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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
This weekend:
1. watched Masterpiece Theater's version of Jane Eyre on PBS, which was amazing, and the best version I've seen yet. It's the only one that actually shows some of the sexual tension bt Rochester and Jane Eyre that I've always felt the book conveyed. I'm definitely going to order it when it comes out, even though it's sorta expensive.
2. watched The Descent, which is only the second movie to literally make me cry from fear. And this one did it within the first 30 mins, I think. (The other one was The Ring.) I liked how the scariness wasn't just limited to the cave, but even in the real world, like when the main character is in the hospital and running down the hall.
3. Got a new hoodie, which I plan to wear to pieces.
4. Started reading The Awakening, one of Aaron's books that he had to read for school back in the day. He hated it...I wonder if I will. The beginning is engrossing, at least.
Oh, and, I made a 97 on my Embryology test that I was studying for on Friday night. So it was worth it, but too bad the class is only Pass/Fail so nobody will ever know how well I did on it except you and me. : )
1. watched Masterpiece Theater's version of Jane Eyre on PBS, which was amazing, and the best version I've seen yet. It's the only one that actually shows some of the sexual tension bt Rochester and Jane Eyre that I've always felt the book conveyed. I'm definitely going to order it when it comes out, even though it's sorta expensive.
2. watched The Descent, which is only the second movie to literally make me cry from fear. And this one did it within the first 30 mins, I think. (The other one was The Ring.) I liked how the scariness wasn't just limited to the cave, but even in the real world, like when the main character is in the hospital and running down the hall.
3. Got a new hoodie, which I plan to wear to pieces.
4. Started reading The Awakening, one of Aaron's books that he had to read for school back in the day. He hated it...I wonder if I will. The beginning is engrossing, at least.
Oh, and, I made a 97 on my Embryology test that I was studying for on Friday night. So it was worth it, but too bad the class is only Pass/Fail so nobody will ever know how well I did on it except you and me. : )
Friday, January 26, 2007
Here I am on a Friday night, studying for another test.
I can't tell you how much I love school. And by love, I mean hate.
This morning I woke up at 8:30, got to school, studied and looked at slides until 1:00 p.m. and then took the Cell Bio test from 1:00 till 5:00. It was physically taxing. For everyone involved, including the testers, who kept having to run back and forth checking people's slide answers. (there was a lab part where we had to identify things on slides.)
I did alright on that part, it's the multiple choice part that scares me. Please God, let me have passed.
Anyways, after tonight, I promise blogs full of fun and action.
I can't tell you how much I love school. And by love, I mean hate.
This morning I woke up at 8:30, got to school, studied and looked at slides until 1:00 p.m. and then took the Cell Bio test from 1:00 till 5:00. It was physically taxing. For everyone involved, including the testers, who kept having to run back and forth checking people's slide answers. (there was a lab part where we had to identify things on slides.)
I did alright on that part, it's the multiple choice part that scares me. Please God, let me have passed.
Anyways, after tonight, I promise blogs full of fun and action.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
This morning I went to the first Human Behaviour/Psychopathology group meeting. I've been looking forward to this class since the beginning of the year as one of the only ones I would have actually voluntarily chosen if I had the choice.
I've already been to the lecture portion of it, which was disappointing, bc of how stereotyped and classified everything was--according to them, there are only three types of families, three levels of people, etc. I'm used to sociological classes being more discussion-based, whereas this was very much a scientific approach to human behaviour--something which I would like to believe is inherently un-scientific.
The prof who is leading my small group is a little old lady who's quite proud of herself for standing up to big, mean psychotic types. She told us lots of stories to show how well her intuition works when it comes to knowing when to be scared of which mental patients.
Also, she had a pharmaceutical rep come in and give us free stuff, which was pretty cool, though the condescending attitude she had towards him was pretty hard to watch.
Is it a coincidence that both of the psychiatrists I have met so far seem pretty conceited and un-self aware? My theory is that they are around deviant types so much that whatever personality flaws they have themselves seem entirely harmless, and therefore they stop trying to fix themselves and only concentrate on fixing others.
It doesn't help that they all become filthy rich anyway.
She has a grandkid going to a private preschool called "creme de la creme."
Anyways, I will enjoy going through my free little reference book of psychiatric disorders. Prepare to be regaled with what disorders I believe I have or am on the verge of having.
Oh, and when the prof was talking about dress code for future meetings, she said, "We are not children anymore, we are professionals," while looking at me. This morning, I had literally rolled out of bed, put on jeans and a hoodie, and drove to school. It's lucky I didn't come wrapped in a blanket.
In other news, after saturday morning, I won't have any tests for a while. What will I do with all the free time?
I've already been to the lecture portion of it, which was disappointing, bc of how stereotyped and classified everything was--according to them, there are only three types of families, three levels of people, etc. I'm used to sociological classes being more discussion-based, whereas this was very much a scientific approach to human behaviour--something which I would like to believe is inherently un-scientific.
The prof who is leading my small group is a little old lady who's quite proud of herself for standing up to big, mean psychotic types. She told us lots of stories to show how well her intuition works when it comes to knowing when to be scared of which mental patients.
Also, she had a pharmaceutical rep come in and give us free stuff, which was pretty cool, though the condescending attitude she had towards him was pretty hard to watch.
Is it a coincidence that both of the psychiatrists I have met so far seem pretty conceited and un-self aware? My theory is that they are around deviant types so much that whatever personality flaws they have themselves seem entirely harmless, and therefore they stop trying to fix themselves and only concentrate on fixing others.
It doesn't help that they all become filthy rich anyway.
She has a grandkid going to a private preschool called "creme de la creme."
Anyways, I will enjoy going through my free little reference book of psychiatric disorders. Prepare to be regaled with what disorders I believe I have or am on the verge of having.
Oh, and when the prof was talking about dress code for future meetings, she said, "We are not children anymore, we are professionals," while looking at me. This morning, I had literally rolled out of bed, put on jeans and a hoodie, and drove to school. It's lucky I didn't come wrapped in a blanket.
In other news, after saturday morning, I won't have any tests for a while. What will I do with all the free time?
Friday, January 19, 2007
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Have been clandestinely feeding the stray cats at the condos, only to be rewarded with loud cat sex outside my window at 4 in the morning.
No more milk for the kitties, only straight up kibble. Milk makes them crazy. Crazy horny, that is, apparently.
I wrote my to-do list on my hand today, and got it all done before lunch.
This weekend, me and Aaron are journeying once again to Houston to look at a wedding place near Galveston.
Our last adventurous hamster died yesterday. It was quite sad and frustrating, because we could not figure out why they kept dying. I even called Petco to see if their hamsters were doing ok, but to no avail.
But the gerbils are doing well. I video-ed them doing some pretty awesome things yesterday, I should start a flickr site so I could post it. Does flickr do videos? The one thing stopping me from getting one though, is that instead of fun shots of the city and of me doing cool things like taking walks and such, 70% of the photos would just be of my pets, which frankly, no one is really interested in seeing except me.
I never want to be that girl on myspace whose page is uploaded with videos of her talking baby-talk to her pet hamster: "Oh, Mr. Man, you are aww wet, isn't you? You just got a showeh!"
Oh barf.
Oh, and me and Aaron were having a debate--is Gnarls Barkley's Crazy:
1. actually unique, or
2. merely unique because it is played on rock stations, when it really should just be played on easy listening, pop-y stations like 104 KRBE?
No more milk for the kitties, only straight up kibble. Milk makes them crazy. Crazy horny, that is, apparently.
I wrote my to-do list on my hand today, and got it all done before lunch.
This weekend, me and Aaron are journeying once again to Houston to look at a wedding place near Galveston.
Our last adventurous hamster died yesterday. It was quite sad and frustrating, because we could not figure out why they kept dying. I even called Petco to see if their hamsters were doing ok, but to no avail.
But the gerbils are doing well. I video-ed them doing some pretty awesome things yesterday, I should start a flickr site so I could post it. Does flickr do videos? The one thing stopping me from getting one though, is that instead of fun shots of the city and of me doing cool things like taking walks and such, 70% of the photos would just be of my pets, which frankly, no one is really interested in seeing except me.
I never want to be that girl on myspace whose page is uploaded with videos of her talking baby-talk to her pet hamster: "Oh, Mr. Man, you are aww wet, isn't you? You just got a showeh!"
Oh barf.
Oh, and me and Aaron were having a debate--is Gnarls Barkley's Crazy:
1. actually unique, or
2. merely unique because it is played on rock stations, when it really should just be played on easy listening, pop-y stations like 104 KRBE?
Monday, January 8, 2007
While I was driving this weekend (back from Houston), Aaron read Entertainment Weekly's top 10 lists for 2006 out loud.
I disagreed with so many of the picks (Gnarls Barkley as top album of the year?!) that I decided to make my own top lists.
And here they are:
Top 10 Movies of 2006: (out of the ones I saw)
1. Children of Men
2. Stranger than Fiction
3. Borat
4. Marie Antoinette
5. Casino Royale
6. The Prestige
7. Down in the Valley
8. The Proposition
9. Pursuit of Happyness
10. Little Miss Sunshine
And here's a list of movies that I think would've made this list that I haven't seen yet, from most likely to least likely:
Sherrybaby
Pan's Labrynth
Little Children
The Descent
Perfume: the Story of a Murder
Letters from Iwojima
Now, Worst 5 Movies of 2006:
1. Little Man (I didn't see this, but hands down, it's gotta be #1)
2. Lady in the Water
3. Miami Vice
4. The Holiday
5. Running with Scissors (I thought this would be great. But it was almost as bad as Elizabethtown.)
And: Worst 2 Albums of 2006:
1. Hinder, Extreme Behaviour
2. Gnarls Barkley, St. Elsewhere
Top Albums of 2006:
1. Gogol Bordello, Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike
2. Regina Spektor, Begin to Hope
3. The Killers, Sam's Town (This took a while to grow on me, but it finally did.)
4. The Blow, Love Songs LP, plus the song Parentheses from Paper Television
5. Motion City Soundtrack, Commit this to Memory (Deluxe Edition) --I only say Deluxe Edition bc the non-deluxe edition came out in 2005. But I listened to this in 2006.
Top Show of 2006: The Office!
Worst nightmare of 2006 (and maybe of all time): The one I had this morning. Oh wait, it's 2007.
I disagreed with so many of the picks (Gnarls Barkley as top album of the year?!) that I decided to make my own top lists.
And here they are:
Top 10 Movies of 2006: (out of the ones I saw)
1. Children of Men
2. Stranger than Fiction
3. Borat
4. Marie Antoinette
5. Casino Royale
6. The Prestige
7. Down in the Valley
8. The Proposition
9. Pursuit of Happyness
10. Little Miss Sunshine
And here's a list of movies that I think would've made this list that I haven't seen yet, from most likely to least likely:
Sherrybaby
Pan's Labrynth
Little Children
The Descent
Perfume: the Story of a Murder
Letters from Iwojima
Now, Worst 5 Movies of 2006:
1. Little Man (I didn't see this, but hands down, it's gotta be #1)
2. Lady in the Water
3. Miami Vice
4. The Holiday
5. Running with Scissors (I thought this would be great. But it was almost as bad as Elizabethtown.)
And: Worst 2 Albums of 2006:
1. Hinder, Extreme Behaviour
2. Gnarls Barkley, St. Elsewhere
Top Albums of 2006:
1. Gogol Bordello, Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike
2. Regina Spektor, Begin to Hope
3. The Killers, Sam's Town (This took a while to grow on me, but it finally did.)
4. The Blow, Love Songs LP, plus the song Parentheses from Paper Television
5. Motion City Soundtrack, Commit this to Memory (Deluxe Edition) --I only say Deluxe Edition bc the non-deluxe edition came out in 2005. But I listened to this in 2006.
Top Show of 2006: The Office!
Worst nightmare of 2006 (and maybe of all time): The one I had this morning. Oh wait, it's 2007.
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