Taxes, Pt III

Just finished. I did them twice to make sure… but, yes… being a student this year is helping me a lot. That’s the good news!

The bad news: As I was doing my taxes I consumed a whole box of Milk Duds. The box had 5 servings of 170 calories apiece for a grand whoppin’ total of 850 calories. If my nutrition teacher could see me now! She would be so proud of me.

Taxes, Pt II

And I quote: “If line 10 is equal to or more than line 11, enter the amount from line 7 on line 13 and go to line 14. If line 10 is less than line 11, divide line 10 by line 11. Enter the result as a decimal (rounded to at least three places).”

Gotta love the IRS.

Taxes.

I should be a student more often… It has done wonders for my bottom line. I think I’ll still owe something..but not nearly as much as I’ve had to fork over in the past…

Seattle in two days. Yippy. Can’t wait.

Bye for now. Enjoy your weekend.

Some random good things

(in no particular order)
1. Nutrition test is in less than 12 hours. I’ll be so thankful when I can finally get it out of the way. There are only so many times you can review ETOH consumption, lipids, and proteins.
2. Seattle in FIVE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!! I have no idea what I’m going to do when I get there. So, I’m excited about the spontaneity of it all. I did get some pointers from J. (yes, were still friends… did you all have any doubt?… don’t answer that! I know I did.) I actually will have to study while I’m out there.. So, I think I’ve found a cozy bookshop (Elliott Bay) to spend a day (not a good thing… 4 exams the week I get back).
3. Received a $2500 scholarship from my school. I think this nursing thing might actually work out.
4. My favorite movie from 2007 won Best Song at the Academy Awards the other night. The song is “Falling Slowly” and everytime I hear it I get chills. Literally.
5. Totally over what happened last week… I guess everyone should get stood up at least once… builds character & backbone. Maybe I should thank him?
6. Opening day… it can’t really be that far away… right?
7. Spicy Crispy Calamari Salad from Marathon Grill. I had it today for lunch… $11 well spent.
8. It’s 10pm now.. only 1 more hour of studying… sleep & then up again at 4am.
9. Speaking of baseball… I ordered myself a cool new White Sox shirt… Green –long sleeved w/ the Sox logo embroidered down the front (v.v.v. small). For those who don’t know… the White Sox have a “6 months to St. Patrick’s Day” game every year in September. It’s a fun time…

Hmmm… can only think of 9 things today. Now, I’ll return to my lecture on Fatty Acids. Yippy.

Enjoy your night.

It just shouldn’t be this way.

So, as I wrote yesterday (or the day before… I can’t remember) about going out to coffee w/ a guy that I liked.  That I thought we had a good time talking together (the Starbucks people asked us to leave b/c the store was closing)… who we had good conversation, etc.

Why, oh, why … would this man go to all the trouble to say “we will go out on Friday night.  what’s your address (and then he actually wrote down directions)?  i’ll call you on Thursday to confirm, etc..” and then not call, not return a text asking him if we were still hanging out tonight… etc.  I mean, you all don’t have to answer that… I know what the “answer” is.  He just wasn’t that into me when he actually met me (ie… I wasn’t as gorgeous as his imagination imagined me to be), but was too chicken to actually say that he would rather not see me again…  because even though I have a winning personality, can hold a decent conversation, and have tons in common with him…  I just wasn’t pretty enough.

So, I’m in stay-at-home mode already tonight.  Scrub pants are on (which means… I’m not going anywhere except the local Wawa if needed) & I’m trying to decide what to do tonight since my Netflix didn’t come in the mail (which, actually NOTHING came in the mail…b/c an inch of snow in Northeastern PA… I guess the Postal Workers get the day off also).

That’s it.  I’m done venting…  If, by some MIRACULOUS chance he proves me wrong and shows up at my doorstep at 6pm… I’ll be the first to say I was wrong…  since that’s not going to happen.  I’ll just call him a liar (is coward a better word?) and move on.

Ok.. I’m still pissed.

Another Thursday night…

Another episode of Lost.

Another Thursday night of not studying.  It’s becoming my tradition.  Totally fried by Thursday.  I veg on the couch sometimes with a bowl of vegetables.  Actually, that’s not right… usually it’s something bad… like something fried or a pizza…  I thinking pizza tonight for dinner.

I met a man last night for a cup of coffee at a local Starbucks.  I am supposed to see him again tomorrow evening.  He hasn’t called yet… so, I’m not sure if it’s actually happening or not.  Updates about this will be few and far between.  I’m just saying… it was nice to have coffee with someone and feel human again.  School has the tendency to suck all the marrow out of my life.

Grade update:  84 on the cardiac drugs pharmacology test.  Solid “B”.  You know… when did I ever think getting “B”s was a bad thing???  I have always been a “B” student…  “B” is a totally decent grade??? Right????  Not every nursing student received “A”s on everything… right?  I mean the whole deal is to prepare you to pass the NCLEX???  Ok… I’m fretting…  I. Must. Stop. Fretting.

For my nutrition class I need to keep a food journal for the next 3 days… I started today. It’s amazing how you don’t want to eat when you are required to write it down and turn it into a total stranger.  She SAID she’s not going to make judgements on our food choices and to eat like we normally do… which, actually so far today… I have done just that…

Breakfast:  cereal & water (again… not together)… no milk… hate milk in cereal

Snacks:  Odwella Bar (actually, surprisingly…v.v.v good), a whole package of those crackers w/ the fake cheese spread between them.. there are 6 in a package, and then a Milky Way candy bar as I was waiting for the train back home… so, yea… not eating all that well right now.

Ok…. must go… actually getting hungry thinking about all this food.

Me? A class officer?

So. I guess I was just elected the “Delegate at large” for our nursing class.

I ran against one other person… this I didn’t know until the ballots were passed out yesterday morning. I only told the powers that be that I would do the election thing only if someone else didn’t want the job b/c I soooo didn’t want to have a popularity contest…

Anyway, it’s weird.. I’ve never won anything. EVER.

Well, unless you count that Lion King CD in 1996 (?).

Ok… gotta run.

An observation

So.. someone told me that when I started nursing school little things will go by the wayside… I just wouldn’t have time for them anymore. Well, it rang true. A little thing: shaving my legs. It used to be so gross to me to go longer than two days… Just thinking about it made me cringe. Not anymore. Now I’m lucky if I have the time to do it once/week.

Today was one of those days.

It’s the little things that get me excited.

I know. I’m weird.

Oh.. test update: I bombed my heart failure test on Valentine’s Day: 82%. High “B-” Oh, well… can’t get “A”s on all of them.

Oh.. one more thing before I bid goodbye for the day: What the heck is going on w/ “LOST”?????????????? People are saying how amazing this season is already. Am I the ONLY ONE who thinks we are still getting more questions than answers????????????? I loved last night’s episode w/ Sayid. What about Hurley double crossing the other group???? I loved Sawyer & Kate… I wonder if Sawyer gets off the island also???

That’s it. Bye for now.

Study Funnies..(and I’m procrastinating)

So… I’m studying the coronary arteries for my anatomy test tomorrow.

For the last 5 minutes I have been saying the “culinary arteries”….

I think I’ve been watching a little too much Food Network.

That.. or I’m actually hungry.

Gotta get back to it…
Ta-ta for now.

Another exciting Saturday evening…

Spent at home.  Tonight I’m (sorta) studying the cardiac system for a test next week.  I’ve actually been more interested in watching the first “Die Hard” movie on AMC.  It’s one of those enhanced showings… where they add all the movie facts at the bottom of the screen.

I can’t wait until school is over.  It can’t end soon enough.  It sucks.  Ok… I might change my mind 3 weeks from now… but, currently, I hate it.  I hate the studying.  I hate the loneliness.  I hate watching the cliques.  It’s just been a bad month (***please note, the author will never hate her decision to go back to school… she still thinks it’s one of the best decisions she has made…  but her feelings right now are one of not liking school all that much).  Every week we have had two major exams in a row… There hasn’t been a let up.  Next week there are two more.  And then two more following that.  I think then Spring Break comes.

My digital camera hit the dust (I think).  It’s sorta working now… but earlier it was doing v. strange things… I’m not sure whether to trust taking it to Seattle or just buy a new one before I go out there.  I need a new one eventually…but I really don’t want to spend the funds right now.

Ok.. nothing else even remotely exciting to report.  Nada.  Nothing.  Zilch.

Should I stop this?  Is anybody even still reading?