A med student pretending to be a foodie. :)

I have given up having any sensical way to decide what I blog when. Between 10 & 11 seems a good point to break.

Day 8: A Moment I felt Most Satisfied with my life

Um. I felt pretty good getting my results for Histology this block. Or Anatomy in 2nd block. Honestly I probably derive much more pleasure than I should from academic success. (But I like it; it’s a challenge, & sometimes I don’t think I belong in medical school because I don’t have the correct temperament, & getting good grades makes me feel better about it.)

I like it when I feed people & they like what I made, too. :) It’s satisfying in a different way, because on some level I feel like I have trouble connecting socially, sometimes, & while baking is kind of forcing it, it’s still there. The cook-off was an awesome, huge rush.

Day 9: How I hope My Future Will Be like

Happy. :)

Day 10: Discuss My First Love & My First Kiss

First love: I’ll let you know. ;)

Never had a SO yet. Usually it’s just either I like someone who doesn’t reciprocate or someone likes me & I don’t reciprocate (OR BOTH IN A CASE OF SHITTY TIMING) (though it really wouldn’t have worked out anyway, so. *shrug*)

First kiss: Um. Most people know this story, I think. It was embarrassingly late in my life, as I was 21, & it was with a friend while we were at a party, because I was in a guy’s lap. My train of thought went like this: "Am probably going to kiss this guy. That is where this is going. Don’t want to have first kiss with guy I’ve never met before & will probably never see again."

Re: Self-Indulgence

I bought myself a Kindle. It is shiny & new & GORGEOUS. Then, I bought myself a Black/Gunmetal/Red Kindle sleeve from Timbuk2. (Because, hey, if you’re going to pamper yourself, might as well go all out, right?) It will be my faithful travel companion to Boston & NYC over spring break!

Also bought the most adorable rain boots! I really must have something for birds on rainboots, since my last pair had birds, too. Yay for DSW & their Rewards Program & coupons. (& then delicious, delicious orange cream soda, but that’s not quite on the same level, is it?)

Link of the Day: Fantastic summary-in-song! of this week’s episode of Glee! :D

Haha… yes. Um. How about just facts about me?

1. I am a terrible hoarder: I always save random containers & boxes & stuff because I think it might be useful. Sometimes I turn out to be right (like this weekend – packing up packages in boxes from ordering stuff online), which just reinforces my beliefs. Vicious cycle.
2. The main problem I have with typing is that I tend to think too fast for my fingers & end up typing parts of future words in the current word. This is what limits my typing ability, and has been true for both QWERTY & Colemak.
3. I switched to the Colemak keyboard layout just for fun. Also it’s kind of funny to see people use my computer without knowing that I don’t use QWERTY.
4. When I bake & cook I have to either not follow the recipe at all ("This looks like enough cumin!") or follow it exactly (with a scale). There is no in between.
5. I love to bake things, but the more complicated the better. My favorite hands down is tiramisu, which is also my favorite dessert. Eclairs/cream puffs are good, too. I don’t bake cookies that often (except I do >.>) because 1. I can’t ever get them as good as Karen’s & 2. not complicated enough.
6. My favorite tea is jasmine. My parents make fun of me, because they say it’s not a real tea.
7. I pick up other people’s mannerisms & the way they say things a bit too easily. Like: I use the word "hella," though I don’t even really know who I picked it up from. People make fun of me for it. (Have also started calling people "Darling.")
8. I keep a paper diary/schedule of appointments. Apparently this is odd b/c my classmates have said that they thought I would be the type (because I am the most technologically knowledgeable in my group of friends) to have everything synced to a smartphone or PDA. I don’t know – I don’t really see it (but I suppose that’s because I’m me). I have my schedule on my computer, always, but I like the paper. The screen just doesn’t have the same feel as my squared Moleskine notebook.
9. I am a ridiculously bad procrastinator. (Un)Fortunately, my test scores do not really encourage me to stop.
10. I like chocolate, but do not like chocolate-flavored things. No chocolate cakes, no chocolate ice cream, no brownies. (Only very occasional exceptions are made.)
11. I have lived in: China, North Carolina, Texas, Florida, Ohio, & Massachusetts. I think MA is my favorite so far, but there’s still the West Coast to explore!
12. I think checking out weekly circulars for sales & clipping coupons is fun & kind of relaxing. Though it does encourage me to spend money. >.>
13. I hate the sight of icons on my desktop. I am somehow perfectly fine, however, with virtual sticky notes cluttering it up.
14. I almost never wear makeup, & am sometimes really bad at telling that other people do. (I’d like to think that they’re actually just really good at applying it, no?)
15. There are a not-insignificant number of iconic films I haven’t watched. James Bond, LotR, Star Wars… (though I usually get references to them regardless, thanks to the internets)
16. Apples to Apples is hands down my favorite "board game."
17. I have flat feet, which is the biggest deterrent to me becoming a runner. Or so I tell myself; my brother seems to have managed fine. (Though, seriously, it really hurts if I do more than like a mile.)
18. I used to hate unread emails, but now I just kind of accept it as a fact of life & leave things unread to remind myself to come back to things later.
19. I’m pretty good at getting things started (Art Club, Baking Club, current exercise competition with the second years), but often I have trouble following through.
20. I use Pentel RSVP pens (fine tip) almost exclusively. Occasionally I break out a mechanical pencil or a Pilot G2 (though the G2s, even in fine tip, tend to be a bit too thick for me).
21. I tend to write pretty small if I’m trying to be neat. If I write big, it’s typically just messier & looser & I am never satisfied with the ratio of letters to each other or spacing.
22. I like knowing obscure words or obscure definitions of common words & then confusing people with their use. I think everyone should be able to use the exact word they need – the mot juste, if you will – for whatever situation they’re in.
23. I am oddly shaped (I taper from my chest to my hips, unlike every other girl in the world). While this is extremely annoying when trying to purchase clothing, I am often glad because this prevents me from buying ridiculous amounts of cute clothing. I instead have a manageable wardrobe.
24. Because I don’t buy clothes quite as much, kitchen gadgets are kind of my guilty pleasure. (I bought a pastry brush over the weekend for the express purpose of wetting down the sides of my saucepan while I was making marshmallows to prevent crystallization. >.> Seriously, though, $5 for a brush?!)
25. I am usually very good about remembering that events are coming up or things are due soon. This is because I usually put events/due dates EVERYWHERE. Google calendar, Rainlendar, Moleskine… Thus I am thrown ridiculously off-kilter when I am unaware of something coming up and I somehow never fail to double-book myself. NEVER.
26. Kind of like the cooking thing earlier, I have 2 modes with respect to timeliness: 10 minutes early, or 5 minutes late. There is rarely any in-between.
27. I am really terrible at being awake in the morning. I am surprised I can get myself to school at 8 AM some days. However, I can usually appear to be somewhat OK at being awake in the morning because I always lay out everything I need the night before. Otherwise I WILL spend 10 minutes changing outfits in the mirror because I am still half-asleep and can’t make decisions, and I WILL forget to bring food for lunch/snacks/dinner.
28. Food blogs are like crack to me. Tastespotting is my enabler.
29. I currently use Chrome almost exclusively. The Mozilla extension I miss the most is the one that condenses my bookmarks to favicons. :-/
30. I have an unhealthy obsession with tables. That is seriously the only way I learn a lot of the materials for class.

…and I think that took me about an hour. Oh dear.

In other news, all the results from last week’s exams are in. I was very satisfied with my Histology grade, for the exam and overall (as it concluded with that exam). Solid Honors. :D

Anatomy… not so much. I was one question away from having to remediate the practical, and that was even only because the professor lowered the cutoff between the email he sent before the exam and the one he sent after the exam. It’s not terrible, though, I still have a 90-ish in the class so I can bring it up.

Physiology. Bleargh. Considering I didn’t even end up reading more than half of the Reproductive section, I did fairly well. Pass on the test, High Pass as the final grade in the class, which is what I had going in & really the best I could have hoped for; there was no way I would’ve scored high enough to get Honors.

(The grade system is Honors/High Pass/Pass/Remediate (some classes)/Fail. It’s almost like A/B/C/D/F, except that the cutoffs are kind of wonky sometimes. Honors is at 90 for most classes, but High Pass sometimes cuts off at 84/85.)

In a quote: “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.” -Marcus Aurelius

I might expand on that later, but now I have to go back to learning about the hormones of the body. :-/