Quotes of the Day

(J-- teaching me how to make STRONG coffee)
J--: "You fill 'er up and grind it until it's like..."
Me: "..powder?"
J--: "Yeah! Until you can snort it!"
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H--: "I tell my bird 'go poopy now' before I pick her up."
D--: "And does she?"
H--: "Yeah. All my birds are potty trained"
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Y--: "You know it's trouble when the kids see daddy drinking at 9am"
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S--: "I think my ochem TA thinks I'm retarded. The first day of lab, I lite my hand on fire twice."
K: "It's ok, my group lite the table on fire."
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[Giant mosquito in DL]
*S-- trying to close the window*
Me: "wait! wait! "*try to shoo mosquito out*
*Mosquito tries to attack me*
*A-- comes into the rescue and smooshes it in his binder*
*opens binder*
Everybody: "ewwwww..."
*A-- flings dead mosquito off the paper*
N--:" Right behind my chair. Thanks."
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This isn't from today, but it's memorable
[in ochem lab]
[i was doing a chromic acid test--flame turned green]
Girl across from my lab bench: "she so had green."
Me: "what? did you say 'she's so hungry'?"
Girl: LOL! "No! I said 'she so HAD GREEN'" LOL!
Me: "oh...yeah. I mishear people a lot. that'd be weird if you just go up to someone and be like 'hey! you're burning copper! you must be hungry!'"

A College Meal

I ate a bag of Sunchips, yogurt and a Snickers bar for dinner today because I was stuck in school until 7:30 and I didn't feel like making anything when I got back home. Yay for vending machines and the yogurt I bought from Costco! This a lot better than the night I stayed in the library until 11pm last quarter and I all I ate was a granola bar. It's not weird that I've never bought anything from the food courts on campus yet, right?

Today, the guy who sat next to me in ochem had a strong ramen odor.

Droopy Driving

I'm so proud of myself. I drove to SF and back to Davis alone for the first time this MLK Jr weekend. My ocular MG tends to act up after driving for long rides, so I've never tried to go the whole trip without someone else either in the passenger seat or my dad driving in front of me. On the way to SF my vision got sort of blurry for a few minutes. So, I was sort of glad there was traffic both times I drove so I could rest a bit. Now I can say that I'm not that big of loser and drove myself home!!! :)

Gahh, I'm glad I made it back alive but I'm exhausted.

Best day yet in the ICU

I switched my internship from Sunday to Thursday. Yesterday showed that switch was the right move because I got to see an actual procedure yesterday!!!! Dressing of a deep wound for suction. The wound specialist used pressure from saline bullets to wash out some of the clotted blood, measured the depth, length and width of the hole using a q-tip (it was around 5.3cmx4.7cmx5cm), put in silver as local disinfectant, and stuffed in a lot of foam (just regular sterile foam!) and hooked the patient up to the suction machine. I got to hold the skin in place!!!! Not to mention one of the nurses pointed out the pharmacist! Problem is I don't know how to approach her because she's so busy.