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Saturday was an interesting day. I desperately needed to get my tetanus/diptheria booster updated, since apparently my last one expired in July of 2007 but no one at school noticed (thankfully). At the first urgent care I went to, the doctor wasn't going to be in until 2:00pm. The second one was able to take me right away, but charged me $180. I realize that it was a total rip off and I could have gotten it much cheaper somewhere else (or possibly free at the public health office), but I was so desperate to just have it taken care of that I just paid for it. Then my mom and I went to the fabric store so that I could pick out some fabric for a vanity skirt that she's having made for me as a late Christmas present. She left me in the store with her credit card while she took my brother home, and then I dropped the credit card somewhere and couldn't find it :/ But! Luckily some nice person turned it in to the cashier, so all was well. THEN, when I was checking my email back at my mom's house, I realized that I was supposed to be in class that day (Saturday) from 9am - 1pm. I really can't explain it, but for some reason it just totally slipped my mind. I've never had a Saturday class before, and this was the first one of the semester, and I just totally flaked out. I called the professor right away though, and she was really cool about it. Basically I'm just going to lose 2.5 points for attendance. Also I had wanted to get my turn signal fixed that day, but apparently the garage closes at 12pm on Saturdays, so I'll have to wait.Generally, it was a day of near disasters and last minute salvation.
Later I went to Theresa's birthday party and ate delicious, delicious homemade Chinese food. Then I saw "Cloverfield," which was AWESOME. 80 minutes of non-stop intensity. The film makers stayed really faithful to the format of shooting from a first-person perspective with a handheld camcorder- there were no establishing shots or scenes at the very end wrapping everything up. The only thing that bothered us was why the one girl wouldn't have looted some better shoes so she didn't have to run around the city in high heels, but I maintained that she was probably so pumped up on adrenaline she didn't have time to think about it. After the movie we retired to Krispy Kreme for donut observation and consumption.
The doctors decided not to close the office for MLK day, so here I am at work. Tomorrow I'm going to work a 12 hour shift with my preceptor at the ICU, which is good because that only leaves 4 hours for me to do another day this week (we're supposed to average 16 hours a week to get 112 hours by the end of seven weeks). I'm excited! I just hope the 12 hour shift doesn't totally destroy me. At least I don't have to work at the office Wednesday.
Later I went to Theresa's birthday party and ate delicious, delicious homemade Chinese food. Then I saw "Cloverfield," which was AWESOME. 80 minutes of non-stop intensity. The film makers stayed really faithful to the format of shooting from a first-person perspective with a handheld camcorder- there were no establishing shots or scenes at the very end wrapping everything up. The only thing that bothered us was why the one girl wouldn't have looted some better shoes so she didn't have to run around the city in high heels, but I maintained that she was probably so pumped up on adrenaline she didn't have time to think about it. After the movie we retired to Krispy Kreme for donut observation and consumption.
The doctors decided not to close the office for MLK day, so here I am at work. Tomorrow I'm going to work a 12 hour shift with my preceptor at the ICU, which is good because that only leaves 4 hours for me to do another day this week (we're supposed to average 16 hours a week to get 112 hours by the end of seven weeks). I'm excited! I just hope the 12 hour shift doesn't totally destroy me. At least I don't have to work at the office Wednesday.