becoming the working girl

Work starts tomorrow. That means... I need to find either a pair of closed-toed shoes that I can wear with a skirt, or black shoes to wear with black pants. Sadly, I believe I have neither. And I need to find my passport. Or birth certificate.

This is really boring. Umm... I'm le tired. So I'm going to sleep. Good NIGHT!

need a car wash?

Well, you definitely wouldn't have to pay for one today. Yuck! Does it ever stop raining? God, this is me telling you that all of Olmsted County is fine, rain-wise. No more, please.

Ooh, lightning...

So, today I went in for my pre-employment physical. My first experience of peeing into a cup. Kind of weird, I have to admit. I couldn't even do it the first time... too dehydrated, I guess. Anyways. Too much information, I guess.

And another wonderful gynecology appointment... ehhh... enough said.

While I was inside Papa Murphy's getting a pizza for the fam, God decided to let it pour. I wish I was plastic-wrapped like that pizza when I walked outside. Bleehhhh.

Anyways. Time to drive Grandma Kaye somewhere to pick up her green card pictures. She's currently an illegal alien, but don't tell anyone. Silly Grandma Kaye ;)

let's get (a) physical...

I'm really grateful that I'm a girl. Thank you, Waseem, for letting me know all that I'm missing out on with male physicals... oh yes. I'm still not necessarily looking forward to it, though. "Necessarily" is interjected for the sake that it may be a 25 year old male pre-doc doing the evaluation ;) On that note, maybe that should be one of the reasons that I dread it, as well... thinking of Dani's experience with Pracs... Well, I guess the only thing I should be hoping for is that it's fast, also considering that I have another appointment to go to. What a basketcase of medical problems I am...

So, wake up for a run, go to Mayo to get a physical, eat lunch (necessary part of day), go to another appointment at 2, and then... oh yeah, back to wondering what to do. I think I might be looking forward to being busy with work. Trying to fill up a day is difficult to do after spending 9 crazy months on homework, karate, EL, NRHH, NSCS, Honors Program, tutoring (crap, I still have to write something to them... s#$^h%#;%) and hanging out with wonderful J3ers. Anyways. Wow, yeah, I need to do that. So, moral of the story is, it doesn't matter how busy you are when it comes down to getting stuff done. I feel like I just don't have any motivation to do some of this stuff.

Poopy list to get done by... Thursday?
- Send letters to kids that I tutored this year
- Mail my available hours to UND, so I can tutor in the MLC (math learning center, whoo hoo)
- Also mail evals to Matt for the tutor program
- E-mail my boss to get more info on what I'm actually doing... and if I can get a week off for vacation? :) Wow, this may not be a good thing to do before I've even started working...
- Talk Emily into letting me play DDR with her soon
- Get a tan
- Get a life (well, at least something to occupy my idle mind, besides my lovely OChem book)

current mood:

Poop on everything. I mean it.

home at last

Yay!! I'm home!!!

Okay, enough exuberance. I'm almost all the way unpacked. And I've succeeded at rearranging all Steph's crap so I can have space enough for my toothbrush in the bathroom... yesss... So, it's almost safe to walk through my house, now. Apart from some illegal extension cords... a pile of stuff that has to go off to Goodwill... and my guitar in the middle of everything... yeah, there's still stuff to do.

Ahh, the simple joys of watching Zoolander for the billionth time... "I turned left!!"

What is it about being home that makes me want to fall asleep all the time? I think we have a carbon monoxide leak. Seriously... I get 11 hours of sleep two nights ago, and then 10 hours last night? And I'm still compelled to go to bed at 7PM?? What's wrong with me???

More later. Time to be a bum and watch TV. Time to get offline. Enough with the waiting.

a birthday worth remembering...

Ahh, what a Sunday it was... Thank you to all who remembered, and especially those who kidnapped me and carried me all the way down the hall to give me presents ;) tehehe... And I had a cake built for me! I didn't even notice any of the pieces of spatula in it, either :) Most importantly, though, I got to spend the day with awesome people that I have been absolutely blessed with getting to know these past 9 months.

Soon enough, I'll be home... Good, in that I get to spend time with my family... and see hills... and not smell the potato plant... But I will miss a lot of people. I guess I can't have everything, though.

Almost time to get a haircut. I'm going to try out this whole GreatClips-in-the-Union thing. I hope I don't see anyone I know walking by. :P More later on this new experience...

P.S. Thank you, April, for making me the queen of Santiago ;) You are the best!!

partial relief

Well, one big paper is done. I just hope my prof won't realize that I melded two completely different topics into one paper and didn't really successfully connect them. I'm tired of work. Bleh.

I found out that the lowest grade I'm sitting at is in Chem... an 86.3%... Pretty much impossible to get an A out of that, unless he curves it. Which he probably won't, considering he's an imbecile.

Different things are bothering me. I wish certain people could just leave me alone. And I wish that I could be home with my family. And that my birthday wasn't this weekend. C'mon, the DAY before finals? Seriously.

Time to take a nap... then I have to start on my second (and last) paper. Something about Ceropteris ferns, I believe. At least I've got that much.