OMIGOD LIKE STRESS IS TAKING OVER MY LIFE
I think that is why I found this hilarious...
I'm really not this immature normally...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJtpl5R916M
Added thoughts:
I wonder what will cause human extinction? I definitely hope it isn't our own carelessness with the planet that is our downfall. The rest of the species alive now don't deserve that. I would hate to go down in history as the one species that caused its own extinction. I am reading a book about the history of the universe and earth, and it was just talking about how 99.9% of the species throughout the history of Earth are now extinct. Major extinctions take place about every 4 million years. Supposedly our time is almost up...so if we don't ruin this amazing planet first...what do you think is going to kill us off and what do you think the next round of species and organisms would be like? Just something to ponder...
3.31.2009
3.30.2009
a weekend.
Fuck Walgreens man. I better end up doing something better with my pharmacy degree. Tonight was insane and I felt so bad because I couldn't do my best work while I was there. One of the other stores closed because of a power outage and we had to deal with all of our patients plus theirs and to make things worse, our store is one of the only pharmacies open past 6 on Sunday. It was just me and the pharmacist all night, and all I could think about was how I was going so fast and rushing through things, that some person was going to get some other person's meds and die or have some crazy interaction. Let's hope everything went okay. You know it's pretty bad though when a doctor is calling in a prescription for a patient with asthma and she says that the patient will have to go to the emergency room if she doesn't get these meds, and you have to respond, I'll try my hardest to get it ready before we close. That's just not acceptable, but that's how bad it was tonight. On to happier things...
I rearranged my room today. I am one buff lady. I moved a queen size bed, a bookshelf, a chair, and a bedside table all by myself. The bookshelf broke in the process and I only managed to salvage half of it, but that's what I get for giving in and buying Walmart shit. The new arrangement gives me plenty of room for a yoga mat and Wii fit! I got Wii fit for Christmas and I still haven't even used it because there was no space in our living room. So sad. I'm going to do it tomorrow though. Pretty excited other than the part when it tells me my age based on my workout evaluation. I have heard it is pretty brutal. I'm hoping for 40 or so.
Friday night was a blast. Went to art bar. I was having withdrawals it had been so long. First we got to see the belly and fire dancers, which were awesome! I want to take classes. Melissa met up with us and we got her in of course since the guys there don't even bother to look at our IDs anymore. We danced the night away until after 3 am. Saw a lot of fun people that I haven't seen in a while including a little starbucks reunion with Terry and Chris. I think I bought about 15 PBRs (only about 8 for myself!) over the course of the night and was only charged for 9 so that worked out nicely. Melissa had a good time, and I enjoyed her being there so I hope she can join us again.
Song in honor of Art Bar
Ready for the Floor
by Hot Chip
don't know the album
3.26.2009
so i should probably bring all of my blog entries from the old blog over to this new one, but i'm just too lazy, oh well.
i have the worst test tomorrow on clinical trials, research, and statistics. the class is most likely the worst yet in pharmacy school.
i really am just writing this so i can post my song of the day.
Sycamore Hollow
by Blue Highway
on Through the Window of a Train
if anyone knows any other really good bluegrass like this, fill me in!
i have the worst test tomorrow on clinical trials, research, and statistics. the class is most likely the worst yet in pharmacy school.
i really am just writing this so i can post my song of the day.
Sycamore Hollow
by Blue Highway
on Through the Window of a Train
if anyone knows any other really good bluegrass like this, fill me in!
3.22.2009
catching up
Lots of little things on my mind.
I made a list so I wouldn't forget.
Disney
First off, since I am so far behind. Disney was awesome. There were a few new rides that made the trip even more exciting. The food was really tasty of course. I got a slight tan which was a good perk. I was looking ghostly white for a while there. For the most part, the family got along. I don't think I want to spend 8 straight days with them in one hotel room that often, but every once in a while is good for us I guess. My sisters and I met a couple of guys that won the Disney version of American Idol the day we were there and stalked them on facebook. Keepin it classy, I know!
Falling on my ass story
The other night I went to the ballet with my sister, Will, and Michelle. (Which was really good, and caused a bunch of old memories to flood back.) But before we went to the ballet, I had 10 minutes to run in and change from work and get to Kroger. I threw on some heels, a cuter sweater, and washed up a little. While I was washing up, I stepped backwards and slipped right over the heels that I had sitting on the floor. When I fell, I fell hard...and to make the story even better...my ass fell directly on the heels. I have the biggest bruise imaginable and it is about 4 different colors. It hurts to sit down too. It's great. Let's hope butt tissue heals quickly.
"I secretly think of myself as an artist who doesn't make art"
I read post secret on a weekly basis, and I always try to relate them to myself, but I rarely find one that I really can connect to. People always write in talking about how they relate to so many of the secrets, but I feel like it doesn't happen that often for me. This week though, I came across this secret and it just popped out at me. I have always felt that part of me is an artist, but that there isn't a media for me to express my "inner artist" through, at least that I have found so far...maybe one day. Anyway, it was just a cool secret and it made me smile.
Dreads guy at walgreens
Today I was studying a little and about to go pull my bike out of the closet for the first bike ride of Spring, and I got a call from Walgreens that I was supposed to be there at 4. (It was 4:30 at the time) There went my afternoon...So I ran and put on my professional attire and hurried off to work. Of course when I get there the place is insane and there is over an hour wait and not nearly enough people to do everything that needed to be done. I threw myself into it though and tried to be as nice and as helpful as I could be in the circumstances. It's so crazy how no one is sincere in their daily interactions with people. We all go along saying "hello, what can I do for you?" and the majority of people saying "hi, how are you? and, without even allowing you time to answer, saying "I'm here to get Mr. Smith's prescription, or I would like a hamburger." Then you sit awkwardly at the register trying not to make eye contact and then quickly end the entire process with a "Thank you, have a nice day". It gets so fucking monotonous. Well today in all the mess, I spotted a guy in the back of the line with dreads and a beard. Sounds good already right? Well then when he gets to the front of the line, i say "hi, what can I do for you?" and he says "I need to get so and so's prescription." Of course one of them isn't ready, so I run to the back and fix it really quick. Then I run back to the front while trying to answer someone else's question in the down time. Then cool looking dude asks me, "how is your day going?" sincerely, while making eye contact...I was like wow, no way. So I tell him that it's crazy, but I'm making it. and he continues that he knows how that goes. So I decided to tell him that I was about to bike ride but then I got called into work, and he said don't you hate when that happens?. (I gave up on quotation marks...next the capitalization and punctuation will go too) I then asked, don't you work at NBT, and he said he did, but now he works at earth fare. I told him he had a memorable face and he said that it was most likely the beard and dreads. I laughed. He said thanks. It was the best part of my day at work.
Next time I'll talk about...
Do you remember the library buses that used to come to your neighborhood when you were little?
And to make up for last blog, I am going to pick two songs for song of the day.
The only cd in my car for the past few days has been Feist, so when I'm not listening to WUSC, I have been listening to her on repeat. I never realized how much I liked #7.
Feist
When I was a Young Girl
from Let it Die
and...
Colour Revolt
Matresses Underwater
from the EP
p.s. Seal- Kiss From a Rose gets honorable mention, mostly because it is on right now and reminding me of how much I used to love that song, and a little due to it being on one of the first 2 cds I ever owned (I also got Joan Osbourne's cd with What if God was one of us? on it...I racked up!)
I made a list so I wouldn't forget.
Disney
First off, since I am so far behind. Disney was awesome. There were a few new rides that made the trip even more exciting. The food was really tasty of course. I got a slight tan which was a good perk. I was looking ghostly white for a while there. For the most part, the family got along. I don't think I want to spend 8 straight days with them in one hotel room that often, but every once in a while is good for us I guess. My sisters and I met a couple of guys that won the Disney version of American Idol the day we were there and stalked them on facebook. Keepin it classy, I know!
Falling on my ass story
The other night I went to the ballet with my sister, Will, and Michelle. (Which was really good, and caused a bunch of old memories to flood back.) But before we went to the ballet, I had 10 minutes to run in and change from work and get to Kroger. I threw on some heels, a cuter sweater, and washed up a little. While I was washing up, I stepped backwards and slipped right over the heels that I had sitting on the floor. When I fell, I fell hard...and to make the story even better...my ass fell directly on the heels. I have the biggest bruise imaginable and it is about 4 different colors. It hurts to sit down too. It's great. Let's hope butt tissue heals quickly.
"I secretly think of myself as an artist who doesn't make art"
I read post secret on a weekly basis, and I always try to relate them to myself, but I rarely find one that I really can connect to. People always write in talking about how they relate to so many of the secrets, but I feel like it doesn't happen that often for me. This week though, I came across this secret and it just popped out at me. I have always felt that part of me is an artist, but that there isn't a media for me to express my "inner artist" through, at least that I have found so far...maybe one day. Anyway, it was just a cool secret and it made me smile.
Dreads guy at walgreens
Today I was studying a little and about to go pull my bike out of the closet for the first bike ride of Spring, and I got a call from Walgreens that I was supposed to be there at 4. (It was 4:30 at the time) There went my afternoon...So I ran and put on my professional attire and hurried off to work. Of course when I get there the place is insane and there is over an hour wait and not nearly enough people to do everything that needed to be done. I threw myself into it though and tried to be as nice and as helpful as I could be in the circumstances. It's so crazy how no one is sincere in their daily interactions with people. We all go along saying "hello, what can I do for you?" and the majority of people saying "hi, how are you? and, without even allowing you time to answer, saying "I'm here to get Mr. Smith's prescription, or I would like a hamburger." Then you sit awkwardly at the register trying not to make eye contact and then quickly end the entire process with a "Thank you, have a nice day". It gets so fucking monotonous. Well today in all the mess, I spotted a guy in the back of the line with dreads and a beard. Sounds good already right? Well then when he gets to the front of the line, i say "hi, what can I do for you?" and he says "I need to get so and so's prescription." Of course one of them isn't ready, so I run to the back and fix it really quick. Then I run back to the front while trying to answer someone else's question in the down time. Then cool looking dude asks me, "how is your day going?" sincerely, while making eye contact...I was like wow, no way. So I tell him that it's crazy, but I'm making it. and he continues that he knows how that goes. So I decided to tell him that I was about to bike ride but then I got called into work, and he said don't you hate when that happens?. (I gave up on quotation marks...next the capitalization and punctuation will go too) I then asked, don't you work at NBT, and he said he did, but now he works at earth fare. I told him he had a memorable face and he said that it was most likely the beard and dreads. I laughed. He said thanks. It was the best part of my day at work.
Next time I'll talk about...
Do you remember the library buses that used to come to your neighborhood when you were little?
And to make up for last blog, I am going to pick two songs for song of the day.
The only cd in my car for the past few days has been Feist, so when I'm not listening to WUSC, I have been listening to her on repeat. I never realized how much I liked #7.
Feist
When I was a Young Girl
from Let it Die
and...
Colour Revolt
Matresses Underwater
from the EP
p.s. Seal- Kiss From a Rose gets honorable mention, mostly because it is on right now and reminding me of how much I used to love that song, and a little due to it being on one of the first 2 cds I ever owned (I also got Joan Osbourne's cd with What if God was one of us? on it...I racked up!)
3.05.2009
So i completely deleted all of the play counts and skip counts in Itunes to make my library as random as possible, sorted the songs by title, and put the first 16 that played on random into a playlist. This was the result.
we are your friends by justice vs simian
pop lock and drop it by baby huey
bittersweet by james taylor
image of the invisible by thrice
outfit by drive-by truckers
whiskey for everybody by gary jules
telluride by yonder mountain string band
there there by radiohead
cookie jar by jack johnson
high school football hero by afi
take a bow by rihanna
far from home by neil young
ice by lights
mea culpa by enigma
down in the valley by the broken west
hoppipola by sigur ros
I was getting really freaked out by the nonrandomicity of the itunes library. This playlist was the result. Not a very good representation of the music that defines Melanie, but fair and random nonetheless. This article is really interesting:
http://www.cnet.com.au/mp3players/musicsoftware/0,239029154,339274094-2,00.htm
we are your friends by justice vs simian
pop lock and drop it by baby huey
bittersweet by james taylor
image of the invisible by thrice
outfit by drive-by truckers
whiskey for everybody by gary jules
telluride by yonder mountain string band
there there by radiohead
cookie jar by jack johnson
high school football hero by afi
take a bow by rihanna
far from home by neil young
ice by lights
mea culpa by enigma
down in the valley by the broken west
hoppipola by sigur ros
I was getting really freaked out by the nonrandomicity of the itunes library. This playlist was the result. Not a very good representation of the music that defines Melanie, but fair and random nonetheless. This article is really interesting:
http://www.cnet.com.au/mp3players/musicsoftware/0,239029154,339274094-2,00.htm
3.03.2009
Nevermind. Change of <3. Love the hair color. It's almost like I'm breaking the rules, because in the right light the color could almost be considered a magenta sort of purplish red. I like when I push the limits of my "professionalism" in pharmacy school because I think the professional label is so ridiculous. Who cares what I look like as long as I know what I am talking about! and oh god, the closed toe shoes. What is the big fucking deal with showing a little toe? I happen to have claustrophobic feet, and it drives me nuts.
I need to find somewhere new to hang out. Somewhere that guys that are worth my time hang out. Maybe I should try somewhere other than bars. The roomies and I want to start taking pottery classes. I bet guys with beards take pottery classes. At least they do in my dreams.
Song today:
Prescilla
Bat for lashes
from Fur and Gold
I need to find somewhere new to hang out. Somewhere that guys that are worth my time hang out. Maybe I should try somewhere other than bars. The roomies and I want to start taking pottery classes. I bet guys with beards take pottery classes. At least they do in my dreams.
Song today:
Prescilla
Bat for lashes
from Fur and Gold
3.02.2009
Today I did a lot. I actually went to bed around midnight on Saturday which was a nice change from the normal 4 am bedtime on weekends. I got up at 9:30 and wasn't even tired! I might have to do that more often. I watched a few lectures, so that's worth a pat on the back. Then I went over to Mandy's to bake bread. It was pretty cool seeing yeast "alive" in the dough that was rising. The baguettes we made ended up being really good. We watched some of blood diamond while discussing a cross country trip this summer. I'm definitely doing it. I have $375 set aside already. Too bad it can't be during that Sasquatch festival in Washington because that line-up competes with Bonnaroo's. I can't wait to see some national parks and the northwest.
After that I decided I was going to dye my hair. I don't really think I like it so far. I chose a "dark auburn" shade. They should probably rename it "red". The roots are red then it kind of fades out to a darker brown with a red hint to it. I guess that's what I get for buying a $15 box of hair dye, instead of paying a professional. I'm hoping the color will grow on me.
I just finished baking my own batch of bread. It didn't turn out as good as Mandy's, but that was to be expected because she is naturally better in the kitchen than me. Mine is still tasty. Warm fresh bread with butter is one of my favorite things. I discovered that today. I want my own bakery. Maybe when I move to Asheville...
So an interesting article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/feb/17/netmusic-digitalmusic
I would have to go with the majority on this one. I'm not sure how I would survive in a world without music. Yeah it would blow to never have sex, but music is everywhere and is crucial for me to function on a daily basis.
Song:
Lua
Conor Oberst & Gillian Welch
from Dark Was The Night Compilation
After that I decided I was going to dye my hair. I don't really think I like it so far. I chose a "dark auburn" shade. They should probably rename it "red". The roots are red then it kind of fades out to a darker brown with a red hint to it. I guess that's what I get for buying a $15 box of hair dye, instead of paying a professional. I'm hoping the color will grow on me.
I just finished baking my own batch of bread. It didn't turn out as good as Mandy's, but that was to be expected because she is naturally better in the kitchen than me. Mine is still tasty. Warm fresh bread with butter is one of my favorite things. I discovered that today. I want my own bakery. Maybe when I move to Asheville...
So an interesting article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/feb/17/netmusic-digitalmusic
I would have to go with the majority on this one. I'm not sure how I would survive in a world without music. Yeah it would blow to never have sex, but music is everywhere and is crucial for me to function on a daily basis.
Song:
Lua
Conor Oberst & Gillian Welch
from Dark Was The Night Compilation
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