midterms – Imaginary Sunshine

One day at a time

Michelle — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 01:57:47 +0000

The new design is coming along slowly as I haven’t had much time at all to work on it. Since the last time that I blogged, I have:

Written a patho midterm (and gotten the mark back – 90%)
Did a presentation (hemiplegia) and did fairly okay
Had some great patients!
Learned alot in school
Wrote a med math test (100%)
Had more clinical ‘firsts’ (bed baths, disposable brief changes)
Written a lot of notes
Fell asleep in one of my patho seminars (and I was doing so well too!)

As for non-school things, I had Clay over last night. He came over for dinner with my sisters and me, which went well. They think he’s nice, everyone was awkwardly quiet and shy. It was nice to have him over though! He’s been super busy since he started school (only three more weeks in his course for him!), and I’ve been super busy too (hello, nursing school). I loved getting to catch up with him as we don’t get to spend a lot of time with one another normally. It’s been getting better though, which has been fantastic. Lots of cuddling occurred, I got him all caught up on my dolls and bug happenings, he caught me up with school and work and other ‘fun’ things like that.

Up next for me is a lot of things. This upcoming week is going to be one of the busiest that I’ve had so far. Not only do I have the usual amounts of readings, I also have two midterms (Monday – Communications and Friday – Clinical Skills Lab), another presentation (Thursday – Hematology), clinical (Tuesday & Wednesday) and a paper endorsement to write (Thursday – shouldn’t be that difficult… I hope). Trying to keep my head above water, I’m really looking forward to this week being over though as the upcoming weekend is a long one! Canadian Thanksgiving is on Monday October 8th, something that I’m quite looking forward to. A four day week? Don’t mind if I do! Except for the fact that I receive my patient assignment on Mondays so I’ll still have research to do – but I won’t have to do readings for my Monday classes that week!

Lots to do this week, here’s to the upcoming weekend where I will hopefully not be spending every waking moment with my nose in a textbook!

I want sunshine!

Michelle — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:59:53 +0000

It’s been busy in my world lately, what with a midterm (Wednesday), working on a few new patterns for Chelle-Chelle.com (and I’m working on opening up a pattern store!), life in general. So it’s felt busy, at least to me! It’s still winter and the weather’s been utter crap. There was snow. And then there was hurricane-strength winds hitting the entire coastline of British Columbia on Wednesday. Power went out everywhere (and briefly out for me!). And then it’s been raining on and off, fantastic. I look outside and it’ll be absolutely pouring rain. A few minutes later there will be sunshine and no rain. Mother Nature, please make up your mind (and stick with the sunshine!)

I still have… 2 midterms left until the end of the term (I’ve finished 5 so far – I only have 4 classes, by the way). I have a handful of assignments left, one stats lab report to do (haven’t done the lab yet), one ecology lab report (haven’t done the lab yet) and then, you know, 4 finals before I’m done for the term. I’ve decided against taking summer classes mostly because I’ve done a summer course before and I’m just not fond of it (time constraints) and I only have 7 (seven!!!!) courses left between after this term and graduation, so I’ll be taking 4 in term 1 and 3 in term 2. 7 classes, zomfg. Heh, of course I’m applying for programs for after graduation, but still.

I’ll be done, briefly.

I picked up a vintage (ish) needlecrafts book last week that I’m so excited about. It was only $2 (from the thrift store) but in such amazing condition and has such great instructions for some fun stitch patterns (knit and crochet) and has a huge in-depth section on embroidery, cross-stitching, punch-needle, how to make rugs and so much more stuff. It’s amazing and has been a great inspiration for me lately as I’ve taken to sketching out more stuff that I want to make and have the inspiration to make. So I’ve just been drawing everything. I sketched out a crochet lace shawl that I want to make. Not that I wear shawls, of course, but I just enjoy a challenge!

But in the mean time, I’ve made these two outfits (knitted headband + knitted dress & crocheted hat + crocheted dress) as donation sets for 4alissia.com! Please check out the website if you haven’t already yet!

Year of the Rabbit and other exciting news

Michelle — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:25:04 +0000

I’m a few hours early for my time zone, but happy new year to everyone who celebrates it. It’s the Year of the Rabbit and a lot of stores have been capitalizing on that with ads that are all red and gold with white fluffy bunny images on them. So there’s just been a huge lead up to it. I don’t actually do much for the New Year with my family when it falls on a weekday. When it falls on the weekend, I sometimes go see parades or out for tea with extended family. We don’t really do that when it falls on a weekday because everyone’s busy. But apparently being busy and such doesn’t exempt me from taking part in a intensive house cleaning. Dust bunnies were inhaled and destroyed, I feel that this bodes well for the new year.

School’s going fairly well. I have my second midterm of the term tomorrow (for ecology). So far the course seems alright, a lot of it has been review so I’ve mainly focused on what little new material that there has been. I’m hoping that the midterm will be fairly straight forward. The professors had fairly ambiguous wording on the practice midterm and a lot of the questions were fairly open ended.

In addition to schoolwork, this week I’ve helped a few online friends set up a website, 4alissia.com. It’s a website that’s dedicated to raising funds for the cancer treatment needed for a 3 year old girl living in the USA. Right now the plan is to hold an auction on eBay via the site, a bunch of us in the Blythe/doll community are making things or coming up with things to donate for auctioning off. I’m working on a few knitted and crocheted Blythe items to donate for the auction. But if you’re interested in learning more, please check out 4alissia.com.

My other web projects are going well right now. I’ve been moderating myself for the amount of time I spend on all my other projects and blogs – school work does have to come first, especially since the month-plus of hellish midterms on a weekly basis has begun. In other words, I limited myself to checking email addresses that get a lot of incoming email only once a day. It’s horrible, I know. But I still mostly get a 24 hour turn around time which I think is pretty darn good. Most of my email is related to school (study groups, profs – I tend to answer those ASAP) and the doll community (because I run BlytheLife.com). And I’m practically always on Twitter anyways… I have a lot of stuff planned for all my sites, including updates for the ones that haven’t gotten one in a while. So pretty happy with the pace that I’m keeping for all of my websites right now, for the most part.

And now… I’m off to sleep. Happy New Year!

Is it seriously only Wednesday?

Michelle — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:44:06 +0000

So after I moved ImaginarySunshine.com from its original domain registrar to the current one, everything’s been hunky dory. I like having all my domains in one place (makes it easier when I’m renewing or just dealing with domain things in general). However, the former registrar (which is a really popular registrar and everything – a lot of people use it, a lot of people love it, the reasons that I moved off of it because it wasn’t suiting my needs anymore, which is a perfectly valid reason for moving) keeps on sending me emails because I never closed my account with them (I no longer have any domain names registered there). The subject titles include things like:

Was it something we did? Here’s 30% off your next order.

We REALLY miss you! 30% off all orders!

And I get that all they’re doing is trying to drum up business with me, I get it. But really… I’ve set my email to filter out their emails now to go into my spam folder. Ugh. It’s annoying enough when I occasionally get email notifications from Facebook or Twitter (although, I don’t mind the Twitter ones too much, unless it’s random direct messaged spam <- another Twitter peeve!)

Anyways… Yesterday was pretty damn awesome. I got my comparative invertebrate zoology midterms back (yes, plural). While I didn’t do completely stellar on my lecture midterm, I did well enough to not fail, which is awesome. That was one of the three midterms that I had in less than a 24 hour period, so I was rather antsy about pretty much failing all three of them (which, I must say, I managed to avoid complete and utter failure in three courses). I did decent on the lab midterm, which was good to know. I got to talk to my TA about some of the questions (especially regarding the ones that I got wrong!) and figured out what I was doing wrong on the lab midterm, so that’s good.

Plus, guess who successfully extracted out all 5 hearts from a earthworm yesterday? So much fun. It was kind of exhilarating, mostly because I had to do it all through a dissection microscope and I’m not used to trying to maneuver tweezers, probes and scalpel blades while looking through any sort of scope, but it worked out well and I managed not to rupture anything.

Today went relatively well… I learned about how seaslugs respire, I learned about calculating approximate areas under a graph (yet another method…) and I also learned what happens when you light fern spores on fire (huge fireball). I got to look at my biochemistry midterm and I also spoke to my prof about it. That was a test that I did not do my best on. She spoke to me about it, I mentioned feeling overwhelmed during that week (4 midterms in one week with 3 being in an under 24 hour period, that midterm being one of those 3) and also I interpreted one of the questions incorrectly. I thought it was asking for one thing, which is what the wording led me to believe, but it was asking for something else entirely, which was a complete letdown because I thought I got that question, you know? I thought I fully understood it and even drafted out the way I was going to write out my answer on the back of the page and put a lot of thought and effort into it. I was completely disappointed in myself for that midterm because while I did try my best, it just wasn’t enough to pull off a better grade.

I’m looking forward to this week being done though. Too many up and down moments over the last few days and I’m just feeling mentally exhausted. I feel like that I shouldn’t be, because I haven’t been doing anything strenuous, but I’m also putting myself under a lot of stress, what with schoolwork and test scores and helping out around the house. I really feel like I should be more “on top” of everything right now, but I’m just not feeling it… And it bugs the crap out of me because I know I can do this, I know I can. It’s just… too much, all at once.

I can has weekend soon?

Michelle — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:38:03 +0000

Tuesday, March 2nd
I wrote my invertebrate biology lab midterm. It’s worth ~14% of my final grade so while it’s not a whole lot, it’s still worth something. I feel, having had prepared for it, that it went fairly well. There were some questions where I definitely looked into the microscope, looked at the specimen and had no flipping clue what it was. However, each question is worth 1-2 marks each and that was only one station (there were 20 stations in total, plus 2 “rest” stations with biology-related comics). Nothing else of great importance occurred on Tuesday.

Wednesday, March 3rd
I had my second math midterm… I did prepare for this, and felt pretty okay with the questions that were on the test. My problem, however, is when my professor decided to start the midterm. The class doesn’t start until 9am. The previous class period is from 8:00am to 8:50am, giving people 10 minutes to get from points A to B. This is fine, I can get to the building where I have my math class in about 5 minutes. My issue is that I arrived at the lecture hall where I have my math class at 8:55am and everyone is already seated and writing their midterms. I had a serious “WTF” moment when I thought I either walked incredibly slow or the clock in the lecture hall I was in previously had stopped or was behind. Turns out that my prof had issued out the midterms at 8:50am and had allowed people to start writing then. Gah. I felt rushed with that midterm, mostly because everyone was already writing while I was entering into the room, finding the TA to get a midterm and then finding a seat somewhere in the room. Ugh.

I went thrift store shopping yesterday – picked up a non-Blythe doll with a near complete set of clothes (missing one shoe!) that turned out to be a doll that goes for $50+ (NRFB) on eBay. Go figure. But now she’s sitting on my shelf, completely naked as a jaybird as I’ve swiped her outfit (poor Hermione, all without her Gryffindor clothes) for my other dolls. I also picked up another awesome find (more about that later) and then went to visit K, who invited me over after my thrifting adventure for the day. Hadn’t seen her in a while, so it was great to catch up! Plus I got to show off my thrift store finds, which is always fun! She was studying/procrastinating/taking a break from studying when I arrived, so it was all good.

Thursday, March 4th – Today!
I had the biochemistry lecture from hell today. While I understand the concepts and such, it was just so damn boring! My prof kept on repeating herself for the people who didn’t get it the second time and because she kept on forgetting that she had already said some of the stuff that she was saying! Ugh.

In my plants biology lab, I got my lab midterm and my (first) lecture midterm back! I did surprisingly well on the lab midterm. See, it was the first of the three midterms that I had in just under a 24 hour period, so I did not have high hopes for those test scores (who would?) but turns out that I did much better than the class average (yay!). I was totally cringing at the thought of getting the lab midterm back that I was so regretting even going up to my TA to get it from her. Also, got my lecture midterm back as well… I did fairly good on it too! My prof drew a smiley face on the bottom of one of my pages because I doodled a flower (it was next to a question asking about roses, so I drew a rose after finishing my essay and waiting a moment before going over everything, again).

School has been keeping me pretty busy since it started up again on Monday (guessing two midterms on consecutive days will give me that feeling!). I’m still keeping up with my 365 photo project – I’m at 10/365 now! Hehe. I’ve been taking stock, pretty much, of things lately. Trying to get myself grounded, eating more healthy, exercising (hello running? My legs hate me again), watching a little bit less of television (but to be fair, I don’t really follow that many shows religiously anymore) and just trying my best to be happy overall. There’s been a lot of things going on lately that I cannot change, but I have realized that I can change my outlook on the things that occur in my life. It’s either that or be miserable and cry all the time.

I hope everyone has been having a marvelous week so far! Are you looking forward to the weekend? I am!

I think Mother Nature is passive aggressive

Michelle — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:09:20 +0000

So my morning newspapers (I get the Vancouver Sun and The Province for free* on my way to school!) have informed me that there are 4 days until the Olympics. What they really mean is 4 days until the second most expensive extravaganza this month, the opening ceremony (the most expensive one being the closing ceremony). Which is weird, because I can still remember that ‘breaking news’ clip about when ‘Vahn-couver’ had gotten the 2010 Games. And did you know it’s incredibly warm in BC right now? It was bright and sunshiney all day. For the day of the opening ceremony (February 12th), there’s a low of 6°C. It feels like spring. I saw girls in skirts on campus, as well as people wearing flipflops, tank tops and very spring-ish wear. Me, personally, I was wearing a hoodie over a tank top and jeans and runners (which need to be replaced already, gah). Very spring-like weather, I rather like it. No wonder they’re having snow issues on Grouse Mountain.

I had a midterm today (boo) for my plants biology class. The nice thing is that my prof, S (whom we all call her by her first name, I don’t think anyone has referred to her, in class or lab, by her last name), wrote up a very fair test. I liked it. Mostly because the multiple choice (20 marks out of the total of 50) were incredibly easy! The essay topic (which was a bit of a bitch to do) was 20/50 as well and the remaining 10 marks came from easy-peasy short answer questions. Oh, and I also got to draw on my exam paper. “Feel free to include drawings on the back page if you feel that they are necessary for your answers or if you cannot get out of the row of seats you are in early.” I was part of the latter. I made the mistake of sitting in my regular spot, which is in the middle of the long row of seats (about 12, I think) and 5 rows from the front of the room (I counted one day, hush). And my row was full of people. And no one left early in my row. So I sat there, after having written my entire test and checked over everything at least three times, doodling on the back of my paper. I drew a plant and labeled it (and also put a caption saying that it was not a drawing related to any of the questions).

Why yes, I am a total dork. Thank you for realizing this.

I just need to get through this week. Only 3 more midterms (yeah, three more) between now and my two week break (which is, sadly, longer than my break between terms was!), which will be followed by two more midterms (1 lab midterm, 1 lecture midterm). Clearly, all my profs have gotten together to decide how to best torture their students.

On Thursday, I have a lab midterm from 9:30-10:30am. Then I have an evening midterm, 7:00-9:00pm that I could not get out of because my prof refused to let me write it the day before (my reason was that because I commute, I would not get home until nearly 11pm). And then on Friday (oh yes, the day after my miserable long day at school), I have a midterm at 8am. Which means I’ll get home at around 11pm, wake up at 5:30am and get to school before 8am to write another midterm.

And my father wonders why I don’t have enough time to talk to him anymore (well, that and whenever I try to talk to him, it turns into a lecture about how I’m not applying myself and how I should ‘only’ be applying to school A and not school B – because I should only want to go to school A – and then it ends up with me being in tears and me wanting to run away… but I try calling people and no one’s home/answering/has their cell phone on – yes, I’m talking about you <- not-so passive aggressiveness at its est, I know).

Hope everyone had a super-awesome-shiny Monday and an even better Tuesday!

* The free papers are sponsored by companies that get their advertisements on the very front page, above the headlining news. Lately it’s only been Olympic sponsors getting their advertisements everywhere – like I need to see a McDonald’s ad to know that they serve disgustingly oily, fried and oh-so-bad but oh-so-good (on a moderated) basis?

I am a sick, sick individual.

Michelle — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:18:21 +0000

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.

I talk about yarn… Like a lot…

Michelle — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:02:17 +0000

@ Heather – Learning how to crochet or knit isn’t a problem. There are a lot of resources online (photos, tutorials, video tutorials, etc.) on how to do both. They’ll take you through the basics, they’ll teach you the basic abbreviations for the stitches, how to hold the yarn with the needles or hook (although, while I do hold knitting needles the ‘correct’ way, I hold my crochet hook differently than most people do, it seems). That’s not a problem. Once you know how to knit and purl (for knitting) and once you get the chain stitch and single crochet (for crochet, obviously), the rest is really straight forward. But there are pros and cons to both.

Scroll down now if you don’t want to read about me going on and on about knitting, crocheting and yarn purchasing.

I personally like crocheting better only because it’s easier for me. But there are some downsides to it. Like… Crocheting takes more yarn than knitting does, which makes it more expensive for for a comparable project. But dropping a stitch in crochet is no problem because you can pick it up straight away, if you drop a stitch in knitting, you either have to ‘unknit’ until that spot or try to figure out how to get it hook back up again. It’s easier to make something circular (I’ve found) with crochet than knitting. This just may be because I absolutely loathe using double-pointed knitting needles. I’ve done it once, I’m probably never going to do it again. Of course, the most important thing to consider is cost. Basic things that you’ll need (a hook to start of with, a set of knitting needles, either straights or circulars) is pretty inexpensive. You can probably find dozens and dozens of needles and hooks at your local thrift store and they’ll wash pretty easily.

The cost comes in the yarn. I started off with yarn given to me and my sister by my mom. She used to knit a lot and I ended up with so much yarn. Like really nice stuff: wool, alpaca, camel, merino. All really nice, natural yarn. All really nice expensive yarn. I knew next to nothing about yarn types when I started out. Imagine my surprise when I headed to a local crafts store and discovered that they didn’t have anything that felt nearly as nice as the gorgeous ball of pink (100% merino) yarn that I had at home.

For some things, the content of the yarn doesn’t really matter. I mean, no one’s going to be constantly hugging or snuggling up with Gwen and Albert – they were made with 100% acrylic yarn that was dirt cheap, but crocheted up nicely and did what I wanted it to do. However, you wouldn’t want to use the same type of yarn for say… a scarf. Why? Because it’d probably give you a rash because it’s not a soft yarn, it’s scratchy and slightly abrasive against your skin. I’ve made scarves in both acrylic yarn and in nicer, natural fibres. I don’t wear the one that’s made out of acrylic yarn, it’s in my closet. I spent a lot of time on it, sure, but it’s just not… nice because I end up scratching at wherever it’s touching my skin. And, well, nice yarn costs money. And I’m a student, so it’s not like I have a tree that drops off fifty dollar bills whenever I need some. So I rely on sales… and my sister. Who has more of a yarn fetish than I do. For instance, the last time that there was a really nice sale at Michaels, she dropped an amount that I’m not going to disclose on the internet for (I hope I can remember this correctly): 10 skeins of 100% merino in two colours, 5 skeins of 100% cotton, 4 skeins of novelty eyelash yarn (it’s a bitch to knit or crochet with unless you’re using it with something else, just to let you know), 5 skeins of alpaca-wool mix (really gorgeous stuff) and 6 skeins of soy-bamboo mix (dead serious: soy and bamboo, in the softest non-animal yarn possible). She calculated how much it would have cost if none of it was on sale. The total? $248 (that’s Canadian dollars, not American).

So while crocheting and knitting is an awesome hobby, I do highly enjoy it and I like making cute things and assorted things that I can wear (because, really, who wants to go cold in the winter? Or autumn… Or spring…?), it is a pricey hobby (however – not as pricey as making jewelry!). I do encourage everyone to learn one or the other (or both?). It makes you a little it more appreciative of handmade gifts that you get. Plus, you’ll end up with awesome projects that you can show off with a smile. As long as you don’t go crazy and spend everything you have on yarn. You do not want to know how much yarn is currently in my house. Or how many work-in-progress projects are lying around the house with needles and hooks and stitch markers. Because then you’d just think that my sister and I are absolutely insane. If we are, it’s probably genetic.

Start of non-knitting, crocheting and yarn purchasing topics.

Wow, I just went on and on there, didn’t I? Hah. Umm… So Thursday. My Thursday went well. I woke up, argued with my father, left the house in a huff (ended up going back home before I caught my bus because I’d left my cell phone at home – I’m such a smart cookie sometimes). But I did catch my bus, where I spent the duration of my trip to school listening to Lily Allen in my ears. School went well today… Sort of…? I got my biology midterm back. I did worse than my previous tests in that class, so I was frankly, rather disappointed in myself. But… it’s not a bad mark. It’s just ‘not as good’ as it could have been. Then again, I wasn’t feeling very well that day (and after that, I spent a weekend in bed because I was sick) so I’m going to factor that in when I’m convincing myself that I’m not nearly as stupid as I think that I am sometimes.

Chemistry’s going well. J was sitting in the back of the lecture hall today with her boyfriend. The one who stole her iPod and cheated on her? Yeah, she’s a smart cookie, eh? Apparently they’re together again. He’s managed to convince her that the girl that he slept with ‘tricked’ him into having sex with her. When I heard this, my eyes went wide and my jaw dropped and it was just like “…. Are you stupid?” although I didn’t say that out loud, because that would not be very nice. Instead, my eyes went wide and my jaw dropped, I recovered (relatively quickly, I might add) and went “Have fun with whatever STIs he’s going to give you!” and I even added in a bright, cheery, sarcastic smile. She had the nerve to ask me for my chem notes (again) because she was “busy” during the time of our last class. Sometimes I wonder about people.

Oh! And I’m going to volunteering tomorrow! (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). It’s been a while since I’ve gone. I missed the last… three weeks. Which makes me feel bad, because I love volunteering and it made me sad that I couldn’t go in (but I’m not selfish enough to go and spend time with people with not-so-good immune systems when I’ve got the flu). But I’m going to be going in tomorrow since I am: no longer coughing, no longer have a fever and haven’t had a flu-like symptom for about a week now. So I think I’m good to go. And I’m quite happy and excited about that since it’s been so damn long! Plus, you know, it’s nice to spend time with people who don’t care how well I do on my biology midterm and just listen to someone tell me a story about “my life”. I wonder what kind of animal I’ll get referred to as tomorrow?

And if you read the entire entry, you deserve a cookie! Or 1495 cookies – which is the total word count for this entry. Wow, I talk a lot about yarn! I hope you had a wonderful Thursday and that your Friday is even better! And go buy yarn.

A bit ill

Michelle — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:29:18 +0000

@ Shola – I had password protected posts pre-outing myself, so it’s not like they’re new or anything.

@ Lauren – To be fair, I’m sure there are 13-15 year olds who look like they’re 18-20 so they think that it’s okay. Because, you know, ‘age is just a number’. That being said, I could be mistaken for being under 16, so I don’t know where I fall in the whole scheme of things.

Anyways, my opinion on the ‘sexting’ thing (wow, that word looks lame). Sending photos to random strangers when you’re a minor (in all countries concerned) is a no-no. Sending sexually charged text messages to your boyfriend/girlfriend is good to go and you have my full stamp of approval. Provided that neither of you are minors in whichever country that you’re from. Or whatever.

So my biology exam. Biology, biology, biology. Why must you fail me? Of course, I’m sure it doesn’t help that I’ve been around really sick people all week long (thanks, mom and dad!) and then I woke up this morning. I was pretty okay. Had my breakfast (toast, strawberry jam, banana, tea – for all those really curious in my food intake), started reviewing my notes. Noticed that my throat hurt a little bit, but didn’t think that much of it. Wrote an email to volunteering to inform them that I’m not going in tomorrow (due to the fact that I’ve been around people who are sick and have gotten coughed and sneezed on, and have touched things that have been coughed and sneezed on). Had a bit of a headache, went to school. Studied some more, had a noticeable fever by the time my chem class ended. By the time I finished my biology midterm, I wasn’t feeling that great, pretty sure that I had just failed (but luckily my midterm is only 10% of my final grade!) and had a fever.

Ugh. So now I’m home, pretty sure that I failed, plus not feeling that great. But… I don’t know. I can’t bring myself to do anything productive. I’m waiting for my parents to be done watching television so I can watched my recorded programs (mmm, General Hospital…). Plus, I have soup! Vegetable soup (canned, has those little alphabet pieces in them – I’m currently trying to spell my name but I can’t find any C’s!) is really nice. And makes my throat feel a bit better. Which is always good. But I can’t really spell out my name without a C… Maybe I can get rid of the middle bit of an E and just call it a day… Or get rid of parts of an O… Or a G… Decisions, decisions.

I do apologize if I seem a little disorientated today. I blame it on not feeling well.

Questions:

What’s your favourite canned soup?
What’s your daily caffeine intake look like?
What sort of words have you tried to spell out with the alphabet pieces that come from soup (or cereal)?
Name one thing that you’ve done with your cell phone that you would not want your parents to know about.

My answers:

When I’m sick, I like vegetable (like right now) with the letters. When I’m not sick, I like cream of mushroom.
If I have time in the morning (and I rarely do), I’ll have a cup of tea. I usually have one after dinner. It’s 1 tea bag (orange pekoe), with 1-2 spoonfuls of white honey and enough evaporated milk to make my tea a few shades darker than my skin tone.
My name, names of my immediate family members, names of countries (I’m a geek, what can I say?).
Ahem. I’m going to quote something that I wrote near the beginning of my entry now. “Sending sexually charged text messages…”.

I’m rambling right now…

Michelle — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:21:26 +0000

I just realized amidst all the drama that occurs that doesn’t make it to this blog and assorted midterms and studying and cramming truckloads of knowledge of the lymphatic system into my brain (for tomorrow, whoot!) that I’m going to have some issues openly discussing the boyfriend’s birthday gift and what I’m going to get him or make for him or whatever now that he knows the address. I mean, I knew it, but it didn’t openly hit me like a slap in the face until two seconds ago. Those will definitely have to be password protected posts.

Anyways, enough about that.

Next week is going to be hectic. Monday I have a doctor’s appointment, Tuesday I have a quiz, Tuesday and Wednesday is also a job fair at school (I suppose I should finalize my resume a bit then…), Thursday is another quiz, Friday is volunteering (not that it’s hectic, I love volunteering) and then there’s the weekend. I do love weekends. Especially when I’m going to spend time with the always wonderful Clay. Ahh, bliss.

And it’s time to get back to studying. And listening to Dan Savage’s podcast about ‘sexting’, which is apparently sending naked photos of yourself to someone else via cell. I don’t see how ‘photos’ go with ‘text’, but I think that’s besides the point. Apparently it’s pretty big, especially with the younger crowd (read: minors) because they have the means to do so and they can do it. But it’s kiddie porn, so people are getting arrested in the states for it. But, I’ve just got one thing to say… Because, umm, if you’re stupid enough to send said naked photos of yourself to people that you don’t know (the examples that he’s using in his podcast), you’re kind of moronic. Just saying.

Now I’m going back to studying biology.