yes, it’s here. the next round of exams. hopefully i’ll do better this time. i think i will, as i’m off to a good start.

i am 1/3 of the way through the biology reading for the next exam.
i am at least halfway through the biochem reading.
i have been keeping up with calculus…i don’t know the exam cutoff so i don’t know how far along i am .

calculus exam is in 10 days. the other two are in 2 weeks.

after finishing the reading though i have to read it through at least once more and memorize stuff that needs to be memorized, because that’s my method. i didn’t use my method for the last exams and those didn’t turn out so well, so i am going back to the way i usually do things. it’s very time consuming but whatever, it works.

i have an exam in my lab course this week, we’ll see how that goes. if it’s anything like the homeworks it will be easy.

so far today i’ve had 2 mountain dews, 3 cups of coffee and one cup of tea. and a bubble tea . but that doesn’t count because ginger tea doesn’t have caffeine. i also had half a B vitamin. needless to say i am in a very good and wakeful mood right now. the chance of another snow day tomorrow only makes my good mood better  :D:D.

i was able to make an appointment with the specialist on wednesday, so we will see what he has to say about my knees then.

these are some of the dreams i’ve had since last december. i stopped keeping track of them for about a month but think i will start again, because it’s fun.

12/02/09
i was on an adventure with stephanie and sarah, my sister. for whatever reason, they wanted to walk on train tracks but i was scared. so i walked beside the tracks, on these sand dunes. i ended up falling back into a poison ivy tree (yes, a tree, not a vine), which trapped me and wouldn’t let me go. and stephanie and sarah wouldn’t help me out. the oil was starting to get to me, and my eyes even started burning! and then i woke up.

12/10/09
i tried to put on deodorant, looked away from the mirror for one second, and when i looked back i had deodorant all over my arms and shoulders. it was totally unintentional and i was very confused.

12/17/09
joelle gagged on hazelnut coffee

12/19/2009
i got lost at school, that place was a freaking maze. and then there was a train station, right there. i never knew my school had a train station right in the middle of it. i was confused.

01/24/2010
i was on my brother’s computer. i clicked on an add and gave him viruses on accident. and joelle was standing right there.

01/25/2010
i was being chased by hyenas. it was really scary.

02/19/2010
one of my classmates tried to murder me on campus. and yet, i wasn’t mad…or scared. just confused. and…amused?

02/20/2010
jacey came to get me to take me to gymnastics, but then i remembered that i can’t do gymnastics right now. and then i was just confused about why i was going. 

so the MRI machine was loud. like super loud. i’ve always wondered how people could be scared during an MRI but now i know. i had headphones on and it was still crazy loud. it sounded like someone had put their shoes in the dryer and amplified the sound. and yet, somehow i fell asleep halfway through.

so now i have pictures of my knees. but i still don’t know anything because my doctor hasn’t seen them yet. hopefully i can get an appointment quickly.

tonight i tutored my friend in gen chem again. if i could just tutor 10 or so more kids i could make enough to pay for my MRI…lol.

so yeah, if you ever get an MRI be prepared for nap time. and to come out super sleepy.

my insurance finally passed today, whoo! and i have an appointment to get an MRI this friday, which is also good. my knee is still feeling better even after making the trek to the lab today, which i take as a good sign. we’ll see how it feels in the morning though .
it was kind of funny, i got my own entourage from multivariable to the problem session. 4 of my classmates were either walking with me or carrying my stuff…hehe. i felt bad though for making a good portion of the kids actually attending problem session late. haha oh well.
also, we made a lava lamp looking solution in lab today, it was totally an accident. it was totally cool though, i would have taken a picture if i had had a camera on me. but yeah.we needed a solution to make other solutions from, and my lab partner and i decided that a 0.01 molar concentration would be plenty to make all our solutions out of. apparently it was too much, because it wouldn’t all dissolve and instead we had this bright yellow substance sloshing around in the water, totally not dissolved but still liquid. it was neat looking. we called the TA in and pointed to the flask and he was like…”what’s that???” so we told him and he said “umm yeah i think that’s too concentrated”.apparently it was 10 times too concentrated.  hehe oh well. it was pretty anyway, but yeah we had to make a new one.
i also got to use the micropipette today and wanted to take a picture so badly, i felt like i was a chemist on a movie or TV show. it looked something like this

so yeah it was an okay day. unfortunately my elbows are really starting to hurt from using the crutches so much. x_x i feel so old…

well, the last round of exams did not go so well. i can make up the grades but i’ll have to work super hard for the rest of the semester. i let myself get distracted and worried about other things, which is never helpful :/.

my insurance should pass soon, so i’ll be able to see a specialist about my knee and get that MRI. it feels a little better today after hardly doing anything for 4 days straight. hopefully lab tomorrow won’t totally kill it :/.

looking on the bright side, the snow day we had on friday helped me to get more caught up in school. thursday night’s classes were cancelled as well. so there is no new multivariable homework to do, and i had time to catch up on the biochem reading. in fact, i finished the whole chapter in biochem, which means i am ahead of lecture! until tomorrow morning anyway, haha. hopefully i can stay ahead this time, because cramming does not get me the grades i want.

  i wore a hat and i took pictures of it.it is a neat hat, i’ve had it since senior year but i rarely wear it. the last time i really wore it might have been in england and cyprus. here’s a pic from cyprus!

i couldn’t find one from england :/.
anyway, i took a picture or two.

i was also excited about my scarf for some reason

and then i got silly…
 
 

i am rather glad i face away from the door when i do this, hah.anway, there it is. yet another bathroom picture taking session. that’s all bathrooms are good for anyway.
 

seriously, my dad makes me wonder sometimes.

 last night i had myself convinced that i had actually torn that cartilage, like really convinced. i just knew i had done it. so this morning i was of the mindset that i needed to go back to the doctor and schedule an MRI and then possibly/probably need knee surgery. that right there would cost a whole lot. so i had myself in quite the worried state.  but then my dad calls this morning and says, after i had already told him about my knees,
dad:”oh yeah i should have told you sooner but you’re not on my insurance plan anymore”
me: “wait what??”
 him:”well i’m just having trouble making payments on everybody’s insurance…”
me:” but i’m pretty sure i need that knee surgery now, there’s no way i can afford that without insurance”
so i started freaking out…like holy crap how am i going to pay for this, because i know he can’t help me if he can’t even afford the monthly insurance payment. and, like a boy, he freaked out because i was freaking out, and in an attempt to make me feel better he says
“just look at the bright side. you know, think about something positive. hey, you should go focus on something and work on it all day, just get your mind off this.”
me:”umm….”

anyway, i have convinced myself that my knees are in fact healing, so i’m not freaking out anymore. but seriously, look at the bright side? you’re supposed to say that if there actually is a “bright side”, but he didn’t have one to offer me and pretty much told me not to think about it.

i got so lost on the way to my doctor’s appointment. i got so lost that i ended up being almost half an hour late, and they had to work me in. at least they didn’t make me reschedule, that way i didn’t have to pay for a missed appointment. but it was irritating because they didn’t see me for like 2 hours. it was my own fault, i should have left more time to get there. but it really was only going to take 15 minutes to get there …instead it took at least 45. and i ended up driving around the docking bay where the big 18 wheelers park…i hate hospitals they are so confusing.

whatever, at least i got to see her. she says i have irritated meniscus, but she doesn’t think it’s torn…yet. she says if i don’t take it easy it will tear. i’m not supposed to work out for 2 weeks . such a long time…

well, since i apparently can’t go to gym tonight i am going to study…which is actually a very good thing, i have way to much to do by next saturday. funny how i’m giving myself over a week to get all this done and i know it is still going to be tough to squeeze in all my studying and preparation.

had my first instrumental lab. it was okay, nothing special. although we did get to boil 8 molar HCl…pretty strong stuff. and all just to dissolve a vitamin tablet.

i made a new friend today, her name is darla. i will remember her name because it’s the same as the crazy vampire lady on angel and buffy. too bad, she’s really a sweet girl but that’s what i’ll think of when i see her from now on .

i made a joke in biology to my friend about cardiac muscle in your stomach making your stomach go “baboom baboom baboom” and i thought it was pretty funny. it really wasn’t, i really don’t know why i even thought of it. it was weird haha.

multivariable calc was okay tonight, i actually was following along with the lecture,  i think that’s the first time that’s happened yet this semester. could be due to the coffee i got right before class hehe.

tonight the TA said “let’s use some trickery…” and it made me laugh. well, i didn’t laugh, but if i had been alone or with people i knew better i probably would have. partly it was the coffee affecting me.

it was cold coming out of class, so my friend and i jogged to his car. again, i am blaming the coffee.

all month long the school system has been telling me i have until tonight at midnight to change my password before getting locked out. i, of course, managed to procrastinate until 11:59pm. but i made it :D:D.

i need to get some strident wipes, my face gets super oily at school when i’m there all day. funny that the same thing doesn’t happen when i’m at home all day :/.

and all day today i was pointing out cute boys to my friends…i usually don’t do that haha.

after MV calc tonight i walked through a building and smelled something super delicious. so i looked around. at first all i saw were art supplies and thought “wow…this school has really yummy smelling art stuff”. and then i looked further inside a room and saw cupcakes smeared on the wall. the girl in there said she does cupcake art. it smelled so good. she was really nice .

this was just a really random day, so i thought a random entry would go well with it.

ummm…coffee coffee coffee!
last thing, i promise. tonight i sneezed and happened to catch it on camera.

it was quite the sneeze.

the end.

the other day on my way to class i was busy with my phone and missed stop on the train. i got off at the next stop only barely missing the train back. i had 20 minutes before the next one came, and i was rather frustrated…until i looked over and saw the park . yep, there was a park with swings and kids and a couple of teachers. i played on the swings while i waited, although i did get some odd looks from the teachers. but it was pretty fun. sadly, i forgot to document this adventure with the camera…but then maybe that was safer for the camera.

yeah, riding public transit is fun sometimes, even in it means being late to class .