Ouch

So, the last 24 hours has been painful. Here's a rundown of what's been going on in the sphere of me.

1. Cal lost the bid to go to the Rose Bowl. Damn Texas. They already have the presidency. Give us something here.

2. My neighbor, whose living room wall is my bedroom wall and whose conversations I can hear clearly thanks to the gap between the wall and the ceiling, decided to have a party at 3 am. After an hour of trying to convince myself that I could go back to bed, and after hearing Michael Jackson's "I wanna rock with you," I moved myself to my living room couch. Yes, I slept on the couch.

3. I did not eat anything except a bagel and a cup of coffee before 4 PM today.

4. Had a stressful scheduling thing due.

5. Went to the bank to ask them what my statement, from August, said (I hate bank statements). Then, was subjected to a lecture about how I need to be more up-to-date on my financial records. Idiot! Sorry, I was in Vietnam for two months and started my second year of medical school a week after returning!

6. Played basketball, which I thought would be good for my bad day - but subsequently jammed THREE of my fingers.

7. Spent the last three hours making banana bread and lemon bars, only to have them come out just ok, not great.

8. Do you see any kind of academics in that day at all?! Neither do I.

So yes, now all I want to do is sleep. Rest my fingers and my body. And maybe tomorrow will be better. I can hope, can't I?

World AIDS Day

I think it's rather sad that most medical students are not concerned with anything but their exam grades. Really. I organized a talk about Global HIV/AIDS and women and the showing was good, but disappointing in that most people could not bother to learn about what's going on in the world. And we even had free food.

Sorry, my own griping about the apathy of medical students. I'm not saying that I'm the most worldly of all medical students, but I do make an active effort to learn what's going on. Is it too much to ask?

Battling turkeys

Really, I didn't battle turkeys. But Thanksgiving has come and gone and I woke up early this morning (7:30 am) and went downtown to go shopping. Fortunately, I knew what I had wanted and so spent as little time as I could (minus the half hour I spent standing in line to buy a down comforter).

Now, I'm tired and about to watch a movie. Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that I don't fall asleep.

I smell Roses

So, my Golden Bears whooped some booty yesterday. I watched it from Boston, but it was great nonetheless. Granted, I nearly fell asleep during the second quarter, but watching them beat Stanford so definitively and continue their run for the Rose Bowl is amazing.

Now, I only wish I was able to go to the Rose Bowl. Unfortunately, on New Year's Day, I will be in the midst of my tour of America, aka my flight back to Boston with two stopovers.

Bad news

So, I got some bad news today and my response totally took me by surprise. Recently, my parents took in another dog (making the grand total 4 dogs and puppies on the way). However, my brother told me last night that one of the dogs was in the vet hospital because he couldn't move his legs. Turns out that the innocent doggie ate rat poison, on accident, at its previous owner's house (we only had him for one week) and eventually had to be put down last night.

When I called my dad this afternoon, I completely lost it. I started crying and my nose started running. And this is a dog that my parents have had for a week and one that I've never even met! But I think what made me respond so emotionally was the fact that the dog had suffered for a week because of the rat poison he had ingested.

So, a warning to all to make sure you don't have any poison around the house - where pets or children can accidentally ingest it.

Off to see the President

Well, not the current one. Maybe a future one. Mrs. Hillary Clinton. I don't really think she will be president (I don't think most of the country is ready for a female president who thinks on her own. gasp!). But I'm excited nonetheless.

Will report back in a few hours.

Seriously bitter cold

So, the weather in Boston just took a turn for the worse. I wondered last year why all Bostonians kept on complaining about the cold, I mean, they live through it every year and you must get used to it. Well, it got cold today and I found myself complaining and wondering how I got through it last year with all my fingers and toes intact.

My only hope is that it snows soon, as that makes it worth it. Well, at least the first snow.

Medical school griping

So, I just have to gripe about medical school.

I hate pharmacology. I was not meant to be a pharmacologist and after my performance on the last exam, I'm convinced that if any of my patients get malaria, they're better off at home than coming to me for a prescription.

I hate neurology. We just started the class on Monday and I'm already beyond confused. I've studied it all weekend (which is a miracle for me, given that I don't study at all unless a test is in sight) and I still don't know anything about neurology.

And I have no life. Yeah, yeah, you may be thinking, "You're in medical school. You're not supposed to have a life." That may be true, but it'd be nice to go out to a cultural event, on a date, or hiking every once in awhile without worrying about how far behind I am in school.

So, that's it for my griping. I'm going to attempt to make it in time for 8 am class tomorrow morning. The odds are 10:1 that I will not make it in time, but I may as well try.

Happy Anniversary to me

So, I just realized that I passed the 1 year mark of blogging... in August.

The aftermath

So, it seems official now that Kerry has conceded and Bush has accepted. This all makes me extremely sad, to say the least. At the most, it scares me. It scares me that a lot of the rights and privileges that I value are at risk of being infringed upon.

Now, I have no idea what to expect. I still have the slimmest glimmer of hope that someday before January 20, I will wake up and it will be declared that it was all one big horrible mistake and Bush is not going to be our president for four more years.