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| Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 |
katebate
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1:32a |
Made the best cookies tonight. Recipe courtesy ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rosiedee. They're so delish I think I'm going to make 'em again this weekend. Also made bean soup and roasted a pumpkin to make into a pie later this week. Will make mushroom soup sometime later this week. Fixed my mom's computer last night. I got my hair cut (thanks mom!) and my bangs are such that I'm not sure how I feel about them but I suppose it will all grow out again. Have a *ton* of reading to do for school, hence all the cooking. Cooking is the best procrastinatory tool. Starting tutoring Somali kids tomorrow with my new BFF, Sonya. Then lots more studying, then hanging out with Laura in her work widowdom. Tues: Tutor, read, do lab homework, dinner w Laura Weds: School, read, write 3-page paper Thurs: School, read, write 3-page paper Fri: School, babysit, B&O w Laura! Sat: ?????? (probably read, *sigh*) |
beyonddichotomy
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12:18a |
i feel like i am in a constant metamorphisis which ultimately reverts back to nothing. life is a series of ego creations and destructions, i have realized. which i am sure is a good thing. and i know some people do not allow their egos to be challenged, and never question their behavior. ego destruction is good, but.. the feeling of knowing yourself seems equally good at times. it isn't as good for you, but it feels nice to have a bit of self esteem at times. i am starting to realize that true self esteem endures ego destruction, though. it must, because.. everyone i know with genuine self esteem is very wise, which means they have destructed their egos several times. they must.. people are not born wise. people are not born kind, fair, objective, or balanced. we have hints of those qualities in us as children, but they hardly last in adolesence. i've noticed humans typically begin to retreive their identities from their youth in their mid to late twenties. (perhaps when hormones begin to subside?) i want to be the honest, understanding child i once was, but with wisdom. but the closer i get.. the farther i get, as socrates would suggest. the more i learn.. the more i realize i know absolutely nothing. i really feel more ignorant with each passing day, unless i'm convinced i'm headed in some positive direction. i want to be honest because that is the quality that healed me in the past and continues to heal me in the present. honesty has always been good for me, especially difficult honesty. i believe it is the best policy in 90 percent of cases. i also believe in integrity. itegrity has also helped me. and these are the ways i know to help others. have integrity, be honest.. be objective, be empathetic. when people show me these, i feel good. i want to return the favor. but i also don't want to be a self righteous prick, which many assume i am being when i insist on honesty and integrity. i shake my head and say, people do have good intentions. not everyone uses rhetoric to elevate their appearance or self esteem. i don't want to be an elitist; i really want to help people, as they have helped me. time to re-figure out who i am.. in all honesty, i have no idea. Current Mood:  confused |
| Monday, October 13th, 2008 |
katebate
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9:07p |
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ebony_queen
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2:09p |
Life is hard without internet I have a new laptop! Finally! I don't get internet for two weeks since Comcast is a bitch, but at least I have the equipment needed for using the internet itself once I get it hooked up. But I am falling REALLY behind in class since I have to post a blog everyday for homework and read Japanese text via emails, which i get late at night or on the weekends and can't read via my cell phone. I also have to practice wiht y virtual Japanse language partner online, adn i can't do it at home and so life is... ug! I hope that once I get internet things will get easier.. but for now I sm rushing to cath up and my teachers are pretty much unsympathetic. "Go to the library" I would, if you gave me enough time, emailing me at 7pm sunday night eith a lst minute typing assignment gives me zero time to go to the library and plan my bus trip there and back, with enough time tio type. "Stay later on campus" I do that already, but I have other homework to do, and can;t sit on campus for five hours straight to o an assignment, but I have no choice, since it has to get one that day.. I get tired, I need breaks betwene internet work and homework.. it is hard you guys! "DO wireless cafe" No can do, just got my laptop, so that may work now, but the newrest cafe to me is two miles walking, I can bus it, but they ont run awfully lte round where I live, and notre the abovve reasoning, I dont want to sit for five hours straight just to go through internet based homework. "Go to a friends with internet" Not all my freined nhve the same schedule as md, I am not 100 percent gaurunteed net ceees. "You jut have to turn your stuff in, I cant give ou any breaks to turn it in late" Well thanks, I am tyring my best but every once in a while I may have to turn it in late, or hand witten since i cant type it at home you assxsholes. Soimetimes schools have too much expectations that eveyrone hnas acces to a laptop and internet. When the fuck id our societ turn that way? Taking my techno culture studies classx has openeddc my eyes, thank Gods I can arugue that with my technoculture stuies professor, he laughs and says its a good argument. In other news, my palce is almost done being unpacked, just my br0oom and nick nackds at this point to finish off, it should be one byt heend of this eeek. Decorations are next, then all the rest of the things my ownere needs to fix (like my oven!!) Well, off I go to catch up for clas, I am looing st the blog we have to do today and ZI ont know if I will have time to finish it.. fuck.. Current Mood:  aggravatedCurrent Music: Yuna Ito - Alone Again |
| Sunday, October 12th, 2008 |
katebate
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9:10p |
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beyonddichotomy
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8:20p |
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menchiburger
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7:07p |
I love making pizza. It's fun and tasty and better than anything you can buy.
If you're having trouble with too-chewy crusts (I like mine somewhat crispy), simply pat out the dough into your pizza pan and bake for 5-8 minutes, then take it out, add the toppings, and put it back in for however long it takes to finish cooking (about 10 minutes for me).
I'd make pizza a couple of times a week if I could. It's one of those foods that I can't really get tired of unless it's nasty greasy delivered pizza. Also while I can absently polish off an entire medium pizza from Dominio's or something, two slices of homemade pizza fills me up--probably because I put tons of delicious fresh veggies on it. Tasty. |
beyonddichotomy
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6:29p |
i finished my precalc test about half an hour ago, no joke. someone at school told me it took them about eight hours, and.. i flipped. but it ended up taking me less than an hour. and i am done with my humanities exam, so the rest of today and tonight = RELAX! i just made a fire, in fact. :9 and took morton out for frisbee time, since he spent all afternoon watching me work. adam is sick, but he's enjoying laying in bed reading. he's reading the name of the rose, which i bought last year around this time. i still haven't gotten around to reading it, but adam has made it sound amazing. and thelma (walts wife, who works in the library) said nothing but amazing words about eco as well. so i ordered focault's pendulum for adam and i, and i'm going to start it asap. the library is supposed to receive it monday. :D we bought another turkey. seriously, for the amount of meat and soup etc etc you can use from a turkey, the price is great. less than a dollar a pound if you shop right. and baking a turkey is so festive and warms the home. i can't wait until this turkey defrosts. we found a can of pumpkin at adam's house last night, and oddly enough we have an extra pie crust from the last time we made pies. (the crusts are the quick frozen type, we were lazy.) so i think we will make a pumpkin pie tonight. we also bought stuffing mix. but we forgot buttermilk, sad. i think we will make another trip to safeway tonight. we need a can of evaporated milk, too. (for the pie). i ordered these pants: ( .... )i love the black pair and wear them almost every day, so i figured i'd buy the other pair. love em! that is my excitement for the month. aside from halloween. and we went out to rancho chico yesterday. other than that it will be save save save. Current Mood:  accomplished |
beyonddichotomy
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3:28p |
i just finished my humanities exam. _D_ wow, i put like.. every inch of my energy into that bugger. now time to do a precalc exam! :D Current Mood:  working |
pele_amelika
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3:17p |
So I find myself in an interesting quandary, the opposite of 11 months ago. 11 months ago I was an uncontrollable spender, but a denier of it. I became so disgusted with myself. And that lived all the way through today. Now I'm having trouble reconciling whether or not I should do this or that because I really want to get rid of my debt.
Every morning I wake up on my air mattress and wonder if it's time to get a new bed as my grandma-like back protests. But you don't really need a bed, do you? my irrational mind argues back. If you're going to get a bed, you should get a tv and a carpet and all sorts of other things first. But you know you're not going to spend the money on something so frivolous on a tv or an ipod, so you still have that money and you're just going to pay back your debt and wonder why after two months of living in D.C. you still are living like a pauper.
And it goes around and around in my head.
I even considered seriously not coming home for Thanksgiving (I have 5 days off) because it hurts to spend $400-500 on a plane ticket. Do I really need to come home? I asked myself that and then recoiled that I actually thought that. When I bought my laptop, I did consider not getting another computer until I was done with debt. But fortunately I had a moment of clarity and realized how much having one would save me of a lot of stress. Of course getting internet is another story...local company wants my social security number (not falling for that) and Comcast says that the previous tenant didn't pay their bill so I have to come to their main office to show them my lease...
Is there a syndrome that is opposite of "stuffitis"? Ugh. I just don't want this debt hanging over me. It sickens me every time I think of it and I've wanted to ignore it but squelched that desire because that's what got me into it in the first place.
I've considered putting a cap on what I'll give each month back to the debt, maybe $1,000 so I'm not tempted to not do anything fun in life because I want to pay back everything. I want to go to LeakyCon, Wrockstock, and to random trips up and down the east coast. I want to occasionally go out. I want to get a damn carpet in my apartment.
Maybe at the end of the month. I'm afraid that if I start spending, I won't stop. |
qirin
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11:12a |
Now We're Standing in the Rain In which I just feel like doing something, and am using that to delay getting ready for the day. the 10X10 meme
☣ List ten things you want to improve about yourself
☣ Reply to your friends' posts with ten things you love about them. (You can list what you hate about them if you want, but that's not a very friend-ish thing to do.)
☣ Have fun and pimp it out~!
- P I M P ☣ I T - Current Mood: apatheticCurrent Music: Rob Zombie - Superbeast | Powered by Last.fm |
beyonddichotomy
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12:33a |
i am really tired today. i have done two precalc assignments in the last 24 hours, and i have a take home test to do tommorow, along with a humanities exam. which is fine. it is so cold outside, completely wonderful :D adam and i wore coats and i even wore a SCARF today! i don't have much to write because 1. i am exhausted and 2. i am so completely busy with school and keeping the house clean. my mom left for atlanta last friday and she came home today, so i had been maintaining the house and feeding/exercising four dogs. woo i am tired. the corgi has been sleeping up on the bed next to me lately, which is awesome because i get cold. :) aww. and we've been building fires every night to save $$$ on the heating bill, why not? woo! mom suprised me with two shirts from the gap. they are cute, i guess melissa helped her pick them out. one is red and white stripes (long sleeved) and the other is brown (long sleeved). adam and i are going to buy another turkey, we are almost done eating all the soup we made from the stock. having turkey meat to make sandwhiches with etc etc is nice, and buying in bulk is much cheaper. our room was stinky today so we decided to clean up. i love to buy lavendar bundles from local farms, and smallwood farms always sells the best lavendar bundles. we took about a fourth of the bundle and crushed it on the floor, sprinkled it all over. then we stomped it into the carpet even further. we vacuumed up what was left and now our room smells SO wonderful. time to go read a chapter for humanities. woo! Current Mood:  zonked |
| Saturday, October 11th, 2008 |
pele_amelika
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5:00p |
Started nights. More money. Yippee. Actually, it's way calmer on nights so it's not bad at all. p.s. It must've just been a long night, but I found the following hilarious. My preceptor (awesome) called on our babies a "dial-a-baby." Haha, sounds funny just reading it! What she meant: Baby was on 4 liters of oxygen and you can give 100% oxygen down to room air (what we breathe) which is 21% oxygen. Normal oxygen saturation (which percentage of red blood cells are carrying oxygen throughout your body) is 90-100%, but we need to keep her ~85-95% because any higher and she could go blind from getting too much oxygen saturation because it would cause the vessels in her eyes to burst since she was born 15 weeks early. So: alarms ding off that she's satting at 97%. Change the oxygen percent down from 40% to 35%. Dings again, five minutes later, change down to 33%. Five minutes later, dings that she's satting at 83%. Wait just a minute to see if she picks herself up. Nope, alarms ring more urgently as she dips into the 70s. Turn her oxygen saturation back up to 37%. Look in and sure enough she's a little dusky from the lack of oxygen. Heart rate is fine, though, and I don't reach in to stimulate her because she's breathing (babies sometimes forget to breathe and then get caffeine as a result, haha). Ten minutes later, dings again that she's too high. This happens throughout the shift, also dependent upon her being on her belly (babies breathe better on their bellies, but don't you dare put a baby on their belly because you could kill them that way and we only do it because they're monitored 24/7 and if they decide to act up, we'd know) or on her side, etc. Hence, the "dial-a-baby." ... I love my job. It's awesome and wonderful. I love talking to parents and I love holding the babies. The latter is going to end real soon, though, because I'm going to start taking care of babies that are very unstable and need to not be touched at all. But normal babies are so huge to me now! Along with the first kid I talked about (who was less than 2 pounds), our other kid was a term-baby (not premature) was just over 8 pounds and he's humongous to me. Cute too, with a riot of curls. Was there for what's called Meconium Aspiration Syndrome (which isn't violating privacy b/c these cases are a dime a dozen in our NICU) which means that he got stressed while in labor and stooled (a.k.a pooped) and it got into his lungs before coming out. One other funny thing: The "worst" kind of kids (that frequently come into the NICU) are Caucasian males, followed by African-American males, then Caucasian females, then African-American females. Don't know how other ethnicities work into this, but apparently you say that we get a lot of "whimpy white boys." Current Mood:  cheerful |
| Friday, October 10th, 2008 |
dianamd
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11:32p |
Friday post It's after 11:30 and I'm not even sleepy. Current Mood:  mellowCurrent Music: none |
hyzenthlayli
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12:34a |
it was cold today
(a poem from high school that i rediscovered)
Here it comes
Golden leaves drifting from half-naked branches
Hoping for a soft landing
Children are shouting in the streets
Underdressed for the season
Still chasing ice cream trucks and selling lemonade
Summer’s end close at hand
A cool wind makes the self-conscious branches shiver
Dropping golden leaves gently to the ground
Here they come
To gather the fallen leaves together
Hoping for a soft landing
Here comes the fall. |
| Thursday, October 9th, 2008 |
katebate
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9:19p |
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katebate
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11:54a |
This is the first time this has worked ever. I went to bed at 5, with another page to be written and editing as well as a reference page to be done. Woke up at 10 and now I'm done with an hour to spare before I have to leave. Never in my life have I not overslept. I always do, don't finish the assignment and or have something completely half-assed. Perhaps I'm maturing. Except mature people don't procrastinate nearly as bad as I did. Huh.
Anyway, I've earned bacon for breakfast! |
katebate
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3:05a |
Even pastries don't like her Hee!1.5 pages done. |
| Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 |
thecoloroflove
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11:27p |
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| Thursday, October 9th, 2008 |
fortitude413
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12:21a |
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katebate
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12:51a |
Have finished the reading and then distracted myself by cooking. Goal: finish paper by 3am, then clean up the kitchen and go to bed. |
| Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 |
katebate
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5:16p |
People, I should've started a "this is bullshit" utterance counter for this quarter. I'm sure I'd be in at least the triple digits by now.
Administrators have just told us that we'll be expected to cough up $100 for a diagnostic program for our palm pilots, this after telling us that the diagnostic program they made us buy last quarter for $75 was the only one we'd be using. Then they told us that we would be required to pay $300 at the end of the quarter for NCLEX review programs because two people didn't pass this year and they don't want their pass rate tanking. Thanks for $400 in unexpected expenses, bitches. I had figured out that I could spend $5/day until the start of next quarter but now it's more like $.80.
Ass. |
katebate
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11:33a |
these potato chips remind me of flaky skin...
At this point in the quarter most of my reading is looking at pictures of rather unfortunate diseases and memorizing their symptoms. This is both extremely fascinating and vomit-inducing. I have to stop trying to snack while reading.
Class in a couple hours. W00t. |
| Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 |
katebate
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9:10p |
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breathe_again
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8:52p |
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