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| OMG, someone take this test for me PLEASE.
Med school = not hard so far, just a LOT to remember. I gotta get back to studying, but I wanted to complain about it first.
Oh, and I had my ill-timed research meeting today- it went really well, now that I've finally come to terms with the fact that I need to hire or find volunteer research assistants to help me. Also, another lesson I've learned, it is better to invite as many people possible to meetings I need to have- rather than have them find out about them later realize that they should have been invited in the first place. Oops.
One other thought. Do you ever see holiday gift suggestions from celebrities and wonder at what point they detatched themselves from reality and floated off into the land of the wealthy? Case in point: last night I turned on E News, and Julianna, the girl host that isn't Ryan Seacrest, was listing some gift advice. Her first suggestion was a lunch bento box- a little lunch box with little plastic containers inside. It cost FOURTY-TWO DOLLARS!!! Are you for real? How about instead I re-use my plastic grocery bags and buy $5 worth of tupperware from walmart?
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| The drive to school this morning was slightly less terrifying than yesterday, so that was good. I only slid a teeny tiny bit, just once. It was a little depressing to listen to all of the school closures this morning- everywhere, but not mine! We in fact had an email the other day saying that, as a rule, class is never ever canceled for weather. Unless the lecturer can't get there, in which case they might send an email.
So the trip into class was good because all of the schools were closed- there was no traffic! On the way home, the street I needed to drive down to get to the main road was closed for unclear reasons- I figured it probably involved a downed branch or something- so I took a long detour. The detour was made even longer when I turned down a side street to watch a large truck slide helplessly down the hill I was going to go up....soooo I decided to turn around and find another street.
Monday is our test and then I can be a normal person again :)
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| So I added some new friends (real life strangers who seemed to be interesting) on xanga who are prolific bloggers- like multiple multiple posts every day- maybe I'll read a few every once in a while- but I'm thinking about unfriending. You can unfriend here, right? It must be their job, or something.
Today's blow by blow- snoooooow this morning- it was rather terrifying to drive to school this morning- even though I finally busted out the 4 wheel drive Tomorrow is supposed to be even worse- it should get going soon.
And back to studying. Who would have thought the academic powers that be decided to put 8 pharm lectures into the week preceding the exam (when we're used to getting 4 tops). Although it's all been CNS drugs- which I think is fascinating stuff.
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| When I was a little girl, it was cabbage patch dolls. And then there was the Tickle Me Elmo thing a few years ago. Apparently the craze this year is Zhiu Zhiu hamster things for which you can buy plastic tubing. For when mom and dad won't buy you a real hamster? Anyway, I must be living in a bubble because I only just found out about these little guys today. hmmm. kinda like I have to study all the time.
1 week to the next test, which means I am majorly feeling the pressure. Also, some crazy person in my research program decided it would be a fantastic idea to make the students have a major meeting with the committee and their advisors the Friday before a Monday exam- when the rest of the class has the day off to...oh, I don't know. STUDY. Are they for real? Oh well.
I'm rather stressed about the whole research business- I've got two, maybe three advisors because of the project I pursued. I'm trying to coordinate recruitment at 2-3 clinical sites. I feel like every single person I've had to contact for advice or at a site doesn't respond to emails...and sometimes phone calls. So everything gets pushed back. I really need to augment my literature research so I can come up with better numbers...but I won't have time for this until after the exam on Monday (another reason this meeting comes at a horrible time)- the blinders are on! Hopefully, they will understand, but I am anticipating a rough go at my meeting on Friday.
Also, this snow storm sounds terrifying- it's on its way- I hope it's not so bad! My mom got in a minor car wreck today with the storm in California- she was going veeeeeeerrrryy slowly in a 4WD car but hit a patch of ice and spun out, hitting a guard rail. She called the police and a tow truck and watched as multiple other cars spun out in the exact same spot. She's ok, car needs some fixing.
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| I went in again to donate today- and I was careful to remind the nurses that I fainted last time so that I should be careful this time. They, of course, remembered me well :)
So I was careful- I added more oatmeal to the breakfast bowl (I still feel full). I drank orange juice during class in the morning (normally I do tea, but I opted for more calories and sugar). As I was signing in, I drank a bottle of water.
I fainted anyway.
But this time I fainted immediately after I finished- I was still in the chair. It's always the same- I get warm very quickly, I start to feel woozy (I told the nurses this and to tip me back). And moments later I'm having an awesome, vivid dream, and people won't leave me alone- and I wake up, see where I am (not curled up in my bedroom, as expected), and realize I've fainted. They said it was only for like 20 seconds this time- so that's good. Maybe someday my body will become less responsive and I'll quit passing out after I donate.
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