Wednesday, February 5, 2003

to get back to my synopsis, which at this point is a month old and maybe stupid, i'm pressin' on.

wednesday january 8, 2003

i think this day i took my broken laptop to the apple store in the cambridgeside to send it back to apple to fix the ethernet port. i talked w/ 'bob' at the 'genius bar' who wasn't quite a genius but he was a good lookin' older man w/ an interest in macs and looked to be in good shape. i need someone smarter though. after that i met natalia and sue at the lab and we went to brown sugar for lunch. it's yummy thai food. i had tofu masaman and a thai iced tea. i stopped on my way home to northeastern law library where michelle works and hung out w/ her for a bit and took the t w/ her on our separate ways home. maybe for dinner at rob and jenn's we had the awesome mac & cheese, corn and crescent rolls. this is a very yellow dinner but tastes so good!

thursday january 9, 2003

i don't remember what i did during the day but i went to track at MIT w/ my boston tri team, team envision. it was so cool to see all the girls, including mariana, and candace is pregnant. coach john was there. i was pleased to see i hadn't lost much speed if any and had a great time w/ my 400, 800, 1600, 1600. after that i went all sweaty to the cambridge lab to meet nathan and randy to walk over to tt's for aaron's solo show. aaron is the lead singer of the sheila divine. he did mostly new material which is kinda sucky cause you can't follow along. anyway when he was done and i had about 4 beers and being pushed by nathan and randy, i went and talked to aaron. i told him i was the girl who had emailed him about coming to manhattan, ks and when was he coming. he said that he just got a really good day job and the band was only doing shows around, like ny and boston i think. i was very disappointed but glad that i had the courage to go and talk to him. very nice teeth!!! very impt.

friday january 10, 2003

again i don't remember what i did all day but i met michelle, mark and george for dinner and drinks at bennigan's. we stayed for awhile and talked. i had to explain to mark who all the people i mention on my weblog are. he enjoys reading it, or so he says. after that michelle, mark and i went dancing at the sugar shack. it wasn't too bad but i felt kinda jerky cause some boy grabbed me kinda early and i needed someone to lean on so i spent the rest of the night dancing w/ him. i didn't spend much time w/ michelle or mark. i hope they didn't mind. took a cab home to rob and jenn's. that's when i had a message from my mom to call grandma's. i knew that was a bad sign cause my grandpa hadn't been doing well lately and my mom was going to come to boston to race on sunday and then take me home to syracuse but didn't cause my grandpa was sick. turns out he had passed away while i was out. i didn't talk to mom long cause she was kinda sleeping but i wanted to talk to someone so i called jonathan in kansas. after all it was an hour earlier there and he was up.

saturday january 11, 2002

i was supposed to get up and go on a long run w/ mariana but since i hadn't gone to bed until after 3a and also was waiting for my mom to call and tell me what i had to do, i called mariana and cancelled. my mom eventually called and we decided i would take the horrible bus ride from boston to syracuse on monday to arrive around 2p for the calling hours at 3p. don't remember much else from this day.

sunday january 12, 2003

i was supposed to race a 15K today but mariana was injured and not doing it so i decided not to bother either. in the morning i walked w/ rob and jenn from charlestown to the north end and had coffee and tea at a starbucks and talked and talked. on the walk home we stopped at a public toilet. you pay a quarter and you enter this sanctuary w/ a time limit of 20 min i think. after each person the whole inside gets sanitized. it was kinda fun. i did two separate pees while i was in there to test everything out. when we got back i went to lunch w/ mariana at lowfat nofat. we had the usual chicken meatball wrap but we used to get the lowfat fries but now mariana had switched to the pita chips so i did too. then we sat and talked for a very long time about running and training and racing and triathlons and school, etc. it was a very nice time. i really miss all my friends and family and all the fun things i used to do.

monday january 13, 2003

i took the bus back to syracuse. wasn't too bad cause i was on an early bus and could sleep and watch a movie on my laptop. mom picked me up and then went back to grandma's before calling hours. my grandpa was cremated so no dead body to get all upset about. i tried very hard to be cool. saw lots of relatives you never see. my grandparents had both been married before and each had 4 kids so i saw my stepaunts, stepcousins, etc. my dad had gotten me front row tickets to the su-mizzou basketball game at the dome and now i felt jerky going but everyone said i would be stupid if i didn't go. grandpa wouldn't like that you know. so i went and drank some beer for grandpa and routed for my team and hey they upset mizzou. plus i got a coney too and quality time w/ my dad.

tuesday january 14, 2003

today was grandpa's funeral. had to go to the church for the mass and then to grandma's for a little party w/ plenty of alcohol and food. again i hung out w/ lots of relatives i never see and talked a lot about vet school. everyone's really interested and my family thinks it's so cool to have a doctor in the family someday that'll take care of all their pets. that night i stayed w/ grandma and spent the night. she was very sad and lonely since grandpa was gone and aunt kelly had done it and mom had done it so it was my turn. i thought it would be kinda uncomfortable to spend the night alone w/ grandma but actually i had a pretty good time. we laid in bed watching old movies which i have to say were much better quality than what's on now, especially the caliber of acting. i was kinda freaked out cause i was sleeping in grandpa's spot and it was also where he died and his body lay there for about 4 hours before being picked up. i knew they washed the sheets but i wasn't sure about the blankets so then thought they smelled kinda weird. i didn't know if it was old people smell or dead grandpa smell.

wednesday january 15, 2003

today mom came to get me at grandma's and we took grandma to the mall for some new shoes. we also had a nice lunch at ruby tuesday's. that night i went with dad to kirby's for dinner and then to see 'about schmidt.' it's a really good movie. go see it. there's some nudity too, very unexpected!

thursday and friday i was going nuts cause my mom had to work and i didn't have a car so i was stuck at her house w/ nothing to do. there's a tv in my brother's room but he works nights and sleeps days so i couldn't always do that. that kinda frustrated me.

friday night was gary's retirement pary. i think he's 54 w/ a good retirement package so he took advantage of it. the party was pretty good. as always mom was the liveliest and i tried to follow but was somewhat uncomfortable. i love to dance and not much will stop me and mom will always dance so we were out there the most but sometimes it's just us and everyone just watches. makes me self-conscious.

saturday i flew back to kansas. the flight was pretty uneventful which was good since i get really anxious flying. jonathan was nice and picked me up in kansas city so i didn't have to take the shuttle. we ended up going to lawrence, where KU is and going out there. turns out i went to the same bar and club that randy always went to when he went to KU. we stayed in lawrence for the night which was probably stupid cause even though katie was supposed to take care of the dogs when we got home the next day she had done a very bad job.

that's when the horrible task of acclimating to manhattan, ks hit me and i started to freak out. i'm still not back to normal yet but classes have been going for 2.5 weeks and i've tried to vow to get more involved in school and less worried about living here.

things that are different. i have more classes and gross anatomy this semester has a lab quiz every other day so you have to keep up on things or you're screwed. after 3 quizzes i'm doing fine but i'm always dreading the next one, which is tomorrow. we haven't had a friday exam yet so i've put off studying much for the other classes but i have 2 exams next friday. i've been attending club meetings after school finding out what wet labs are coming up and hoping to participate. i joined equine emergency where i'm on call overnight sometimes and if there's an emergency i'll get paged in. today is my first night on call from 7p until 7a tomorrow morning. my lab mate calista got called in last night at 11p but was home by 1a cause they didn't go into surgery. otherwise surgery can be several hours. this saturday i'm going to a large animal conference right at the vet school. they discount the fee for students and have conferences quite often but i've yet to attend. last saturday i went w/ calista to the canine club dog hike and took little miss cleo. she gets along fine w/ other people and dogs but i felt bad i couldn't take her off the leash. i don't know what she'll do.

i got rejected from the cornell leadership program so now i'm looking into other things. i'm applying to programs at harvard, mit and one here at the vet school. hopefully something will work out.

i answered an email sent by a girl on the cycling team looking for a workout buddy monday, wednesday, friday mornings at 6a. i went w/ her last friday but haven't yet this week. i have a couple sore spots, one on my foot and one by my knee. i've been running about 37 miles/ week the last few weeks and maybe it's too much but i feel really good and am running a marathon at the end of march. anyway hoping working out w/ carrie will get me cycling w/ the team too. i actually washed and lubed both my bikes last week in preparation for a nice long road ride.

i haven't done much going out since i've been back. jonathan had found others to hang out w/ which kinda sucks cause i thought we were friends so of course you'd kinda be upset when your friend stopped hanging out w/ you to be with other people. oh well i'll just have to find my own thing to do. as rob reed says i came here for vet school, not anything else, especially the immature high school attitude and lifestyle. he says i need to hang out w/ people other than vet students.

this is pretty long and i think i'm all caught up so i'll say bye for now and hope to check in now most days since i'm not so overwhelmed w/ explaining the last month.

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