Last night, I was walking to the train station and i accidentally brushed by a group of teenage hispanic girls.  After I passed, i hear them chant, "Go China (chee-nah), go china...go go go china".  Do I take that as a GOOD comment or a BAD one? I WAS looking quite HOT yesterday as I was going out on a date with my best friend/lesbian lover (she's only gets the "/lesbian lover" when my very good friend is not up for the weekend). 

it is a saturday...and I am sitting at home alone cuz my very good friend is down in maryland .  So far, i've only done some online shopping and singing real loudly to all my mp3's. I only get up only to eat and do some freaky deaky dancing while checking myself out in the mirror.  I WAS going to do some real physical shopping before the sales tax comes back.  I have a LOT to say about the returning sales tax...but that is another blog.  8.6%!!! COME BACK RUDY! RUDY! RUDY! RUDY

Anyhow, i digress...and now i have forgotten what i wanted to blog about in the first place...but i already wrote this much so i'll just continue with my ramblings.  hmmmm...OH...today, i watched an ENTIRE morning of the Discovery Kids channel (I switched once to Fox to watch some animal show).  But there's this show called Endurance...whcih is sorta like Survivor, but they compete in pairs.  It's so GREAT to see that young kids are as conniving as adults.  they form alliances and backstab and everything. 

OH...yeah...i am now down do just THREE hamsters.  The latest non-alive hamster developed a rather large tumor on his neck.  My very good friend kept telling me to euthanize him.  I was working up the nerve to do it this week since he was in obvious discomfort and it was affecting his motor functions.  He kept flipping over when he walked and he had trouble eating.  I was planning on smuggling some ketamine/xylazine home from work next week...but this morning, I found him non-alive.  But I probably have to give my hamsters away before i go back to school anyway.  Anyone want one or two or three? Hamsters FO' FREE!!!

anyhow, i am hungry again...i think i will get up to go eat so I'll smell y'all later...hopefully on FRIDAY...you better be there...SIX more shopping days, kids!

ok...i emailed the dean of admissions to chat about my chances of getting in (cuz we cool like that).  he said that 9 people got off the waitlist last year...and since i'm #6...i still have a good chance.  But actually, he told me that someone who got accepted just turned down the offer, so now i'm #5.  FIVE MORE FIVE MORE!!!  i LOOOVE maryland...the faculty there is soooo nice.  Where else can you email the dean of admissions and ask him "am I getting in? am I getting in? am I getting in?" and get a straight, honest answer from them.  Usually, they give that same BS answer, "oh, every year's different, so we can't really tell you." I hate that.  But he DID tell me that he would call me if my status changes...i guess that's his nice way of saying, stop stalking/annoying us, freak! 

ok...next topic.  i hafta cut my hair cuz it's actually touching my shoulders...GASP.  My mom hates short hair...mebbe that's why i like it short.  She thinks it makes me look like an androgenous he-she.  To that, I say that a little mystery makes a person interesting!!! J/K!!! I'm a GIRL ok?  Anyways, it's never even been THAT short...ok mebbe once or twice.  but she thinks anything above mid-back is short.  ANYHOW...i digress.  I think I wanna try the Rene Zellweger bob...back from when she starting becoming chic.  That chin length bob with the long bangs sweeping across her forehead (i think there were bangs...were there bangs?  anyhow, i have bangs now, so there will be bangs).  What do you guys think?  actually i have a chin length bob in my profile pic.  but i want wispier ends...more wispy....less pulp fiction.

The next issue is where to get it cut.  Any suggestions?  everytime i go to chinatown, the people always thin my hair even tho i got no hair to begin with...and then i end up with the same short fob cut that i gotta use lotsa lotsa pomade to make it look COO'.

ok...i got waitlisted for Maryland.  So as of now, I'm Jennifer Wang, PharmD. Massachusetts College of Pharmacy 2007.  BUT...at least i didn't get REJECTED...so there's still a chance.  I'm hoping that one of the REALLY smart Indian/Russian kids get into a BETTER school and decide not to go to Maryland.

Speaking of which, Tuesday was my sister's graduation.  And apparently, there are a lot of...um...South Asians attending Stern.  So when we get seated, my dad looks around and says to me, "hey, tzeh-tzeh...yknow, there are a lot of INDIANS here"  in ENGLISH.  i started cracking up cuz i was thinking the same thing.  My mom shot us a dirty look and told him to shut up.  So then my dad decides to correct himself and says, "hey tzeh-tzeh...there are a lot of Indiana Jones here..INDIANa jones." HAHAHAHAHA!!!  At this point my mom was pretending not to know us.  After every speaker, my dad would ask me "is it over after this?  is it almost over?" HAHAHAHA!  And my mom would keep asking me, "where is Mei-mei? do you see mei-mei? where is she?"

But when my sister DID get on stage, we were all too busy zoning out to realize that they had called her name.  Until we saw her walking across...then my dad realized and he starts pointing. ANd of course my mom is like, "where? where? i don't see. where?"  So we ended up forgetting to clap for her cuz we were too busy pointing at her.  OOPS.  All the other parents around us waited eagerly for their child so that they could cheer their lungs out.  And then there's my family, who show our pride by pointing and screaming, "THERE! THERE!"  So solly, chrissy, so solly.

On another completely different subject. I was watching this show on PBS last night about two [dirty] old men who were trying to come up with THE perfect bra for the well-endowed.  And they had taken some measurements of several women and said that since 1950, average boob sizes have increased from a 34B to a 36C.  And i'm sitting there looking at my little CLEMENTINES thinking, WHAT? What happened to me then?  I ain't got no INCREASE. 

ok, i HAD to take that last entry down...i couldn't STAND having that up on my page.  I hope my many adoring fans enjoyed my "creative" efforts (btw, I thought you all were gonna write your own "CREATIVE" pieces). 

But i am SOOOO SOOOOOO nervous about hearing from U. of Maryland.  It's totally screwing with my system.  I can't eat AND I went to the crapper TWICE today...within ONE hour.  Who goes to the crapper TWICE a day?!  It sucks too cuz I'm at work...so i have to time it so that there's no one else in the bathroom at the same time.  I always have my hand on the flushing thing just in case someone walks in. tee hee. 

But anyway...i'm nervous.  I had a bad feeling all day. The admissions committee is meeting today...so i kept telepathically sending signals down to BAWLIMORE...'pick jen...pick jen...PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE."  but i still have a bad feeling.  I'm gonna call tomorrow morning, before I go to work.  That way, if i dont' get in, i can just call in sick and cry on my bed all day (and watch Soap operas!! yay!).

<---- New profile pic!!!  ok...let's take a trip down memory lane.

If you look closely at the pic, you will see my very good friend and I...and MANY MANY people behind us.  If you look closer, you will see that every single person behind us is a GUY.  You will also notice that many are topless...including that guy right behind me, wearing the rainbow colored beads.

YEP...over labor day weekend, we went with a coupla friends to the BIG EASY.  We were very excited, having seen all the Girls Gone Wild videos.  So we get there...and we notice there are LOTSA guys.  We were puzzled...but we soon learned that EVERY labor day in New Orleans is their annual Decadance Weeked.  Basically, a big gay retreat. It's like Mardi-Gras...but with only guys.  THe area was PACKED...you couldn't get through.  Needless to say, all the males on the trip were DEVASTATED because now they only get to see Guy-Girls Gone Wild.  It was hilarious...guys were flashing their members at other guys for beads! 

If you look closely at my very good friend, you can that across his chest are the words, "SPANK ME".  HAHAHAHA.  the WRONG shirt to bring that weekend! All the girls on the trip made the guys walk by themselves through a crowd of um...weekend-attenders.  We followed at a safe distance behind and looked to see which one of our men got groped.  Even with the shirt, mine did not.  Good sign...cuz gay men have THE best gaydar.  Unfortunately, one of the other guys did not fare as well and got his bottom pinched by someone in the crowd! HAHAHAHAHA!  Aaaah...good times had by all...good times!

Everyone come out to support DJ Caliber and Shift747!!!  It'll be a new breed of parties...it'll be CLASSY!!! yes....CLASSY!!!  It'll be smaller...a little more intimate...and you probably won't be stuck under the armpit of some random wife-beater-sporting asian guy...cuz it's CLASSY!!! So if youse CLASSY...get yo' ass over to Meet  this saturday.  Email tsaga_ent@yahoo.com to be put on the guestlist.  See you all there!! PARTAAAAAAAAAY!!!!

I am back from the um..beautiful..city of BAWLIMORE. I think my interview went OK...it's hard to say..it was long.  a 1/2 on-site essay, a 1/2 hour interview with a student, then a 1/2 hour interview with faculty, then a 1 hour group interview.  that group interview was TOUGH.  My group was like half O-Lang...they make commenting a very difficult task.  I managed to squeeze in two comments about health care policy...in my little asian girl voice.  That was exhausting.

For those of you who think those Chinatown buses are crap buses that people take cuz it's cheaper than greyhound, lemme just tell you that greyhound buses are CRAP.  It makes them chinatown buses look like LUXURY buses.  I'm going Chinatown all the way, SARS or no SARS!

But everyone at the U. of Maryland was VERY VERY nice. i like it a lot.  I WANNA GET IN! my very good friend and I walked around BAWLIMORE the day before my interview.  We went to this ghetto-ass McD's...which had NO KETCHUP.  But then we walked in the other direction...which was Inner Harbor...which was GORGEOUS.  It's basically a HUGE seaport.  So as long as i stay within 3-4 blocks of the water, it's safe...if you step outside those 3-4 blocks.....you get the picture.

But i also learned how important pharmacists are...because physicians don't always know what they're doing when it comes to prescribing medications. It's not really their area of expertise since they only get one or two classes on pharmaceuticals.  They're taught to diagnose illness.  PharmD's get THREE years worth of pharmaceutical classes.  So the faculy was telling us how 75% of physicians' prescriptions are wrong/dangerous toward the patient and have to be corrected by pharmacists.  scary huh? And they were saying that by putting just 1 PharmD into morning rotations with the physicians, in decreases errors by 30%. 

There are a few revolutionary hospitals out there where the physicians do nothing but see the patient and diagnose the illness...then the pharmacist confers with the physician and the pharmacist prescribes the medication.  Why did it take so long for people to figure that out?! meanwhile, they've been sticking all the pharmacists in CVS/Genovese to count pills. 

AND THEN THERE WERE FOUR...

Yep ANOTHER hamster passed away.  *sniff sniff*.  i woke up this morning to feed them...and i noticed there was only the daddy hamster in the cage (there shoulda been a daddy and a son).  and i'm thinking oh no...he got out...so i'm looking around on the floor...don't see anything.  So i look in the cage again...and in the corner...buried underneath the newspaper is the son hamster...very much non-alive. 

The parent hamsters are outliving all their kids.  I think the kids have some kind of inbred lethal mutation or something (the parents were siblings).  See, this is why you should not produce babies with your sibling/relative...too much DNA resemblance.

On a totally different note...some of my co-workers and I were discussing SARS over lunch.  And i was commenting on how devastating the disease is to the respiratory system and how painful it must be to have it.  And this one especially ignorant co-worker goes, "oh, is that what SARS is?  wait, what does it stand for?"!!! HELLO...this is a SCIENTIST...not ONLY a scientist...but a scientist that is headed off to MEDICAL SCHOOL this fall.  A scientist bound for med school...who only knows the term SARS because he's heard it somewhere and doesn't actually know WHAT it is or HOW it affect people.  Yes, he could be YOUR physician one day!!!  Oh, and don't be surprised if he gives you a quizzical look when you tell him you're American...because, after all, how can a yellow skinned, oriental girl be American? (he uses the word American synonymously with Caucasion).  Ahhh....spoiled, ignorant white people...gotta love them, huh?