Turkey day is nigh

FINALLY, the day before thanksgiving. This semester has flown by and has been draggin at the exact same time. At this moment, it’s more of going by way too fast–I really really could use more time. It’s crazy that this is the first break we’ve had since school began at the beginning of August. Unfortunately it won’t really be a break because all I’ll be able to do and think about is all the schtuff due right after Thanksgiving is over. Finals, assignments, projects, boards, clinic, comps. EVERYTHING. It’s insane, but like everyone keeps telling me, it’s almost over. If only life had a fast forward button, you know? haha how many times have I said that since I’ve been in school before.

Geez.

Taking it one day at a time…with a glance into the future…

AUGH

One of the worst parts about living at home is that I have to be active at home. I don’t mind it I really don’t, but GOD people just DO NOT UNDERSTAND that school is not that easy. Coming from a person who actually liked school for most of my life and is definitely no stranger to alot of work, I am telling you now that there is no joke so much crap to do. It’s not just me complaining. If you were in the program you would understand, but you’re not so you can’t possibly fathom. Dental students do not understand either; they do not have to go through the rigors that we do. Their chief complaint about school is the faculty politics. There’s only 3 weeks of school left. Imagine that frenzy. I can’t stay awake late into the night like most people can. I only have so much time to complete things. I wake up early to catch the bus. Rotations start really early too.

Trash, clean up after dinner, help make dinner, recycle, laundry, sweep the house, do this, do that, why do you have to eat dinner so quickly? BECAUSE I HAVE JUNK TO DO, DUH. Why do you have to get all defensive, I have work to do too, you want to do my work for me? YEAH CHANGE PLACES SEE IF YOU CAN HANDLE THIS. I NEVER SAW YOU PICK UP YOUR HAND TO HELP WITH CHORES MUCH IN YOUR LIFE. It was always me. always. My sister was always never home, my brother is usually MIA or refuses to do stuff. The only person left is me. Both my siblings can combine their chore contribution and never catch up to mine. They will deny this fact, but it’s the truth pure and simple. My mom will (and has) vouch.

Stress much?

Just taking it one day at a time.

I’m at HOME

I’m supposed to be at school, but I have a rotation at 12 today at the prison. I don’t want to park downtown and i took the pharm exam yesterday so it’s coooool. I’m at home now and I woke up at 8 :D and I spent the morning eating, washing towels, cleaning my room, and washing the dishes. Do you even know how nice that feels???? With all the rotations and such I’ve been on I feel so unsettled and my room has been in a constant state of messiness. I finally had time to get down and clean it all. I can’t stand having it in disarray if I can help it so YAY.

The MOM Project this weekend was an amazing experience though exhausting and painful for my back and butt. That was my first MOM Project that I was able to clean teeth so it was great. There were real hygienists there and it was just SO AWESOME. Then I stayed over at my friend’s downtown so that we could do our project and study for an upcoming exam. It turned we had a sleepover because me, Quyen and Minh ended up hanging out that night and the next. I kind of wish I hadn’t been operating off of 4 hours of sleep (don’t get me started on why that was the case…) and being awake for 14 hours straight because it prob could have been more fun. We ate Mojo’s and then crashed. Woke up the next morning and went to eat at Pho So 1 (the best in town apparently) around 12 and then got back and started to study. That turned out to have saved my grade in pharm so all in all it was entirely worthwhile. I had alot of fun eventhough we didn’t do much at all and they already said they’re going to drag me to Dave and Busters in december after school ends. haha. My mom and sister came to get me (and get bubble tea too) and they were so amazed that my friends are so short lol.

Ever since the MOM Project, my ear has been in pain on and off. It’s a dull kind of pain that is most likely related to my throat, but localized to only my right ear. I think it may be either from screaming the whole time at the MOM Project (it was really loud) or getting some sort of upper respiratory infection again? When I was sick my left tonsil hurt alot. If it doesn’t go away in a week I’m going to be worried.

So yesterday I was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi Honor society and was the only one who showed up for the dental school part of the program. Apparently it was for different schools at VCU and it was kind ofo formal with all the gowns and stuff, but I suspect that since dentistry only included 2 names from dental hygiene and no dental students, the dentals have their own honor society? Darn them. School of nursing, medicine and all were there too. Only 3 of us got nominated; one decided she doesn’t like going to honor inductions and the other one thought it was all a scam. In fact, I believe that Phi Kappa Phi IS the dental hygiene honor society…O_o Phi Beta Kappa’s induction was quite similar though obviously with less people. It was also kind of embarrassing in that we were one of like 3 of the schools who didn’t have any faculty representation. geez. Yay for dental and dental hygiene…

So technically I’m supposed to be doing catchup on alot of hw but I spent last night NOT doing it and now I’m taking the time update LJ instead. Cleaning my room and Lj. Great things to procrastinate with. haha. And now I get to go put the laundry in the dryer. :} BUt really…I have SO MUCH CRAP to do in the next 3 weeks. They’ve been threatening our class with being the first class to have such a high comps incomplete rate. I wish I had time to just relax like this more often. 4 hours makes such a difference. And it’s sucky cuz this new game is coming out today and my bro’s really excited as am I and I have alot of stuff to do with our presentation tomorrow and all my hw. There’s no time for anything! And it’s so beautiful outside! I wish I could be out there enjoying it.

That powerful opera song

O Fortuna is that particular opera piece that is heard in video game teasers, movie teasers, and commercials alike. The first time I heard it I was blown away and goose bumps had found their way onto my skin all over. :) My all-time favorite classical pieces (in terms of their goose-bump power) O Fortuna, Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, and Mozart’s Requiem.

I finally found my inhaler!!!!!!!!!!! YAY. My lungs are feeling alot less tight now. Sometimes I wonder if it’s just the placebo effect, but I don’t really think so. It truly does feel easier to breathe. Maybe the mucous will go away soon.

Be glad, be very glad that I have not had enough time to get on LJ to rant and rave and rage about my stress level. I’m really feeling it now with everything piling on at one time and it set off my asthma. It’s just SO MUCH STUFF and my mom gave me no sympathy the other day which didn’t help my temper. Granted I was PMS-ing at the same time. Now that the PMS is over I feel alot more calm although the stress is still there. I feel a quiet defeat wash over me and that things will eventually get done…somehow. I keep trying to help myself out because everyone says that we’re getting a really good education in this program and that when it’s over we’ll be wondering why time flew by so quickly. And it’s true! I keep seeing evidence about the quality of this program, and when i see the juniors I can’t really fathom that that was us last year too. Too bad it doesn’t really help.

I was driving in the dark and rain this morning and my poor eyes were stinging. It was doing that last night too which i attributed to staring at my computer screen for so long (wish I hadn’t felt so chatty. I could have used more sleep with these crazy 2 weeks coming up) but it was real bad when it was doing it this morning. Thank goodness for that really slow car in front of me on Old Buckingham.

WELL it’s off to work again today, eh? Case doc patient coming in for the last appt this semester, MOM project on Fri-Saturday, Honor Society induction on Monday, group project with 15 minute presentation and mock dialogue due next wed, case doc write up, my bajillion comps i haven’t done, pharm test Tuesday, 2 papers for one class, etc etc etc. I feel like combusting.

BUT I FOUND MY INHALER. I CAN BREATHE. w00t.

IN other news, Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles is coming out for Wii next Tuesday. *SQUEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

Pic of my crusader tapestry

Mini crusader tapestry that I was so sure i had already posted before. I got it at Renn Faire in Maryland in 2007. :) Good memories.

The bulletin board that took me FOREVER to do

The same one that I’d been procrastinating on and complaining about all summer long, then procrastinated some more until the weekend before it was finally due. I had spent time to cut out the pieces when I was sick at home, but i was going to put it all together right before. Except…I had a feeling that it would take a long time, so i ended up cramming it in on saturday evening and night, then spent most of sunday doing it before running it downtown and putting it upo today. sheesh. It’s hard to walk downtown with a poster with all the wind blowing everywhere.

But there it is, all done:

Foam, teacher borders from the dollar store, real toothbrush, floss, toothpaste, Cricut-cut letters all glued together with Gluedots and double sided tape.

Gave me a huge headache, but I’m sort of proud.