it's my last week here, my last week of first year. i had my last lectures today, the rest of the week is reviews and time to review, very sweet of them.
i'm so excited to be leaving soon. so as i sit here, wasting time on the internet, watching "notting hill" on tv (i can multitask with the best of them), i am just imagining the days that will come very soon with the beloved FREE TIME....that i don't have right now. now i just have borrowed time.
i had a fabulous weekend, complete with an impromptu visit from pete, and a lovely memorial day cookout with friends.
alright, now it's time to get back into the mindset...i have to study...there's lectures to review, notes to be taken.
though perhaps a nap first....
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
#36 on list "things you don't want to happen at midnight on a thursday"
#36: toilet overflow in your second floor bathroom. into the lobby on the first floor.
the toilet had been acting up today, and seemed like it would overflow earlier, so i turned off the water. i thought i had turned it back on, but then tonight my roommate was in there, and said, "i think the toilet's broken." what she was concerned with was that it wasn't flushing. so i said, "oh, i turned off the water earlier and i must have forgotten to turn it back on." so i turned the little knob back on at the base of the toilet, and we tried flushing it again.
well, the water worked this time. the toilet still wasn't going down. and then the water overflowed. i tried to turn the knob off again, but the water started touching my toes-eww...so i ran away. then mary, my toiletmate, put on flipflops and turned the knob off. my roommate ran to tell the rd, while we started throwing paper towels on the half inch of water. we grabbed the mop on the floor and started mopping. my roommate returned with the report of a waterfall on the first floor. oh great.
we mopped a bit, waiting for janitorial staff. luckily for us, the cleaning lady comes at night, so she was available to disinfect the floor. we have a plumber type guy here trying to get the toilet to work. so now i'm watching al gore on letterman trying not to remember #37...."realizing there's a whole other day of work before the weekend."
the toilet had been acting up today, and seemed like it would overflow earlier, so i turned off the water. i thought i had turned it back on, but then tonight my roommate was in there, and said, "i think the toilet's broken." what she was concerned with was that it wasn't flushing. so i said, "oh, i turned off the water earlier and i must have forgotten to turn it back on." so i turned the little knob back on at the base of the toilet, and we tried flushing it again.
well, the water worked this time. the toilet still wasn't going down. and then the water overflowed. i tried to turn the knob off again, but the water started touching my toes-eww...so i ran away. then mary, my toiletmate, put on flipflops and turned the knob off. my roommate ran to tell the rd, while we started throwing paper towels on the half inch of water. we grabbed the mop on the floor and started mopping. my roommate returned with the report of a waterfall on the first floor. oh great.
we mopped a bit, waiting for janitorial staff. luckily for us, the cleaning lady comes at night, so she was available to disinfect the floor. we have a plumber type guy here trying to get the toilet to work. so now i'm watching al gore on letterman trying not to remember #37...."realizing there's a whole other day of work before the weekend."
Monday, May 14, 2007
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so in order for this to be yours, all you need to do is click on the brand new link on the right of you screen, labeled "subscribe to my blog". if you click there, you will be brought to a screen that looks like this:
after reading my witty introduction, chuckle for a moment and then click on the link, once again on the right, labeled "join this group."
and that's it!!!
now, what would you pay for the sassy sentences of my blog right next to your other emails? would you pay $100? how bout $40? no? well, have i got a deal for you...for this LIMITED TIME ONLY offer, you can get my blog for only $25 american dollars!!! that's right, just send a check to me, and i'll keep you on the list. i might let you go for free for a little while, but then i'm crackin down. like you need the money more than me...
and if you pay now, i'll throw in one free checkup of YOUR choice once i'm certified for those sorts of things OR one 2:00am phone call when you just need to know what that rash actually means so you want to call your daughter/sister/friend/niece/random person whose blog you read/etc who's a doctor and can give you free advice and i won't even complain!!!! to your face!!!! but i might to someone else!!! just so you know!!!!
wow, that's a good deal!
good news, bad news...
which do you want first?
so, remember how i studied really hard for this past exam? well, i ended up getting an 82. which, of course, isn't bad. but when you've studied as hard as i did, it was a bit discouraging. for the previous two exams of physiology the class average had been about 85. then today i found out that the average grade was an 80! so i finally stand before you as a slightly-above-average-at-least-on-one-exam med student. oh, yeah! that's right!
so that was the good news.
some of you may know that this summer i'm planning to work in boston, at the children's hospital. well, i had emailed the lady i had been in contact with there, just to see what was going on. and today, i got an email, a nice form letter, saying that there was another candidate they picked for the position.
in the words of pete,
a jigga what?!
i don't know what happened, but i was under the impression that i had been offered the job...i had been planning on having that job...i did not look for another one...and it's the middle of may, which if anyone remembers trying to find a job when all the lovely college students had already grabbed them, you would imagine what this would be like....and i still have three more weeks left here, which i do not want to spend figuring out my summer.
well, i guess you gotta roll with the punches. so now i'm busy checking out some leads for other jobs that had come up, we'll see what happens. or maybe i'll just relax...doesn't that sound thrilling? but not too much, because then i'll want to kill myself. we don't recommend that.
so, remember how i studied really hard for this past exam? well, i ended up getting an 82. which, of course, isn't bad. but when you've studied as hard as i did, it was a bit discouraging. for the previous two exams of physiology the class average had been about 85. then today i found out that the average grade was an 80! so i finally stand before you as a slightly-above-average-at-least-on-one-exam med student. oh, yeah! that's right!
so that was the good news.
some of you may know that this summer i'm planning to work in boston, at the children's hospital. well, i had emailed the lady i had been in contact with there, just to see what was going on. and today, i got an email, a nice form letter, saying that there was another candidate they picked for the position.
in the words of pete,
a jigga what?!
i don't know what happened, but i was under the impression that i had been offered the job...i had been planning on having that job...i did not look for another one...and it's the middle of may, which if anyone remembers trying to find a job when all the lovely college students had already grabbed them, you would imagine what this would be like....and i still have three more weeks left here, which i do not want to spend figuring out my summer.
well, i guess you gotta roll with the punches. so now i'm busy checking out some leads for other jobs that had come up, we'll see what happens. or maybe i'll just relax...doesn't that sound thrilling? but not too much, because then i'll want to kill myself. we don't recommend that.
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
nostalgia
this week is the last week for....syracuse university. which is NOT the school i go to. here at upstate, the college of medicine has another few weeks....
i've been studying in my fav cafe, and then the tea house, and everywhere has been packed with undergrads excitedly talking about the summer....
makes it a bit harder to study. a lot harder to study.
i have an exam on friday, and it's going to be hard. it's actually 4 exams, but who's counting? i need to do well on them. i think i might. i've been working hard to be the best student i could be this section. but i had a bit of a freakout moment tonight. i was at the teahouse, going over renal notes, when i realized that i had a very hard time recalling the information i was reviewing. which reminded me of all the other lectures i need to review in the next couple days. which reminded me of how it was warm out and a year ago i was graduating, which made me think about how i did not do well on the last exam, which reminded me of how little i could remember of the stuff i've been cramming into my head for the past couple weeks...at which point i started hyperventilating...and my eyes felt a little wet and burning...
and then i tried to remember what the effects were from hyperventilating on the partial pressure of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood and the effect on the acidity of the blood....
and then i moaned.
and kept studying.
i'm sick of this. i need the summer.
i've been studying in my fav cafe, and then the tea house, and everywhere has been packed with undergrads excitedly talking about the summer....
makes it a bit harder to study. a lot harder to study.
i have an exam on friday, and it's going to be hard. it's actually 4 exams, but who's counting? i need to do well on them. i think i might. i've been working hard to be the best student i could be this section. but i had a bit of a freakout moment tonight. i was at the teahouse, going over renal notes, when i realized that i had a very hard time recalling the information i was reviewing. which reminded me of all the other lectures i need to review in the next couple days. which reminded me of how it was warm out and a year ago i was graduating, which made me think about how i did not do well on the last exam, which reminded me of how little i could remember of the stuff i've been cramming into my head for the past couple weeks...at which point i started hyperventilating...and my eyes felt a little wet and burning...
and then i tried to remember what the effects were from hyperventilating on the partial pressure of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood and the effect on the acidity of the blood....
and then i moaned.
and kept studying.
i'm sick of this. i need the summer.
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