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.

F for Frontier

The only internet provider where I'm currently living is Frontier Connections (actually, according to my cousin we could have gotten Comcast). The speed is okay and it only had a few problems when I first moved in. However, when I got back to Elk Grove after my 12 day summer break, I couldn't connect. It picked up the network but it would d/c right away. My cousin had the same problem, so we both called technical support on Friday. I spent over an hour on the phone with them and they couldn't fix the problem. On top of that, the guy was rude. He got annoyed whenever I told him I didn't understand him or when he blamed me for making mistakes. He said he would send over a tech on Saturday to deliver us a new modem, but it never came! What's even more ridiculous is when I played with the modem again after the phone call ended is that the wireless decided to work! All I did was placed it up higher! ArgHh, if this happens every time I use my laptop somewhere else, I'm going to get super annoyed.
I really should have done the work when we were choosing internet providers. According to my aunt, my mother did it. And somehow, my aunt didn't sign any paperwork or have any say in it. She didn't even know how much she was paying monthly until I asked her for the customer service number! I think I'm going to call Frontier on Monday to see how long our contract is. I might even be able to argue that there isn't a contract because we didn't sign anything. If we can, we should switch to Comcast. They're less sketchy and more reliable.

I went to Border's today and discovered that Simon's Cat has a comic book!!!! I have to read it!!!!!