the stresses of last weeks exams have left me with 4 cankersores...all near the front of my lips.  It is impossible to pass food through my mouth without something touching one of the sores.  Stupid herpes virus.

UGH...as of this morning, i now have FIVE cankersores....it's spreading..i think because they're so close to the front of my mouth that everything touches it...when i eat, drink, brush my teeth and it just spreads everywhere.  I even doused the four of them last night with salt (yeah...not a pleasant experience)...at least they don't hurt as much anymore. 

I think i need to eat/drink from a straw.....

HELLO SPRING BREAK!  And hello enormous amount of school work

okay...so i just had three major exams in three days.....i am TIRED...my head is seriously buzzing...like that feeling you get when you haven't slept enough....i don't know how to describe it....it's probably the feeling of my neurons dying.  GREAT. 

Fun fact: your neurons are a lot like muscle fibers.  If you stress them, they'll break a little, but will grow stronger.  If you stress them too much......they break.  So, if you're doing a little puzzle, or doing moderate studying...you end up strengthening your neurons.  Any sort of trauma (physical or emotional) or lack of sleep......you have just lost yourself some good neurons.  Which is why you're not supposed to pull all nighters to cram....because you work the neurons, but then you over stress them...and they end up breaking instead of recuperating and strengthening while you sleep.  Yes....however, i pull all nighers and cram anyway because i am a procrastinator....even though i know it doesn't work.  I should discover a drug to treat procrastination...i'd be an instant gazillionaire.

ANynow, i am currently in the process of choosing my rotation sites for next year. I'm thinking about doing on out in Scottsdale, Arizona.  They have a college of naturopathic and complementary medicine...i think students there graduate with a N.D! but all this herbal and OTC stuff is important for pharmacists to know cuz people take them all the time...and it's not really recorded anywhere because they're not prescription medications.  But a lot of them have potentially severe drug drug interactions with prescription meds.  ANd now it's SOOOO popular to do the herbals and supplements....BUT....i need to know who's been to scottsdale?!!!  It's just outside of phoenix...i think 30-40 minutes driving....is it ghetto there?  Will I, as a little asian girl, feel safe there?  Well, they have a HUGE mall there with Dior, Burberry and the likes...so i'm guessing it's not exactly a bad area....but still....would like to know....OH..and will i need a car or is there public transportation?

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