Most interesting thing that I have learned yesterday: kale, cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi and broccoli are all cultivated from the same species, Brassica oleracea. My tuition money obviously goes to good use if I’m learning things like that. My plants physiology professor had no good reason why brussels sprouts doesn’t taste good to most people (lol). She had raw brussels sprouts to hand out (so we could examine the leaf nodes and whatnot) and she held one up and asked us what it was and a few people shouted out things like “gross” and “disgusting”. Ahhh… I’ve actually only ever tried brussels sprouts once. And they were raw (not today in class!) and I didn’t like them.

Also, I went shopping today… Because I could… And bought an Olympics Vancouver 2010 hoodie.

And yeah…. Size 14 Girls for $30 (more expensive than most of the stuff I wear now, haha, well not in terms of full retail value, just by now much I  paid for it). The Adult Women’s hoodie that looked the exact same but was an adult Small was $50. Uh huh…

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My purse (lovely thing that is) looks like a walking (but not talking) pharmacy. And I don’t mean that in an illegal sense.

Of the medication/pharmaceutical variety items in my purse today:

• Advil Cold & Sinus – took 2 so far today
• Generic ibuprofen – took 0 today
• Cepacol (cough drops – honey lemon) – took 1 today
• Tylenol – took 0 today
• Aleese – took 0 (so far) today

How much medication does a girl need to carry around with her? Obviously a lot.

Of the non-pharmaceutical variety items in my purse today:

• mp3 player (Creative Zen Vision: M – poor baby is having issues holding a decent length of charge, it may be time to search for a replacement…)
• camera (point-and-shoot Sony – very helpful to have during my labs!)
• two pens (purple and blue – the rest of my writing utensils are in my backpack)
• pocket mirror
• extra hair ties (erm… probably like 20 of them, hah)
• comb
• lip balm (one is honey rose flavoured with glitter, the other is lemon flavoured with 30 spf)
• tissues (unused)
• gift cards (2 for Chapters, 1 for Starbucks)
• bottle of water

Because, you know, I really need to carry so much stuff around with me all the time. I usually don’t carry all that much – most of the medication was just added into my bag last night/this morning.

What do you carry in your purse?

One of the schools that I applied to for their nursing program sent me a letter with this quote which made me freak out a little:

This letter is a final notice that important communication(s) about your application, registration or grades is waiting for you at [URL], the website for [insert school name here].

Guess who didn’t set up email forwarding from this school’s email to an email that actually gets checked? I did that (now). There were 55 emails waiting in my school email (for that school) which had the exact same things as the letter than I got. Final notice! Turns out it was a ‘communications’ (non-email? What the fudge?) about how that they’ve gotten all my transcripts and additional documents (which were hand delivered) and that my application is now considered complete and is being considered for enrollment. <- That’s what I like to hear. You should have heard my dad. “Why are you getting mail from [school name]? I thought you’re going to [current school name]? You are only allowed to go to [current school name]!”. Then I reminded him that the other school also has a nursing program, so it’s really for ‘backup’ purposes.

Oh fudge, I’d hate to see his reaction when I get mail from the local college I also applied to.

In other news, I’m sick. Last night, I sat down at the kitchen table to take some cough medication and my sisters were both like “Why don’t you just stay home tomorrow?” My reply? “Got a math midterm tomorrow.”

And honestly, I should have just stayed home. I got a migraine near the end of my first class (right before math!) and the migraine made sitting in a very cramped lecture hall (holds ~200 people – all seats were taken) coupled with bright lights very uncomfortable. Half an hour into my midterm (the midterm was only for 50 minutes), I couldn’t focus on my paper anymore because of my head. I knew that the paper had a formula and I knew how to compute the equation, I honestly did. But I’m afraid I didn’t do too well on that midterm, mostly because I just could not focus. Pounding headaches suck, seriously they do. I’m currently sitting in my bed, with three blankets over my lap and around me and I’m going to have some soup after finishing this.