You know you’re just like me

A mystery with nothing more to see: a virtual reality.

I can check two things off of my finals list: health law final and organizational behavior exam.

Awkward moment with OB prof.: I was walking out of the med school building (down a long hallway) with a classmate and we were obviously talking about the exam. I realized that I had forgotten to write down a few important points for one of the questions and I made a "I'm sick of taking exams and just want finals to be over" face and then turned around the corner to see my professor (of the class in which I just realized I had forgotten to write down some points). I totally got the deer in headlights look. He gave me a concerned look and asked,"Julie, are you ok?" NO I'M NOT OK I JUST FAILED ONE OF THE THREE QUESTIONS ON YOUR EXAM (this is what I thought). Oh no, I'm ok *fake smile* (this is what I said). Then I walked outside and started giggling hysterically.

Finals make me so many things: cranky, silly, constipated (ok, not really this one). Anyway, this was an example of a silly moment :) Haha, I'm awesome.

Mmmm swedish fish. Why can't I stop eating during finals? (I'm not actually eating swedish fish now, just thinking about them. Delicious!)

You're one of us now

Holy crap I do no loves finals weeks. Yes, this semester finals last for weeks. Ah! I'm going to survive. I'm not too stressed, yet. HolleR.

I do love the warm-ish weather this week :)

I'm so excited for winter break. The rest of the posts this week are likely to be boring. Sorry about that. This is what happens during finals. The silliness has begun!

Yay!

I think you know what I'm getting at.

Uh oh. I'm falling into another fad. The Twilight fad. I saw the movie with Abbey and got interested. I started reading the books. I definitely read the first two books in 4 days. Ooopsies! Normally that would be fine, but the next three weeks of school are going to be rough. I was supposed to get a lot of school work done over this break, and I haven't done much. It is a break, so I really am not being too hard on myself :)

They are really good so far! I think I'm gonna have to wait until winter break to read the last two...

Peace out brah.

Wouldn't that save you?

I miss Jake, a lot. I know it's cheesy, but I just feel at home when I with him. So, when we're not together I feel like I'm just a visitor somewhere. Always waiting to get home and be myself again. I really haven't felt myself lately. That isn't to say that I need to be around Jake to feel like myself, but when we're away from each other for a long time (like normal) I just don't feel relaxed. It's like I'm always waiting for something. Waiting for peace and happiness. But it's weird because the opposite isn't unhappiness, it's just different. Strange. Maybe I'm crazy. Oh well. I just miss him. I need to keep distracting myself....

I'm not normally this cheesy, but I think I deserve at least one post about my relationship. so there.

No excuse for a wasted life

Lightly falling through a whisper of sky.
It's the weight of the world, I know.

I take myself too seriously.

I've been freaking out about finding an internship for the spring, a job for post-degree, and about other things that don't require so much worrying. But I'm learning. Don't take myself too seriously. I'll find an internship and a job. It will all work out.

One thing I can take seriously: a mouse. In my apartment. Not ok. Jake saw it run under the fridge last night and we (Abbey, Jake and I) were freaking out. Luckily we haven't seen or heard the little guy since, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed until Monday that he stays silent and hidden. On Monday we'll get the management to send in an exterminator, because mice do not belong in my apartment.

Jake was here the past 5 days :) We had so much fun, and I feel more relaxed about everything. Yay! It was nice to have him here. Now I'm excited for Dec. 28th! and next weekend to see Greg and then Dec. 19th to see my fam.

Peace out brah.

En Avant

I'm thinking about getting a tattoo. Yeah, crazy. But I've wanted to get one for awhile. I just didn't know what I would get. Nothing is really that significant to me. Anyway thanks to Wikipedia, I've figured it out. "En Avant." It means forward in French. It's the motto for MPLS and I used to model for Avant Studios (well, I took classes there but the modeling didn't work out so well). And I like what it means. Now I just have to figure out where/what color. I was thinking my wrist because I basically ruled out all the other options. A lighter color would be better. Maybe light blue or pink. I'm not sure. I would do black, but I don't want it to be so noticeable.

Oh geez, choices choices. Any suggestions?

kit-kat

Some random amusing pictures....just to keep it fun.












I need a breaky break. Holy paper-writing! Well sort of. I have a huge paper due on Thursday and it's seriously killing my soul. I definitely didn't get as much done as expected. Oh well. Life goes on.

This is my personal history of the past week:
Monday: two exams. not too bad.
Tuesday: start stressing about papers due next week.
Wednesday: wake up feeling semi-sick. sign up for 5k on Thanksgiving morning! HolleR. (Click here for my fundraising Website)
Thursday: get freaked out by the 2.5 hour class discussing all of the obstacles to writing this paper.
Friday: sleep in (yay!). work. grade homeworks.
Saturday: finish grading homeworks. play frisbee. study.
Sunday: write and study.

Yeah, that was fun. I just can't wait for November 10th! and the 21st! November is a good month and it hasn't even begun.

Do you wanna?

OhmygoodnessIcan'tfocusonwork!

I have two exams on Monday, and I really can't focus on work right now. I'm just too easily distracted, especially when reading for health law.

Yeah, that's pretty much it. I felt that writing that I'm distracted would somehow help. So, let's see if it did....

I wasn't waiting but you came at just the right time...

and then moved to the other side of the country. Great.

Long distance relationships are no fun. Seriously. I'm going crazy. I want it to be Dec. 28th now.


This past weekend was really fun! (yay for distracting myself...) On Saturday I went hiking in NH with some SPH people (who are pretty much the best people around). It was amazing! Perfect weather, perfect location, perfect season and colors. Monday was a holiday (thanks Columbus!) so Dom and I went to another show! We saw Matt Hales of Aqualung at the new Berklee cafe. The entire show was awesome. The opening act was KaiserCartel. Two people from Brooklyn who like to play random instruments. They were really good, and can actually sing well. Then Mr. Hales performed. It was just him and the piano. So good! He told a couple stories and was very humble. Dom and I took a pic with him after the show :)

I have my first exams on Monday. HolleR. I'm not looking forward to the Health Law essay exam, but I'm studying with some other people on Saturday. That should help. Anyway, I don't like doing work on nights that I have class, so I'm gonna watch some Office online.

Peace out brah.

I'll be your respirator, I'll be your parachute

It's alright!

I'm a horrible TA! Last week I helped a girl with the homework and totally second guessed myself. I had to e-mail her later to give her the right answer. Then today I realized in giving her the correct answer I gave her some false information about study designs. Luckily it won't affect her homework answers, but I still e-mailed her again to make things clear. It's kinda of confusing to understand without giving the example. Oh well. It's alright.

On Saturday morning I went running in the park behind my apt. complex. I'm running up the hill in the center of the park and see a mic stand. I think it is kinda random, but then again I've seen random stuff in the park before (like a mattress and beer bottles...). So, I keep going and then I see musical instrument cases by the mic stand. I realize someone is playing music in the park. Pretty cool. So I finally get over the top of the hill and see the musicians playing their fancy instruments and their friend videorecording them with their fancy videocamera. I'm staring at them and my right foot hits a rock. I feel my self fall. I can't help it and just lay out like a fool. The musicians kept playing and I brushed myself off and kept running. It's alright.

Oh my goodness! According to an article from my Organizational Behavior class I have high Emotional Intelligence (measured by several factors including self deprecating humor). So basically that means I'm going to be a top executive. I'm awesome. It's alright.

Tomorrow never knows what it doesn't know too soon

All my dreams are made? Well, they are definitely weird.

The other day I had a dream that I was walking through a mall or hospital and this lady/demon/soul threw something at me. The thing made me slow down but time moved at the same pace. In order to be able to go back to normal time I had to catch up with her. I moved slowly through the hospital/mall place and saw all these people who had also been attacked. Apparently I was healthier than everyone else, so I was able to move slightly faster. The only way to travel through time was to get to this waterfall in the center of the mall/hospital. So, I made me way there and caught up with the demon lady and killed her soul. I saved the day! It was a creepy dream though.

Here's a dream not made: the Twins lost. Boo to the White Sox!

I finished my Built Environment assignment quickly! Whoo hoo! (Ok, that's definitely not interesting like my dream...)

Always where I need to be

Just got the latest Kooks cd, and I LOVE it!

I also love going to two games in Fenway in the past week! Hopefully the White Sox will have bad luck, so the Twins can go to the playoffs. HolleR.

School is busier than expected, but not too overwhelming so far.

Last weekend in MN/IA was amazing! I was so happy this past week even though I was exhausted. My family and friends are so great. We had a lot of fun. It makes me want to go back to the midwest again. People are so nice! Also, another good thing - Allergy shots are working well! I'm so happy because allergies are NOT fun to deal with.

Ok, that's it for now. Gotta work on Enviro Health and Health Law.

Mmmuah!

Come away with me and shoot the moon

I'm learning how to relax and not take things so seriously, including myself. The past 4 years (and even before that) I've been surrounded by overachievers. Not such a bad thing, except that stress tends to wear off on me. Especially during the last school year. I realized that extended stress manifests itself physically. For me it was in the form of tension headaches. Since receiving the diagnosis, I've become very aware of my stress. Now I'm working on reducing it instead of just taking 3 advil to make it go away. I'm learning Tai Chi. Not to be confused with Chai Tea. I actually missed the second session today, but I just practiced on my own. I love it! Seriously, I feel so much better. Now I need to learn to make time for it everyday.

One of my good, new friends told me that she is learning techniques for reading more quickly. I'm totally into that idea. I feel like I waste so much time when I read because I try to remember every detail. That's important when learning anatomy or chem, but not as much for my classes this semester. So, I'm trying to pick up the main points and move on. So far so good.

Being a TF for Epi is proving to be a lot more work than anticipated. I'm learning, though, that I am possibly a little bit too helpful with responding to e-mails. I need to learn to just answer the question and move on instead of typing up multiple ways of explaining the same thing. Hopefully taking a new job at the BU Athletic Business Office (where I worked freshman-junior year) won't be too much to handle. I think it will be good for me.

So excited to go home this weekend!!!

I'm a reader, not a writer

and a listener, not a talker.

Had my first actual day of class! It's pretty awesome so far. Wednesdays will be my environmental health days. I have intro to EH for an hour and a half, and The Built Environment for basically 3 hours. Intro class seems pretty good. We have weekly on-line exams instead of exams, so far so good. And Built Enviro seems pretty awesome as well. The prof is super into the topic, but not so much that he tries to teach too much info. The readings for class are pretty short because he didn't want for us to pay too much! I'm happy with that :)

I'm still waiting for my bed and desk to be delivered. Geez! Stupid Ikea Home Direct On-line shopping takes forever! And they don't warn you that it can take so long. More like Ikea Home-Direct-through-every-state-on-the-way-to-yours-from-Sweden On-line shopping. Oh well. Luckily I have a good friend like Ricky to loan me his air matress. Otherwise things are pretty much settled in the new apt. I really like it :) However, I'm probably going to be known in the building as the "cat girl."

I made chicken for dinner Friday night, and while I was cooking I heard a cat meowing. I realized it was coming from the back hallway, and opened the door. A really cute, skinny, black and white cat was there and tried to come into my apt. Unfortunately, I couldn't let the little guy in because Abbey and I are both really allergic. Since he didn't have a collar on, I decided to knock on all the neighbor's doors to see if he belonged to them or if they knew who he belonged to. So I did. And everyone was home. Luckily there are only 3 other apts in the building. Anyway, I talked to everyone and only one other person could hear the meowing. Everyone else looked at me like I was a crazy person. Well, at least I tried to figure out the situation. I haven't heard from the cat since then.

Last year it was a dead bat, this year it's a live cat. I wonder what kind of animal will be in my next apartment.

Dog can talk

Shake it up!


Once again, I kinda forgot about my blog...Ooopsies!


Today was the first day of grad school. I didn't have any classes though, just had to go to the class the I'm a TF for. Anyway, I'm excited and anxious for this semester. My classes sound interesting, but how many times have titles disappointed? Far too many. Hopefully taking all SPH classes will make me feel more like a grad student, because right now, besides being in a new location, it all seems the same. The only thing that makes it different is that $120,000 piece of paper that I got in May. Growing up is not as fun as I imagined. Rent, career choices, friends/acquaintences getting married and having children, gray hairs, flabby skin = not so awesome (except the friends/acquaintences getting married and having children becuase it's happy for them). Although, voting privlidges are excellent!


To make myself feel younger, I applied a temporary tattoo from a cereal box! Too bad Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds never has any prizes besides the delicious flavors. I would have a ridiculous amount of useless toys by now. It would be great. Maybe I would create a trophy shelf dedicated to their portrayal and awesomeness.


Life takes interesting turns. Maybe it's more of a change of perception. Like when I was 5, learning how to do a cartwheel was the most important thing for me to accomplish. Now I'm 22 (almost) and getting my Master's degree is the most important thing for me to accomplish. Its just a different view of what skills are important to learn. Sometimes I wonder if I'm aiming too high. Will I finally get out in the work force and realize a MPH really isn't necessary for my careet goals? Hopefully NOT! I guess it's hard to estimate now, since I'm still figuring out my career goals. Seriously, who knows their career goals when they are in their early 20s? Ahhh! I will not stress out!

This one is for Dom:

What do Mexican pirates eat?

Chili con cAAAARRRRrne!!!!

I think I'm too reserved to have a blog.

It's been a little bit...

Oh boy, I kinda forgot about this whole blog thing....

Here is my life since turning 21:

• I have found and pulled out way too many gray hairs (probably between 10 and 20)
• I've now been to LA three times and I love it!
• Last semester was way harder than anticipated, and my senioritis didn't affect my grades (surprisingly)
• This semester is way busier than I anticipated, but I've also seen friends a lot more! Which is excellent. Also, I'm finding that spring semester classes are way easier than fall semester classes
• I learned how to play guitar, so now I'm pretty much a rock star. People know me.
• I realized how much allergies suck, and that moldy bathrooms are not cool.
• Way too much money is spent on groceries.
• Glasses are not fun to wear, but neither are contacts when you don't have the right prescription.
  
• I like short hair better.
• I learned that large toothbrushes are not for me.
• I'm basically the best sugar cookies maker ever (thanks g-ma).
• I still love sour patch kids and swedish fish
  

That's about it!