Oh finals week, generally the longest week in the world. Though ours is kind of a week and a half, the U always has to be different. Our apartment is so disgusting right now. I haven;t had time to clean for a couple of weeks, and I guess now that it's finals dishes are really optional on your day, even if you don't have a final that day, or the next morning? I'm thinking I'll clean a little for a study break some time in the next two days. I also am going to have some difficulty packing, I just realized. I have my clothes for Hawaii in my suitcase, and it's fairly full as it is now, plus there are Christmas presents in there. But I'm not sure how I'm going to fit everything else into one suitcase. We'll see how it goes. Though, I coudl give Chris his present while he's down here, and the free's up some space in my suitcase.

Today I take my History of Medicine final, I'm not really worried about this one, it can't be all that difficult, two essays and some primary source identification. very comparible to the midterm actually. Wed is O Chem however, and I am a little worried for that one. I have been studying some though, I reviewed the old sutff I need to know, and finished all the new stuff, well except NMR and IR spectroscopy, but since we didn't evern finish NMR in class, I'm not going to spend time on those unless I have some extra time.

In other news, I made a pie yesterday. I realized either slightly before or during the process that I had no pie pan, rolling pin, or waxed paper. However I managed to make a square pie, with a fairly thick crust. I think I should go on like homemaker survivor or something. Make a caserole with these four ingredients and tin foil, go! Anyway, I'm going to go study a little more for HMed, wish me luck!

Well, today was full of strange stories, so be ready. Let's start with this morning, I wake up, and walk into the kitchen, and there on the kitchen table is the handle for the fridge. Somehow after I went to sleep Jenny managed to pull it off. Don't ask me, I couldn't tell you. I went to History of Medicine, where we didn't start lecture for a really long time, and then found out that yes indeed I do have a sinus infection, but whatever, I've actually done a really good job of being healthy this semester, this is only the second illness.

We actually had some review in O Chem today, I couldn't believe it. After that I went to a 3 hour Calc review, which was helpful, but a lot of Calc. Hence the blogging and not learning right now. I got some Christmas cards today also. I love that people send me my own Christmas cards, though I don't usualy get all that many. I got the one from my family. We had a picture this year, it's Ben, in a hoodie in the woods. My family is so wierd. And once again, I'm the boring child, learning and working, and not traveling to Europe or burning holes in my clothes in class. But that's ok, the one time I was the interesting child was not fun, and at least the first question of me is no longer how are you feeling.

In other news, I'm in love with the Regina Specktor CD Laurie sent me. and I'm off to do more Calculus. Woot!

So, today was a day. I don't generally like wednesdays, it's just a lot of information to digest in a small amount of time. But I didn't fall asleep in Calc today, and only fell asleep for 10 mins in Hmed, I did a little more sleeping in OChem though.

In other news, I went to my first real party tonight. Krista came home from Gana today, and the poor girl must have been exhausted. She had lots of long flights, and was thinking she might be getting malaria. This was the first party I'd been at where there was alcohol served, and her roommate was trying to get me to take a jello shot, but I was like...um I probably would die, I haven't been feeling all that well as it is, I'm afraid I'm on the verge of a flare, and with finals coming up, let's not tempt fate. But Eric who worked at camp last year, and I had heard many a story about but never met said he'd take mine. I don't know, I don't think I'm much of a party person. Plus there was a very affectionate drunk couple there, and I really didn't need that tonight. Oh, and tomorrow is my last day at the children's hospital. Alex is right, the week before finals really does suck. But In less than 2 weeks I should be a lot happier.

Oh man, but I need to sleep, if I want to not sleep through calc tomorrow, or sleep through the children's hostpital. Maybe tomorrow I can spend some more time with a baby, I love holding the babies, it's so relaxing and wonderful.

So, another uneventful weekend, Alex and I watched Maid in Manhattan, and Everafter, which we realized is the exact same story in different time periods, we also made cookies. During which the oven started smoking, and we opened the windows to let it out. I didn't think about it at the time, but my plant was in front of the window, and so now it's dead a little bit, but most of it is still alive, so that is positive. Good thing plants don't have pain receptors right?

Now, tell me if you can understand this, my parents are out at my sister's campus in CA for her Christmas concert, and yesterday they bought her a bike. When I asked to have my bike here they said no, it would get stolen. But she gets one, when she already has a car, and her campus is probably 1/6 the size of mine. I don't know why this bothers me so much, but I sound very bitter today.

It snowed yesterday, and is continuing to snow today. I guess that's acceptable, considering it is November, I'd just rather have summer all the time. Oh well, can't win them all I guess.