Flight 858 to Filthyrichville Now Boarding
Holy crap, my birthday is next weekend. It snuck up on me this year! Oh well, it’s not like I have time to plan parties anyway.
This means I will be confronted with the inevitable question of what I want for my birthday (and for Christmas, for that matter… I’ve already been asked that once). On a day-to-day basis, I could find ten million and two things I simply MUST have. But when it actually comes down to telling someone what to get me, I’m always at a loss. I can’t ask my aunt for that $171 pair of shoes I want; that would be a pretty ridiculous request. I’ve been browsing around various websites for almost an hour now and I honestly can’t find anything that my heart desires. Well, correction: I can’t find anything that my heart desires in the $50 range. My heart most certainly desires a cream-colored, almost-knee-length wool peacoat and that gorgeous $448 teal Marc Jacobs tote. I just can’t come up with anything realistic.
Yeah, I know, poor me. Trust me, I do have multitudes of other things to worry about. I just wanted to take a little mental shopping vacation for a few minutes. Thanks for tagging along!
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I took the GRE this morning. It was as grueling as I expected. What I didn’t expect was the proctors not allowing me to have a bottle of water or my chapstick during the exam. I crumble to pieces without my chapstick. And no water? Helloooooo, don’t they know dehydration reduces brain function?
But, obstacles aside, I did great. On a scale of 200-800, I got a 640 on verbal and a 780 on quantitative reasoning. I won’t find out my writing score for a couple of weeks, but I feel really good about that as well.
So, one major hurdle out of the way, only… I don’t even know, a few more to go.
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I’ve only slept about 8 hours in the last 3 days. It’s not insomnia, it’s that I just can’t be wasting precious time on things like sleep when I have papers to write and exams to study for. The paper is finally done, after much research and poring and analyzing and writing and referencing. Now I am left with eight hours until my exercise physiology exam, which I can spend in any combination of studying and sleeping. The problem is, I’m too anxious to take a nap and too exhausted to focus. It feels like my brain has melted out of my ear and dribbled into a sad pile on the floor, and someone has filled my head with espresso instead. Not very productive. I’m hoping a nice hot shower will either relax me enough so I can get a couple hours of sleep before hitting the books again, or clear my head enough so I can get a couple hours of studying done before hitting the sheets again.
Next week isn’t looking much rosier, either. I have the GRE Tuesday, a psych exam Thursday, and a biochem group assignment due Friday. Oh yeah, and my first grad school application is due in a month. All I can think about is glorious, glorious December 20th, when all I will need to concern myself with is showing up at work at the comfortable hour of 4:30 every day, not getting sunburned in Hawaii, and, if I feel like it, doing some extra observation hours. I just wish this was the 24th century and we had cloning or stasis or SOMETHING to get me by until then.
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