Grab Your Masks!

It's the swine flu!! Or NOT.

Yeah, Mike went to the doctor and was told he had the swine flu. Which is pretty much the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. I know this because 1) I talked to Mike about his symptoms for more than five minutes, 2) Mike gave me what he has (because he likes to share, even germs) and having experienced it myself, I can definitely say it was a textbook cold, and 3) I'm a f-ing genius. Why does every cough, sniffle and temperature of 99.1 degrees have to be the swine flu? Seriously. And even if all this mess WAS the swine flu, why are we even calling it anything anymore? IT'S ONLY THE FLU PEOPLE OMG!

OMG.

Aside from that my week has been pretty packed with AmCare assignments being suddenly due in mass quantities. I hate that about classes/rotations. The first few weeks are sort of laid back and then BAM. Suddenly a bunch of stuff is due all at once, and it stays that way until the class/rotation is over. Yep.

I got a flat tire last Friday, used that Fix-o-Flat nonsense to temporarily fix it, and then hit a curb with the same tire later that very same day. DRIVER FAIL. So now my care vibrates when I go over 60 mph because I have so craftily knocked my wheels out of alinement. *angry black cloud* As if my car doesn't have enough problems at 13 years old. I also let my dad drive my car to work for ONE DAY and I got it back with the rearview mirror all jankety and my little stuffed puppy (from the dashboard) thrown ruthlessly to the floor of my passenger seat. I mean come on, he went LESS THAN 2 MILES. What the hell was he doing??! He denies all of this, of course. *eyeroll* So now I need to get new tires, a re-alinement, and rig my rearview mirror to work again.

I had my first interview ever for a pharmacist position today. It was with Target pharmacies, which a fellow student of mine (from Internal Medicine) was kind enough to connect me with. She had really great things to say about her experience working for Target, so I figured what the hell. The interview was pretty short (compared to the long amount of time I was required to be there) and pretty intimidating, I thought. They asked some tough behavioral questions which I didn't feel all that prepared for and had to pull answers out of my ass. I hate interviews. Overall I think I did decent, but I really believe that they're extremely selective and I might not be exactly what they're looking for. I'm pretty okay with that though. It being my first interview, I was happy just for the experience and already I'm thinking of a ton of new ways to prepare for the next one. Either way, I should hear back from them next week sometime.

I'm so happy tomorrow is Friday. Mike is going to grill steak and OMG. He's so good at it. THE BEST STEAK I've ever had he's made for me so... yeah. My man gotz skillz. I also have a midterm next week, so I'm sure my weekend will be filled with steak-eating and studying. *head/desk*

True Love

Mike: Can I turn up the heat? I'm cold.
Me: I'm warm. How are we going to live together??
Mike: When you get warm, I'll throw your ass outside.

Baby-phobia

Mike: All I really want to do is to write with black marker all over your--
Me: DON'T FINISH THAT SENTENCE.
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Not much to report. Got to see one of my best Girlies Beth last night and her precious baby boy! I'm pretty sure going out to eat with me was the first time she'd been "out" since she gave birth, so I felt bad taking her away from Nolan, but I think she had a lot of fun. I can't believe how great she looks! Hopefully I'll bounce back that fast after my babies. And speaking of which, my future in-laws are already talking a lot about grandkids!! Omg. They must not know about me. Me and my baby-phobias.

I applied for my first pharmacy job and got a call back for a potential interview in two weeks. Yep... I'm pretty freakin' scared now. Not so sure I'm ready for this.

Honeymooning It

Today Mike and I did some serious wedding planning, and ended up booking our honeymoon! OMG YAY! I'm really, really happy about this because there seems to be so many parts involved, so my documents to read, and so many rules that I wanted to make sure we did it plenty of time in advance. So today we sat down with the intention of making some progress on it and instead ended up finding just what we wanted!

We're leaving from Florida on Sunday afternoon, the day after the wedding, on a 7-day cruise to the Caribbean. Based on popular vote we chose Royal Caribbean cruise line on a ship called Freedom of the Seas, and we're stopping at some great locations like the Bahamas, St. Thomas, and St. Maarten.

I can't believe I'm actually going to get to do something this awesome. ME. With Mike, and without pharmacy school! It'll be like Christmas!! :D

Am to the Care

I apologize for the lack of luster in my recent blog entries. I feel like I'm pretty much slugging my way through 4th year and trying to find time to update my beloved blog when I can, but unfortunately living, breathing, and sleeping pharmacy school makes for some really redundant, not-so-stimulating topics. All I can say is that I graduate in mere months and then you will ALL be given the miraculous gift of NO MORE WHINING FROM AMANDA YESSSSS.

But for now.... This is all I've got. :-'(

I started AmCare last week at a clinic up near Bay City, which would put me almost a week into my second (and last) two-month long rotation. So far I like it, though I'm still more or less getting used to it. The majority of my day is spent reviewing patient charts, working up their problem list and deciding which interventions I'd like to make, presenting these recommendations to my preceptor, and then seeing my patients with my assigned resident. I get to spend a LOT more time with each patient than I did on Internal Med, and I've also done medication histories on almost every patient I've had so far. Other than clinic work, I'm also doing a TON of homework assignments. There seems to be a lot of presentations, articles, projects, study guides, and discussion topics to accomplish on this rotation, which might end up getting sticky as due dates get close together. I'm not really concerned right now though. I'm just happy to be getting more than 4 hours of sleep a night! :D

I did get to see boobs and vagina on my first day, which was a nice change from the homeless-man-penis I kept seeing at Hurley. Catheterized homeless-man-penis. *shudder*

In other news, I helped Mike chaperon his school's homecoming dance this past Saturday! I actually had a really fun time--it reminded me how happy I am to NOT be in high school anymore, lol. I helped him check in students at the door and just in general prevented kids from leaving and causing a ruckus. His school looked really beautiful and they had a great turnout. After the dance we went to a local sports bar with some of Mike's teacher-friends to celebrate homecoming being over. They even won the football game!! I only made it for the second half, but it was a close game and I miss high school football, if nothing else.

From the Random Frontier, I really hate kids in my parents' neighborhood. We're talking about dozens of kids that stand in the middle of roads, or take up half a street between them and their friends, and just expect cars to drive around them. This morning there were three kids standing literally in the middle of my street, doing nothing, just standing. I've become so overwhelmingly irritated with driving around random teeny-bopper pedestrians, that today I decided NO MORE. I drove up to those fuckers, right up to them with my high beams on and everything, and honked at them. One of them went a little crazy and started swearing at me and flipping me the bird. And I just laughed because they're IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. Cars drive here, HELLO. OMG. I could go on and on. This is almost as bad as candy corn with orange on the bottom. *the horror*

Anyway.

My Clinical Seminar paper is due on Monday. Clinical Seminar is pretty much the P School edition of a thesis, and it's sucking the joy from my life. Uuuugh. And I'm pretty much just avoiding it right now by posting this blog entry. >_<