*edit* update (in US dollars):

Spain on Wednesday announced the largest single contribution — $68 million.

Japan has pledged rice and $30 million in
emergency aid and sent disaster relief and medical teams to Thailand
and the Maldives.

Britain pledged $28.9 million for the relief effort.

France announced $20.5 million in aid
Wednesday and said it was sending 60 tons of aid to Sri Lanka,
Indonesia and the Maldives.

Australia said Wednesday it would give another $19.5 million in aid, increasing its total pledge to $27.6 million.

Supposedly, the US promises to give more money, but right now still
stands at $35 million.  I guess that pretty much makes US the
cheap ass.
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So my questions is why is the US only donating 35 million to those
southeast asian countries.  It was originally 15 million, but they
increased it only after other countries started calling the US cheap asses.

Here’s a breakdown of how much countries have donated (in australian dollars….sorry, taken from an australian news article)

• US $A44.9 million, plus ships, planes and helicopters loaded with supplies, and troops to help clear bodies.
• Japan $A38.5 million.
• Australia $A35 million, plus four Hercules loaded with personnel and supplies.
• Germany $A3.4 million
• China $A3.3 million, mostly in the form of supplies, such as blankets.
• Britain $A2.1 million.
• Singapore $A1.5 million.
• Spain $A1.2 million.
• France $A227,000, plus a plane with medical personnel.

The US claim, Oh…but we gave the most out of all the countries in the
WORLD.  Yes, but we HAVE the most…we shouldn’t be giving only
slightly more than countries like japan and australia, even though they too are wealthy countries.

I understand that there’s no OIL there or monetary benefits from
helping out these countries since they were so poor to begin with, but
COME ON….read the papers…watch the news.  This isn’t made up
stuff…look at the freakin pictures… the death toll count. 
It’s probably one of the most horrible things i’ve ever seen.

Bush said that he resents that the UN called the US stingy.  FU, Bush.  And all the other rich countries….”Measured another way, as a percentage of
gross national product, the OECD’s figures on development aid show that
as of April, none of the world’s richest countries donated even 1
percent of its gross national product. Norway was highest, at 0.92
percent; the United States was last, at 0.14 percent.” (Yahoo news article)  Yes, the US was LAST.  That’s PATHETIC.

Might I add….that France is TRULY CHEAP ASS.  FU, France.

O-Lang is Taiwanese for an African-American….it means black person literally.

MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone. i spent the morning at work…what fun. But i
feel even worse for the kids that are stuck in the hospital for
Christmas…at least i get paid to be there (double time
actually)…these poor kids have to be stuck in their beds all day. i
think the doctors tried to discharge as many patients as possible
before today because the meds volume was significantly less than usual.

Hmmm…what
should i do today…the malls are closed….there’s nothing on TV
except for Boston stuff….Boston TV loves to broadcast huge choirs
singing carols….there’s something strange about hearing Frosty the
Snowman sung opera style.

I guess I shall spend some quality
time with my hamster, Bund Chen ( i changed his name…Dumpling was too
dainty for his fat arse). Since he’s blond, i named him after Giselle
Bundchen hee hee….excpet now it’s asianized.

On a side note, check outthis article…go to page 4 and look under Best Pharmacy School. YEAH…MCP represent…hahahah whateva…
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*edit* so turns out i didn’t have to worry about what to do with my day….i napped for 6 hours. HAHAHAHA

So i trained this week in the IV room (even though i’m already
technically trained)…but can i just say that i LOOOVE the IV
room.  It feels like home to me….I’m fast…and I’m good at
it….cuz i have piano hands…so i’m good with manual
manipulations.  All these months, they stuck me in the Outback
(it’s called that because that area is located in the rear of the
pharmacy) filling patient cassettes with individual pills/oral
syringes.  That meant looking oh the shelves for the correct
medications…in the correct dosage form…in the correct dose. 
And the WORST part of me are my EYES…I am BLIND….so i was always
sooo slow because i could never see it…and my eyes would go
dry….and i would get a HUGE headache.  Any task that needs me to
search through things amongst other similar things….i can’t do it.

Anyhow, for some reason, during the week, the IV room is staffed with
o-lang guys.  And since the IV room is closed off to the rest of
the pharmacy, you KNOW that the stereo is blasting in there.  And
guess what type of music they play? AAAAAW YEAH!!!!  We’re always
singing/rapping along and dancing around.  And they are VERY
particular about their music, so they do NOT stand for crap music…as
soon as they hear crap, they’ll heckle the owner of the CD until the
person skips to the next song.  So yesterday, i gathered up the
courage to make a minidisc mix and i brought it in.  And for the
most part, it was accepted, so i got to play my mix for a few hours (except when i accidentally
recorded Happy Ending-Avril twice….then i got heckled for that!! hee
hee)….and today when i left, one of the o-lang was like, “hey
homegirl, you got good taste in music.”   AAAAAAAAAAW
YEAH….I’m in!

But it’s such a comfortable atmosphere there…I am loud as heck in
there cuz the room pretty much soundproof…and believe me, I am doing
my fair share of heckling too…i miss that! hahaha!  Like when
you KNOW you got a person stuck…and they have that blank look on your
face and everyone else is like ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….or when you’re
watching two people trying to diss each other out and you’re just
cracking up cuz it’s SO funny.  These guys are hilarious..they’re
always talking trash to each other…like last week, two guys both
thought that they were better than each other at bowling, so they went
bowling for real…and the guy who won, man, he rubbed it in the other
guy’s face this ENTIRE week…like how sore his arse must be from the
spankin he got.  Ahhh…that’s like being home. 

aaaaahhhh….this was the best week at work ever!

except for yesterday…on Wed., I had made all the Total Parenteral
Nutrition (TPN’s…like the IV’s that really sick patients get when
they can’t eat on their own…and the they the nutrients through
IV).  And on thursday, this physician calls down and tells us that
we had added 10 times too much insulin in this kid’s bag and that he
was coding.

Now, the way we make TPN’s, it’s like 5x checked…i can’t actually put
anything into the bag without showing the pharmacist how much i drew up
in the syringe first.  ANd i won’t say it’s impossible to make a
bag wrong…but it is nearly impossible…because of all the checks
each bag goes through. So the endocrinologist calls down and confirms
that the bag had too much insulin.  But i remember adding a VERY
small amount (10X of that amount is a noticeably larger amount…i
would’ve had to use a different sized syringe).

Anyway, the pharmacy goes into panic mode and i’m TOTALLY freaking out
since i made that IV…and it was hard to say what’s going on because
the kid’s physician had also put him on MORE insulin in addition to
what was in the bag….and the pharmacists didn’t know if that was the
reason why he had too much insulin or if it was the bag itself. 

Anyhow, the pharmacy demanded that they retest the bag…and when they
did…guess what? OOOOPS…endocrinologist made a mistake.  The IV
bag was 100% correct….and it was the doctor that OD’ed the patient
and didn’t want to say anything, so he automatically pointed blame to
the pharmacy dept.

oh…and neither the physician nor the endocrinologist apologized for
the havoc they created.  That is MESSED UP…my heart was pouding
SOOO hard cuz i thought that i might have killed a kid.  People
should ACCEPT RESPONSIBLITY for their mistakes….you don’t just go
pointing  fingers at whoever you want.  The pharmacist in
charge actually said that the doctor had called down saying he demaded
to speak with the TECH (that would be me) that made a bag because
he/she had put in too much.  He didn’t even review to see whether
or not it was HIS wrong doing.  Everyone in the pharmacy was
questioning why he had the kid on additional insulin as soon as we
realized that was the case. 

If the pharmacist had just accepted the doctor’s word and not demanded
the retest i would’ve been FIRED…and MY license and the pharmacist’s
licensed would’ve been jeopardized…and the board would definitely
hear about it.  GOod thing the kid was stabilized….and the
pharmacy had a mini celebration when we got the retest results
back. 
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OMG the new Gwen Stefani stuff is AMAZING….SOOO AMAZING.  I LOVE
GWEN.  I had that “what you waitin for” song in my mix…and i
left the IV room for a sec…and when i looked into the room, I
couldn’t hear anything, but i saw ALL the pharmacists, techs, interns
all bopping up and down…..it was the Gwen!

it is COLD here……AND i wear scrubs to work.  DO you know what
it feels like to walk outside in scrubs?  those things are sooo
thin,  it’s like wearing NOTHING.  I also wore my NEW fleece
aviator hat. y’know those hats with the ear flaps and all that. 
my parents got me a pink fleece one for Christmas. 
hahahaha.  I can assure you that i got PLENTY of
stares.  No one wears crazy hats up here….it’s a very
conservative region. 

I think i looked like a female unabomber
with that hat and my long down coat and my glasses. HAHAHAHAHA. 
whatever…it’s warm.  if they can wear their fugly uggs…i can
wear my hat!

i will post the infamous family hat pic later…after a certain relative of mine uploads it

okay…the pics should work now
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so my train back was supposed to leave at 11AM….i got there at 9:30AM
because there was supposed to be a private bus strike.  My train
did not leave until 1:15PM.  I was in Penn station for a VERY long
time.  I started and finished reading Bourne Identity…i still
have no desire to see the movie.

Christmas service pics

the kids are SOOO cute

so…i AM working Christmas.  I’m too honest.  I pointed it
out to the boss and he was like oh…you’re right, you are supposed to
work…let me fix that right now….and then penciled my name in. 
But he crosses out that girl with the baby…so i’m glad because she
was supposed to be off that weekend anyway.

so i guess i will see you guys Sunday.

see protected

So…we got our grades for kinetics back (the final that no one
finished).  Turns out that someone did finish…and got
100…unless it was curved.  but other than that one
person…everyone else did bad.  I didn’t fail, but i did bad
enough to pull my average down one grade.

So today, before my LAST EXAM (wahoo!!!) , i overheard this girl
talking about the kinetics final.  The prof posted a spreadsheet
with waht they got on the final…their final semester average and
their final letter grade.  SO the girl noticed that there were
people with the same final semester average as her with final letter
grades above and below her…and she thought that was weird cuz they
should have all been the same.  SO she sent to the prof and asked
him.  And his reason?  The kids who went to him and asked him
questions he rounded up because that meant they showed effort in the
class (and he’s one of those prof’s that remember your name if you tell
him).  The kids who didn’t go to him…that means they don’t show
effort and therefore, don’t care about the class and are not really
interested in the subject…and he would round DOWN. 

WT* is that?! I thought most professors would just give the student the
benefit of the doubt and round up if they were borderline.  i was
literally less than 1 point below what he said would be an A-…and he
gave me a B+….cuz i never go to professors to ask questions…i like
to figure them out on my own.  That A- would have really helped me
out.  Before the final, i had a freakin A in the class…doesn’t
that show effort?…if i had finished the exam, i think i could’ve done
okay…it’s all math basically…it’s just a matter of punching it into
the calculator fast enough (and i’m OCD about that, so i’ll have to
calculate stuff like 50 times…cuz i’m always afraid that if i do that
step wrong, the then next step will be wrong…etc etc).  And just
because i don’t ask questions doesn’t mean i don’t put effort in the
class.  Yknow how long i spend on the homework assignements? like
at like 5 hours per assignement.  That’s freakin effort.

I was pissed…but whatever…what can i do…he’s the dean…i’d have
to go to the president if i wanted it changed.  But i REALLY
dislike that man.  26 kids failed the class out of like 130. 
For us, anything below C- is considered failing, but they still give
out D’s for some reason.  So 20% of my class will be left behind
one year because they can’t continue on with next semester’s classes
without passing this one since our curriculum is sequential. 
That’s a lot right? that seems like way more than the bell curve would
deem to be failing.

But anyway…the semester’s OVER!! YAYAYAY!!! i can watch TV now! apprentice tonight!!! And ER! 

Hmmm….interesting.  The work schedule for next week just came
out.  And I’m supposed to work Christmas and the day after because
it just happens to fall on my weekend.  So i look down at my name
and i’m not scheduled!  AGAIN…just like Thanksgiving weekend
when i was supposed to work and they didn’t schedule me.  what the
heck?! How does this happen TWICE (although i wish they would have
forgotten to schedule me the weekend before finals week
instead!!)? 

I feel bad because i noticed that this full time girl is schedule to
work that weekend at my usual position.  And she’s the same girl
that got scheduled for Thanksgiving in my place.  She’s not really
a girl..hahaha she’s 29 (but looks 17) and has a one year old
kid.  And she was complaining that she got scheduled for
Thanksgiving cuz she would be working 7+ days straight…and that she
missed her kid.  And she noticed i wasn’t scheduled and asked if i
could cover her.  I had already planned to come home, so i had to
say no, but i felt SOOOO bad because i knew i was supposed to be
working  

So after i got this schedule, I emailed the boss telling him that i was
originally supposed to work Christmas (the schedule for the holidays
was already posted a while ago..and i AM on it…but i’m not on this
newer weekly one).  I felt so bad because i don’t know if that
girl asked to work Christmas for extra cash….but i doubt she
did…and she’d have to miss CHristmas with her kid.  So i don’t
know if he’s going to change it….we’ll see.

But i think i know why i’m getting left out…it’s cuz the schedule’s
template is already set with everyone listed in alphabetical order by
last name…and the boss just changes the date on top and fills in the
boxes (it’s a spreadsheet).  And so….I’m the very last
one.  So my guess is that he fills from top to bottom…and by the
time he gets to me, there’s nothign for me to do…since i’m not
trained in that many areas yet.

But if the schedule doesn’t get changed, i’m probably going to come
back Christmas weekend instead of this weekend.  Are we going
CAROLLING this year?!!!!!!