I could be living in Virginia next year!!! It’s an actual possibility now! …I can no longer remember why today was so horrible. I just got accepted to pharmacy school!!!! Now, seriously… HAVE to go study. …this smile is NOT going away anytime soon! Sea World on Saturday…. Disneyland next week… pharmacy school next year. Nope… this smile is here to stay. Goodbye bad day! Hello goodness.

I really don’t like today.

The week technically hasn’t started yet… and I have already stepped over into the bad place. Yes. The bad place. It is not a place of stress; not a place of giving up. Rather, this is a place of very strange musings and christmas music. It is a place of overhydration and way too many naps. It is me, in a world that revolves around three classes. Two subjects… physiology and public health… nothing else in the world seems important or to even exist at all. I have dreams about calcium channels, pancreatic hormones and Haddon’s matrix for emergency preparedness. Actually, I guess you could say some of them are more like nightmares… mocking me about how little I really know. I just want to get through the tunnel… and to the other side!!! (yes, also have been watching too much Friends…)

I see the light… ok, back to studying. Then, on wednesday… back to the real world.

Oh, and a quote from one of our guest lecturers in Urban Studies… coming to us from Rady Children’s Hospital:  ”…really, babies are just parasites”

This is most definately the best shirt I have seen in a while!

Someday… THIS will be 100% filled!

I do a lot of typing at work… it has really increased my words per minute. But, within all of that typing I made a decision. I’ve been contemplating this for a while, but today I decided it’s true. My all time favorite word to type is differentiation. Try it. Differentiation. It’s just fun.

This is something I am guilty of… there have definitely been times when I have driven when I probably shouldn’t have. One time, it even crossed my mind, “I wonder if this is what it feels like to drive drunk”… which is something that I never plan to experience for myself, but I just think it’s such an interesting comparison. Don’t worry though, when it gets bad enough, I take the bus! Well, anyway, according to the CDC, this coming week is Drowsy Driving Prevention Week!! So, in honor of the week, and for your safety and the safety of others… please… go to bed! Sleep. It’s good. And yes, I plan to listen to my own advice. I don’t think I can survive any more weeks like last week.

Also, just something interesting I read about yesterday. There was an article in Self this month about a couple that have been happily married for 16 years or something like that, but have never lived together. It is just so intriguing to me. I couldn’t imagine it. They have a couple of kids too that stay at the mom’s house most of the time. Apparently, they have absolutely nothing in common except their love for each other and their children. I guess there are a lot of unconventional marriages out there… this is just something I had never heard of before. I guess if that is what works… what keeps you from having to give up your rent controlled apartments in New York and to not join that fifty-odd percent (whatever it is these days!) of couples that get divorced… so be it; great for them. I just couldn’t do it. They said in the article that this way, you always keep the excitement alive, and you don’t have to deal with all of the personal daily habits and routines of the other person. But, that whole ‘getting to know everything about your partner that you never necessarily wanted or needed to know’ thing is all a part of the beauty of marriage, is it not!? Who knows… that’s just me.

EDIT: Ok, so I first just had the title ‘drowsy driving’ but then decided to add the second thing about the marriages… lol.. but then I started reading over it and realized my opening line is very ambiguous… but no, I do not have experience with unconventional marriages! It sort of sounds like my unconventional marriages somehow involved drowsy driving. No, no.. none of that.

Well, that last post is a little sad because following that, the computers went back to the way they were before and didn’t work and I was not able to save my work. But, nonetheless… I figured out a way to get it done and both of my lab assignments got turned in yesterday. Yesterday was halloween… and probably the best one ever. I went to class all day, came home, and went to bed by 8:30 pm. Yes, it was b-e-a-utiful. Considering I had been awake since I woke up at 8am on Sunday morning… I was well overdue for a good night of sleep. Actually, I fit in a couple of half-hour naps in that time… so I probably got about 2 hours of sleep over those four days. Anyway, got about 12 hours of sleep last night, I think that was longer than I have ever slept before… and it was great.

Also this week; one of my midterms got cancelled. With everything that happened with the fires, and taking a week off from class… my professor decided that she just wanted to keep the class going and moving on, so she cancelled the midterm. Again, beautiful. So, now I just have to study for my midterm on Friday, and I am good to go!

I would just like to say that all is well in the world again. I have been working on this lab report for about a week and a half. Up to today, I could not get any of the programs to work, nothing would save, and it deleted a bunch of my work… I even went down to the iMac store (right to the source!) and got the tech guys to print out some of my figures for me because nothing else would work and the TA had no idea how to help me. I have put in hours upon hours into this assignment and have pretty much nothing to show for it because of technical difficulties. But, despite all of the work I have ahead… I am sooo happy right now because it turns out one of my lab partners had the same problem… told me how to fix it… and oh so simply I am back in business! I have had so many sighs of relief in the past 20 minutes that I just thought it necessary to write something down about it. It is an amazing feeling… you don’t even know… and I can not even describe it. (And, yes… I know, it’s too bad I didn’t spill my problems to him sooner…) but it’s all good. So, so good.

… fittingly interesting that I would post that last one when I did.

I must say though, I am not such a fan of irony.