the thing about 4:15 am
The thing about 4:15am… is that I’m the only one awake… I guess that has compounded the whole living alone thing this summer… when you work the 2pm to midnight shift it doesn’t really make it easy to hang out with other people, but its cool… no biggie really. This is the last time that I’ll have “off” for more than a month off at one time until I’m about 65 years old (next summer is all rotations in Memphis area hospitals…)- I should probably try and enjoy it a little… I managed to get my schedule shifted so I could knock out 60 hours in 7 days and have the last part of this week off- so that’s nice- today (Tuesday) was actually my last full day at work. Its been nice and I’ve really got to get to know several nice people. Jim Davis has been like a grandfather to me (don’t worry real grandparents- you aren’t being replaced!) and I’ve really enjoyed his perspective on all things pharmacy and otherwise- He was (from what I could tell) the only serious Christian back there, and he knew I was from day, 2 I guess… like he’d be whistling a church hymn and I’d tell him which one it was… that’s just a random example, but we kind of both knew where we stood and it was nice to know I had the inside connection there…he also gave me about 200 dollars worth of calcium supplements… I actually challenged some things I was told- sometimes I was wrong, but you know… some times I was right… It wasn’t disrespectful challenging or anything, it was just…say for example Jim said something about there being no benefit to taking more than 81mg of Asprin daily for stroke prevention and I said, “well… while 325mg has certainly been shown to be overkill- in some populations 162mg may be beneficial”- and I looked up some stuff… Jim disagreed… but we agreed to disagree… there were some other things, and I taught Ron the physiology (it involves your kidneys- you don’t want to know) about how NSAIDS lead to water retention and increased BP- he really liked that… that made me feel good that I knew some good stuff- but enough about that… the DVD burner is amazing… I can’t believe I’ve lived this long without one- I’ve figured out how to make DVDs and stuff- its just great… now I can… legally back up my own personal DVDs (or something like that)… hehe…
Watched “Being John Malcovich” last night and “Bottle Rocket” tonight… two great movies by two great writers/directors I can’t really say that either of them had me feeling a personal connection or related closely to my own life, but I did feel like I could at least understand what the characters were thinking… I did really like how Luke Wilson fell in love with the Mexican housekeeper in the second movie- I thought it was just kind of unexpected, but still really nice to watch… like towards the end when he realized that she loved him how he suddenly heard and really began to enjoy the music that was playing at the party whereas before- when he thought it was all over- he didn’t even seem to notice or care anything about the music… The knowledge of how she felt about him directly changed the way that he perceived his environment-obviously a minute and inconsequential plot point in the movie, but it was something that just stuck with me… Both movies ended in unexpected ways, but that’s what so cool about really creative people like Anderson and Charlie Kaufman, they just make up their own rules and give you something that you could have never come up with on your own given the basic plot points- I like that… I WILL say though, that I liked John Cusack more in “high fidelity”… I think he’s destined to play the guy standing out in the rain- but he does it well so I won’t fault him for that…
Had a house get together tonight (its wednsday night now- this blog got paused half way thought and I’m trying to finish… its just one day later)… I’d say it was a good time- there was actually a ton of moving heavy boxes around and doing stuff… not very party like- but that’s cool… I got a good workout… we stuffed 200 bags with stuff from drug reps (note pads, pens, flashlights, mouse pads, paper weights, stress balls, ect.)… so now there are about 20 boxes of bags everywhere… but that’s fine… I’ve gotta mow the grass tomorrow. Aryan and Chun get back to
I’m looking forward to this first month of school because everything is always so fast paced and exciting- living at the frat house has many of its advantages and disadvantages right in the first month of school- lots and lots of new people to meet (increased class size this year- 200!), lots of events, lots of bonding, lots of cooking, and well…lots of preparation, and cleaning… I asked Kayla tonight…“hey are there any girls coming up to pharmacy school from freed?”…”well yeah but they’re pretty much all married… and I know several other girls that are coming too, but they’re just not good enough for YOU anyways…”… and Lindsey smith said the same thing a few times- “I know lots of girls, but none of them are good enough for you…”… so aparantly I’m just really really GOOD- in excessive amounts (and no doubt all you loyal burka readers will agree 100% and I certainly appreciate that)… I’m nooooot exactly sure what that all really means, but I suppose its nice that they think so highly of me- maybe this is what celebrities feel like- you know, like ever seen a really pretty girl on TV say she can’t get a date because no guys are brave enough to ask her out?... its like that except replace her with me and replace the pretty with “good”… either that or “you’re too good for everyone I know” is code for “you smell funny and you have a gimpy leg”… ok well I don’t really smell funny, but I mean it might be code for something… I’m thinking conspiracy… OR I’m too good for my own…well…GOOD! (?)… I should probably get a motorcycle and a tattoo now… THEN we’ll see who’s good… boo-ya
(yes I’m kidding)
OH YEAH! DCI moved the finals in 2008 to
… ok its late (again) so I’m gonna go- I’m doing just fine and I’m looking forward to next weeks activities-
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