Boring title

My kitty ran away. :( I am so horribly sad over this. The screen at the bottom righthand corner of the slider which leads out to the balcony has been crappy for the past two years, but recently it became crappy enough for Hobbes to squeeze through. Now he's gone and it makes me sick inside. I'm a dog person and it still makes me sick inside. I love that cat and I'm determined to find him. Mike has posted flyers and looks for him as often as he can, so I hope we do. He loves people, so we're hoping at the very least that someone nice has found him and decided to take care of him. I miss him so much. :(

One of Mike's mothers, Debbie, had hip replacement surgery late this week, so we're in East Lansing helping her come home from the hospital. Sandy is older too and has bad knees, so it was good that we were here to help her into the house and everything. We made baked salmon (and the 'L' is silent Shruti ;D ) for them for dinner and it was delicious. I can only make like two things, and that's one of them.

This week I had an exam called Errors and Omissions in my laboratory class at school. We had thirteen stations and three minutes at each one. Every station had a prescription, a drug, a patient profile, and a label to be put on the drug, and we had to find at least three things that were wrong with each one. OMG. I never knew how short three minutes was. One station had a hospital drawer with about thirty drugs (I'm not even kidding at all) in it, and I wanted to die inside trying to figure out what was wrong. Holy crap I have a lot to learn yet.

Next weekend is Easter, so I only have three days of class before the Parents come pick me up! :D I'm so excited--I haven't seen them since Christmas break. My sister is coming for the weekend too, so it'll be all five of us together again. I'm hoping to have an interview with Kroger Pharmacy lined up as well, but the guy who wants to interview me was gone on Friday by the time I called, so I'll have to try again. I have to write a ten page, twenty source literature review paper and study for Pharmaceutics, but besides that it'll be a nice weekend with the Family. I miss them a whole lot. :)

And just because things like this annoy me, I have to complain slightly about this year's Waiting List. If you click on that link, you'll notice it's at 177--a mere 18 spots from the fateful 195 I prayed for last summer. You know how long it took last year for it to get to 177? MAY. And not even the beginning of May--like the very tail-end of May. Because obviously God hates me and felt that I needed to suffer. Geez, those lucky newbs.

Dorm life

Man, you can tell nothing exciting really happens around here...

Truly, I can't understand why anyone in their right mind would live in a dorm. This probably seems ridiculously hypocritical of me to say, because after all, I AM living in a dorm. But let me list off some of the things that make me want to get out of here as fast as I can:

• Monthly firedrills: seriously, how old are we? Does it even make any sense to have them the same time and day every month? Real fires happen whenever they want.
• Flouresent lights: TERRIBLE. I don't think I've ever turned mine on--I always have my three-way lamp going.
• Toilets: these buggers sound like they could suck down the ozone layer if they were put in an outhouse.
• Dorm food: perhaps the worst source of nutritional value you could possibly find. Even eating all the crap from an entire vending machine could possibly be better for you than this. Just about the only thing that tastes good is the soft-served ice cream--and that's only because it's impossible to screw that up.
• Parking: nobody needs to write that many tickets. Period.
• Neighbors: quiet hours are a requirement, NOT an option. And if you're having sex--good for you--but put a damn sock in it.
• Weird people: that no one would ever want to live with. I don't want to tutor your sorry ass, I don't want to show you my boobies, and if you eyeball my laptop again like you're going to swipe it someday I'll kick you in your tiny balls.

Perhaps I've just had bad experiences. >_<

Da cheet

Man, school is handicapping my Blogger posting a LOT lately. >_<

This week was probably my worst week left before finals--I have a lot of stuff to do next week too, but nothing like having three exams in four days. After ten straight hours of studying Drug Action last night, I think today I'm going to take a NAP, watch tv, and call my mom to let her know I'm still alive.

Speaking of the Mom, she sent me a care package this week that had all ten My Little Pony toys from McDonalds. OMG! I was SO excited! I put them all together and lined them up on top of my wardrobe. :D She also sent me many packages of those marshmallow Peeps that you see around Easter time, most of which I've devoured already.

If you can believe it, the Waiting List is back up for incoming pharmacy students this fall (hasn't moved even once yet). It's so crazy to think that a year ago I was checking that thing zillions of times a day--man, how the days go by.

Happy St. Pat's Day!

Well, if college students ever needed an excuse to get wasted for no good reason on a Saturday night, I guess today is as good a reason as any. I actually have quite a bit of Irish heritage myself, so I popped open a green apple Smirnoff and finished it off with a green straw. GO ME.

I would continue on with this entry and write something at least mildly stimulating, but I've got nothing. Really. I feel like I'm on cruise control with the wash, rinse, repeat playing over and over in my head. I'm kinda ready for school to be all done now. *ANGST*

Me: I can't study my med terminology anymore. WHY?!
Beth: Mine are right here next to me. I'm hoping to absorb them by osmosis.

7 hi-grade stickers!

So my lack of schoolish things to do this week has reverted me back to pre-college hobbies, such as fanfiction writing, drawing, comic strip-making, and the overwhelming desire to host a website where I can put all my stuff for others to view. OMG I'M A TOTAL AND COMPLETE NERD. There's just no way around it. Even when you eliminate school and studying and DNA from the equation, even stuff I enjoy is exceptionally nerdy. >_<

Gah. It's a good thing I'm a totally hottt babe. Otherwise I wouldn't have any idea why anyone would tolerate my weirdness. NOT A CLUE.

In other news, I saw the movie 300 last night. OMG. Such an awesome film. SEE IT.

Ok this was pointless, sorry.

Spring Break take 1

So now it's six glorious days into March, and already I'm ready for the "going out like a lamb" thing to happen. Seriously, enough with the COLD AND SNOW! Mostly the cold. Snow would be bearable if it were seventy degrees out.

This Spring break so far has been pretty nice, mostly because I was in desperate need of some down time with Mike and away from school. I've made calls to Walmart Pharmacy, Rite Aid, Kroger Pharmacy, and CVS in search of a stellar internship for the summer months. Rite Aid and Kroger seem interested in me and asked for my resume (Kroger wants to interview me ASAP), CVS is too far away (closest to the Mount is Holly, ick), and Walmart will probably take a while to get back to me because I applied online. My old boss from Sindecuse, Bill Green, has also offered to personally call two pharmacies he knows of in the Genesee County area (the owners of which he apparently went to school with) and say amazing things about me. I mean geez, what a guy. I really hope I can finalize something quickly after this semester ends however, because I'm buying a car. As in, I'm buying it in the next two months, and I'm willing to spend up to $3,000 on it. That's more than half of my savings. X_X

On the plus side, the car is a necessity that has been far too long in coming. Next year I'll be living nealy ten minutes off campus, and having my own transportation over the summer opens up my options for where I can get a job. And I'll be able to get to Mike easier, instead of hoping he'll continue to drive all over the state to see me. I'm really scared to spend that much money though. Even today I had my hair colored for the first time since last spring (it needed it BAAAAAD), and it freaked me out to do that. I felt guilty for spending that money, like I'd really regret it later.

Aside from all that crap, it's been nice to be out of school. I've hung out with quite a few friends I haven't seen in a while, and tomorrow I'm hanging out for most of the day with Shruti (which will be spectacular beyond words). I never feel like I get enough time with Mike. EVER EVER EVER it's so terribly selfish of me. If it's not school it's homework, if it's not homework it's a crappy workshift. There's always something that one of us has to be doing and dammit, I just want there to be NOTHING for like one single day. That probably won't happen for about three more years though. :-(

Ok. I'm gonna stop complaining about not hanging out with Mike and go hang out with Mike. BRILLIANT I SAY!

Stooooooopid

I'll update more about Spring Break later, but for now:

BEAT THAT BEETCHEZ!

Triple Decker

Mike: I love you!
:-D
Me: how much do you love me?
Mike: on a scale of 1 - 100 where 1 represents the sum experiences of a physically handicapped individual forced to endure the pain of hearing Hanson played over and over again while being shit on by a leper midget, and 100 represents the culmination of love received by God....i'd say about a 3?
Me: You suck at this

TWO updates?!?!?

FYI: That's my brother Chris--not like a second boyfriend or something. Just so you know.

>_<

Time flies when you're having fun

I know I complain a lot about how stressed I am, how many exams I have to study for, and how I just never get a chance to relax. Let's face it, I'm a whiney little baby sometimes. I blame it on my gender, and I will until the day I die. To be honest though, I feel like I need to be stressed out. As in, if I don't have things to be stressed about, I just get kinda bored and I don' t know what to do with myself.

For example, the past two weeks I've been just overloaded with exams and other crap, and I complained every day to anyone who would listen about how tired I was and how much I wished I didn't have to study. Now my exams are over, I'm hours away from Spring Break, and I have NO idea what I would do if I had this much spare time all the time. Just, no clue at all.

I feel like this year has completely flown by. I can't even believe that I have less than two months left of my first year of grad school, and I'm already 25% of the way to that light at the end of the tunnel which is my graduation date. Last night I tried to figure out how it was that being here in this place, away from Mike and my friends downstate and with a ton of unhappy crap to do, made the days go by so quickly. When I started out, I anticipated they would just crawl.

I mean look at me, I'm still talking about "when I first came to school," like it just happened yesterday. I'm a friggin' veteran now, don't you think?

I realized that being so overwhelmed is what made the past six and a half months go by in the blink of an eye. The beginning was scary and sad, like beginnings usually are, but eventually things just... became ok. It was ok to only see Mike on weekends, instead of everyday. It was ok to have no spare time, and spend the entire evening studying. It was my new life, and it grew on me. Like mold, but hey, if it works it works.

So now I'm going on my fourth annual Spring Break, and then I'll barrel my way towards the end of the year. Some friends of mine whom are either graduating soon or have already kind of chuckle at me when I say I'm happy to have only a little over three years left to go. To them, that seems like a long time. For me, three years seems around the corner, because for some reason it's so much less than four.

:)