Goal for today: finish philosophy paper.
I'm making this thing harder for myself than it should be. Maybe it's the lack of sleep that makes me extra analytical. Idk, I'm always hard on myself.

Coffee is starting to not be enough. I'm up to 3 cups per day. Before I came into college, my body couldn't even take a cup.

Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie

i wonder how many shots this took :)

High school seniors get senioritis.
College seniors get workaholism.

Need to study better. I got a C on my NPB midterm and the class is definately not going to be curved. :( The new major is starting out with a bad start

i think a student cut his class to come to my tutoring session today :O

hMMm.....I thought the red mark was me marking myself with the dry eraser board marker. but it turns out that it's a scratch.

1 midterm down, 2 more to go this week!!!

Academic Awesome Day

1. Finally switched my major from Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to Neurobiology, Behavior and Physiology.
2. Dropped pchem because I switched majors, so I don't have a midterm this Friday!
3. Found out that I got a grant. Extra money is always good.

It was cloudy all day today, so that was an extra plus.

In other news, today was the first general clinic meeting of the quarter. Turns out I had the second highest amount of outreach hours completed during the summer, so I was second to sign up for clinic slots. I don't know what happened because I wanted to sign up for intake (the hardest position to get) but I signed my name under lab (the icky position) for one of the Saturdays. Plus, for another Saturday, I signed up for Halloween. I totally forgot that Becky and them are planning something. I mean, it's ok if the event is Halloween night, but I won't be able to go if it's on Friday. I don't want to be exhausted after a party or something when I go to clinic. It should all work out though. I haven't had much interaction with the lab position, so it'll be a good experience. As for Halloween, I don't think the girls have anything legit planned yet...I just have to wait and see.

My clinic evaluation interview is tomorrow! Sort of worried. I hate interviews. It's gonna rain!!! It rained last year when I had my first interview too! I'm going to bring my clothes with me this time instead of risk wrinkling them during the day.

Free Flu Vacinnation

I volunteered with the Yolo County Health Department today to help distribute free flu vaccinations. I was assigned to be a medical screener, so I asked each person a variety of questions to determine if they could be vaccinated and if they should get the flu or mist. When the doors of Riverbank Elementary, the site where the distribution was taking place, opened it was so busy. My first group was a family of 3 but my second group was a huge family of 7. Overall, I'm sure I served close to if not over a hundred people. There was some down time around 11:30, so I got myself vaccinated. I haven't gotten the flu shot since sometime in high school because I always get mildly sick ~2 weeks after. But since it was free and I'm concerned about the disease this year, I got the shot.

I hope the county contacts me for the H1N1 clinic next month. Today was extremely rewarding; I got to meet people from a variety of backgrounds, give back to the community and learn how the community prepares for a pandemic. I'm predicting the crowd that got vaccines today will only be a fraction compared to the one when Yolo distributes H1N1.