10 days

A - happy birfday to manda-weeze!!!!
B - you da ho
C - happy half bday to dad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To start us off, I would like to point out that freedom is on the 10 day weather.com calender. It may not be freedom for you, but Feb 28th is going to be a sweet sweet day.

Classes today were easy. Only one real class. Then fake class. Then 3 interviewing/physical classes. I can HENT you if you want me to now. Just ask. We also went over the breast exam because tomorrow we go over to the clinical assessment center to practice breast, male GU, and rectal. We are using standardized patients for breast and male GU, but they have models for us to use for the rectal thank goodness. Plus, who is going to agree to 126 rectal exams?

So I am going to start this up and see how long it lasts. I really wanted something that I put in every post. Yes, I am thinking about my blog too much apparently. Anyway, I am doing a "commentary series" on things you shouldn't buy store brand. Feel free to add or correct me if you think I am wrong. Here we go.
This is only first because I experience it today. #1 on the "Things you shouldn't buy store-brand" list: stretch tight wrap stuff. Not only does not tear from the box without a huge effort and possibly some scissors, but it sticks to everything BUT what you want it to stick to. It sticks really really well to itself as well. I should have just used foil. My vote: just spend the extra $1.50 and go name-brand.

It's done!!!!

MCB is done forever!!!!! So excited. Final today went....fine. I passed, and as all of us have drilled into our minds here, P=MD. And it really does people. From what I have garnered, 1st and 2nd year grades don't really matter that much. Especially when you come from a H/P/F system. Only 11 or 12 people get honors in a class, and frankly, I am fine with the P. No, if someone handed me an honors on a plate, I wouldn't turn it down. But really, I like sleeping, I like working out, I don't like studying. And that is that.

Haven't really done much today. Laundry. Oil change. All that fun stuff I didn't have time to do the past week. OOOOOOO guess what I did gain from all my weekend studying! Yes, the left hand pen twirl. I have been able to do the right hand since Prep, but the left hand has been soooo elusive. 12 hours at a table will do that I guess. Anything else new in my life? Nope. Tomorrow we do our HEENT practical. That should be fun. The ear is weird. The nose is weird. The mouth is weird.

Whoop

2 days in a row. Look at me all update-y and all.

We had our last MDQ today. Oh my goodness. I went into that thing not really knowing how I was going to do. I knew they could make it really hard or they could make it easier. They went right in between. When I was taking it, I found that I either knew the answer right away or I had never heard of what they were talking about. Meh. I did just fine. Passed both micro and HD. Can't stop studying though. MCB final on Monday. Believe it or not, I am way ahead of schedule for that. I have gone through every lecture once now and am starting to review/memorize stuff more!!!!! Weeeeee!!!! Needless to say...I am tired. Hellloooooo Diet Mt. Dew. Well, tomorrow, not right now.

I did lunges today. I always forget how bad of a life choice that is. Matt has a 4 day weekend. I am super jealous. In terms of other things going on in my life........um....nothing. I do nothing...for now. Also, I decided what I am going to do this summer: teach myself the oboe so that I can play Gabriel's Oboe from The Mission. That is all I have planned.

Yep

2 weeks and all this misery will be over!! Okay, it isn't misery. It is just hard. We have a quiz tomorrow (more like a mini Immuno test) and our MCB final on Monday. Ahhhh!!!! This balancing classes stuff is tough. I can't wait until after spring break when we really only have neuro.

Happy valentines day to all. Matt sent me beautiful flowers that are making my room smell great. Thanks love. But......my mom topped him. Don't get me wrong, I love the flowers, but my mom sent be peanut butter cap'n crunch and a big bag of peanut butter m&ms. It really doesn't get much better than that.

Look, I have a link!!!
Click on that link (hopefully it worked). So the whole theme of this is "If you don't have the money to buy all organic, just at least buy these things organic." I read on because I am interested. I then find a list of just about everything I eat except for chicken. Meat, apples, grapes, lettuce. Really?? That isn't a helpful list for me. I am totally over that article.

In other news on the food front, I have been eating a lot of cereal lately. I just find that we don't have a lot of stuff around the house to just mix up a good lunch (ie-sandwich). I mean, we have bread and lunch meat, but that's about it. Also, I would like to point out that I, once again, am the sole House kid holding up the internet with my blog. So there!

Painful shopping

I haven't updated because I haven't done anything at all. On Friday, we had our EBM final. Don't worry, I passed EBM. No summer boot camp for me. We had class that afternoon, which was pretty lame just in general. The fire alarm went off about 1 minute into one of the classes, and we were all ready to ditch for the day when it turned off. Dang it!! I went to the store, got gas, did nothing. Watched some What Not to Wear. Pretty much the usual Friday for me. Saturday was even more lazy. Worked out, went to church, ate Chipotle. All was good. Today, however, I had to shop for the house. Let me tell you, I understand now how you can get frostbite super fast. It was a nice 5 degrees out...with the wind it was -15. Oh my goodness!!!! Seriously, a minute (in total, I was inside and then out and then in) of exposure to that and I couldn't feel my hands, my fingers were red and swollen. Ouch. Other than that, I did very little today. Worked out. Studied. I am actually all caught up and getting ahead. Since I miss class to volunteer, I am listening to last years lectures for the ones I am going to miss. Look at me being all productive. Really not much else to say here. Hope that was worth your 1.5 minutes.

1 month!!

Til my birthday of course!!!!

I am super lazy tonight. We have our EBM final tomorrow. I studied for that, but it is open note. So I didn't do tons of memorizing. Just math practice. We have that...and 2 classes in the afternoon. Lame that they are so late. After this though, it is nose to the grindstone. The updates will most likely be very sparse.

MCB small group today - I actually talked. Always a rarity for me. But it is part of our grade, so I figured I had to. I did finally get my Robbins, which, for those of you who don't know, is kind of like the med school Bible. Yay me!!

I played basketball today...I now remember why I wasn't supposed to run too much during practice. My knee and foot are pretty mad. Lets just wait and see how I feel tomorrow. I really have nothing going on in my life. This week went pretty fast. That is all

February

First: Happy Birthday on last Saturday to mom!!!! Whoop whoop. All of 31 now. :D Second: um....nothing in particular. It is snowy and cold here. Night class got canceled though, which is good. Gives me time to catch up. No quiz this week either, which is weird.

Yesterday I got back to school at 920 or so, went to class until 5, came home cooked and cleaned until 630, then finally got to sit down. Long day. Today I missed morning classes because of mentoring, which is totally fine by me. It went well today; she is opening up a little bit more I feel like. Good times. I had an easy afternoon: interviewing (I didn't have to go) and histo lab (I didn't pay attention). Now I am here. Yay!

As for the weekend, it was glorious. Well....not the weather. Other than that it was fun. We had okay Mexican food at a white-trash Mexican place (bad idea) and rented The Kingdom. We wanted The Invasion, but that was all gone. Sad. Movie wasn't bad though. I thought it was going to be a lot more political. Thank goodness it wasn't. Saturday day we did.....nothing. We went to see Matt's parents. Thats about it. Oh, we went to Costco too and got cheese. I know, we are exciting. Saturday night though, Matt took me to an early Valentine's Day dinner at Anthony's. Thanks love. It was good. After that we just hung out. Sunday involved church and watching the Super Bowl at Paolo's. After that, we ate and went to gregorian chanting at St. Marks in Seattle. Very cool and calming. Then home on the red eye. Sad. Time to buckle down though seeing as how finals start this week and go until March. Whoop whoop!