Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Rock lobster

Happy Halloween!

We here at Michigan love to learn. We love to learn so much that we worship our TAs when they show up to our parties randomly. Here are a bunch of Epid students with our TA, so-named "Hot" Steve, situated in the middle, sans costume.

Josh, Kristin, Steve, Steve (the TA), Emily, Rebecca
Alicia, Krishna
Catherine, Sam, Marina


And, my sorority sisters, and me:

Sam, Alicia, Kellie, as alpha sigma kappa

Saturday, October 20, 2007

What made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me

Notes on driving to Milwaukee on a Friday afternoon.

The kiwi fruit is
too messy to eat en route;
skin and guts on me.


Friday, Chicago:
All the way through Illinois,
The traffic stands still.



Real discomfort is
holding your bladder for hours
since the freeway's jammed.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

How does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?

So, the first round of midterms is almost complete and it is fall break. This is an exciting time because it means we don't have class on Monday or Tuesday. Not only that, but my one Wednesday class was canceled. Also, my parents are here to visit.

Our pathophysiology exam was exceptionally difficult. It wouldn't have been so bad, except that the teacher threw a handful of questions on the test that a) he didn't cover in lecture, b) were not on the PPT slide handouts, and c) were not in the book. So, I guess if you're a good guesser, you're lucky.

Our biostats exam wasn't bad though. We got to bring a cheat sheet of equations into the test. This was a great idea!!! Even better would have been had I actually put all of the equations on the sheet. I missed a few very important equations, so I made them up. Unfortunately, I looked them up later and I was slightly wrong about where the parentheses should have gone, or something, so I have the wrong answer. Whoops....

So, to celebrate being done with exams, the usual folks and I went out bowling and drinking on Thursday night. I was excited about the idea of $1 long islands, until I drank one and it was arguably the worst-tasting beverage I have ever consumed. I'm not entirely sure there was any alcohol in the glass at all. If there was, it was about a splash, and the flavor was masked by Coke and an entire lemon squeezed into one 12 oz. cup. Gross, gross, gross. So, I attempted to drink a beer, which I wasn't a big fan of either. Drinking didn't matter too much -- 'twas the insanity shared and fun had by all.

Following are a few pictures from the evening...

It's possible that I just got a gutter ball...


Sam and Andy swing dancing at the lanes...


Kellie as a calendar girl...


Hello, I say!


Girlshoes.


Krishna and Steve.. I don't know...



Enough for now. Homework, ho!

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

But nothing compares to these blue and yellow, purple pills

Who knew it would be so hard to refill a darn prescription?

I went to the UHS Pharmacy and gave them copies of all of my prescriptions the other day, only for them to tell me that a copy is not good enough. I could come back with my old prescription and have them fill it.

Instead, I opted to call them this morning. The somewhat disgruntled pharmacy employee told me that he would call my home pharmacy in Minnesota and transfer the prescription over to them, and it would cost an extra $1 to process the order. Fine. Do it.

So, I check my messages after I get back from running only to find out that, for some reason, my prescription doesn't actually have any refills on it, despite the fact that I was just into the doctor a few months ago and asked her to refill it for another yer, which she agreed to do.

Next thing: call Fairview pharmacy. They told me that, yes, they don't have that prescription information either. So I had to call the clinic. They tell me that my nurse practitioner isn't in today so they can talk to her tomorrow, but they'd leave a note with the triage nurse and see if she can do something for me.

Seriously, I was just in the doctor three months ago! She was supposed to renew my prescription to save me from this hassle. *sigh* It's never that easy!

So, I await a phone call from Fairview in hopes that they can straighten everything out so that I can have my prescription by the weekend. My fingers are crossed. I love the run around of large institutions, where nothing ever takes less than 7 phone calls in order to reach someone who can really help you.