really nice one, it has a stainless steel handle. I guess it's hard to explain. $3. I was also going to get a mixing bowl because I only have one tupperware bowl thing big enough and I use that to store left-overs in so it's not always clean. But a really nicely built man who shaves his legs grabbed the only bowl in the entire grocery store that was suitable for the job right before I got to it. What are the odds of this?
Then I survived the always Harrowing exit from the grocery store parking lot only to get to my apartment complex and realize that I needed to get gas so I wouldn't have to worry about it tomorrow. So I went in the gates did a U-turn and went back out. I live in a gated community, and I know occasionally they close the gates but I've never seen them closed. The exit gates are always closed though, like they are afraid we might run away or something. Anyway on the way there I realized that I actually needed 3/4 cup more milk than I had so after I got gas I ran into the Walgreens to get milk but the only had giant containers and half and half. They also had this milkshake stuff, so I got a vanilla one of those. I was skeptical of the milkshakeyness, but figured it would do. On my way back to my apartment I went to open it at one of the stop-lights and there was no resistance so I was all afraid that it had already been opened and poisoned and I wouldn't be able to use it and then what would I do about my pie? But it had a seal on it so it was okay. So I finally make it back again and up to my apartment where I have to wash all of these dishes because ALL of my dishes are dirty. I also washed the whisk by hand, which was difficult because you have to kind of squish it to get the inside part clean but I didn't want to mess with the integrity of the whish and it's ergodynamic shape. I also tried the milkshake thing and it was surprisingly milkshakey. I wonder how they get it so thick. Whatever they do to it it will probably give me cancer. I'll die from the milkshake. There has to be something weird about a milkshake that doesn't require any semi-frozen components. Anyway I got the pie made and set the dishwasher to work. I figured the dishwasher time would give my pie time to set. By the way, has anyone else noticed that they have done something to pudding recently? It sets nearly immediately just from the cold of the milk, even milk that went on a wild ride with me. Anyway, our dishwasher takes FOREVER and I couldn't wait for it to finish, I really needed a fork!
And all this from someone who is a little lactose intolerant. But it's good, and it's not like I'm allergic I just don't digest it so well.
So...in the aftermath of the election it has become very clear that most of the blogging community voted against Bush. Of course, he still won. So now I read everywhere about people moving to Canada. I don't know what this is about. I personally am not happy with the governing body but I still value my citizenship. It is not something I would freely give up ever. I will continue to vote, and express my opinion. I will do this because it is guaranteed to me. Hopefully the rest of the nation will speak up if these rights ever come into question. I have my doubts but this is my hope. I am still proud to be an American, maybe not so proud of my brethren, but still proud of the basic principles. I even expected the election to go as such, and had leaving the country because of its outcome been a question I would have started imagration proceedings months ago. I cannot for the life of me determine what is suddenly so great about Canada. It's cold there. Why don't people ever talk about Mexico? Mexico is where I'd go.
Also, with the outcome of the election and half the country being upset about it I have heard about possible candidates for the next time around. I read today that someone thought JEB would be next. God I hope not. We can't seem to get him out of office here but I'd hate to subject the rest of the country and the world to him as president, though I must say he at least sounds more intelligent than his big brother. I've also read in a couple places about Kerry running again. I'm not thinking that's going to fly. Neither is Edwards because I didn't like him this time around during the primaries, he sounded like he was talking in circles and as good as he was at talking I could see through it. The most popular thinking goes along the lines of Clinton/Obama. While in theory this might be a really great leap for women and African American's I think this is a really bad idea. In case we weren't paying attention to this election I would just like to point out that the likelyhood that American would elect a woman president with an African American running mate is non-existant. When we come off a second term of W we don't need to just hand it to JEB. Seriously, we need to look for people who have an actual chance and that means we need to be sexist and racist in choosing our candidates. And I know that sounds bad, but as we've seen in the past few days this is not a time to be idealistic, we need to be realistic about what the collective America will vote for.
Now I'm going to stop posting about politics.
Jenn and her man
That's also her husband. She is going to send me this picture in real life too.
Recipe:
2 packages fat free, sugar free instant pudding
1 premade pie shell
Make pudding according to pie directions on box for two packages. Pour into shell. Chill. I like chocolate pudding and nilla waffer crust.
I'm sure everyone already knew this.
Gotta study for biochem now.
Okay, Lori had a headache, so I didn't want to keep her on the phone. I asked her how yesterday went and she said it's over. I took that to mean she was glad that the court thing was over. At least I hope that's what she meant.
Maybe some other day I'll explain my feelings about that crazy time when all my friends thought it would be a good idea to suddenly get married.
This morning (really afternoon) when I was taking a shower I would have sworn I heard someone playing the sax...not very well either. But I haven't heard it since.
work work work.
Monday I have another big exam. It's probably good that people don't regularly read this because if the did they'd get tired of me saying that. But anyway, another big exam AND a quiz, in a different class. But that's it for the week. Except I have to do a brown bag on Wed. But then I'm on my way home for a nice long weekend. Of course there will be much studying because I have two more exams the next week. We also need to meet with our keeping families healthy family before the 27th because she is leaving the country. But first we have to find a good day to do this. As if I don't have enough to worry about. Anyway...I have much to study for this weekend. But just as people are tired of hearing that I have another big exam I'm tired of studying for them. THis makes it very difficult to study.
The weather here is beautiful. It's about time to stop being sweltering around here. It probably won't last, it never does, at least not until January or so. But it's nice to be able to keep my windows open. It's also interesting how LOUD the road outside is. I mean I knew it was loud when my windows were closed because the wall are so thin you can hear people's conversations outside (I live on the third floor!!!) But it's not too bad, I just turn up my TV.
So now I'm going to get down to work. On the agenda today: do a popular press assignment. Watch a bazillion PBD lectures for that quiz because I'm SOOOO behind. And then get back to studying biochem, which is what the big exam is about. Oh, but first I will call Lori to see how yesterday went. She had to go to court to make the injunction more permanent. I hope that when it is all over he just fades into the background. If he doesn't I guess I will just have to think about ways to make his life really fun. I mean, Hello! I live like two seconds from you (now that you moved out of your house because you can't afford to live there without your wife supporting you) and I don't have a problem driving by at 2 am blaring on the horn, or better yet with a megaphone letting the entire neighborhood know what an upstanding citizen you are. That probably won't happen though. I'm mostly all talk, but if I talk enough maybe the word would get around to just the right people.
Well, I had a post all ready to go this morning, but Blogger was not working right, probably because everyone else in the world was trying to post about the election.
I was really hoping Kerry wouldn't concede. I don't know why he did. It's not like we can't wait a day...or two if it comes to it. But I was already pretty sure he would lose, so it's not that big of a disappointment that he conceded. It is a big disappointment that he didn't win. But I also saw that coming. What we need is a strong candidate and I said during the primaries that I didn't think there were any REALLY standout candidates. I thought for a while Dean had something going but it became pretty clear that he didn't know how to keep the votes of people whose votes are important to the democrats. OF all the candidates from the primary Kerry was my second pick. But I was iffy on him. I didn't like Edwards. He spoke really well, but I always got the feeling he was talking in circles and never really saying anything. That never went away. And I really don't think he got enough chances to prove his charisma would be a major asset to the country.
My silver lining is this. After these four years we get a new group of top people. Bush can't run anymore and Cheney is too likely to die. And we have 4 years to find some really great candidates for both sides (I'm independent, I'd vote republican if I thought they were a good vote. I'm also pretty liberal so it's unlikely.) They have 4 years to find someone, make them stand out and then get an early start on campaigning. 4 years to find someone who has less than a ton of skeletons in the closet, and who actually makes more than 51% of the US happy. Someone who can take us back to being a country that the rest of the world doesn't make fun of and plot against. A place where the economy is decent, employment is up, healthcare is accessible (though not socialized), and we're not at or thinking about going to war with practically every volatile country in the world.
We have 4 years to find someone who sounds intelligent when they speak, and who garners the respect of the rest of the world.
So, I'm calling it early. Sue me if I'm wrong. It looks like the Packers were wrong. To me, it looks like Bush will win. Very disappointed by this but not so surprised. I can't imagine how bad things are going to get with Bush not worrying about the need for re-election. Now he doesn't need anyone's approval.
And, interestingly I am very surprised by how replublican pharmacy school is. I'm so used to everyone in school being heavily liberal and therefore, usually, heavily democratic. It's a little crazy. I think it has a lot to do with money. Not so much religion -- which I'm happier about because I get really upset about people voting for a candidate just because they are of the same religion or they think that his going to church every week has anything to do with the way he runs a country. Not that I think religion is bad, I just don't think we should vote based on it. I mean can we look at the issues here?
Also, can we stop voting based on who looks best. I know my crazy aunt voted for Kerry just because she thought he was better looking and I was like, "Can we look at the issues here people?" And then today someone said they hoped Kerry didn't win because they didn't want to look at him for the next 4 years, because he was ugly and Bush looks much better. Which I find VERY interesting. Because if I had to choose one of the other based on looks it wouldn't be Bush.
