i just came back from my first med school interview in chicago. i think the interview went well, i liked the school and all the students who came to say hi. funnily enough, i even liked being gawked at as a prefrosh. potential prefrosh, i guess. fingers crossed.

also, since the only way to really judge a city is by the food, i had deep dish pizza for the first time. i was skeptical, but it was amazing. i brought a frozen one home and will obviously be throwing it in the oven tomorrow night. you are all welcome to attend.

nothing accomplished, again. (but i did get a fun new/modified icon out of it.) im going to try to finish a few apps, not even going to touch my reading.  tonight sam is having a birthday party party and rachel is having a housewarming thing, so ill try to split my time accordingly. gosh, im in such high demand. mallory totally should have come up this weekend.

ps my nails are getting too long and im really tempted to bite them. desperately trying to hold out.

so my night was super fun but it got infinitely more fun when i went on ONTD** as part of a pre-sleep turning-off-the-internet ritual: ONTD <3 Eli. someone posted another screen capture of eli roth spreading the word about the lj inglourious basterds kink meme fan slash to more of the cast. and lets just say, i commented when there were about 129 comments. and no "i heart ontd" fan sign on his chest. (as of 2 57 am EST, were at 959. positive fan sign.)

i really need to go to sleep.


**were not even going to scratch the surface of why this is all kinds of pathetic.

so i was reading through old entries of my journal (the hard cover, bridget jones kind. dont tell me youre surprised.) to see how early in the summer i stopped writing in it. i came across something about "pinto," and im like, "oh, i must have alreay gotten to the zq/chris pine fangirliness. then i read the entry, and it was actually about my medical anthropology professor, sarah pinto. super lol.

this week has been crazy unproductive. first, i thought i had to do all this phe stuff that i didnt have to do, so that was a waste of time. i had a bunch of meetings that werent terribly enlightening, so more time wasted. then today at my internship, during which i had literally 6 of 8 hours to do nothing, i opted to look up received pronunciation and online phonetics guides. instead of homework, if that wasnt obvious. strong choices, lg.

the emmys should be ashamed of themselves for not recognizing how i met your mother properly. feh. but kristen chenoweth was adorable, so all hope is not lost.

ive been going on repeated anti-eli roth tirades over the last week, having recently seen inglourious basterds and several of my friends having watched hostel for a class about horror. i really do think eli roth is a disgusting, disgusting person (and should have his jew status rescinded). but i came across this today, and im trying really really hard not to rethink my position on him: Eli Roth Reads Fanfiction.

anyway, i should either do some of the homework i havent been doing all day or go to sleep. probably sleep. l'shanah tovah, everyone!

wishing everyone a happy and sweet new year. i got home last night, and today weve been cooking. i made a pretty kickass sweet noodle kugel, melissa made her anorexia cookies*, and mom made everything else. it was officially our "french inspired" erev feast, since we cooked a lot of recipes we used at our parisian cooking class. overall, pretty successful. even if my mother is insane.

but, the crew should be coming over later for dessert, which should be fun. you know what else is fun? matthew morrison in glee.


*she did a presentation last semester about anorexia for her english class. apparently a lot of people brought food to give out with their presentations, so melissa baked some nestle tollhousers in a 8x8 pan, like a cookie cake. you know, to tell anorexics to eat more. needless to say, everyone was obsessed, and they were forever dubbed "anorexia cookies."

as of right now, im driving back to boston tomorrow morning. im dreading unpacking/dealing with all the boxes in my room, but hopefully that wont take too too long. maybe ill get to see megan and susan and leah and julia tomorrow, i guess ill check in with everyone once im done with the moving in bidness.

new paltz was wonderful, it was so great to see mallory and jenn in their natural habitats. now i just hope they can come up to visit me during the year :).

all in all, heres to a good year. lots of success for everyone, please.

okay, so, no root canal, but three very exciting cavities. my jaw is in serious pain from being held wide open for 2.5 hours. i truly do not understand why anyone would become a dentist. 1) teeth are disgusting. 2) diseased teeth are more disgusting. 3) drilling into peoples mouths is disgusting. apparently, when my moms dentist cousin is asked what he does for a living, he says "i torture people." at least hes honest. also apparently, i have very cavity-prone teeth even though i rarely eat sweets. i eat plenty, obviously, but not really sweets. my dentist didnt believe me.

two points in computer-related news. my dad "transferred" all my files from my old, dead computer into my newish one. except i have no pictures, the half of my word documents that does not include my resume, personal statement, or film reviews, or my livejournal icons. okay, so that last point is clearly unimportant, but there were some cute ones there. the second point is my laptop's (shut up, i know its pointless to have a desktop when i have a laptop) motherboard was replaced AGAIN because the graphics chip got all screwy. hopefully this one will work.

tomorrows my last day at stony brook, which is kind of sad. kind of not, since i really dont have so much to do. i do, however, have to finish the three essays for my sb supplementary application, so i can hand it in at the admissions office. which is literally across the hall from radiology, where i work. i got a letter yesterday from suny downstate, in a normal sized envelope, and i freaked out that it was going to be my first rejection. it ended up being a "hey, we have all your application materials and were evaluating you now (and will reject you at a later date)" letter, so, phew.

ive also been having some weird dreams lately. a few days ago, i dreamt that i went to some ski/skate place and paul dinello worked there. we were dating, and eventually he turned into dr. dave from er. (have i mentioned paul dinello kind of freaks me out?) then yesterday i dreamt that i was in london or something with my sister, and we took this hot air balloon ride. we got lost and landed in the middle of nick brady's family's barbeque, and my aunt and younger cousin were in attendance. not that any of this should mean anything to you, but its nice to write it down somewhere. because, gosh, how random is nick brady?

got back from paris yesterday, already adjusted to est. unfortunately. paris was wonderful, i really enjoyed all the sightseeing and museums and cheese and pastries. do not want to finish supplementary med school applications or return to school. i mean, itll be nice to go back and see all my friends, but. i havent spent this much time not doing homework in so long that i really dont want to go back to it. and i havent spent an entire summer with my family, and i really wish melissa could come up to tufts with me. and mandy. oh my goodness, in paris we were walking down this one street that was just pet stores. seriously. we walked into 5 stores and ogled the puppies. in one of the shops one of the dog areas was open and we were playing with a baby boxer and german shephard. and there was a bernese mountain dog puppy that was sooooo cute. where was i?

i am looking forward to tems (ive signed up for every shift the first two weeks back. hopefully ill get more than one), reconnecting with everyone that i havent spoken to all summer (because i havent spoken to ANYONE all summer), and going up to new paltz to celebrate mallory's birthday. yay.

not looking forward to going to another dentist tomorrow to determine if i need a root canal. yikes.

im watching boston legal, and a thought happens upon me. its not a new thought, but it worries me nonetheless: i think i talk like alan shore. and by that i mean, i tend to start talking before the words are fully formed in my head, so i pause a lot mid sentence and its kind of awkward. ive been noticing this recently, even when im not watching boston legal. now, the question is, have i always done this, or did i start once i began watching the show? either way, i can always blame the mad cow.

ps, i submitted the ny med application. want to know what it entailed? step 1: list all your faculty and alumni relatives. step 2: list your required, not optional (which is why i had put off doing this app) letters of recommendation. step 3: GIVE US YO' MONEY. what a let down. but please please please accept me. someone?

this is a nate corddry post. i had almost forgotten all about the adorable younger brother of rob corddry, the daily show alum, when i went to see the ugly truth with my sister. and then, up on the screen, there he is (billed as "nate" instead of "nathan" too, i was so proud)! then, i turned on the nanny diaries as white noise sort of movie watching with the fam 20 minutes ago, when there he is again! what a surprise. seriously, though. so i just looked at his imdb page and apparently he is in "the united states of tara," which i had ZERO interest in watching when it aired, but i think i might have to watch an episode now. since i know you were all so interested.

ps, this is the best cassie icon i could find. if anyone has one thats more... "wow," i guess, let me know.
 

i just began my preliminary list of the Best Things in the World, but i could only think of: reading harry potter, vanilla soft serve cones with rainbow sprinkles, and house reruns (seasons 1 and 2). this is obviously a good start, but ill need to work on it a bit. melissa (who is home again for the weekend, which is awesome) added the curly fur behind mandy's ears, which i just discovered existed. my dog mandy, a corgi, has about 10 pounds worth of straight fur that sheds EVERYWHERE, apparently has these tight little pincurls of white/sable behind her ears after she is bathed. they are the most adorable things ever. and now you know.

back to h potter: i enjoyed the movie, although the end part where harry is just standing around for 5 minutes watching an entire band of death eaters monologue about killing **spoiler censor but COME ON ITS NOT LIKE YOU DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPENS AT THE END** instead of being immobilized and silenced like in the book. but whatevs. at least the seventh book will be two movies, and hopefully there will be a whole lot more snape. i was reading some commentary about hp6 somewhere, and it said that snapes hairdo makes him look like a surly lesbian. which is actually true.

on a final note, today was the first day in a week that ive gotten more than 5 hours of sleep, and i have been so tired the entire day. gaaah. oh, also, final final note, folger's apparently makes coffee tea bags, so you dont have to brew it in the morning. even if it tastes like poison, very clever.

ive determined that its going to be a good day when the first song i hear on the radio is "boom boom pow" by the black eyed peas. dont judge.

phlebotomy is going well, ive stuck a whole bunch of people and sucked their bloods. the early part only got to me yesterday, when i had to come straight home and go to sleep for, like, 5 more hours. but today i didnt have to be in until 6 15 and i didnt have to shower before work, so i got an extra hour of sleep. glorious.

research is going okay too, except i have to do phone interviews with patients for follow-up, and nobody is home during business hours. so of the >100 people ive called, ive gotten about 15 responses. monday and/or tuesday ill be staying late at the office with summer, the other research volunteer in the office. also, there are two rising seniors from calhoun who are doing their intel projects in the radiology department! ive said, like, 5 words to them beyond "omg i went to calhoun too!" but i still think its pretty cool.

obviously, im saving the best for last: harry friggin' potter. the movie was good, despite the changes they made and the things they left out. as an avid fan, its tough to accept the fact that the filmmakers cannot feasibly include everything into the movies because a) theres nowhere near enough time and b) theyve skimped on all the other movies, and cant include a secondary plot/character that has 5 books of backstory they've never mentioned. thank goodness theyre making the seventh book into two movies.

hooray, summer classes are officially over. i still get to make the trip out to stony brook in the mornings to do research at the medical center, which should be entertaining. and next week im testing out my sleep cycles, training as a phlebotomist from 3ish am to 9ish and then research at 11. well see how that goes.

i know i havent updated in a while, but trust me, its because my life has been so dull. ive actually wanted to post really badly just to use random quotes as subject lines. there was the one from hair, where theyre telling claude to get out of being drafted: "tell them your mom offered to take your place in the army... and shes a viet cong"; theres my biopsych teacher educating the class in the art of making pot brownies; a tmz reporter making the analogy that true blood vs twilight vamps is like "the jets vs the jonas brothers"; the list goes on. i decided to stick with a quote from last week's people.com ten best celebrity quotes, this one from stephen moyer discussing his relationship with off-screen and on-screen (so very, very on-screen) lover anna paquin and how they miss... wait for it, because i know youre thinking the fangs... the cast and crew. which finally prompted me to watch true blood.

on good notes, the male cast members are among the most beautiful people alive, and this week they freed lafeyette. on a bittersweet note, im up to date with the show, so i have to wait two weeks for the next episode. on a bad note, watching true blood for the past few days might be the reason i got a whole three questions wrong on my most recent biopsychology exam, breaking my all-100s record thus far. bummer. but i still dont have to take the final. (or the extra cumulative final that the instructor is writing up so the people who are failing so badly can drop two tests. oh dear lord.)

while im obviously excited that classes end next week, i am not excited that i finally have to send out my medical school applications. i still have to finish the blurbs about my volunteer/work activities. ughhhh. but melissas coming home from her summer program for the july 4th weekend, yay. its been 3 days and things really dont function well without her. (and i miss her, duh.)

i feel like i just took an exam and now im studying for another one. granted, its for a different course, but come on. microbiology on monday and then biopsych on thursday. but, i met with this impressive doctor man who works at stony brook and im going to be working for him doing random things in exchange for a letter from him to medical schools. hopefully that might help.

so, im working on making mix cds for my commute, and im trying to whittle down one of showtunes. im listening to "we both reached for the gun" from chicago (the movie soundtrack), and i had completely forgotten that taye diggs was in it. that was a nice surprise/reminder.

also, moderately related although a little belated, the tonys should have had more nph singing. ooh, they should have had him performing all the songs from the nominated musicals! okay, maybe not, but it would have been entertaining. like the less painful version of whoopi goldberg showcasing the costumes from oscar-nominated films during whichever oscars ceremony she hosted.