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Finkin sucks

So one of my two friends got us all passes for the openhouse at Healthworks Gym here in Boston.  It’s an all women’s gym…and it’s a NICE gym…with a rock climbing wall…and a whirlpool and sauna and lotsa machines and toys.  So, i worked out for the first time in a LONG LONG time.  They have this awesome cardio room…and all the machines face this one wall….this one wall had FOUR plasma TV’s…with each one playing something different.  And you can bring your own headphones and plug it into the receptor attached to your cardio machine and watch whatever you want while you work out.  AND….since it’s all girls, they play all the things that girls wanna watch…e.g. Bend it Like Beckham…Oprah…i forget what was on the other two cuz i was watching bend it like beckham.  (very good, btw…i think i laughed out loud a few times, but then i caught myself and stopped in case people thought i was insane).  Because you’re totally preoccupied, you forget that you’re exercising….usually, I’m just staring at the “time” panel watching the minutes go by painfully slow.  But, yesterday i ran for half an hour without stopping because I wanted to finish watching the movie!!! Of course, I’m paying for that today, but it was soooo cool that i didn’t even notice that my legs were tired…or that I couldn’t breathe until AFTER i got off.

AND…the best part was NO BOYS!!! I hate working out with guys around…first, they sweat a LOT…and the machines are all gross and wet…AND they always HOG them.  And they SMELL.  At healthworks, there are bottles of disinfectant scattered throughout the gym…and all the girls actually take the time to wipe down their machines after they’re done with them.  We are SOOO considerate…not like the boys.

I would totally join….if i were RICH…the student discount rate is a mere $55 a month…which isn’t really a lot compared to the nice NY gyms…but for a student raking in close to nothing a month, it’s a fortune.  so…sigh…no more healthworks gym for me….unless anyone would like to donate to the Send Jen to a REALLY Nice Gym Fund…

(for those special few…check the other blog section for my other blog!)

sigh…i’m reading all about jing’s bday bash (HAPPY BIRTHDAY!) and it SUCKS big time that i couldn’t go back and party with my girls I haven’t had a drink in a LOOONG time…i don’t have time.  I was finking on call this weekend…and thursday…and friday.  I worked 32 hours this week…along with going to school full time.  I am tired.  But the sooner i get this training over with, the sooner i can start working by myself…i hate working with people.  Especially when they’re training you…cuz they’re always looking over your shoulder to make sure you’re doing it right.  i hate that.

But the work itself is pretty cool…I like it a lot.  I don’t really like the delivering drugs to nurses stations and stuff…especially since the nurses at Tufts med are BIATCHES.  But i like hanging downstairs in the pharmacy…and filling orders as they come in. Sometimes you see all these orders coming in for just one person and you’re like dang, what is wrong with them?

But the people who work with me just TAKE stuff from the pharmacy…like if they have a headache, they’ll just take acetominophen from the bin and take it!  Some people take the kids chewable vitamins whenever they’re on call.  But i hear the nurses take MUCH MORE.  They have their individual med stations at each nurse’s station…and when we do our rounds, we refill the ones that are low.  And sometimes, like we’d refill like 20 Cipro’s…and then they’ll call down an hour later saying there are no more…cuz they TOOK them and put it in their pockets.  I bet you they take the narc’s home too…becuase the narcs we give them are kept under strict inventory, for obvious reasons…but a lot of times, discrepencies will show up…hmmmmm….sketchy.

It SNOWED here yesterday…in MID OCTOBER….and I have already busted out my north face down jacket.  What is going on? I feel like I’m in MICHIGAN or something!

So this Sunday, I went to the evening/contemporary service at my church…it was SOOO good.  The praise team was UNBELIEVABLE…they totally sounded like they came off a worship CD…SOOO SOOOOOO good.  YAY! The praise leader sorta looked like John Mayer!  The drummer was especially amazing.  WOW!  And to think I almost didn’t go cuz i had to work morning shift that day (7-3:30)…but I bought a big cup of tea, even though it turns out i didn’t even need it!!!

But my first weekend of work was aite.  VERY exhausting…I was working all 8.5 hours every day.  Turns out, there was this girl there that was also my year at MCP (but i’ve never seen her before).  She had been working at tufts for like 2 years, so she’s been there a while.  For some reason, as soon as she found out I was also a 3rd year at MCP, she turned into a total biznatch.  I had to train with a 6th year student, and she had an errand to run, so she told me to hang out on the computer until she got back.  So i go to the computers, and i see that everyone else is shopping online, so i checked my mail real quick.  All of a sudden, the biznatch screams, “NEW PEOPLE CAN”T GO ONLINE”.  And i wasn’t sure if she was kidding or not, cuz she ain’t the boss or anything.  So i was like, “are you kidding me?” hahahaha.  So she screamed at me again…and the girl next to me just whispered something like just do what she says cuz she’ll tell administration or something.  What a finkin RAT.  The biznatch was in charge of triaging prescriptions that day, so basically, whatever orders came in, she had to fill them and send them up via our tubing system.  So while she was screaming at me, an order came in…and she came over and threw it down in front of me and was like “FILL THIS FOR ME”.  just like that…no please, no nothing.  OH, and when the head pharmacists are around, she’ll be all sugary sweet to me, like “oh jen, would you like to try to fill this prescription?” BIZNATCH…what sucks most is that she’ll be working every shift that i’m working cuz we have the same schedule.  AAARGH.   But other than that, it was cool….everyone else is really nice…there’s always that one sour apple….sigh….

AAAAAAAW YEAAAAH!  WHAT did I say!?!! Which happy girl proudly wore her YANKEES shirt to her 300+ people, all Red Sox loving  lecture? THIS GIRL DID!!!! I drew QUITE a few stares…muahahahahahaha.  WHAT a way to end the series…tell me that ain’t MAGIQUE.  I was sooo depressed through the 8th inning.  After we tied it up, I think I nearly gave myself a brain hemorrage cuz  i went from sulking on my bed to jumping up and down and screaming.  That sudden change gave me an excrutiating migraine , so I had to take some SERIOUS meds….and even with that, I had to watch the rest of the game in the dark…with the sound turned down…and with my eyes closed (the flickering of the TV makes the headache worse).  BUT it was worth it cuz we WON….the Boston network only showed the reaction of the Boston fans….everyone was sad.  BOO finkin HOO, SUCKAS!!!

ok, i was just kidding yesterday.  TONIGHT’S the night.  Yesterday was just a publicity stunt.

But last night, i went with a bunch of friends to go see Hairspray in Boston’s version of Broadway (aptly called, Broadway in Boston).  I’m such a New York snob….the whole time i was like EEEW, this is such an ugly theater…EEEW, the seats are SOOO hard…EEEW, the stage is SOOO small…this is nothing like Broadway…this is like off-off-off-off Broadway.  hahahahahaha.  But the play itself was really good…surprisingly good actually…so good that at the end, I was on my feet, whoopin and hollerin.  I woulda stomped, by my friends and I had taken off our shoes during intermission.  HAHAHAHAHA.  We are such dirty ORIENTALS.  But we were tired…we were at school from 9-6…and went to the play right after…our feet were hurtin in them boots.

Anyhow, the play had started before the game had finished, so during intermissions, they announced the final score…that was followed by the entire theater clapping and shouting for the Red Sox.  The entire theater MINUS ME, of course.  I was BOOOOOING and screaming LET’S GO YANKEES as LOUDLY as I could.  Needless to say, I drew a few stares….hahahaha.  The cast even ad libbed a let’s go red sox type of thing during the play…followed once again by cheers from the audience….and of course, once again, boo’s and comments from me.   More stares.  Whatever….I guess Bostonian theater goers don’t appreciate some good trash talking.

but TONIGHT my baby derek jeter and the YANKEES will be popping the bubbly.

As for Jeyi99′s comment…you say the yankees SUCK?!!! Let’s see….since you’re from NY, you should be either a Met or Yankees fan….and apparently, you’re not a Yankees fan….so that must mean you’re a Met fan.  And I’m sorry, but there ain’t no SUCKIER team than the Mets!!!! (but then again, you’re from NY and you’re a Duncan’s team fan!)

AAAAAAAAAAAW YEAH.  Tonight’s the night.

So officials here in Boston are talking about charging Nelson and Garcia with assault against the Fenwey park worker who went into the bullpen and harrassed them.  ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!!  The guy wasn’t even supposed to BE in the bullpen in the first place…and if you’re going to charge anyone with assault, I’m sorry, but did Boston officials not see Pedro Martinez throw Don Zimmer into the GROUND?  Pedro claimed that he Zimmer was going to punch him…I saw the tape…he did not have an arm cocked back…he was too busy just trying to get up that mound.  PLUS, I can bet you a million dollars that Zimmer is not great charging bull at his age, so Pedro could have VERY VERY easily sidestepped or avoided being hit (if Zimmer really was in the process of punching him…which he was not), without having to grab that poor man BY THE HEAD and THROWING him down into the ground.  Oh, but that’s not assault…that’s self defense right? I’ll tell you what that is…that’s a bunch of CRAP.  i HATE BOSTON and the FINKIN’ RED SOX.  i’m not usually a believer of superstitions, but may the curse of the Bambino hang over Fenway like a DARK DARK DARK cloud. 

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YANKEES!

ok so the finkin red sox won.  one of my two whole friends is an A’s fan and she was very upset…but I reassured her that the yankees will take care of the red sox for her.  i hate being here while the yankees are in the playoffs…cuz when we WIN…I won’t be there for the ticket-tape parade.  In HS, when the Yankees won, the teachers would pretty much expect half the class to be gone, cuz everyone would be down by city hall, getting the life squished out of them.  But aaaaah…such good times.

Anyway, as soon as i walked into school i heard kids talking about last nights game.  For those of you who didn’t watch, the red sox beat the A’s by 1 run…and that last inning was close…it could’ve easily been a tied game.  I loved how the Red Sox started popping the bubbly after winning the FIRST series in the playoffs…mebbe cuz they know they won’t win anymore.. AAAAAAAAW YEAH.  But the kids here kept saying, “oh last night, the red sox CRUSHED the A’s…they were so good that they CRUSHED them.”  And I’m like…they BARELY won…they had to struggle to keep that one run lead…that is NOT “crushing” your opponent.  finkin losers.  What the Yankees will do to the red sox will show these kids what CRUSHING really means. MUAHAHAHAHA. MUAHAHAHAHA. I love trash talking….

i gotta go my laundry..my derek jeter shirt is in the dirty hamper.  i love derek jeter.

So this is me and my two whole friends at our White Coat ceremony…which is where we get our official white coats (duh) and get inducted into the prefessional pharmacy world…ooooh.  But it’s messed up cuz they gave us forms telling us to put down what size coats we want.  so i circled SMALL.  and i get my coat and it says 38R…so i’m like oh, it’s in european sizes.  then i try it on and it’s sooo huge.  so i thought everyone else’s was like that. nope, turns out my two friends both got Small…the people who get numbered sizes are GUYS…they gave me a GUYS SMALL.  Which is like equivalent to a women’s LARGE.  It’s sooo big.  (look at where my lower pockets start compared with my friends’…we’re all approx the same height)  our jackets should be around hip length cuz we’re only interns right now…and after we graduate, we get the knee length jackets.  MINE is almost knee length…and the SLEEVES are half a foot too long.

So i tell the prof. that they screwed up my order…and then he gives me attitude…telling me that it’s a free coat and that i should just take it.  or i could take it off and give it back and go to the ceremony without it.  And how some people got a guy’s medium.  I’m like, HOLD UP…you all MESSED UP…(like they kept emphasizing how important it was for us to fill out the size forms)…and you give me ATTITUDE.  and PLEASE…do not give me that “it’s free” speech…it ain’t free…we paid for it…it’s called $22,000 tuition.  AND we actually have to WEAR the coats all the time….for lab…when we intern at hospitals…when we do our rotation…we have to wear the white coats with our pins and everything all the time, so it’s preferable that you get one that fits right.  PLUS, it’s not even SAFE for me to be working around chemicals and fires and stuff with a jacket thats totally loose and flapping around…I was PISSED.  So now I have to go a BUY one that actually fits.  freakin A