cha-cha-cha-changes

so i've decided to try to stop blogging and start tumbling. i don't really "blog" as it is. i just post random smatterings of information. which is more suited for tumblr.

i'm all set up over there, and imported my blogger archives.

if it doesn't work out, i'll be back here. but for now, i'm giving it a go.

thanks readers. i hope you click over to the new internet land to follow me.


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a turkey trot!

cols, originally uploaded by brittlyou.

i guess i should make an attempt to get ready for my upcoming Turkey Trot so i hit the cold, leafy roads today.

only did 1.5 miles but i wanted to ease back into it.

not going to lie, it sucked.

happy halloween!

i keep forgetting halloween is on saturday. my neighborhood trick or treat was last night so it feels "over". i'm not a huge halloween fan. i love autumn in general more than the holiday. regardless, i hope you all have a nice one! no one stole my mum's or political signs so it was a success in my book!

i'm bummed to miss the pet parade tomorrow. i was planning to enter watson and beat all the other inferior dogs (i joke..sorta). but it will be happening while i'm elbow deep in physics lab. le sigh.

i came an inch within being in a car accident this morning and it totally wasn't my fault. i was turning left onto a side street and a car was at the stop sign at the side street to turn left onto the main street i was on. i had my blinker on and everything. stop signs have to wait for people in the main road but she didn't, so we turned at the exact same time and i swerved and it was CLOSE. i mean i could reach out and grab her wiper blade. then she yelled profanities at me so i rolled my window down and asked why was she yelling, it was her fault. she just kept screaming F&#* YOU. it was odd and she seemed crazy. 

i think i found a solution to my o-chem issue. see after next quarter (i got into my physics btw), i'm done with everything but o-chem. but my school and the other schools around here, only offer it during the day. and at weird times, so i'd basically have to quit my job to take it. but i did a lot of googling and a medical school in new england offers ochem I and II online with lab and it's accepted by most medical schools in the country. i'm not applying to any top tier schools so all my schools accept it. 

the problem, it's expensive. but i won't register to take it until april (post-mcat) so i have time to save (but my new car/macbook pro dreams are gone) it's just a good option because i didn't know what i was planning to do.

speaking of mcat. studying starts this weekend.

let's see, what else? i'm anxiously awaiting my chemistry exam grade. i studied really hard. it was SOOOO math heavy but i did all the practice problems at least 7x each and actually felt confident. i finished the exam first and that makes me nervous but i went over each problem 2x and felt confident with my answers on all but 2. fingers crossed.

greys anatomy? last night killed me. i bawled. 1. mandy moore died. 2. arizona is moving to africa and i just know callie won't end up going with her. 3. karev was so sweet. 4. i'm tired of christina. if you're that damaged, which she has a right to be, but she should be in intensive therapy and not avoiding all responsibility at the hospital. i'm just over it. greys always does this. they drag a storyline into the point of nausea and then fix it. just fix it before i'm ready to stop watching.

oh and my internet at home is broke. the internet fixers are coming tomorrow evening to repair it.

that's a run down of my recent life. exciting right?

BOO! fill in the blanks!

1. My Halloween plans this year will include nothing too halloweeny. it's a physics lab weekend which means my saturday is shot and sunday will be spent hospital volunteering and doing physics homework. i do plan to attend the Cbus halloween bash on saturday but just for a brief walk around to see the crazies.

2. My most memorable Halloween costume was when I was dorthy from the wizard of oz in kindergarden. that's probably one of my earliest memories period. i distinctly remember being dressed up at school and my mom having made my red glitter shoes and carrying a basket with toto.

3. For Halloween this year I'm going to be myself. cool huh?

4. I've always wanted to dress up as something original. I went to Ohio U for undergrad, home of the largest Halloween party in the US, so i saw thousands of costumes throughout my years there and i always wanted one that no one else thought of but it never happened.

5. Halloween free association! cold, blustery, wet roads, pumpkins, orange. etc.

6. The worst thing about Halloween is normally the hellish children who come into my neighborhood from other areas and trash the place, including stealing my pumpkins/mums, but this year was uneventful. absolutely nothing disappeared from my front steps. i think it was too cold for ruckus.

7. The best thing about Halloween is the decorations. especially in recent years. i can't wait until i have a proper house and can do a mad scientist lab theme and host a big party!

a good read

"It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists. They're completely blind to how offensive the very nature of their rhetoric is to the rest of the country. I'm an ordinary middle-aged guy who pays taxes and lives in the suburbs with his wife and dog — and I'm a radical communist? I don't love my country? I'm a redcoat? Fuck you! These are the kinds of thoughts that go through your head as you listen to Tea Partiers expound at awesome length upon their cultural victimhood, surrounded as they are by America-haters like you and me or, in the case of foreign-born president Barack Obama, people who are literally not Americans in the way they are.


It's not like the Tea Partiers hate black people. It's just that they're shockingly willing to believe the appalling horseshit fantasy about how white people in the age of Obama are some kind of oppressed minority. That may not be racism, but it is incredibly, earth-shatteringly stupid. I hear this theme over and over — as I do on a recent trip to northern Kentucky, where I decide to stick on a Rand Paul button and sit in on a Tea Party event at a local amusement park. Before long, a group of about a half-dozen Tea Partiers begin speculating about how Obamacare will force emergency-room doctors to consult "death panels" that will evaluate your worth as a human being before deciding to treat you."

this is a great article in rolling stone about the tea party. a topic that enrages me too much to blog about it at any great length. it's both informative about how it was founded and fascinating to see the hypocrisy of these members.

i do think it'll impact politics for awhile because you'd be hard pressed to find something that motivates people more than racism and stupidity. and please make sure you understand me, if you support their cause i think you're both dumb and racist. are we clear?

these are people who think they are owed something from the government. they have expectations that they're special, or particularly plighted, and deserve the money, education, jobs, housing, food, etc. and more than that, they don't want minorities to have them. it's called narcissism. bigotry. stupidity. i hope someone coins a new term to encompass all those traits they possess.

their "political party" does nothing but bitch and complain without any understanding of how government works. cut spending? the top 7 categories of the US budget are security and medicare (not "obamacare"). are we just supposed to let you die of your self-inflicted diabetes after a lifetime of eating shit? or let those "terrorists" you love to talk about come and invade our country? go ahead, cut the defense budget and see what happens. best of luck.

the bottom line....they think everyone else is getting something they're not so they do what they've done their entire lives. they play the victim card. we all know them, the perpetual victims of everything. and now they get to rally together and complain.

it's no fluke that the most educated people in this country are liberal democrats and the least educated are conservative republicans.

see, i told you i shouldn't blog about the tea party.

all i want for christmas.

is a macbook pro. $1000. never going to happen. but a girl can dream.

i need to do more

"No generation has ever had as much of what it needs to change the world so early. In the long-run, however, whether we live up to that promise will be largely based on how we define success in our personal lives, and how that translates to our professional endeavors. If we decide in five years that money and comfort is the primary objective, we’ll compromise left and right and quickly learn to the next group to pick up where we left off. If, instead, we define success to include not only money but impact and engagement, it will change the entire structure of our economy."

 some days i wake up with this persistent nagging that i'm not doing nearly enough, nothing really, to change the world. it aches so bad it almost hurts.

do all people feel this way? or just ones with a calling?

i hope all people feel this way, because i can't do it alone.

on a night like this...

i keep forgetting i'm heading to nyc in a few weeks but i am and i happened to see on twitter that Dave Barnes is at Joe's Pub when i'm there!

so i snagged 2 tickets for Geoff + i. best part, $15 each! 

i don't know if i'll see any broadway shows while i'm there, which is so rare but nothing is really standing out except Promises, Promises which Geoff already saw and i doubt i go alone. 

i'm looking into a post-MCAT trip to see How to Succeed in Business (with Daniel Radcliffe), Evita, Anything Goes and Sister Act. 2011 may be one of the strongest seasons yet.

anyways, super excited for Dave Barnes!

oh i love this!

 

source

a headache. of course.

Do you see the Pre-Req? Physics 117 right? Which i'm currently taking.

However when I register, it says I need another math class. THAT IS NOT LISTED IN YOUR COURSE CATALOG!!!!!!!!

and the person i need to work with to have it waived is the jerk who wouldn't waive any pre-reqs for me a few quarters ago!  i'm ready to vomit.

i hate this stupid school. HATE. nothing is EVER easy. and i actually thought "oh this quarter will be so easy because I don't have to get anything waived, i have all the pre-reqs, i can just register and then be done with Physics and Chem forever!" but of course not, why would it be easy?!

i'm convinced they do this to make more money. i have a degree, i've taken 5 math classes!!!!!! you can not tell me i need another math class for Physics II!

deep, cleansing breaths.

baby it's cold outside...

fall in central ohio is frustrating. one day it's 40 and cold and the next week it's 70. regardless, i don't own a proper winter coat and haven't for a few years. i don't know why not. i usually wear a down vest and sweater or my spring Lands End coat and scarf. 

i just didn't want to be cold walking to and from campus anymore so i've been on the hunt. i have a jcrew black dress coat for work, i just need something for daily use.

my criteria: it had to be waterproof bc when snow sticks to you, it's a pain, especially when you scrape your car and it piles up on your coat sleeves and it had to be warm but thin, no puff monster jacket.

i've been wanting the north face lauren trench for years but i can't pay $399 for a coat. even i have my limits.

but i finally found a winner. a Michael Kors long black coat that has down filling but isn't puffy. it's way cuter in person than that photo and i detached the hood.

best part, i only paid $50 at TJ Maxx compared to $90 on overstock.com and $200 full-price.

and i'm not returning it per usual. i'm actually really satisfied with my purchase.

now i just need it to snow.

remind me of this plea in april, when i'm in the depths of seasonal affective disorder and pleading for sunshine and flip flops!

a $200 saturday

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toby the taurus monster broke today. he's about 382 in car years so i can't be too upset. and it was fixable. his stability bar joint or something or other broke. $200 later and he's good as "new".

i just need him to last until after the mcat in april. if i do well, i'll be purchasing a "new" car since i'll likely need it before heading off to income-less medical school. if i bomb the mcat, i'll probably head to NYC and sell my car. just a few more months toby monster, you can do it.

in good news the service garage did a once over, checking all his bits and pieces and he got GREEN for GOOD in all categories. he's such a trooper. regardless if i replace him or sell him, i'll really miss him. he's been such a good car for all i put him through.

my savings account is moaning from emptiness. doesn't shit always happen like this? i had to register for the mcat, buy my mcat study materials and fix toby in the course of 3 weeks. poor poor savings.

i'm going to drown my sorrows in a nap.

"oh my gobble!"

before stuffing our face with turkey and mashed potatoes, me, alisha and mr. buckeye are hitting the depressing streets of perry twp. for a turkey trot!!!

so i guess that means i should start running again huh? 

edit: quote attributed to geoff.

Fill 'um in!

1. I am in a better mood today than i have been for the past week. i have no reason to be in a bitchy mood but sometimes it just happens. judging by my facebook, i'm not the only one. must be the zodiac.

2. I wish i had a weekend with nothing to do and i could go home and spend time with my family. this weekend physics & chem midterm studying makes that impossible.le sigh.

3. I like fall and lazy fridays. i pretty much can't wait to get home, change into something warm and comfy and watch 20/20!

4. I can practically taste thanksgiving dinner if i think hard enough. t-minus 1 month.i have home cooked food maybe 2x a year, thanksgiving and christmas. this is a big deal for me.

5. I hope for world peace. Cliche but true.

6. I think there's no better color than navy blue. classic and classy.

7. I was thinking about making it a Starbucks morning and i'm happy i did. it's amazing what a latte can do for a mood.

wednesday on a thursday

{one} have you ever crawled through a window?

i'm sure i have but i can't really remember a particular time. i never crawled out windows to "sneak out" as a teen. if i have it was probably because i locked myself out of a house or something similar.

{two} what’s one subject that you wish you knew more about?

chemistry, then i wouldn't have to study so much. same goes for physics.

{three} who’s your favorite villain?

uma thurman in kill bill. is that considered a villain? regardless, she's bad ass.

{four} have you ever hit a jackpot on a slot machine?

i don't gamble. i find nothing more moronic than wasting money you earned.

{five} what is your favorite disney movie?

probably beauty and the beast? little mermaid? lion king? any of those types of movies, nothing recent.

{six} if the whole world were listening, what would you say?

stop the judgment and bigotry. please.

{seven} if you could choose one song to describe you or your life, what would it be?

"And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light, that shines on me, shine until tomorrow, let it be."

{eight} your desk: messy or organized?

usually organized but i've stopped caring.

{nine} have you ever had surgery?

negative.

{ten} if you could have any animal as a pet, what would you have?

more dogs or a micro pig.