I can't put my arms down!
So, it's been a good long time since I've updated this thing, and since then, not much has happened. Here's a quick rundown:
My October PBL test went fantastically (100%--after the curve, hell yeah!). Afterwards, Stace, T and Steph came over for pizza and cosmopolitans and we got ready for the LECOM Halloween party. I decided to be a greek goddess this year... I even made my own toga. :) The Halloween party wasn't the greatest. Music was crazy loud and there was a verrrryyy skewed girl to guy ratio, so I only ended up staying to a little past one.
Sometime in the middle of November, I went to San Francisco for the Student Osteopathic Medical Association/American Osteopathic Association conference. It was… um… interesting. Drug reps like students, and therefore I got lots of nifty free things. Lynn (the girl I roomed with) drove me absolutely insane because she treated me like I was a complete idiot. I was the only one who bought a map, so every time I’d read the map and say, “Oh, we need to turn left here,” she’d take the map from me and say, “no, we need to turn right…” only to be vetoed by the rest of the group. Give me a break, I KNOW how to read a damn map. And she stopped and talked to EVERY SINGLE homeless person in San Fran. Every single one!!!! Arrgghh!!! Ok, enough of that. I did meet a really cool first year who was in England the same time I was in Scotland, so we had loads of fun talking about cheezy dance music and pub quizes. :) I got to ride on a cable car (think Rice-a-Roni commercial), go to Alcatraz and eat a very, very yummy Ghiradelli chocolate sundae, so that part was way fun.
I survived yet another Thanksgiving with my family. Fortunately, I missed the extended family thanksgiving dinner b/c it was on the Saturday before my test. Apparently, all hell broke loose and there were many a kind word screamed at a few family members. Lovely. Anyhow, I drove home that Monday (9+ hours in the car! Yay traffic jams!), and slept almost all day Tuesday. Wednesday, my grandpa had surgery up in TC for a AAA (abdominal aortic aneurism) and two internal iliac aneurisms, so I got to go and play interpreter. The surgery went really well, and he's doing fine now.
The last 3 weeks of school were insanely boring... which was nice. I've never had to not study so much. :) I taught Steph how to knit (at Starbucks... while we were drunk off of El Canelo margaritas), and I massively cleaned my apartment.
I made the 9 hour drive back to C-town on Thursday, and I'm now offically bored out of my mind. Eric and I went shopping in TC today (the roads were a wreck and it took forever to get there, but we have almost all of our shopping done). It's so freezing cold here, that whenever I go outside, I'm so bundled up that I feel like Ralphie's little brother from the Christmas Story ("I can't put my arms down"). My mom is forcing me to go to a Ted Nugent (yes, Ted Nugent) concert with her for her birthday... so that should be very... interesting, seeing as I can name only one song that I think he sings and I absolutely hate it. After that, I get to see my girls from high school, which will definitely be fun times... since I haven't seen any of them in a looonnng time. I have absolutely no plans for New Years so far, except for driving Eric down to Detroit. Then, I will drive back to Cadillac, and probably watch the ball drop while my parents fall asleep on the couch. Sounds fun, right? :(
Basically, that's by boring life up until this point. I hope everyone has a very happy holiday!!!
My October PBL test went fantastically (100%--after the curve, hell yeah!). Afterwards, Stace, T and Steph came over for pizza and cosmopolitans and we got ready for the LECOM Halloween party. I decided to be a greek goddess this year... I even made my own toga. :) The Halloween party wasn't the greatest. Music was crazy loud and there was a verrrryyy skewed girl to guy ratio, so I only ended up staying to a little past one.
Sometime in the middle of November, I went to San Francisco for the Student Osteopathic Medical Association/American Osteopathic Association conference. It was… um… interesting. Drug reps like students, and therefore I got lots of nifty free things. Lynn (the girl I roomed with) drove me absolutely insane because she treated me like I was a complete idiot. I was the only one who bought a map, so every time I’d read the map and say, “Oh, we need to turn left here,” she’d take the map from me and say, “no, we need to turn right…” only to be vetoed by the rest of the group. Give me a break, I KNOW how to read a damn map. And she stopped and talked to EVERY SINGLE homeless person in San Fran. Every single one!!!! Arrgghh!!! Ok, enough of that. I did meet a really cool first year who was in England the same time I was in Scotland, so we had loads of fun talking about cheezy dance music and pub quizes. :) I got to ride on a cable car (think Rice-a-Roni commercial), go to Alcatraz and eat a very, very yummy Ghiradelli chocolate sundae, so that part was way fun.
I survived yet another Thanksgiving with my family. Fortunately, I missed the extended family thanksgiving dinner b/c it was on the Saturday before my test. Apparently, all hell broke loose and there were many a kind word screamed at a few family members. Lovely. Anyhow, I drove home that Monday (9+ hours in the car! Yay traffic jams!), and slept almost all day Tuesday. Wednesday, my grandpa had surgery up in TC for a AAA (abdominal aortic aneurism) and two internal iliac aneurisms, so I got to go and play interpreter. The surgery went really well, and he's doing fine now.
The last 3 weeks of school were insanely boring... which was nice. I've never had to not study so much. :) I taught Steph how to knit (at Starbucks... while we were drunk off of El Canelo margaritas), and I massively cleaned my apartment.
I made the 9 hour drive back to C-town on Thursday, and I'm now offically bored out of my mind. Eric and I went shopping in TC today (the roads were a wreck and it took forever to get there, but we have almost all of our shopping done). It's so freezing cold here, that whenever I go outside, I'm so bundled up that I feel like Ralphie's little brother from the Christmas Story ("I can't put my arms down"). My mom is forcing me to go to a Ted Nugent (yes, Ted Nugent) concert with her for her birthday... so that should be very... interesting, seeing as I can name only one song that I think he sings and I absolutely hate it. After that, I get to see my girls from high school, which will definitely be fun times... since I haven't seen any of them in a looonnng time. I have absolutely no plans for New Years so far, except for driving Eric down to Detroit. Then, I will drive back to Cadillac, and probably watch the ball drop while my parents fall asleep on the couch. Sounds fun, right? :(
Basically, that's by boring life up until this point. I hope everyone has a very happy holiday!!!