Cough and Statuses

So much for being superman. I got better thankfully, but this cough still continues and it's insanely bothersome. I think I had the same problem 4 years ago when I was just straight up coughing non-stop. I finally cave in and bought Delsym. I hate taking any medicine for anything. I believe in letting the body heal itself and that you become stronger and faster so that you can fight against whatever is thrown at you. This "FLU" is making people worrisome and the flu vaccine is already short supplied. The last time I had a flu shot was 3 years ago and before that, 5 years ago. The last time I really got sick was my first year of pharmacy school spring semester during finals. That was terrible. I struggled every day to study and barely made it through. This cough along with my raccoon face tan from Dallas weekend goes great together.

So with all of this ability to talk to one another: Gtalk, skype, AIM, meebo, ebuddy, google voice, text messaging, phone, facebook, myspace, e-mail, etc. I have the feeling that people just ignore statuses and messages that I believe are there for a good reason. Take for example when I posted my symptoms when i was feeling off balanced; it was a way to let people know I might be sick, but just be careful around me. I'd figured I put my status on everything possible to let people know certain things. It's just upsetting that people will still don't get the message sometimes. I can understand away messages: hi i'm really away somewhere or I'm here but i'm busy and you're allowed to distract me.

I might turn off my text messaging, but it seems kinda essential these days. I told myself that If i ever went over my 200 limit a month that I would just cancel it. Money's an issue for me kind of. I've been debating about whether or not to sale my soul to walgreen's for another year. I've already committed two years...not sure if i should do one more. It would be great income to have to spend on awesomeness. I don't know we'll see.

Infinite Universe, TV Shows

As a sciency kind of person, I like to think about like the parallels of the world. Is there really another version of us in another world with some sort of small variation? This was a concept on Fringe. Strangely enough, I have a theory of my own. Though it is possible to think that there is another version of us in a totally different universe, but what about the one we are now? I bet there's like a guy that looks just like me probably in west coast california at USC (GASP!) or up in east coast boston at Harvard. Ha ok, so let's make it even more weird. Apparently, there's someone here at UT that looks just like me when I was walking into Jester a few years ago. Not that I go on that side a lot anyways anymore, but it was strange. This dude came up to me and was like what up. And what do I do? I just did the little head tilt thing and said what up back and kept walking. Haha i know i know, but I mean i didn't want to embarass the guy. This didn't happen just once, but like a few times just walking on that side of campus by like random people too.

Anyways, let's look at the TV shows season premieres:

House: Amazing. You see House actually becoming more human in a way. And at the same time, the cinema and the art of the episode touches your heart in a way when House figures out the situation or it finally resolved itself at the end.

HIMYM: Funny as usual. Sandy and I were laughing hysterically at this one scene where Ted didn't know how to spell Professor. All the anxiety and Barney's advice went to Ted's head. What a great show. I think I finished all 4 seasons within a week's time during the summer. Like reading people's facebook status, this show has like exploded somehow. It's pretty amazing.

Heroes: Kinda see the plot evolving in a way with the new characters and seeing how all of this connects. It sucks knowing that Sylar is really Nathan, Peter's power still sucks, Hiro's dying, and Matt is going crazy. Hopefully it gets better. I hate the fact that Peter isn't like the most powerful Hero anymore. It bothers me how like his power got stripped away from him and he can't obtain all the powers he want at the same time.

Fringe: I love new concepts and ideas of course as you can see from the initial posting of my blog. The pattern, the book, soldiers, etc etc. You see the fight between good and evil in a blurry grey area. Who can you really trust now? Hopefully Olivia can figure it out soon.

The Office: Michael, as always, gets excited about the most obscure things and just over exaggerate it. I'm gonna be honest, I had those moments where I just thought Michael was just frustrating to watch. I kinda stopped watching it for a while, but season three was amazing. I love the Bros before Hos speech in the Benihana Episode.

Greek: I'm still all about Team Cappie. It's kinda like the O.C. in a way. Boy loses girl, boy tries to get girl, fails, girl wants guy, but guy knows whats right and wrong, etc. It's a great formula I must say.

GG: It was definitely a bit hard to remember all the details from the past seasons to piece together all the parts for the new season. I was trying to explain some of the characters to my friend and she just completely blanked out on who some of the characters were. The way I explained it made it sound like I was obsessed with the show. Oh Lonely Boy, way to move up the ladder to the good life now.

Sadly, I just have this ridiculous memory for TV shows, but not for studying. It sucks badly. If only I can harness this power to school, life would be sweet.

If only this cough can go away. I just got it like today. Damn you pharmacy school. How could you become this infested pool of students. Oh right, we contain it among ourselves and get each other sick instead of the whole school. I blame you Viet for going to Zax's and ordering that Calamari and sharing that marinara sauce. FAIL =/

Sous Chef and Iron Chef

Glad to have some old friends back in Austin again. It brings back good memories and a lot of catch up to do. Kuntz and I just marinated a lot of food for the game tomorrow. Drumsticks, sirloin steaks, hamburger meat, hot dogs, sausages. Individually, we're both like good cooks, but together, we're like a killer team. Our ideas just make sense and creative all at the same time. We're working on this theory between marinating a steak overnight and using a spray bottle with butter, water, special seasonings, etc when we start cooking them to see which one taste better. In the kitchen, I'm pretty much sous chef when we're both there. I do all the insane work, but I lack presentation skills apparently. If you have tried my cooking, you know I roll deep.

Starting to study now. Feels like school again. Kinda feels nice.

Game day tomorrow. Where my horns at? Wear that burnt orange proudly wherever you are....Nashville, Boston, Miami, San Fransisco...put them horns up

Assumptions

When people know you or think they know you, they sort of tell you what to do or shall i say assume that you would do it. it's one of my biggest pet peeve when people assume that I will do something instead of asking. How dare you tell me what to do without asking or letting know what the situation is? I do have my things to do and I have stuff to take care myself. Don't get me involved in new things that I don't want to be apart of. I know I have the capabilities of doing things, but I've been dying to just chill out and not have to worry about the world. I've taken so many bullets for people for so long, I don't even know if people would just want to shove me in the way 'cause they think I will do it. Is that wrong? I'm I being selfish here? I don't know. I'm mentally and physically exhausted with all of his. I just want to sit back and wait with everyone else.

Goodbye P2. Hello P3

The past year definitely had it's ups and downs.

schoolwise: there have been one too many occasions with the clutch win. I can't have this in the future as I come to the point where the patient's life will be in my hands. I need to be aware that I know what I am doing and have confidence that I won't kill my patient in the future. I'm glad I'm still in school where they'll teach us our mistakes and what to do in all sorts of situation. Rotations will be definitely something to look forward to. After this past summer, I definitely know that law school would dominate me. Even though it was a 3 hour nonstop class every week all summer, it was just exhausting to have. Mind you that this was just TX pharmacy law, I can't even grasp to know how law school is. Good luck to my law school people.

the fall semester has been pretty laid back so far. 7 hours! WHAT UP! Vegas is something to look forward to for the pharmacy conference. Even if I don't get a stipend, having no finals is so much better. this year. my goal is to finish strong. do all i can.

lifewise: i'm feeling like Ted Mosby right now seeing people around you getting married and about to get married and everything. Kinda makes you want to look for something like that. it's that moment where you stare across the room and that someone just catches your eye. my thing is what if i already missed that opportunity or what if I didn't know it or realize it. will fate somehow give me another shot at this? what if that person was just right under my nose and i had no idea about it? i worry when i work full time, it's game over for me.

i'm definitely gonna try to travel a bit to see some friends nationwide. TN is a definite must. i'll figure it out one way or another.

Out of the Frying Pan, and Into the FIRE

you know how like you can have a bad day and then it just continues to get worse somehow and not only that, you can't get out as hard as you try?

1) i managed to piss one of my friends by making her go to 6th st for my birthday and didn't show up due to the hour and 15 minutes wait at reverse happy hour. Lesson: don't go to kona late; call everyone to let them know not to go to a place after one terrible night; never ever ever piss off a girl after she works 3 days a in row. Honestly. I felt so bad for the longest time. I don't mess up a lot let alone let people down, but when I do, it's just a bad bad feeling.

2) so it was Sunday morning, and this austin hippie guy comes into the pharmacy and asks for insulin. he was the chatty kind too. i go to the back of the pharmacy and grab the insulin and then head back to see if he needed anything else. The guy comes asks for needles. I go back to the back and grab the needles. I ring them both up and then put them in the bag and tell him the price. As I was telling him the price, I put them both in the bag and then put the bag on top of the counter. I look at him and then as he was talking to me, I was staring at his hand and he reaches into the bag and then grabs the insulin and starts running. I starting yelling at him, "SIR SIR SIR!" and then I jumped over the counter to try to chase him/get a better look at him or to see what he was gonna do. I was maybe like 4-5 feet away from touching him, but my pharmacist was yelling at me, "WAIT, STOP! IT's not worth it!" and then he pages security. Lesson: don't trust anyone in the pharmacy no matter what time of the day it is, and be suspicous of everyone no matter how nice they are, and put the bag at the bottom until they actually bust out the cash/credit card.

3) my computer somehow manages to get fried. I think it was the motherboard. I can't tell cause when I turn on the computer, there's no display on the monitor and the hard drive doesn't load up anything and the bios didnt even load up. Without going all technical and etc, I basically have to rebuild the inside of my computer due to the many advances that the computer world has gone since I've been in pharmacy school. My hard drive is totally okay, so I didn't lose any of my stuff which is good and I'm glad I stil have my laptop as my back up to work on. Lesson: back up your stuff and not worry about it til after dealing with school. Now I gotta make that money to make a new computer system. I can help people with their computer problems, but i don't think anyone can help me really.

4) Today was one of the worse days I've experienced at work. Every customer was just problematic which tells me something, the general public is impatient, lazy, stupid, and greedy. I was just panicking like crazy cause I just got overwhelm like crazy. Whoever invented the drive-thru for the pharmacy needs to be shot. What's the point of having that thing when you just run into problems left and right and clog up the drive thru. It's called the yelling circle. I think that's how they said it in How I Met Your Mother. The boss yells at you, you have to yell at someone, then that someone has to yell at me, then I would have to yell at someone. Well maybe thats a bad example. It's more like how spoiled people are. Please refill my vicodin or my dog hid my pills or something stupid like that. Listen, I honestly have gotten to the point where I don't give a crap about your sob stories. I've heard it all and I just have no sympathy for you. We'll all have our problems to deal with. AND OMG, I can't believe the corporate world is making us do more work which causes more problems with customer service. People do not want to hear extra superfluous when picking up their medications. ugh. what an annoyance.

that is all for now. I hope all of this nonsense will balance out soon. I need a beer or two.

Traffic, Technology, TV

ha so rule of thumb when in Austin: Traffic starts about 230ish near the campus and downtown area. Once you get pass that, it's all good. However, traffic starts at 1 pm on Fridays! Why? Just because. It's strange cause its both side of the highway is full as opposed to like houston where one side of usually just full and the other side goes fast. blah. yeah working the late evening shifts suck cause i always get traffic on the way to work going south.

i love my new phone. even without the data plan, i use the wireless internet to do amazing things on the phone. chatting, facebooking, google latitude, e-mailing, etc. it's one of those convinent things to have when you're on the go. Waking up and then use your phone to check your e-mail without having to turn on the computer. speaking of google latitude, it's freakin awesome. you can check where you are at, get directions, find the traffic flow, and it's a gps system which is ridiculous. if only i had a data plan. maybe i'll get one in the future like on rotations, but its 15 dollars a months for unlimited internet (12 months x 15 = 170 dollars) - hrmm....should i just get an iTouch with epocrates?

Started a new tv show. How I Met Your Mother! It's pretty good. NPH! OMG hilarious! "Two weeks ago, spanish bar, 79th st, dish of olives, WHAT UP?!" hahahah omg. I should use my good memory to impress/creep people out. SUIT UP! I should get another suit. LOL. we'll see. BOB FREAKING SEGAT is the narrator. I loved his role in Entourage. Alyson Hannigan is amazing so far. All these characters from all these previous shows really are amazing.

The episode pilot: the signal - what is it really? How can you really tell? Is there such a thing? Is destiny an actual fate that no matter what happens whether you plan it or let it naturally occur, it'll just happen? Does the olive theory really work? Will it be LEGENDARY?!