I got into the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. YAYAYAY!!!! I have a back-up plan!  A much better back-up plan than the one my parents suggested: get into St. John’s Pharmacy and live at home. 

But I still have my hopes set on Maryland…PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.  But if not, MCP isn’t bad either.  It’s in BAW-STON…not my favorite city, but at least it’s a city…so I wouldn’t need to drive a car…tee hee.  And it’s part of the Longwood Medical and Academic Area Campus…which includes small schools, such as HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL…so it’s not a bad back-up plan…except that it’s in BAWston.  And i’d be surrounded by lotsa college kids….lotsa college kids who look older than me.  great. 

But for those of you who know BAWston, I was wondering which parts of the city are the cheapest (yet safe…and reachable by their subway thing…i forget what they’re called up there…a little ghetto is ok…but not TOO ghetto) areas to live.  HOLLA BACK!

My 6 year old cousin is so cute.

cousin: i don’t have school tomorrow

me: why not?

cousin: super attendance day

(Superintendent’s day…which i guess is a new elementary school holiday…and how does he know how to AIM at age 6?!!)

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Y’know what’s sad? I hear on the radio all the time that the current teens are part of the “HIP-HOP generation”.  I am sorry, but if you compared today’s hip hop to the hip-hop I listened to when I was a teen…it does NOT compare in any way whatsoever.  But it’s too bad that most kids back then were listening to alternative music; they missed out on some good stuff.

Today’s hip-hop isn’t REALLY hip-hop…it’s more like hip-POP.  It’s a little disconcerting to hear all these little girls scream when Nelly performs such “hits” soch as “My Air Force One’s”.    I’m sure one day they’ll call that a classic.  They think that J. Lo is some sort of R&B queen…and that Shaggy’s first song was “It wasn’t me”…and that “P. Diddy” is a good rapper…I’ll bet they even think Justin Timberlake as part of the hip-hop genre.  NOT NOT NOT! 

Sigh…I guess it’s good that the top 40 radio stations are trying to broaden the listeners’ perspective of populat music.  But if you’re gonna play hip-hop…play the GOOD stuff.  Play some Jurassic 5….play some old school Biggie….some Common…some The Roots…some Run DMC…some Eric B and Rakim…this list could go on forever.  How bout throw a little soul/funk in there…India Arie…Lauryn Hill (which they do play…i give them credit for that)…Amel Laurrieux…get some good meaningful…non-skanky songs in there.  Can I get an AMEN?!!

Well…the weekend NCAA games did not inflict TOO much damage.  I am currently tied for fourth place (out of 27)…not TOO shabby.  BUT, Xavier DID lose…AAAAAAAAAAARGH…i had them going to the final four.  I took a risk on them…and they did not follow through.  BOOOO Xavier!  Another boycotted city is Xavier’s city…wherever it is. 

But OH…i got the BEST news ever…well, sorta the best…i got an interview for U. of Maryland. YAYAYAYAY!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!! Thank you GOD!!!! That’s like the HARVARD of pharmacy programs….well, ok not really…more like the Columbia of pharmacy programs.  The school looks really nice…on the website..hee hee.  it’s RIGHT by the water…it’s right near the Baltimore harbors…i LOOOVE being near water.   Water means park and park means lying on the grass tanning…and lying on the grass tanning means NO CLASS!!!! (That was my Stuyvesant theology…hee hee!)  But anyhow…i’m getting ahead of myself.  First I need to get in.  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!

Click here to see a cute pic of ME!!!! and one of my very good friend

Since everyone else is blogging about the war, I will make the blog palate colorful…i will blog about the NCAA championships. 

After last night, these are some places that I plan to boycott: San Diego, Creighton and most of all, MILWAUKE (is that how you spell it?).  Why you ask? because they cost me POINTS…and this month, points=mooolah. 

First, let me explain our system.  for every win, you get the number of points allotted for that round (the number of points double each round).  In addition, if you predict an upset, you get the difference in rank added to your score.

Ok, now back to my currently hated cities.  I had San Diego over Stanford because i figured, how GOOD could Stanford be? They’re a NERD school.  But San Diego actually did pretty well…gave Stanford a good scare…but not well enough. BOOOOO San Diego.

Next, I had Creighton beating Central Michigan.  Where the HECK is Creighton anyway? It sounds like a place I would never visit anyhow.  But they LOST to C. Mich…Creighton is ranked 6, C. Mich, 11.  That’s a big rank difference, boys.  Cmon…do your jobs.

And finally…i will NEVER visit Milwauke.  I had them upsetting the Fighting Irish because I read they were a pretty good team.  And they WERE….until the very last second when they were down by ONE…and one of the Milwauke players was WIDE open, right under the basket and MISSED the layup.  Let me repeat, he was WIDE open…NO ONE guarding him…and he MISSED.  And so they lost by ONE point.  If they won, they woulda given me SEVEN extra points.  AND I had Milwauke going TWO rounds…as my cinderella team.  i BELIEVED in them.  and they LOST. BOOOO!!!

ok…that’s the update for round 1 part 1.  more to come…

ok, i did it…i handed in my bracket choices for march madness…along with five precious dollars…*sob*  I know everyone is saying Kentucky…but everyone said Duke last year and I chose DUKE…and they they got beat by little Indiana…ARGH.  cost me $5.  SO i picked Oklahoma to go all the way. GOOOOOOOO Oklahoma.  i don’t even know where Oklahoma is.  hahahaha.  or what states it’s next too.  it’s in the west right? like near kansas or nebraska or something? 

But, i hope i win, i hope i win.  And if i don’t win, i hope i’m not in last place i hope i’m not in last place.  I picked a few upsets here and there just for the heck of it…

But, i guess we are now going to war.  I watched Bush’s speech until he started consoling the Iraqi people, “oh we’re just after the bad Iraqi’s, not you guys”…um…yes, but when we go after the bad Iraqi’s, EVERYONE gets bombed.  And then I loved how he tried to convince them not to burn the oil rigs.  “those oil rigs belong to the iraqi people”.  yeah yeah, he just doesn’t want oil prices to rise.  I thought that was enough BSing for me…so i popped in Barbershop…hee hee

And now they might postpone march madness cuz of the war.  NO NO NO.  what’s more important? A war fought to make the president look good? or a bunch of big guys playing with their little balls (HAHAHAHAHA)?  C’MON NOW…THE GUYS AND THEIR BALLS….and my possible $110.

But all kidding aside, the the men and women out there, be safe…and stay cool…and drink lotsa water.

I am not a deep person…well, actually, it’s more like I do not think deep thoughts.  Is that the same thing? (ooh deep question) I read all these people’s xangas and some of them are pretty deep…even those who are younger than me, and who have experienced less than me.  It makes me feel stupid.  I TRY TRY TRY to blog a deep blog…but I have nothing deep to say.  Sometimes, when I eat lunch with my coworkers, they’ll engage in deep conversation about deep matters and I’m sitting there like YUMMY, this cheeseburger’s good…and then I’ll think about the possibility of getting gas later on that day from the cheese.

What is wrong with me? Shouldn’t I be deep?  I’m almost a quarter of a century years old…I should have deep thoughts, no?  I should be pondering things like ‘why is the world messed up’ and ‘what is true beauty’ and the ever so popular ‘who am I’ …and other deep things that I hear people discussing.  Whenever people start talking about deep shtuff like that, I don’t even try to put my brain in deep-mode…the first thing I think is ‘who cares?’.  Is that bad?

Have you ever met someone who has deep theories about EVERYTHING and ANYTHING?  I’ve met so many of these people.  And when I talk to them, first i think, ‘who cares?’ then I think ‘how do they think of that?’  Like i would never see myself thinking so deeply about things…it almost hurts me to have to do that.  I never understood people who can stand in front of paintings and analyze it for hours…meanwhile i’m like um…oooh pretty colors.  Or people who read poetry and try to figure out exactly what the author meant when he put together a string of random words.  

Mebbe that’s why I’m not an artist…or an english major…and that’s why I’m a scientist.  I can see trends with my eyes closed…I can explain how you get DNA from DNA and how you get proteins from DNA in DETAIL…and i can do math WITHOUT a calculator…yeah, check that.  I guess science people find it harder to think DEEP thoughts.  Or mebbe it’s just me.  Mebbe it’s just too much work for me to think deep thoughts.  I think it’s too much work just to think of synonomous words to replace the word “deep”…since it’s not good English to use the same phrasing over and over again.  I guess I could have used “profound”…or I could have used Microsoft  Word’s thesaurus…but it’s too late now…i’m not going to go back and change all my “deep”s to its possible synonyms. 

Anyhow, the bottom line is, I don’t think PROFOUND thoughts.  And when i first started blogging this blog, I thought I cared.  But actually, now I’m thinking, who cares?

Sigh.  I am SOOOO out of the fashion loop.  I went shopping last week…and I’m looking around…and thinking…what the heck is all this crap.  It is necessary for EVERY single shirt to have RUFFLES? or SCRUNCHING (or as they call it, RUCHING) or LACE? i don’t like lace. UGH.  Why is it still “romantic” season? wasn’t it “romantic” season LAST season? since when did seasons repeat.  What happened to fads?!  Oh and I love how the new thing is now Asian style clothing.  It looks alright if you’re not Asian, I guess.  I try on an Asian style shirt…I look like a little china girl who just stepped off the boat. 

Sigh…i miss the days of the wide-leg pants.  well, sorta, I still wear them. hahahaha. i don’t care if they’re “out”.  I LOOOOVE me wide-leg pants…with Puma sneakers…and a teeny tiny t-shirt.  That’s my uniform.  This girl had gone out to buy a pair of jnco’s and came back and told me, “all i need is a pair of sneakers and I’m jen.”  Flattering, I guess…to know that people recognize my FLAVA. 

Anyhow, i digress…so these days, most of the t-shirts I see in stores either have “princess” or “sexy” or pictures of cherries on them.  I refuse to wear those.  So I only have like 1 or 2 good tshirts left. *sob* cuz i wore them all out.  HELP ME FIND COOL T-SHIRTS!!!!

My Migraine and I

I have yet ANOTHER migraine.  WHY? WHY?  AAARGH…I hate my migraines.  I don’t know what triggers them, so i don’t know what to avoid.  *whimper*  Whenever I tell my mom, she says, in that soothing soothing voice, “Ugh, you always get headaches (then she does that sucking on her teeth sound)”.  Oh, that sympathy…how do I live without it.  And whenever I mention it to my physician, she replies, “you just don’t sleep enough”.  Hmmmm.  Well, I get an average of 8 hrs. a night.

My migraines start out innocently enough.  A little tension in my neck…seems like nothing.  Then slowly it works it’s way up.  A slight ache in the base of my head (the left side, always the left side).  Then it spreads its way up to my temple and behind my eyes.  Still the left side.  And there it rests…dancing crazy dances in my head.  Fun.  Then I start seeing things a little brighter through my left eye…and it feels like someone is trying to push it out of my socket from behind.  And it just gets worse and worse.

How do i cope?

Well, if I have excedrin migraine around, I’ll pop two in as soon as I feel the neck tension.  That usually squashes it.  But for times like these, when I have no drugs on hand, I just sit quietly…with my head tilted to the left.  And i walk like a traditional Chinese dancer…mincingly small steps.  And I try every headache cure I’ve heard of, short of drugs.  I try pounding my “third eye”…I try rubbing the spot right behind my temple…I try squeezing the webbing between my thumb and pointer finger.  Since that usually doesn’t work. I just sit and wait for the pain to get so bad that i go to the bathroom to throw up.  Lovely.

How much did I throw up?

I actually threw up quite a bit as a kid.  I would tell my teachers i have a headache.  They would be asses and refuse to let me go to the nurse since I was “not sick enough”…not even to get Tylenol or Advil.  Then I would sit in class with the pain and then throw up.  Then they’d be sorry.  I threw up a lot in elementary school cuz that was before I was allowed self-access to painkillers.  After that, I managed to limit myself to one throw up session per school…once in JHS, once in HS (CaffeineNicotine, you were there…i don’t know if you remember or not), once in college.  Oh, and I did it once at church too. 

So, if you have any easy-fix headache cures, holla back! 

*sob* I want to watch TV

Anyhow…i went to the big big sale that jeyi99 informed me about.  It was indeed a big big sale.  50% off already reduced items.  NICE.  But they only had like 10 fugly items my size.  NOT NICE.  it sucks being little.

But i did manage to find a Jones New York silk dress for $30.  nice.  and it’s FUSCHIA…very very FUSCHIA…NICE! (It’s like the background color of my ‘sites i read’ box.  to the left  <—-) i LOOOOOVE color.  Actually, my main goal was to find my “the little black dress”.  Since there are so many weddings coming up…I wanted to find a great “the little black dress” and just wear it to all of them.  hahahaha.  My friends don’t know each other, they’d never know. 

But, i just could NOT bring myself to buy a black dress.  I rarely wear black…and i even rarely wear ALL black.  I don’t think I ever have…I think the closest i’ve come is black and dark grey and that was for funerals.  Yeah, i don’t like wearing all black.  It makes me feel morbid…or like a witch…or something.  I dunno…it just makes me uneasy.  Plus it looks bad on me; it makes me look anorexic.  I like COLOR…lotsa lotsa COLOR…ANY color…oh but not all at one time…oh and not pastels.  ANYHOW, I decided I don’t need a “the little black dress” because it wouldn’t look good on my anyway…plus who needs a “the little black dress” when they can have a “the BRIGHT FUSCHIA dress”?