Dear Mother Earth

Dear Mother Earth,

How are you? It’s been entirely too long since we’ve chatted. I thought we might catch up and I might ask how you are doing. You’re not feeling too good? I’m sorry to hear that. Well, if you are not feeling well, I can completely understand if you’ve missed the memo that IT’S FREAKIN AUTUMN NOW! I’m sure your notification of the change of season should be arriving in the mail any day now, but I thought I should give everyone else a break by letting you know of the change (since that letter might take a while). I mean, I can’t imagine the poor postal service that mythical characters such as yourself receive, so I thought an email might be more appropriate. 

I simply wanted to remind you that autumn has officially begun. I know you are pretty overwhelmed with the state of your health, and let’s be honest, you are not getting any younger, so I understand if you have forgotten. That is why I am sending you this friendly reminder. Also, I have attached a forecast for the next couple of days… I thought you might need some evidence about the dire extent of the problem caused by your forgetfulness in turning to the "ON" button for autumn on your weather machine. As you can see, the heat is really suffocating. I mean, the weather channel had to resort to using expressions such as “blazing” and “sizzling” and “hot with blazing [...].” It nearly doesn’t even sound like they are describing the weather. I almost wonder what the person was thinking about when they wrote out the description for “It’s going to be hot.” So, at the risk of corrupting our youth with such suggestive language, I beseech you to cool the weather down. Clearly, no one can make “cold” sound vulgar or suggestive in the least.

I hope my request is not too taxing, but I speak for everyone when I say that we would really like to see some normal weather. I could understand if this was still summer, but since we have officially switched over to autumn, I can see no excuses in the negligence that you have shown. I hope this situation will be rectified as soon as possible. If you cannot comply with my request, please do not hesitate to share your thoughts on the subject. I would love to discuss why you can't do your job properly.

Regards,

Preet Kaur

Enclosure: Weather forecast and pictorial representation of the current state of affairs

 

Yes, I am melting. Yes, the sun does have an evil agenda. Yes, the grass is crying from 3rd degree burns, and yes, the  birds are dying and plopping to the ground

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Randomness During the Week

I decided to list some random things that I've thought about this week because it just seemed like a week for randomness.

1. "The Pink Option"  This should be an option everywhere for everything. I buy so many things because I have the "pink option." The pink option is the ability to have whatever it is that I want in the color pink. Recently, I've ordered a laptop sleeve and a T-shirt because of this amazing option. My entire room is covered in pink stuff and it makes me very happy. So thank you pink and bless the people that provide the "Pink Option"

2. My feet have a tan line.

3. I am over my fear of needles and blood. Yeah, that's right. Pharmacy school has cured me of my problem in about 3 weeks. Who needs expensive psychologists when the fear of failing out of pharmacy school because of your fear of blood and sharp objects is lording over your head? That's right. No one. Also, I think watching Vampire Diaries has lessened the fear too. I mean, there is SO much blood on that show but there is also a lot of hot guyness in that show, so I think blood is somehow disturbingly connected to "hot guy" in my head. I just realized how wrong that was. Gosh. That is really just super disturbing.

4.  My cough is an allergy... I think. *Next day*
        Me: "OMG! I'm dying! Stupid allergy!"
        Roommate's Response: "Your stupid allergies gave me a cold and a fever!"
        My response: "Oh. Luckily, I don't get fevers."
        Roommate's Response: "Well, good for  you!" 

5. I love Lollicup. 

 

 6. I love Office Depot. I love school supplies! I want to buy Office Depot. 

7. Pharmaceutical Calculations are not your average math problem. Why can't I solve this problem with my genius normal math skills? Because Pharmacy is a whole different beast. That's why! And this beast needs to be taken down. 

8. There's people out there that eat human flesh? WHAT??? OMG! It's the freakin' BBC, it has to be true if I'm reading it on here. *Pause for reflection* I've been watching a show where people drink blood, why am I so surprised and disgusted? *Pause for reflection* Because the show's not real. That's why. Those nasty human eaters! Yuck!

9. "I want to be a rich pharmacist/lawyer. I really want to be a rich pharmacist/lawyer. But if I fail, I'll be a very in debt nothing." - my motivational speech to myself. 

10. "Dear Craig Ferguson, can you just keep talking in your little Scottish accent?" 

  

Excuses to go Online

I realize that I procrastinate A LOT! But I have my reasons...These are my reasons to procrastinate due to computer interference. 
Most used list of excuses:

1. What if I got a life altering email?
  
2. What if someone really needs to contact me and I'm not online (yeah, as if they couldn't call me...)
  
3. OK. I'll just turn it on and check my email and then back to studying! Yes! That's what I'll do. I can do this! 

4. OMG! That new episode of ____ MUST be online by now (~10 minutes after I've realized that I missed a show)
  
5. I'll just watch one short clip of ___ on Youtube (i.e. Vampire Diaries, Craig Ferguson, Hindi Songs, The Office, Community, Melissa and Joey)
  
6. I can't study without music. DUH!
  
7. I have to download an assignment from Sakai. (Note: This assignment will usually take 3 hours to retrieve. 2hr and 56 min. of those 3 hrs are spent surfing the web)

8. I'm turning into an anti-social person! I'll just go on aim for 2 seconds, say "hi" to everyone and then tell them that I have to study because I have so much to do. They'll understand. I just need to say "hello" so they know I haven't forgotten them. Yeah. Of course. I have to do this. I need people to know I'm alive and suffering! *Log onto aim and say "hi" to people*. See that wasn't so bad. Wait, is that ___? I haven't talked to ____ in forever! OMG! I have to talk to them! My mother taught me good manners. I can't just sign off now! God that would be deplorable of me! I must make haste to converse with _____.
  
9. SHUT UP! I'M HAVING A FREAKIN BAD DAY! I NEED TO RELAX!!!
 
10. I wonder what's happening in the world. I need to read the news. PRONTO! OMG! Is Angelina Jolie having another baby? WOW. There's a picture slideshow. Yay! Oh! They give you more choices for what slideshow you want to see next! OMG! Is that Ian Somerhalder? IT IS HIM!!! I have to know more about him! *click click*
 
11. I wonder which celebrities are born on my birthday. Well... don't judge me! EVERYONE ELSE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD KNOWS! I have to know too!
 
12. What other show can I watch? I totally deserve this break (after 1hr of staring at my book because I was "studying")
 
13. I'll just take a quick minute to check my blog. I can't have Google think that I've given up going on my blog or anything. That would be disastrous!
 
14. I'm sure the world is going to implode/explode if I don't check ALL my emails AGAIN! I'm sure that email I've been waiting for has come in by now... Maybe now.... Maybe now... OK. It definitely has to be there now... It's probably in my Spam... It's probably here by now... Maybe if I sign on again... Maybe I'll RE-EMAIL to ask what the problem is...
 
15. Um... I'm my own boss. I can go online whenever I want and that's that! I'm totally going to prove it to myself, right now! See that self? I just went online! And there's nothing you can do about it! HAH! I sure showed you!

All Nighter

Well hello first nighter of the year. Have you missed me? I've been kind of glad to be rid of you during the summer but you've come back like a bad fungal infection (P.S. I'm studying fungus infections).

Also, I love this song. I've been listening to it ALL day today and yesterday!


 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYUt-V7iwIM


It's going to be my new ringtone. It'll be nice to wake up to. I'm getting kind of tired to waking up to The Office theme song every day. This is mostly because having to wake up this early is having a negative association with The Office theme song and I might start hating The Office.

Onwards to studying about biochemistry! If only I'd been really paying attention during class...

Disney Princess

I was thinking about how I would look if I were a Disney Princess. Then, I came across a drawing that I made last year. I think it fits my "Princess Preet" status perfectly.

I really like this drawing. I especially like the way I look in this drawing. I look really happy! But then again, you should probably know the story behind this drawing. Last year, I developed a horrible dependency on tea and coffee. I was staying up until the wee hours of the morning studying and I really needed something to keep me awake. But seriously, I feel like tea and coffee should come with a label like "Beware: This beverage may make you extremely hyper for extended periods of time during which you may act like you're intoxicated."

Ok. I guess my label explains what happened to me but if you still don't get it: I ended up being extremely happy/hyper from drinking tea. Actually, I don't think it was entirely due to the tea, it may have something to do with the fact that I put like 5 spoons of sugar into one cup of tea. Maybe. Anyways, I would drink tea and be hyper ALL day long. Being hyper made me REALLY, REALLY happy for some reason. I couldn't get to sleep at night so I came up with ridiculous ways to keep myself preoccupied until I could finally sleep. For example, one night I spent several hours learning how to make shadow puppets with my hands. IT WAS AWESOME!!!! I have absolutely no shame. I would totally do that again. I learned how to make all kinds of different stuff. One day, I was really hyper and I spent time drawing that drawing of me as a Princess. I'm kind of thinking about printing it out and putting it up on my wall, or the refrigerator. I shall have to ask the roomies about this. Hehehehe!

Another night, I was EXTREMELY hyper and wanted to go on an adventure. The problem is, it was around 11pm and everything had pretty much closed down. But have no fear, when you are that full of energy and that jittery, you'll do anything to have an adventure. So, we Googled all the coffee places we could think of (P.S. I LOVE google!!!! And also, notice the irony/flaw in our plan to go to a coffee shop when I was already stung up on caffeine), and we found 1 coffee place that was still open. HALLELUJAH!!!!

So, of course we had an adventure going there. I realized that it was the perfect place to go because the neighborhood was shady enough so that it was just a little bit dangerous and adventurous, but not so shady that we had to fear being shot. I loved it! After another dose of caffeine (yay for chai tea!), we came back to school and I was even more hyper. I distinctly remember singing the "Oompa Loompa" song from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the parking lot. When we got back to the apartment, I was still really hyper so I suggested that we go play hide and seek in the library. Unfortunately, we never got to do this because I basically started falling apart from caffeine crash about half an hour later. Sigh. No wonder I drew myself with such a happy face in my picture. Caffeine was making me an extremely fun person. Note: I'm not sure why it stopped having that affect now. I wish it would come back. It was so freakin awesome.

Childhood Story

Yay! It’s finally Friday, so I thought I should forget about school and tell a little story from my childhood. Ready? I feel like I’m about to tell a bed time story…

When I was maybe only 6 years old, my brother and I went to spend a week of our summer vacation with my aunt. Kids in India are not told to stay near their house and to not talk to strangers, because when you live in a village, everyone just knows everyone else. Well, towards the end of the week, we had a brilliant idea to check out the swamp that was not too far from the outskirts of the village. Obviously, you can see that this was not going to end well… but I wasn’t a very bright child when it came to safety (clearly). So that afternoon my brother and I left the house along with our cousins, and made our way to the swamp. This is a picture of how the swamp looked like:

The swamp as I remember it... and us (not drawn to scale)

Pay attention to the nest full of eggs, it’s very important. We got to the swamp and basically looked around at the nastiness. The ground was raised where we were standing but there as a straight downward plunge to the bottom only a few feet away from us. The ground fell downward right into the swamp. So, we looked around at all the nasty things in the swamp. There was mold and mildew and algae and gross bugs that fly around, but as a kid, you know that all this stuff was the SHIZZLE!!! And then, as we were getting bored, one of my cousins spotted the nest full of eggs that some poor bird had assumed would be safe because they were basically on the side of a cliff that only a moron would try to climb down from. And my cousin was that moron…

He got dared to climb down and try to get the eggs. OK. When I remember stuff like this, I realize how impaired the brain of a little kid really is. But to be fair, my cousins were at least 12 or 13 at the time, so they should’ve known a little better. But no! So, my cousin starts slowly climbing/sliding down the cliff structure to try to reach the eggs. Everything was going okay and I had stepped away because I got bored of looking at him trying to climb down when I suddenly heard frightened gasps. I ran back to where everyone was standing and looked down to find my cousin barely hanging onto a branch from a tree as he tried not to slip right into the murky waters of the swamp. Of course, then were was bussle and commotion and a everyone tried to find a big enough branch to try to pull him up onto the flat area that we were all standing on. As the frantic search continued, my cousin hung onto the branch and tried to push up with his feet. I don’t think I have ever been as frightened as I was on that day though my entire childhood.

Thankfully, someone found a branch and we all pulled to haul him up to the level ground. As soon as the immediate danger was over, we all ran around (I’m sure it was due to adrenaline) and celebrated our victorious rescue attempt. See, this is why being a kid is so much fun. One minute you’re about to die but the next, you’ve forgotten about that completely and you’re enjoying life again.

We came home that day a little bit bruised, but only after having taken an oath to not tell anyone about what happened. It’s funny how, in our minds, the thought of being punished still outweighed the risk of being dead. So, we never talked about that day again and I haven’t thought about it in so long. I look back on that day now and wonder if I would have the courage to stand on the edge of the swamp now; now that I know the consequences of my actions, now that I’ve matured enough to understand the concepts of being hurt and being dead. I don’t think I would be able to do that again, so I’m glad I had my adventures as a kid. 

See, was that a nice story? And then they lived happily ever after until they got to the house and the aunt asked why the all the neighbors had seen them walking towards the swamp... I actually cannot for the life of me remember how we answered that question and got away with it. hehehehe. I wish I still had those genius "talk my way out of trouble" skills, but alas, I shall have to make do with the fact that now I have a brain that I can use to stay out of trouble in the first place. 

Procrastination

I know I should studying, right? I mean, that's why I got into this "no facebook, let's start a blog" thing. But really, who is going to stop me? Exactly. So, I decided to randomly surf the web and I found an awesome picture that I should share. It's from a website about unrelated captions, but seriously, I don't even care about the captions... this picture is FREAKIN' AMAZING!!!

So without further ado...dun dun dun...

I cannot tell you how much the expression on the seal's face made me laugh. Then I was reminded of the blood thirsty seal from Arrested Development that bit off Buster's hand. Now I have this picture saved onto my computer for whenever I need a good laugh.

If I could make a cartoon drawing of the seal's face I would be really happy for a good couple of days even though my drawings are undoubtedly the worst thing that happened to art EVER! Well, I feel the need to draw now. I think it's some subconscious thing in the brain that makes me feel like a little kid when I draw, and what kid doesn't want to draw a blood thirsty seal? That's right. Everyone loves blood thirsty seals. (Side note: I think this would make a GREAT movie. It could potentially usurp the mammoth franchise that was Jaws. I'm just saying... killer seal that looks rabid? It has a lot of potential).

Anyways, I just spent a while drawing this nasty picture. I couldn't figure out how to get the rabid look, but we'll just say that this seal is rabid (actually, I'm not sure seals can be rabid, so let's call it a vampire seal).

OK. It looked more vicious in my head but we'll just imagine that it's raving for blood and gore. Notice the red in the eyes (I think that's how we know that it's a vampire seal).

Enough about seals now. I have sig terms to memorize before I get to lab. Oh sigs. You make my life so much more complicated than it needs to be. Speaking of school, I get to immunize people next week. I'm not sure if I should be excited or scared for me (the other person?) hahhaa.

Update: I'm back from lab and I am now studying for med. vocab. So, somehow as we were putting scripts into the computer system, my instructions ended up saying: "Take one tablet two times a day with toes." Yes, that's right. It does say "with toes." I'm not even sure how that happened but maybe it was a subconscious mistake after writing all that about rabid/vampire seals. I'm sure it was.

P.S. I hate med vocab and I'm really tired. But tmrw is Friday! woot woot!!! AND this week is a 3 day weekend - never mind the fact that I have to study the whole weekend. That is just a minor inconvenience compared to being able to sleep in as long as I want. :)