Instant Gratification is my best friend

Why don't I ever follow my own directions? I am apparently NOT my own boss.

I told myself that today and tonight would be a day and night dedicated to two things and two things only: cleaning the disaster that is my room and studying. Guess how many of those two things I got accomplished? Twozero, zero. I did not clean, and I did not study. How much do I suck?

Instead I slept in, went to a pool with Jaffy and Rylee, took a nap, got a slice of pizza with Heather, went to the new Publix (most exciting event to happen to FB in 50 years) and watched the MTV Movie Awards from bed. That last part I'm most ashamed of. For realz.

Very slugglish day. But! I guess I still have some time left tonight to crack open a book and read a bit, so maaaaaybe I'll just do that.

(No, I won't)

Hi I'm not dead!

You can all breath a sigh of relief now because I know you've been laying awake at night tossing and turning and worried because I haven't been blogging. Or more likely you haven't even noticed, but that's cool too. Either-or.

I don't know what's been keeping me away but maybe it has to do with the 157 flashcards I've been digesting a day. I got an A on my first anatomy exam though! And class average was 70! And I just had to mention that because I haven't already posted it on my twitter, facebook, and myspace... oh wait, scratch that, yes, yes I have. I also asked people around me in class today how they did on the exam JUST so I could mention my A. Is this very bad? Slightly, okay more than slightly weird? I do not care. "Oh you got a 60? That's not so bad!" Bahahahahah! Oh man, that's a good laugh!(I better not fail the next exam or I'm seriously going to look stupid)

Um other than that..... Nope that's my life right now. And I better get back to it because I cannot even TELL you which stage of mitosis the spindle fibres attach themselves to the centromeres of the chromosomes and align the chromosomes at the equatorial plate! Inexcusable!

Welcome to the Jungle!

It has been raining here in Florida non-stop, since Sunday. And it is supposed to continue to rain all day tomorrow.

Here's the fun part:

We're moving out of our house in less than one month, and in order to get our deposit back we have to make sure the house is clean, and make sure the yard is picked up. Sounds easy enough right? Well. We also live on the water and with all this rain, the water is currently occupying about ALL of our yard. Last summer this happened after the tropical storms and the water did eventually go away. Eventually as in about a month ago. So, we might be screwed completely with this whole must have the yard looking good and mowed and WHATEVER, unless... we can advertise that it comes with a pool? An above ground pool filled with marsh water and rain frogs? That sounds appealing right?

Speaking of rain frogs, these things are insane right now. Last night I heard one and for a while I was concerned it was my Kitty Bear lost and drenched in the rain. But? it was a frog. People get frog noises and cat noises mixed up right? (yes Jamie, they sure do) Tonight however there are about 50,thousandmillion frogs outside my window and they are LOUD.

I stepped outside and recorded some just for you guys so you would believe me. Listen to this!



Totally ridiculous I know! I feel like I'm in a New Age store browsing their "Sleep and Relaxation" section. All I need's some incense. Any hippies out there?

Bow Chicka Wow Wow

Anatomy Book or PlayGirl?

You be the judge.

By the way, do you think any women out there actually read PlayGirl?

I may only talk about Anatomy for the next six weeks, and YOU WILL LIKE IT!

So I started to feel bad about calling that girl a dumb ass so many times in my last post, because really who am I to judge and talk crap about someone I don't even know, this class is really hard, I'll probably (yes, yes I will) have a hard time with it too. Maybe she comes in late to class and doesn't take any notes because she's one of those people who can do that and pass. Good for her!

But then today we had a quiz.

She came late into class, again, stared at the quiz for about twelve minutes, and handed it in...without a single answer written down. Later she admitted that she hadn't cracked the book all weekend.

I don't get this. Really I shouldn't care and it should make me happy because it's one less person I have to worry about...but it bothers me. After class she was considering withdrawing because it was too much for her. She told me that she spent all last semester busting her ass to get all her pre-recs done for the OTA program but that after three days of this class she was ready to quit. I mean, I did bad in plenty a class in my college days, so whatever, sometimes people don't care and that's fine, but she was almost in tears worried and upset because life had done this horrible thing to her. I wanted to scream that maybe she should just, I don't know? try a little bit!? Take a note or two? Come to class on time? Study for the quizzes you KNOW are coming up? But instead I told her the withdraw date wasn't until a few weeks and that she might as well continue in the class to see if it gets easier before giving up. Really if she can't see what the problem is, then she should withdraw.

In other news, I finished choreographing one of my recital dances! Freakin A! Who knew teaching these classes was going to be such stress? Although, really I kinda want to teach again, only because if I don't it could potentially be the first year since I was nine that dance was not a part of my life. I don't think I'm ready for that.

Falling asleep tonight to wind and rain and frogs outside my window. Not too shab.

You said it Whit and other tidbits.

Whit said it in her post, and I completely relate. Ever since returning to The States (Ohh! How International Traveler am I?!) I feel like I haven't gotten my blogging legs back or something. Writing has just felt well, awkward and forced a bit, and I don't know why. WHY MY FRIENDS....WHYYYYY??? (dramatic fall to the floor)

(Okay I'm back up)

Maybe it takes a few posts to feel normal again, so here goes another one...

I'm taking a break from studying for my first anatomy quiz which is tomorrow. (See that sentence just doesn't feeeel right!) And so far I have all 47 of my anatomical terms down and I only have a few other things left to study, so, Go Me! Woo! I'm trying to approach this whole Being a College Student thing differently this time around, so instead of studying terms where I read the definition and as long as I'm able to recall the first letter of the word I'm good-to-go, I'm actually taking the time to do stuff like spell the words and pronounce them semi-correctly. I know impressive right!

Competition for this program is fierce and I have to make sure I do everything possible to succeed. Which includes weighing out the other prospects. For instance: There's a girl who sits across from me in lab who's trying to get into the program as well, but, she seems like a pretty big dumb ass. I say this because from what I can gather she IS a pretty big dumb ass and hopefully she'll fail. What? Mean? It took her like one solid minute to figure out how to turn on the microscope thirty seconds after someone showed her how to turn on the microscope. It was a knob. You turned. So I know I don't have to worry about her.

Maybe everyone else is a dumb ass like her and I'll be fine? I hope so (watch now I'll probably fail JUST because I called this girl a dumb ass)(but now I won't fail for calling her a dumb ass because I said I would fail for calling her a dumb ass, I put it out into the universe and now it won't come true.....right?).

I better study a little more...

Happy Days are Here Again

Summer is officially here people! And I cannot be more excited. Check out our 5 day forcast:

A lot of people who live in Florida complain about summer, because it gets Hot As Balls, but you know what I think? I think it gets Hot As Balls in a lot of other states too, and that our Hot As Balls summer isn't as bad because we have the ocean, and! we have Afternoon Thunderstorms.

I love thunderstorms, in the afternoon, in summer, and so I am pretty excited about this.

This season change comes along with a lot of other changes that are happening for me right now, and it seems fitting, New Beginning or some crap. School, work, living arrangements....changes. It's good though, and today I feel excited about them all and not stressed as usual. Maybe I'm high off all the Vitamin D I just soaked in floating around my friend Heather's pool, or maybe I'm getting giddy from the storms, or maybe it's something else, who knows...but I like it and I hope it stays.

I have returned!!

....I'm back!

....

And I'm feeling all sorts of displaced. Where are all the Spanish people with their shnazy shoes, genie pants and mullets? Where's my tiny coffee, and tubos, and chocolate con churros?!

The ENDING of vacations suck. it. big.

The day I got back, scratch that, the EARLY EARLY MORNING I got back after 20 hours of travel and five hours of sleep, I dragged myself out of bed and went to class. There's been an unexpected normalcy to being a student again and I like it. I am getting a little more nervous about making it into the program though because I keep running into other contenders....but I'm trying to think positive. I have to go back to work tomorrow which is just the worst feeling ever. I feel like I've been gone from work for years. Like, will I remember where everything is, and who is who, and how to work the computer??? Funny how for not one second on vacation did I stop to think about work. Not one itty bitty second. Tomorrow's gonna suck.

ANYWAYS, Spain. Lovely, lovely, Spain. It was so much fun. There's so much to say, so many amazing places we went to, so many weird foods, so many drinks, and laughs, and new experiences, just so many so manys. I went out to dinner with Pete's family last night and I felt like the ONLY thing I could talk about was Spain. Spain Spain Spain Spain Spain. I'd like to do a better post about the trip with pictures and stories and everything, but it might be a while. We have like 5000 pictures between all of us, and just today we started going through them a bit.

The only other thing I can say about the trip at this point is that Coral and Tony were THE BEST, and really out did themselves this time. Those two sure know how to have a good time lemme tell ya.

Eh, I'm so tired, and I don't want to fall asleep because when I wake up it's WORK. How totally LAME. Laaaaaaammmmmeeeee.

Super Secret Spain Post

HOLA!

Me es having mucho funo in Espana! I've picked up really quick on the language as you can see. In fact today, after asking for another muffin (in Spanish!) the man replied lots of Spanish words at me and in shear panic I tried to tell him I couldn't speak Spanish but instead said "Don't speak Spanish to me!" whoops.

We just arrived in Granada tonight and I am very, very, glad to have ONE place to stay for the next seven days. Don't get me wrong, traveling to different cities is cool, and in Segovia and Toledo we saw really awesome things like midevil castles and crazy cathedrals, but hotel jumping and luggage loading/unloading gets old quick. So does hours of plane/car travel.

I'm really excited to be here too because Granada looks like it should be a LOT of fun. It's a lot more city than I had imagined. Like I was expecting huts or something? Because it's Spain and Foreign Land and I am a dumb American or something? And was afraid I wouldn't be able to buy toothpaste? But no, I was wrong. Fortunately.

Anyways, I'm writing this blog secretively because everyone else in the house is asleep. And I don't know about everyone else but I am a little creeped out. I get to be the lucky one that sleeps on the couch alone and Jaffy mentioned how it smelled really strongly of perfume in her room, and HEARD SINGING (we'll ignore the fact that her room is right above a street for the moment, for the creepy effect) and when she told Coral about it, Coral was totally all "whhat??" like she didn't know where the weird smells and sounds were coming from! And, and!! It's really cold in here with lots of weird noises and it's dark and cold, I know I said that already, but, it's really really....really cold. Eeeerie....

I should be on the couch now waiting for my Tylenol PMs to kick in, but I decided to post because I was tagged by Bex and Whit for a Swine Flu picture blogchain thing. And I'm supposed to take a picture of myself without primping (not cool guys) and load it up and post. When I first read the tags we had just gotten to our second hotel and I was super excited because I had discovered a little patio outside our window and so I had Coral take a picture of me acting, well, super excited. Doesn't quite count because I didn't take it myself, but, I think it will work.

..............Or it won't work. I'm a little Mac computer retarded and can't resize and edit pictures and my sister has a really slow connection, so guess what folks? No dice. Maybe tomorrow when I can have Tony learn me how to use a fancy Mac I'll try again.

I guess this blog was just to say hello then, and to distract me from all the spooooky noises going on right now. What do Spanish ghosts say? What's Spanish for "boo"??