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Name: Skimmy
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Birthday: 8/24/1987
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| joobjoobACL was so awesome!
but so very dusty.
I shall post pictures on facebook soon/eventually.
i'm reading The God Gene for my psych of religion class right now. it's interesting but not at the same time. i like the anecdotal stories about different peoples' experiences in the book more so than the discussion of dopamine/serotonin receptors, etc. i already have enough of that talk in my psychopharmacology class...but that class is pretty cool
i get a bit anxious when thinking about post-undergraduate life. oh nos!
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| senior year of college...the beginning!classes don't seem like they'll be too bad this semester...maybe.
the class i'm worried the most about is my comparative physiology course. the professor seems hardcore and we already have a quiz covering five chapters on tuesday! we've only had one lecture thus far (where he clearly did not go over 5 chapters) and he wants us to take a 5-chapter-long quiz...eh..we'll see how that goes, haha
psychology of religion got off to a good start. it's a discussion-based class, which is good b/c i haven't had such a small, intimate class setting in a long while...but it's also bad for me because i never think of things to say until AFTER the discussion/class is over. this makes me sad. 
psychopharmocology seems okay so far....we've only had one lecture and it was just a reading over the syllabus lecture, so we didn't learn anything. also, the textbook for this course hasn't been ordered by the co-op yet and the professor was oblivious to that fact, so that was kinda funny. mich is in this class with me, so that'll be nice.
intro stat. is okay. the professor speaks to us as a middle school teacher would speak to her less-than-bright students, but that's okay. it's my only lower division class this semester and there are a lot of freshmen...but still, it's pretty condescending. i don't think she's doing this on purpose, though, b/c she seems very nice. i'm taking this course b/c it's the only thing standing between me and a bachelor of science degree in psychology. i guess i could've not taken it and gotten a bachelor of art...i worked on the first homework of the semester yesterday and though it was not difficult at all, it was so time-consuing and tedious.  i'm hoping that the later homeworks aren't like this.
human anatomy seems like it could be fun...except i feel a little bit bad for the professor. at the end of the lecture on wednesday, he was finishing up by saying, "so for next lecture, we're going to discuss...." and right after he spoke those key words, so many people started packing up, ignoring what he was saying. these people were so rude and disrespectful! i couldn't hear what the professor was saying as he was timidly going on about what we were going to learn next time...it was kinda sad...maybe he'll stand up for himself next time?
i'm continuing with research in the Whiteley Lab, so that'll be cool. I don't know what i'm working on yet, but i'll know by wednesday, i think.
On to more exciting news --
i turned 21 last week! haha, except i didn't go all out and get smashed or anything, which is good. i actually had a bit of a stomach flu, so i just had a nice dinner with jonathan, steph, mich, and kayla at The Oasys. mich, jonathan, and i drove downtown afterwards, trying to find a parking spot, but i felt really queasy, so we went home instead. also, the night before, jonathan and i drank a bottle of champagne by ourselves and then went to spider house after midnight to get some first-ever-in-my-life-legal-alcholic-beverages! it was kinda anti-climatic b/c the waitress didn't card me, haha. but i ordered a peach frozen margarita and jonathan got a half-carafe of sangria. they were both quite nice and tasty.
by now, my stomach flu-like thing has gone away -- huzzah! so yesterday night, jonathan half-dragged me downtown to go to a a beer bar, The Ginger Man, for the sake of finally being able to go out together downtown and to just have fun. i got one pint of a pale ale and another pint of an apple cider thing. jonathan got three pints of beers! we saw one of jonathan's friends there, which was cool and we did a lot of people-watching and whatnot. i was scared that the bar was going to be super-crowded and filled with creepy people, but it wasn't! the bar was crowded, but not so much that i felt really uncomfortable. i thought the bartenders were really cool, though. they're so efficient and quick! i wonder how it feels like to bartend at the ginger man...i think it would be really tiring and a little bit fun.
after staying there for a while, we went to the whiskey bar, b/c i wanted to go to a smaller, quieter place. jonathan and his friends went there once last semester and said that only the bartender and some old man was there, so we thought it was going to be quiet/less crazy than other places. well, we walked in and there were definitely a lot more people than just one old man. we each got a whiskey on rocks and wondered what happened to the bar.
to end the night, we went to get some Bratwurst and The Best Wurst. i couldn't finish mine by myself, so jonathan helped. it was some awesome-tasting wurst. we got back to west campus on the e-bus, which was crazy-crowded and that was the end of the night!
there was a strange satisfaction i got from being carded everywhere. all the bouncers seemed a little confused/taken aback when they saw my license, so it was really funny.
i hope everyone started out their school year well!
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| uh...yeah...ignorant people never cease to amaze me. i seriously worry for our world's future. how do people remain this ignorant in 2008 in the United States of America?
Race is always a touchy subject, but I really can't believe how many people hold onto prejudices and stereotypes so tightly. People like to support their racism and ignorance by either making up statements with no valid historical support or by only selectively picking out events in history.
this might be a newsflash for some people, but EVERYONE'S racist. Don't just pick out white people and say how racist they are just because they are the people in most recent history to enslave people outside their race. Slavery has been around for a hell of a long time before the 13 colonies existed, so don't use that excuse. Everyone's at least a little bit racist; it's naive to think anyone's completely colorblind when it comes to race.
Even though racism is apparent in everybody, some people choose to be open-minded and ready to absorb new ideas and experiences.
Sadly, it seems like those kinds of people are far outnumbered by people who continue to stay ignorant and close-minded.
How can you expect others to embrace new people and ideas when you yourself are so opposed to learning and opening your mind?
This post was inspired by the featured entry, "Why I Will Never Date a White Guy: Asian Girl/White Guy Not For Me." I respect her opinion but she's rejecting one stereotype but accepting another and she thinks she's enlightened. Ha! And all the comments that entry got....wow...There were a few very open-minded people's comments and a lot of not so-open-minded ones. I don't care who dates who and what race/sexual orientation/religion/nationality/whatever the two people are as long as they LOVE each other.
By how the world is right now, there isn't enough love going around. Just a bunch of hate and haters spreading it.
On a lighter note:
I got a TS 360 (90.9 percentile) and AA 360 (95.3 percentile) on my OAT! My goal was to get a 340, so I was blown away by these scores!! All I have to do now is apply and ask for recommendations from good ol' professors...fun stuff 
I really, really, really appreciate all the support i've received from all my loved ones! y'all don't know how much your "good luck's!" mean to me. Y'all are the best people EVAR! haha
I like to say that the Olympians are not the only ones who won on Sunday, because I totally owned the OAT!! 
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| O_OI really want to be done with all my OAT crap ASAP, though not really since I feel like I'm not totally prepared for it. I took my first practice test last week and I did so badly on it, I almost wanted to cry. I guess it was the first standardized test I've taken since the SAT's and the Kaplan practice tests are supposed to be harder than the real thing...but still. I'm pretty darn worried about this darn thing. I'm taking it on August 10. O_O I'm also quitting my job 2 weeks early because they never gave me the part time working schedule they promised me...and I really needed it, seeing that all my practice problem taking during the summer didn't really help with my taking a practice OAT.
I turned in my 2-week notice (actually a 1-week notice) and spoke to Kim, my manager, very eloquently on why I was quitting two weeks before the date I was supposed to stop working. Kim is an AWESOME person, thank goodness, and she understood why I was doing this. Since Kim and the doctor didn't get (outwardly) angry (hopefully they didn't get secretly angry either), I'm hoping that they can still write some good recommendations for me So yes, this is my last week of working and Kim said I should be on a part-time work schedule. I worked 7.5 hours on Monday and got all of today (Tuesday) off. Kim's going to try to let me have a half day off tomorrow and I think I'm working all day at Memorial on Friday....so I guess this week will actually be on a part-time work schedule?
My last day should be on Friday...unless Kim thinks it's Saturday. I also told Kim that I would be available to work on a on-call basis after the 10th...so we'll see how that goes. With work winding down, I am able to put more of my energies and concentration towards studying...though since it's less than two weeks before the test, I don't know if that will help. They say last-minute studying doesn't really help, right? But when people say that, they're hopefully talking about cramming the night before. I'm definitely going to relax the day before the test, or at least I'll try to. There's just so much to know! I'm actually really sad and surprised at how much information I didn't retain from all my prereq classes. It's actually kind-of shameful.
On a lighter note, I changed my mind about not wanting to go to ACL this year. I liked Friday's schedule, so after talking to Jonathan, I bought both of us Friday passes! I'm pretty darn excited about this! What Made Milwaukee Famous, Vampire Weekend, Hot Chip, and other bands unknown to me...woooooooooooooooooooooooo I can't wait!!! Sarah and I also are wanting to go to The Hush Sound concert in Houston during early-mid August. It's after my OAT, so I'll be free! I've never been to a concert in Houston, though, so I'm kinda nervous about driving around and getting lost. Which area of Houston are concerts usually held? I have no idea O_O
I also want to watch Tropic Thunder...it looks promising but it also seems to have the ability to severely disappoint. It also comes out after my OAT!
Ah! I'm looking forward to so many things after my OAT! That can be my motive, my incentive...if I study hard this next week and a half and survive the actual test, I can enjoy my freedom afterwards! Sweet, sweet freedom!
Yeah, I'm still reading The Mole People. I don't read very quickly, but the book is very good! It seems like an interesting experience to be a homeless person in the tunnels of New York City...interesting in a mostly bad way. And there aren't enough people and organizations to help them, though some don't want to be helped...
Oh! A happy note-- Jonathan's coming home on Friday!! Huzzah!! Scrumtrilescent!
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| Ich will...Ich will ein Baby zu essen.
Yeah...that sentence is simple, random, and not true. I just wanted to write some German. I wonder if the grammar is correct...it's a simple enough sentence.
The German came up because I was just thinking of the friends of mine who got to study/work abroad and how incredibly jealous I am of them. It's not a real, brewing kind of jealousy..it's more like a kind of sadness. I've talked to Jonathan about this and I know there are ups and downs to living in a foreign country and that sometimes just a plain vacation might be better than studying abroad, but what makes me sad is that I probably won't have an opportunity like this ever...seeing that I only have one more year of undergraduate life left. I also don't envision myself going into a profession that will allow/force me to travel extensively or even much at all.
I went into college always wanting to study abroad. Since I missed out on the opportunity to do so in high school with the German GAPP program, I thought that I could go into some kind of abroad program sometime during the 4 years of undergrad. Even if I had the money, I knew that I was way too busy to be able to spend a year or even a semester in a different country, so I rationally came to the conclusion that I should be able to find a free summer to fulfill this dream. As I'm typing this, my last summer before graduation is quickly racing by and I've found myself out of summers.
Those who read this might be saying, "You're still young! You'll have time to visit a lot of different places in your life!" Yes, I imagine that I will have time to travel for fun later in life, but
studying/working abroad would've been a great experience, no? Maybe I'm just romanticizing this notion of living your everyday life in a not everyday place. It's just the thought of doing what I do here but somewhere else that's exciting to me. I don't want to be a tourist but one of the city or town people that I'm visiting. Does that make any sense? But then again does that defeat the whole purpose of traveling?...to feel like one of those who already live there? Aren't you supposed to feel excited, confused, awed, and surprised by the places you travel to?
I'm just babbling now.
But yes, I was just perusing the summer study abroad programs UT offers, wistfully thinking that maybe I'll get to participate in one during the summer after graduation.
But no, I shouldn't complain about my situation. My family just came back from an awesome trip to New York. It was my third time there, but I loved it  It was like the first time all over again. Haha The trip was actually very tiring and anxiety-causing at times, but overall it was great! We did all the touristy things like go to Times Square, the Met, Central Park, Double Decker bus tour, Statue of Liberty, St. Mark's place, and of course, shopping! We stayed in a hotel in Queens b/c everything in Manhattan was ridiculously overpriced and because my parents didn't want to stay in a hostel. Staying in Queens was cool too. There were a bunch of Chinese people, like a BUNCH. I guess that's cool? I dunno? But yeah, we did everything in 3 days and that definitely wasn't enough time.
My dad and Sarah always were the big complainers/party poopers of the trip. They were the first ones who would get cranky and the people who got cranky the most during the trip. I also had to navigate and be my family's spokesperson for practically the whole time, but that was okay. I remember the first time my mom, dad, and sarah got to Times Square, there was a HUGE Eddie Murphy head on the island in the middle of the street. It was both awesome and horrifying.
Anyways, I have to sleep so I can go to work tomorrow. I was going to have the day off but then my bosses said that they really need me And I also have to drive all the way to Memorial for one patient and drive back to Sugar Land for the rest of the day. I'm really considering refusing. It's a waste of time and gas for me to drive there for one patient. Bleh...I'm working a minimum wage, 6 day week yet once again. But it's not too bad...I suppose. I'm currently out of Memorial but cleaning up the Sugar Land office figuratively and literally after one employee totally screwed up. She seriously messed up the office. I better stop now before I go ranting on about that one.
Let's end on a bright note: Jonathan's coming home in two weeks!
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