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-I am in albany ny in medical school. things are pretty good. it took me a while to get used to the speed at which information pummels your way, and i was initially very overwhelmed. Since we're doing molecular biology and genetics the material has been review for some of the class, but this is all new material for me and what makes it hard is that it literally just keeps coming like there's no tomorrow. but i'm trying to take things more step by step and focus on what is right now and not even worry about the next week. that doesn't always work but at least i'm trying.
-i've met some really nice people here. unforunately, i feel like after the two week mark in a new school or any environment really, there comes a point when the people you know will be the ones you know from here on out, and the ones you missed talking to or introducing yourself to in the beginning...o well. which makes me sad because i'd hate to think i missed out on a great friendship. also, for a lot of us we're still in that polite getting to know you kind of stage, which makes me nervous and more shy. i just miss the comfort and security of friendships that have a strong foundation
-the temperature is already dropping into the coldness. a girl in my class said it felt like summer turned to fall overnight on a particular day last week, and you know waht? i think she's right. one day, we woke up and even the sun, although bright, wasn't as warming, the air was cool and crisp and had that fall smell. also they started selling pumpkins in the sumpermarket so that's gotta be a sign of autumn
that is all for now becuase i need to go study and nap. more to come... | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment   |
| | Current Music: | t.v. background | | Subject: | this and that | | Time: | 08:39 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/annoyed.gif) frustrated |
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| I don't like writing papers for Hebrew Bible becuase the prof. is a meanie. well not really but just a very harsh grader and extremely picky. bleh. i should have started this paper long ago. six pages too many.
but, following in kate's footsteps, i would like to verify the food network.
there is always something good on, most of the time good also means yummy. i love giada and paula and rachel ray and emeril and ina. and who can beat iron chef? if you have been deprived of this channel, i suggest you take immediate action. it is very relaxing and comforting, fits every mood.
i would also like to verify my new ipod. i loove it. it's great. it's shiny, black, and very suave looking. not to mention full of my favorite songs:) and now i am legal with itunes! woohoo!
i would like to verify making stew. michael and i made beef stew and it smells very good. we are good chefs together.
i would like to verify jello. i'ts jiggly, yummy, and anything bill cosby supports has gotta be great. and how can you go wrong for 10 little calories?
i saw V for Vendetta this weekend...and despite what some other people may think, i loved it. besides loving natalie to death becuase she's my idol, it was really thought provoking and had a lot more twists and turns than i expected. so go see it.
i need to graduate pronto. i am sick of schoolll...i still don't really want it to end for real, but i am definitely ready for the school work part of it to stop.
i miss jack and my family and hburg friends. jack walks around saying "Mole" thas't my name according to him..he doesn't understand where i went..how ridiculously cute is that?
ok back to papering. ciao tutti. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | curb your enthusiasm in the background | | Subject: | clean room | | Time: | 11:25 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/yawn.gif) tired |
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| things i heart in no particular order:
1. reading my book
2. massages
3. honey
4. my baby michael benjamin
5. highlighters that work
6. milk. especially with cereal
7. did i mention my baby?
8. blistex spa chapstick
9. when the T arrives just as i do
10. getting to sleep in | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | silence | | Subject: | liberry | | Time: | 09:54 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/thoughtful.gif) nostalgic |
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| so. i'm back in the library after five days of no work whatsoever. thanskgiving was wonderful. i got to see my family (minus janine greg and jack :( who i only saw for a couple hours, they spent thanksgiving in fl. with greg's paretns), all of my relatives, watched alllll the gilmore girls my dad taped for me so i'm caught up, saw a play, went to the soup fest, ran in the turkey trot, watched t.v., ate enough desserts/junk food to last me six months, and saw (although for too brief a time) most of my lovely friends. and i cooked a loot of stuff (carrots, stuffing, sweet potatoes) and baked lots of desserts (blackberry cobbler, gingerbread cake, apple caramel pie, etc) i love baking and cooking. i'ts crazy, you can take random ingredients, throw em together in a bowl, pop it in the oven and ta da! it's this delicious dish. and change just a few ingredients and you get something compllletly different. maybe i'ts just me that is amazed by the infite possibilites in the kitchen. i really would love to do it as a career. so we'll see how this whole applying to med school thing works out and maybe when i do'nt get it i will seriously consider it.
so, now that i've rambled about that. i am not looking forward to finals. actually i do'nt really mind the tests so much. i just don't want to even think about this final paper for developmental neuropysch taht is 75% of our grade. yeh, 75%. and the questions we have to write about are riiiidddiculsouly hard becuase our professor is a genius. it doesn't have to be too long, about 12 pages, but i just don't even know where to begin. she said if it's well researched and thoughtful it's a B, if it's exceptionally creative and has unique ideas no one has ever thought of before, it's an A. roiight.
janine said jack is learning loads of new words. the other day he kept moving his arms up and down and saying "up, dow, up, dow". he is obsessed with fraggle rock. they have teh dvd's. he watches it all the time and if they are out anywhere, even at a store, and he sees a t.v. he yells "ra ra" (his attempt to say fraggle rock).
um, ok, i had more but now i forget and i'm sure you're getting bored if you read this far so hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving and is staying warm!!!! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Time: | 10:44 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/blank.gif) lazy |
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| taking a break from reading about the neural controls of the respiratory center.
some wine bottles are so pretty. i wish i liked drinking the wine just becuase i want to buy the bottle for the bottle. hah, a little backwards i know. i do wish i liked the taste of wine though. maybe i'll grow into it.
cynbad straightened my hair yesterday! it's so crazy being able to run my fingers through it (well it's sorta knotty but i can still manage to do that)but today i ahd to take a shower becuase i was sweaty from the gym and even though i was careful not to get my hair wet, the humidity made it rebel..its curling at the bottom now.
my betsy muffin is coming to visit in three days! yyayy! i miss her like crazy and can't wait to see her.
i am also very excited for alic to kick some butt at her interview. :)
i want to see lots of movies. although i've recently seen more than i have in a long time - in her shoes, prime, erm. ok maybe thas't all but tha'st a lot since i had seen 0. (both were very good)
it's crazy how all my classes relate this year. we'll talk about something in developmental neuropysch and then the next day in phys we'll talk about something that direclty depends on that or is caused by it. and then in abnormal pysch today we talked about something we had just talked about in neuro. ok maybe it's just crazy to me becuae that hasnt' realy happened before. i really enjoy it though.
back to reading. ciao i miei amici | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
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| | why do i let other people's opinions get to me. why why why. i shouldn't care. i dont' like not having any control over what i'm feeling. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | jason mraz - 0 % interest | | Time: | 11:51 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/sad.gif) drained |
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| back to school back to school.
apartment style dorm for the first time. teensy place, but hopefully will be cute when i'm done. lots of wall space for my zillion pictures :) bitty kitchen but its a kitchen! my own room for the first time. cockroaches in the bathroom. iccck. lots of bug spray, hopefully evacuated/dead sooooonn. there is just not enough room for the both of us.
today - unpacking and trip to ghetto target with mom and dad
tomorrow- books and grocery shopping!
how can i feel like i'm behind already? classes don't start till tuesday, but somehow I just feel that way. strange.
more later. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | vertical horizon | | Time: | 10:13 pm | | Current Mood: | antsy |
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| holy freaking crap.
whereeee exactly did this summer go? becuase i think i missed it.
i need like 3 more months to study. minimum.
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbblah.
but in unblah news, my summer has still managed to be excellent. i love my family (my jack), hburg, my friends, and despite the ridiculous nature of the actual test, i do actaully quite enjoy learning or relearning most of the material. i'm quite happy being a nerd thanks. (but yeh, um one more month? not enough time!!!!!!!#$$#*$%&Y@@)
o. plus, my baby is coming to visit next weekend :) :) :) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| i'm rereading harry and the order of the phoenix becuase
1. i need to prepare for july 16th, number 6..ahhhh
2. i've only read this harry once! i know i know, it makes me cringe even admitting it, the others have been read anywhere from 5-12 times over, poor order of the phoenix.
3. i love harry
thngs i want to use more in my daily vocabulary.
snogging
have a go
dont' be daft
poor bloke
flobberworm
mum's been in a right state
a bit peaky
both buttocks still on?
mmmm, maybe i'll update about my real life later | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| my fingers are cooold. so maybe typoing will warm them up, since my fingres fllyyy over hte keys after all :) this is going to be semi short becuase i['m at janine and greg's house watching jack, who is currently napping but who knows when he may wake up. he is seriously soooo cute and precious, even if i wasn't related, i fi just saw him i'[d think that, but still, when that boy is n't happy, he lets teh whole world know. so i have to be ready and armed with toys and food when he wakes up. and later we may go to the park, which is apparentlyh his favorite place ever :) he loves the swings.
so home is lovely. i've only baked once so far, but that will soon be remedied. and of course i'ts only been 2 days. last night i got to see some of my girls!!! and we're going to hagve a sleepover this week sometime, icna't waiiiittt. i've watched all the gilmores my dad taped, eaten about 50 meals, and yesterday, i got to ride in a trolley with betsy! as part of helping her dad's campaign for DA. and if you're readimng this and thinking about voting, stop thinking about it and decide on it. vote for him! annnnd i got to play with baby kitties last night :)
my grades (well the ones that are up) are, for once, better than expected. this is a first, and i rather like it.
stlil, i need to be a studying beast this summer for the MCATS. all the orgo and physics that has been leaking out of my brain since finals ended will hopefully return, as well as bio that i haven't looked at in 2 years.
enough of my discombobulated thoughts.
i miss mbk. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| hhmmmmm. to stay to the library till 2 am, 3 am, or 4 am? dilemnas dilemnas dilemnas.
i just had some symphony chocoalte with nuts. mmmmmmmmm.
this kid at a computer near me just fell asleep at his chair and then completely just keeled over onto the floor on his side. like there was a loud thwack, that was him falling (he woke up from the fall) hahah...o the things we do for finals
i took a spill this evevening. got coffee everyywehre on my sweater and and brushburned both my knees. i guess it was high time for a fall anyway, i hadn't had in one far too long for being me.
the girl next to me and i are delirious. we're cracking up but i forget why.
the title of what im currently doing. THE ULTIMATE ORGO REVIEW THAT WILL BLOW ALL OTHER ORGO REVIEWS TO BITS!
this thurs, the parentals come up to help me pack! crazy!
i am a lucky girl :)
ah so much to say but no time to say it. so just ask me in person. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | run | | Time: | 04:59 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/cool.gif) mellow |
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| | soooo i'm done with all tests, papers, etc for the semester..which meaans i can focus completelyyy on studying for finals, starting with reading all the chapters i'm behind in for orgo and physics. and then i need to become a studying loon. unfortunately, even though i'm so careful about washing my hands i seem to have caught the senioritis bug. a year early too! hm. maybe if i say i will study nonstop, which is what i NEED to do, it will come true. i think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can.
passover was awesome. we had about 40 people and tons of food, of course, and it was great to see everyone, jack is adddoorabble, and i got to play piano with matty and watch gilmore girls!
i love my neuropysch teacher. not only is it pretty much the most interesting class i've had here but sh'es so cute and funny. annd she brought us candy again today :)
flip-flops today! woot! but i do'nt think it's lookin good for the rest of the week :(
stttilllll no computer :( they want to "reload" or osmething which means i'll lose alllll my music and pictures. stupid technology.
ct performance this weekend! and i get to help build a playground on sunday!
tha'st all for now. have a beautious day. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | jack johnson | | Time: | 12:19 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/sweat.gif) hot |
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| i'ts like, 800 degrees outside!!!!! ok so maybe more like 84, but it sure feels like the former. which meannnns, i have been wearing skirts for the past TWO days!!! ( although short, i would like to point out that they do NOT look like headbands, which seems to be the trend around here, wearing those as skirts) yep, tha'ts right, melissa has become a skirt wearing girl (well, at least if the wather stays like this), wow. what is happening to me?
i am sucking at school. which means, katelyn, we really will be studying ANIMALS this summer. or beasts when we don't want to be regular animals anymore. but seriously, youmestudying. like that, tha'ts how it's gonna be.
i'm going home for passover this coming weekend!!!!!!!! i'll just beh om e for like a day and half but i am soososososooooooooo excited. i cna't wait to see jack (i hope he still remembers me) and my family and mary's family is coming over and my cousins and o o o o o, i cna't wait :)
i went, legally, last night to crossroads! the irish pub down the street that i've always wanted to go to sicne i pass it every day. i really want to go with alic so she can dance. i had two drinks and i was quiiiite tipsy. tha'ts sad. but i hadn't eaten as much as usual yesterday so i'll blame it on that. plus, maybe they just made the drinks exta strong. roiiight.
i heart all my friends near and far. and i miss the far ones :(
tha'ts all. time for classessss and the last orgo lab!! in the hot hot hot sun. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Time: | 05:15 pm | | Current Mood: | stressed |
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| i like oranges. they are yummy. and now my hands smell like them. and maybe the library keyboard too.
this week is heinous. neuropysch paper, cog. pysch exam, orgo lab exam, and orgo regular exam, physics hw, and i don't really remember what else.
i can't wait till friday. does anyone remember that story of the girl who found hte magical ball of yarn and every time she was bored or doing something she didn't want to, she would just unravel a little bit of yarn and the next thing she knew, it was a later point in time. well actually the moral of the story was that you shoujdln't wish for a future time becuase it ended up she kept unravelling more nad more and skipping forward in time so that all of a sudden she was an old lady and she missed out on lots of things in her life. but anywho, i could use one of these balls of yarn right now.
but yeh. friday would be good. cynbad and i are taking a greyhound ot ny where i will be this weekend visiting shana at nyu for the weekend. and i get to see danny too! i can't wait. i'm pumped.
i like how i'm procrastinating whne i have a billion things to do. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY TO MY ALICIA!
and it's a beauuutious day out :) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| things.
1. my little laptop is officially dead. i have been computerless for a week. it's so sad :( no procrastination i guess. they are hopefully fixing it at the university computer store
2. my fish, mushu norbert, is not :) he is alive and thriving
3. tons of school stuff. as always. but i like my library dungeon
4. scheduling is this coming weekend for next year.
4. things are very good otherwise. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | :*( | | Time: | 10:15 am | | Current Mood: | shaking |
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| i'm a horrible horrible person. :(
i should never ever be entrusted to care for anything alive. at all.
maybe living in a box isn't such a bad idea after all. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | jimmy eat world - hear you me | | Subject: | no regrets | | Time: | 09:30 pm | | Current Mood: | crappy |
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| i have a caffeine withdrawl headache. and have all day. stupid no coffee today.
i need to change mushu norberts bowl. the water is gettin a litte shady looking.
i still think im' pretty innocent. and even if i was more so at some point in the past, i woudln't want to go back to being that girl. becuase what's a life without any experiences.
maybe i should not just spew out my feelings in this anymore. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| good things.
~phone is working again.
~computer is working again (well this is more a moment to moment thing but let's hope it stays in the not dead mode)
~fishie is NOT dead (as i thought for a scary few minutes when i came home last night to him laying in the botto mof the bowl...he's a deep sleeper apparently)
~today i was told by a stanger (well, he's in my class but i don't know his name) that i reminded him of the beach. at first i thought they meant just like being on the beach (i was wearing a tank top, my baseball cap and flip-flops so thas't beachy) but nono, the ACTUAL beach is waht he meant i remind him of. as in sand, water, waves, the works.
i know i'm weird looking but i never thought it was becuase i looked like a place. however, i coudln't think of a better spot to resemble. so this made my day. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | library | | Time: | 09:21 pm | | Current Mood: | sucky |
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| sooo here is why i really don't like today.
my computer died this morning. it just keeps shuting off. and i'ts not overheated or anything. but every time i try to turn it back on, before windows even starts up, it dies. the IT people say i'ts probably my power supply in the hardware. great.
my phone died this evening. it says sim card registration failed and won't let me call, text message, etc. anyone no matter waht i do.
in between there was a test and orgo lab and other stuff io forget. and in a few minutes there'll be physics homework.
stupid today. go jump in a lake.
i know i'm complaining, but i've decided lj doens't really count becuase it's not like anyone really has to read this. i just want to write it becuase if i need to vent then this is my spot.
i really want a hug. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
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