Blog 47 - a quotation, weather, and texting.

So i'm still up because i'm working on my chemistry lab. My friends halloween oreo's are making it a little bit better. They're so cute, they have orange cream and different little halloween shapes on them like ghosts and stuff. So today I was creepin' on my friends facebook and someone's status was "we always ignore the ones that adore us and adore the ones that ignore us." So I was thinking about that, and it really is true in a lot of cases. When people care/love us, sometimes we take it for granted and go after someone who doesn't seem to return our adoration. I guess maybe that's immature but I think it happens sometimes, like I feel like I do that a lot but maybe i'm just immature. Anyways, I thought that was sad. Then I ate some nutella and watched tv and stopped thinking about it. Hmm, what else happened today. Well, i'm really glad we have thursday off, its finally a break from endless things to do all the time. It was beautiful outside today! I was not wearing a jacket and boots and it felt great. When I was watching House today, one of the commercials was about the news and it showed a girl that had developed a thumb pain because she texted so much, she said it "hurts to text." I laughed for a little while, but that was mean because she's in pain, its also hypocritical because I text a lot too. It was just funny because everyone could totally see this coming, some kind of hand issue because of texting, and soon its going to become a really big deal. What else, i'm really excited my birthday's in exactly 2 weeks, i'll finally be 18, yay! Umm yah thats all, i'm going to go back to my chemistry lab now!

Blog 46 - hello.

So, me and my roomates watch a lot of disney channel, and a lot of wizards of waverly place, haha. I love that show! Seriously, how awesome would it be to be a wizard. You could poof yourself A's and money, and all you would really want to do is have fun, and learn. Sometimes I think about how schools are set up, like, especially if you want to go to grad school, you have to maintain a good GPA. So, you want a 4.0, but people that want to go to grad school usually like to learn, so you want to take those interesting upper level classes. Since you need a good GPA, i feel like people give up taking challenging courses. It's just not fair, college is kind of hindering you from learning. If I didn't have a GPA to worry about, I would probabbly continue the honors chemistry series. But no, I need good grades for med school! So, I'm going to drop to regular chemistry and take a different honors course. Chemistry is really interesting to me though, and its sad that I can't take it anymore, it just doesn't seem right how that works out. I feel like I need to go to school and take average-ish classes and get good grades and then, i dont know, find a tutor or something outside of school to learn the stuff that i'm missing out on in 202H. Mark Twain is so right, he said "Never let formal education get in the way of your learning." Agreed, Mr. Twain. Formal education is getting in the way of my, and probabbly many other people's, learning right now. Sad, but true. Yah, being a wizard and magically making A's and then getting to take any classes you want and just learn, that would be sweet.

Blog 45- Facebook Fan things :)

So sometimes when i'm on facebook I see the things you can become a fan of like "Saying "Yeah, i'm on my way" when youre still at home" or "waking up with unread texts that make you smile" I get excited because some of them are just things I didn't even realize so many other people agreed upon. Like, re-reading texts that make you smile, seriously, sometimes I feel seriously lame when I do that, it makes me feel a little better to know that like more than 600,000 other people do it enough to be a fan of it on facebook, haha. And like, the one about people that think texts are too serious without a haha or an lol. I feel like it gets really annoying but whenever i'm texting I really cant send something without one of those two and not wonder if the person reading it thinks i'm mad, because I just always do it. I might start, because really, it probabbly gets annoying reading extra lol's and haha's for no reason except the comfort of knowing i'm not mad, i think they would already know if i was mad. anyways, hmm theres another one that was like i was waiting for a reply and then i realized i didn't even send the last text. Hahahhaa, i love that one. I do it so much, i pick up my phone, unlock it, and see an un-sent text after like a good ten minutes, its fabulous. So all of those were text themed, i feel like a phone addict, i'll throw in a non-phone one. Hmm, oh! One was, certain songs remind me of certain people. It's so so true, sometimes it makes no sense at all, the lyrics and the person have no connection, it just happens haha. 

Blog 44 - Commonplace

So I’m rewriting the intro for my paper, but I don’t really get what kind of introduction she’s looking for. Like, an artsy, reel you in kind of intro? Or just something quick and then get straight to the information that needs to be in the paper. So my original title was Mommy, or Sissy? And I meant sissy as in like sister sissy, but it could get confused for like the other definition of sissy, so I changed it to: Mother, or Big Sister? I kind of liked the first name better, but I guess it can be misunderstood.

His mom stops by at home and shoves a granola bar down her throat as she leaves to her second job, the night shift at the clothing store down town. Max, the eldest, is feeding some baby food to his younger brother Tyler as he reads his history book that’s open on the table.

            Her mom’s flight from Boston is landing in about two hours, and her father has been paged to get his butt to the ER, once again. Liz is at home, with her two year old brother and their Nanny. After having grown up with a busy mother and a father finishing his residency, she feels obliged to pay attention to her younger brother. She wants to give him the attention he never received.

            There are many, many different reasons and familiy set ups that cause an older child to raise their younger sibling. That’s pretty much my intro, I’m not sure where to go with it next.

Blog 43 - Being Healthy, and staying pescatarian?

So, for hmm, a little longer than 6 months, I had been pescatarian. A week ago, I started to eat meat again. I was seriously just getting so sick of going to get food with my friends, and having to search the menu's for the foods with little leaves by them, or something with just seafood, while I watched my friends just pick anything that sounded yummy to them. I was just like, why am I even doing this, whatever, i'm gonna eat meat. So I started, and here's how its going. It was fun for two days, getting to eat grilled chicken and sausages and turkey subs again. Now, I just feel sick to my stomach thinking about how much meat i've been eating. It's sickening. After not eating meat for this long I just find it disgusting. It was seriously easy to be nutritious and be a pescatarian at home. Whole Foods was just a few minutes away, as well as yummy sushi. My mom knew I didn't eat meat so she made yummy fish all the time! Now, here, you can get salmon burgers and greasy panini's, and the vegetarian options. I mean they're all yummy, but that's all you can eat. So it sucked, but now i've realized that was so much better than the gross meat eating feeling I have now, I just feel so sick. Definitely going back to veggies and fish. It's so much healthier. I really feel like i've gained weight since I started eating meat again, and it feels gross. I miss Whole Foods the most, healthy cookies and crackers, and yogurt brownies, I kinda wanna go home and go grocery shopping haha.  Anyways, thats all, goodbye chicken all over again!

Blog 42 - Career vs. Children.

So yesterday, instead of studying for my chemistry 201H quiz, I decided to have a ridiculously long conversation with they guys on the 8th floor about life. Ever since I can remember, i've wanted to be a doctor. I've always wanted to be a pediatrician, to go to Sri Lanka after I finish my studies and volunteer a year or two, and practice medicine for my life. This had always seemed totally okay, I mean you know, go to school, get your degree, then have kids and volunteer. Then, we sat down and thought about it. My undergrad is four years, then medical school is 4 years, and then your residency is a minimum of 3 years. If i'm 17 right now, i'll be done with ALL of that when i'm 28, and then i have to find a job, and if I want to specialize that'll take even longer. When does the whole falling in love, getting married, having kids and volunteering thing happen? At the rate the world is going now, doctors will be working ridiculous hours because of the deficiency of doctors right now. Do I even have time to look after children if I have children? Am I thinking too hard about things I don't need to think about too soon? Sometimes I think it's ridiculous that i'm thinking about this right now but then i'm like, but really its important. I REALLY want to be a doctor, but I REALLY want children too. Do you have to choose? Do I need to be content with being a pediatrician and seeing kids all day rather than having my own children? maybe having a dog to make up for it? I don't know, maybe i'm thinking too hard about this right now. I guess i'll just see how things go, and chill out for now.

Blog 41 - Oh warm weather.

I seriously miss the warm weather. I mean, I was born in Winnipeg so I love snow and all that fun stuff, I just miss being able to walk around in shorts and a tank and flip flops. I guess the fall/winter and summer have their upsides and downsides. I mean, now that its cold you can wear sweats all the time and not be overheated. And it's time for hot chocolate and sledding! Building snowmen and all that fun stuff. Christmas of course, and black friday! But of course you have to bundle up all the time, and its going to be a pain walking to classes and to friends houses through all of the snow. I think i'm going to order a pair of snow boots, like actual-not just warm and fuzzy-water repellant snow boots. But yah, I'm pretty excited for the holidays though, and going home, and i'm going to work over break so I get to see everyone from work, yay! My friend has a car so yesterday we drove to Krogers, and it felt really nice to be in a normal grocery store again for once. I really miss just getting in your car and driving to the grocery store when you want cookies or some milk. Thats what else is going to suck in a few weeks: walking to get food and groceries. Honestly, if it's like 20 degrees outside I don't know if i'm going to want to walk all the way anywhere to actually get food. I might sacrifice a yummy dinner for staying warm. Guess I better start loading up on lean cuisines and mac and cheese. I might go out of my way to get milk though, you need milk for everything. I never realized how awesome fridges at home are until now, you open it and theres always food! Here, you have to trek through the cold to get milk to put in the fridge. Okay i'm done whining about cold weather, see you later!