How do i get rid of cockroaches?!!!!!!  they usually live around the dumpster outside the apt building...but some people are lazy and like the use the back door to the apt instead of walking around the front.  And the back door is next to...guess what?!!! and now, there are roaches in the building.  they're coming out from cracks in the wall.  SO GROSS....and BIG.

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Did anyone watch Grey's anatomy last weekend (not the weekend that just passed...the one before that).  Um....how and why did sandra oh's character get together with isiah thomas' character?! i was watching this past sunday and i was shocked.....i missed last weekend's....obviously, i missed a lot!

AND....Contender is SO good.  I am SO glad Ishe's gone...he is SO ANNOYING.  Sometimes i feel embarrassed for him because he always emphasizes how Christianly he is...but on the show, he is the proudest and most arrogant one there....and he'll throw temper tantrums and throw things across the room and he's a terrible sport (this past weekend, he trhew a punch after the bell rang).  And when him and his wife pray, it's so selfish....they always say, i pray that ishe wins and and we thank you in advance for his victory...and it's something along those lines for the entire prayer.  It's like they're demanding God for him to win.

Out of everyone, i like Sergio and Joey Gilbert the best.  They're both so humble and great sports. 

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Your Inner European is Dutch!

Open minded and tolerant. You're up for just about anything.

I am very tired....I've never really been burnt out before because...well, frankly, i was never a very disciplined student.  It's hard to get burnt out when you're lazy.  But i feel like since i started the PharmD program, i really can't afford to be a punk anymore.  But yeah...i am definitley burnt out now.  And it's now just cuz finals are in a week.....i am just so out of it.  I'll sit in class and i'll find myself spontaneously zoning out for minutes at a time.  ANd i'll snap back to reality to find that i have NO idea what the prof is talking about.  My notes are now littered with ____________ ....yeah...that means i missed that part and must go home and look it up in the text. 

And a TRUE sign that i'm burnt out...i was reorganizing my notes (i take notes on sheets of legal paper...so they're all single sheets...and unbound...yes, dangerous, i know...but i copy them over in a bound black and white book).  and i noticed that in the top right hand corner, i had written date as "Aug 14".  AUGUST?!!!!!!!!!!!!!  And i doubt the 14th was correct either.

okay...so does anyone know what the immedieate area around the following hospital system/med schools are like?  What's the atmosphere there?

Duke
UNC - chapel hill
Yale
UVa
Dartmouth
U. Penn

I need to start applying to residencies in a year....These aren't my top choices...i'd like to stay in the NY/MANJ area but just to know...since these places also offer really great health services. 

Unfortunately for me, pharmacy practice is pretty conservative in the New England/mid-atlantic area.  In the south and out west, it's VERY progressive.  Pharmacists can review and write in patients' charts.  We can change doctors' orders on our own if they're wrong (instead of calling the nurse...having the nurse tell the doctor the order's wrong...then having the doctor change the order....then having the nurse transcribe the NEW order to a new prescription sheet...THEN sending the new order back down to the pharmacy.   VERY inefficient). But i don't want to be there!!!

So I saw this PBS special about the Seychelles Islands...and now i SOOOOO want to go.   Ever wonder why Indians are so much darker than the other asians?! It's because way back when all the lands were one big land mass and the earth started shifting to create continents.....asian broke away WITHOUT india.  India was still part of africa for some time.  THEN india broke away from africa and travelled north to fuse with asian to become south asia. 

Anyhow, during the journey to asia, bits of India broke off.....and became islands.  Usually islands are formed from underwater volcanoes...so the islands are actually hardened lava.  BUT, continents are made mostly of granite, so the Seychelle islands aren't volcanic, but rather, massive pieces of granite.  So their landscape consists of HUGE pieces of rocks.  It's really amazing, actually.  And since they've been pretty much isolated since their creation, their faun and flora are very unique (sort of like the galapagos).  They have these 100 foot tall coconut trees with FORTY pound  coconuts shaped like a female's down there area. 

But, alas...i think it's expensive to go....but you can actually rent out your own private island.  This will have to wait until i start work........

I HATE the cardiac diseases and all it's related medications.  It is confirmed...i will never specialize in cardiology.  it's TERRIBLE.  SOOO many different drugs...and all the cardiac diseases are somewhat interrelated or can be interrelated...therefore all the drugs can also be used for various diseases....but not all...and they all have like 20 adverse reactions each and Drug interactions and contraindications.   And sometimes if you use two of them together it's a good thing...but it you use the wrong two, it's a bad thing.  I'm HORRIBLE at trivial pursuit type exams.  If they asked me to write out the exact biological mechanisms by which these drugs act....no problem.  Ask me specific, nit picking questions about whether or not this is one of the 20 adverse effects out of the 50 some-odd drugs we had to memorize....AAAAAAAAARGH.  no one knows that by heart anyway....people LOOK THAT UP.  That's why i liked oncology....the mechanisms were a little more complicated....but they all basically had the same adverse reaction.  N/V (nausea and vomiting)!!!

Anyhow, i have a group project due tomorrow...and what i hate about group projects is that there's always THE ONE.  you all know what i'm talking about.  THE ONE that's either stupid, annoying, bossy....whatever.   In my case it's stupid....like forgetting to show up for meetings.  Like not having the instruction handout for the project and asking us what that sheet of paper was during our meetings (after the professor spent two days going over it with us...and yes, she was in class those two days).  Like asking what our topic was after we had just decided on the topic.  And we gave her the EASIEST portion.....the reflection...which is just a paraphrase of the conclusion.  She gives us her finished product today.  A LIST of 4 reflection points....not even in complete sentences.  I told her to put it in sentences and paragraph form and give it back to us.  UGH.  i was going to KILL her.

Before i started working at the hospital, i was what you'd consider, a slow eater.  I liked to savor my meals, usually while watching TV or reading.  Even without distractions, my meals would take at least 40 minutes....and i'm talking like lunch...dinner would be longer.  Since the hospital, i've become like a BOY....i find myself swallowing large chunks of meat without the proper and thorough mastication that i used to allow myself.  And i don't even realize it, until i feel it struggle its way down my esophagus.  At work, you get 30 minutes max....that includes going out and buying the lunch.  And if you get 30 minutes, then you've had a good day.  I've gone a few days here and there with NO lunch...and yes, that's illegal...but SOME people don't care.  So i've learned to eat lunch in 15 minutes.  I bite..chew once or twice and swallow it down with a swig of water.

Sometimes i get cankersores in my mouth...usually my lip.   And the only way to avoid jabbing a piece of food in it is to slowly chew so that the food is always on the opposite side of my mouth.  But, then i can't finish my lunch in 15 minutes.  SO i have found that if i chew with my mouth open, i can sort of hold my lip away from my teeth a little....and still eat just as fast.  So on those days, i eat with my head lowered....inhaling just so slightly as i chew, so that nothing falls out....and i'm done in 15 minutes.

I am such a barbarian.