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fredericksSometimes it takes the littlest things to make a person smile. Thanks for the kindness this morning, you guys...even if you didn't exactly follow directions. *grin* I needed reason to smile and I got it. I hope I can return the favor now or in the future.
Had the last body-based validations, on abdomen and neuro, this afternoon. I really didn't think I would manage to pass because I didn't start practicing on live bodies until Monday (note to self: percussing and palpating the abdomen of an adolescent boy, even if said boy is your brother? can lead to uncomfortable moments). My group lucked out and got a validator who was rather lax so I was able to fudge my way through the parts of the assessments I didn't know - which, surprisingly, weren't many. My confidence before the validation was bolstered by finding out that the Community Assessment project another group of mine handed in came back with full marks and a note from the instructor asking to use it as "model project" for the future. Color me frakking shocked, as two of us rushed to finish it up well into our first class on the day it was due. Of course, that project was only pass/fail. I got an 89 on a Cultural Assessment project I did solo and that, in conjunction with the craptastic day I had yesterday, made for one sad sad![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fredericks. Things are better now, though.
Since all we had were validations today I got home by 4:15. I've done nothing but put my clothes and sheets to wash and watch some television. I figure I deserve a non-stress day, and I plan to do nothing the rest of the evening butsteal borrow my brother's laptop and play some more Sims 2. God that game is addictive. I do have a Medications exam on Friday that the class has to get a 90 on to pass, but I figure I'll wake up around 4:30, head down to the Starbucks by the school for 6, and study for a couple of hours. There's something about studying in coffee/tea shops in the early morning that I find terribly conducive to learning.
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Even though I think it'll be a horrible movie I still want to see Aeon Flux on Friday. It's been a while since I saw some asskicking on a big screen, and I can't remember enough of the shorts to get offended by plot omissions or revisions. I suppose the only reason why I'm seriously thinking about it is because I have the free tickets mom acquired so I won't be pissed about "wasting my money" if it does end up blowing. Besides, by Friday I think I'll be needing the time away.
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My school's auditorium/stage is the new home for the utterly shitty Actor's Studio thing that airs on Bravo. I get the impression it used to be, I don't know, *good* or something. Then that asshat of a host started interviewing people like Jennifer Lopez. The day he brings out Andie MacDowell they need to pull the plug. Anyway, I mention this because they'll be interviewing Queen Latifah and Dave Chappelle in the middle of December, two people whose work (notice I say "work", not "acting"...have I mentioned how this show sucks?) I enjoy, and I'm psyched because Pace students get dibs on tickets. I'll poke around tomorrow to see if I can secure some. Fun times.
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I've made no progress on Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in the last week and a half. The meeting's in two weeks and I have 700 pages to go. Normally I wouldn't be worried - I managed to get through Battle Royale's 350 or so pages in the four hours I had to spare prior to that first meeting. This book is more dense, though. Dang it. I borrowed the audiobook from the library in order to aid my progress, but at 26 discs I'm not sure I'll be much of an improvement time-wise. I think I can make it, though. That the library had the audiobook is one of the reasons I love it. Aside from the usually amazing graphic novel selection another reason I love it? A couple of weeks back I asked the librarian to get some QAF soundtrack CDs. When I went there two days ago they had Club Babylon on the shelves. Close enough for me. I've been rocking the CDs during the commute and it's been a blast. While I was standing at the check-out counter with the audiobook of Jonathan Strange and the Club Babylon CD I wanted to gather the library up and give it a hug.
I'm thinking it's a hormonal thing. Thank you, Red Tide.
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I still detest group projects. One more to go, a presentation tomorrow evening, and then I'm home free, back to my hermit ways. The weekend cannot get here soon enough.
Had the last body-based validations, on abdomen and neuro, this afternoon. I really didn't think I would manage to pass because I didn't start practicing on live bodies until Monday (note to self: percussing and palpating the abdomen of an adolescent boy, even if said boy is your brother? can lead to uncomfortable moments). My group lucked out and got a validator who was rather lax so I was able to fudge my way through the parts of the assessments I didn't know - which, surprisingly, weren't many. My confidence before the validation was bolstered by finding out that the Community Assessment project another group of mine handed in came back with full marks and a note from the instructor asking to use it as "model project" for the future. Color me frakking shocked, as two of us rushed to finish it up well into our first class on the day it was due. Of course, that project was only pass/fail. I got an 89 on a Cultural Assessment project I did solo and that, in conjunction with the craptastic day I had yesterday, made for one sad sad
fredericks. Things are better now, though. Since all we had were validations today I got home by 4:15. I've done nothing but put my clothes and sheets to wash and watch some television. I figure I deserve a non-stress day, and I plan to do nothing the rest of the evening but
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Even though I think it'll be a horrible movie I still want to see Aeon Flux on Friday. It's been a while since I saw some asskicking on a big screen, and I can't remember enough of the shorts to get offended by plot omissions or revisions. I suppose the only reason why I'm seriously thinking about it is because I have the free tickets mom acquired so I won't be pissed about "wasting my money" if it does end up blowing. Besides, by Friday I think I'll be needing the time away.
*
My school's auditorium/stage is the new home for the utterly shitty Actor's Studio thing that airs on Bravo. I get the impression it used to be, I don't know, *good* or something. Then that asshat of a host started interviewing people like Jennifer Lopez. The day he brings out Andie MacDowell they need to pull the plug. Anyway, I mention this because they'll be interviewing Queen Latifah and Dave Chappelle in the middle of December, two people whose work (notice I say "work", not "acting"...have I mentioned how this show sucks?) I enjoy, and I'm psyched because Pace students get dibs on tickets. I'll poke around tomorrow to see if I can secure some. Fun times.
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I've made no progress on Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in the last week and a half. The meeting's in two weeks and I have 700 pages to go. Normally I wouldn't be worried - I managed to get through Battle Royale's 350 or so pages in the four hours I had to spare prior to that first meeting. This book is more dense, though. Dang it. I borrowed the audiobook from the library in order to aid my progress, but at 26 discs I'm not sure I'll be much of an improvement time-wise. I think I can make it, though. That the library had the audiobook is one of the reasons I love it. Aside from the usually amazing graphic novel selection another reason I love it? A couple of weeks back I asked the librarian to get some QAF soundtrack CDs. When I went there two days ago they had Club Babylon on the shelves. Close enough for me. I've been rocking the CDs during the commute and it's been a blast. While I was standing at the check-out counter with the audiobook of Jonathan Strange and the Club Babylon CD I wanted to gather the library up and give it a hug.
I'm thinking it's a hormonal thing. Thank you, Red Tide.
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I still detest group projects. One more to go, a presentation tomorrow evening, and then I'm home free, back to my hermit ways. The weekend cannot get here soon enough.
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Date: 2005-12-01 01:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 01:23 am (UTC)i didn't want to fish for compliments this morning so i didn't respond to your post, but i am willfully misreading it to say that i liked you within the first few seconds of meeting you, and i'm not entirely sure why. if i were forced, i would have to say that you have a certain serenity about you, which makes me instantly feel at ease and comfortable.
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Date: 2005-12-01 01:56 am (UTC)http://www.operationbrowncoat.com/
I saw it on
I'm working on getting myself a cunning Jayne hat however.
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Date: 2005-12-01 02:00 am (UTC)Btw, I HEAR YOU on the group project thing. I actually always hated them and was so much better when I could just do my thing and not deal with the half-assed bullshit that happens when groups work together.
Red Tide. Hehe.
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Date: 2005-12-01 04:35 am (UTC)...you do know I'm starting library school in the spring, right? =D
(I haven't even started. This weekend.)
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Date: 2005-12-01 05:00 am (UTC)Aeon Flux.
Date: 2005-12-01 05:41 am (UTC)Looking forward the weekend either. There should be at least two of them in a week.
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Date: 2005-12-01 07:36 am (UTC)Oh hey! I still haven't finished Battle Royale.
So shoot me, or stab me, or blow me up.
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Date: 2005-12-02 03:57 am (UTC)I feel hopeful about completing it...even though I only have 13 days in which to do it.
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Date: 2005-12-02 04:04 am (UTC)Pshaw. It's not fishing if I offer to give it. But I know what you mean. You perceive a serenity about my person? And a month and a half of reading my pseudo-drunken rambling hasn't changed your opinion yet? *grin* You really are too kind. It's so hard to find people that come across as completely sincere, and so I was blessed to have met you at Puff and Pao all those months ago. Reading your journal has solidified my opinion of you in my mind. The world needs more intellectuals like you around, really. Go! Clone yourself! I beseech you!
26 discs! i'm glad i have it on mp3.
Gah. As she was scanning all 26 the librarian raised an eyebrow, chuckled, and looked at me. I had I shrug helplessly. I still think I'll make it through the book, but for now the slow beginning really calls for being read to.
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Date: 2005-12-02 04:12 am (UTC)*grin* I spent a day like that way back when. Thirteen episodes don't quite make a weekend, not the way I do it. I don't have the patience to watch just one. I should probably ask Father Christmas for the boxed set, shouldn't I?
I'm a bit peeved about those auctions - no Zoe outfits? Only one Kaylee outfit? The agony. There's a costumer out there that specializes in making clothing from TV/movies. I forget the web address, but I'm pretty sure the site (online) is mass-producing excellent copies of Mal's Browncoat and Zoe's leather vest thing for reasonable money (I think Mal's was like $250? I'll have to find the web address for you). I think I found the website last time through Firefly.net.
Of course, I wish I had the money to buy it for myself, but the alternative works as well
What alternative? There's an alternative?
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Date: 2005-12-02 04:19 am (UTC)Oh, right. Me make no sense. Validations are when we go in and perform skills we've learnt in order to be graded. When I say "body validations" we're actually performing the skills on fellow students. My friend did abdominal and neurological assessments on me, I did it on someone else, etc. Stuff like catheterization, IVs, we do on dummies because, yeah, no one wants another student to stuff a tube up their urethra. For free, anyway.
Lipton. THAT'S the asshat's name. I see his face and I just want to throttle him. He needs to stop kissing up to the actors and actually ask probing questions about how they got where they are. People can learn from even horrible actors, but Lipton needs to stop wasting time treating people like they're Olivier.
Btw, I HEAR YOU on the group project thing.
It's just an excuse for professors to assign more work. I'd rather they dice the work up into sections and give it to the entire class; what happens in groups is that everything gets delegated anyway, because no one ever has the time to meet up (at least that's how it is now). No more group projects for the semester, though. YAY!
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Date: 2005-12-02 04:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-02 04:22 am (UTC)(I haven't even started. This weekend.)
Bwah! Ha. I thought I was bad. Hee hee.
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Date: 2005-12-02 06:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-02 08:00 am (UTC)Geez, is it just me or are a lot of the big female celebrities out there either too old or way too young for me?
Dude, it is just you. There are so many celebs out there in their early to mid-twenties right now just waiting for you to fawn over them in your imagination and wildest dreams.
Re: Aeon Flux.
Date: 2005-12-02 08:01 am (UTC)Oh yes. As many weekends as possible in a weekend, please.
Do it!
Date: 2005-12-02 11:12 am (UTC)Uuu stupid me!
Sleep as much as you can, hon ( I'm still tired :-D)!
Re: Do it!
Date: 2005-12-02 02:25 pm (UTC)*sob*