2 days

Cabbage wraps. Seriously.
They have become my favorite lunch lately. They are fun and interactive and delicious and good for you too! All you have to do is boil a few cabbage leave for a few minutes, until they are soft and moldable. Throw whatever you want in there and ta-da! you get to feel like you are at a Chinese Restaurant!
Today, they had rice, broccoli, salsa, and cheese in them. Usually I put some sort of meat in there, usually after Taco Tuesday when I have leftovers, but this week I'm trying to clean out all the leftovers in my fridge before I go home, not create more. I still have half a cabbage to eat, because I know that will not keep much longer... looks like I'll be eating lots of salad for the next two days.
It's always a delicate balance the week before I go home. My grocery shopping usually includes enough fruit and veggies to last through the week and nothing else. So far, I've been really good of cleaning out everything perishable without running out of food. If all else fails though, there is emergency soup in my cupboard.

Diane always has candy on her recptionist desk in the Exercise Science/Athletic Training Department office.
We all love her for it.

I am tired of studying, it's all I've done for the past two days.
Normal Sinus Rhythm
Sinus Bradycardia
Sinus Tachycardia
Sinus Arrythmia
Sinus Arrest
Supraventricula Arrythmias
Premature Atrial Contraction
Supraventricular Tachycardia
Atrial Flutter
Atrial Fibrillation
Premature Junctional Rhythm
Junctional Escape Beat
Accelerated Junctional Rhythem
Premature Ventricular Contraction
Ventricular Escape Rhythm
Accelerated Ventricular Rhythm
Ventricular Tachycardia
Ventricular Fibrillation
Asystole
First Degree AV Block
Second Degree AV Block Type 1(Wenckeback)
Second Degree AV Block Type 2(Mobitz 2)
Third Degree AV Block
Wolff-Parkinson-White Pattern
Long QT Syndrome

Are all the things I need to know for my test on Tuesday. I need to know what they look like on an EKG, and how they differ from what a normal, healthy, regular heart beat would look. I need to know whether or not you should stress test someone with each condition, why you would stress test them, and which ones you pull out the chest paddles for.

In other news, I got a golf ball from Curtis, who is on the golf team here. Now I can roll it around under my foot while I sit here and study and try to break up the scar tissue in my feet that leads to plantar facitis. It feels good in a painful way, in a kind of "I know this will make my feet not hurt as back tomorrow morning," kind of way. But every time I roll over the clump of scar tissue and can HEAR it grating around in there, I kind of want to barf. I can do scar tissue massage on other people all day long (and enjoy it), listen to and feel the "junk" that is scar tissue cracking and grinding and breaking up under my fingers and elbows. But the second it is my own body; just gross.

In more other news, I'll be home in 5 days.

good night

I got bored on Thursday night and gave myself a bit of a hair cut. Nothing drastic, the length didn't change, I just gave myself bangs and took a bit of weight out of the top layer.
It looks very nice when I'm not pretending to be an angsty teenager.

Last night the outrageously gay guys (Kyle, Emanuel, John [only straight male there] and Mohale) who live above the apartment I will be living with next year threw a huge party. Just as Nichole and I were going up, Lindsey brought two guys (Ritzvik who is from India and Chase) down to use their bathroom, cause apparently there was a line upstairs. We talked for a little bit, and they both told me I was "Fabulous!" which made me feel good about myself.
We got to the door just as Mohale was yelling at everyone to get out of his house, because it had gone from a large party to a crazy cluster-fuck of friends of friends of friends showing up and that was not cool. So as we were looking out the window watching people leave (and get into fights in the middle of the street - classy, but better than in the apartment) Marquette's Public Safety shows up. Lindsey screams at the rest of the friends of friends of friends who are resisting leaving, "The fucking cops are here!" And magic could not have cleared the apartment faster.
Nichole, Ritz, and I hung out in Nichole's apartment (as Ritz and I are not yet allowed to be drunk) while Lindsey and Mohale dealt with DPS; who were only there doing their job and only asking if any Marquette students were involved with the party (maybe, but the guys and Lindsey all go to UWM - and are therefore safe from public safety citations) and if anyone was hurt, unconscious, or refusing to leave. Mo and Lindsey are good at PR and thanked DPS for coming cause they had been trying to get everyone to leave for a while at that point.

After that we all hung out upstairs for a good three hours, having drinks and chicken sandwiches cause Kyle walked into the living room around midnight and said, "So I just made about 12 chicken patties, and you bitches are eating them." (Kyle is about 5'10'' Puerto Rican, and has the type of build that could be very muscular and build like a fucking bull but instead is just kind of fluffy on the outside - just so you can picture this). So we ate chicken and after that I sat in the kitchen with Lindsey and Ritz and talked about our relationships for another hour.


The moral of the story is I can't wait to live with Nichole and Lindsey and Marie (who was seen briefly) next year, and live below Mohale, Kyle, Emanuel, and John. They are all very nice people. John was chivalrous enough to walk with Nichole and I as she walked me home, then walk her back to her apartment; we all just think he wanted to spend more time with her though, which was cute.

Now, to be responsible until my birthday. I think I've found a nice balance with this.

Babies

My cousin Nathan and his wife Jen are being induced today! I'm so excited to have a new baby cousin to play with, and specially glad I get to meet him when I go home in two weeks when he's still a tiny newborn.

So I got an honorary niece in January.
A cousin in March.
The girl who was my mentor freshmen year who graduated last may is having a baby in four weeks.
I'll get another future niece at the end of May.

Oh, and Ryan. But no one likes him anymore.

That should set back my internal clock for another, oh I dunno... seven to ten years. :P

At Marquette, all students living in the dorms are required to have a meal plan, but it is also available to all students. In the dining halls, you swipe your card as you enter, so the attendant there knows you have a meal plan and have access to the dining all. With the meal plan, you can swipe into a dining hall whenever you want (while they are open) and have access to everything in them.
However, in the Schroeder Dining Hall, the seating area is also a 24-hour study space. You can either enter one door, get a meal, and then swipe as you enter the seating area, or you can just enter the seating area without going through the serving area. The drink station for this dining hall is in the seating area/24-hour study space. So you can bet your ass I've started doing all of my studying in the dining hall of a sophomore dorm where I have unlimited access you coffee.
Do I feel bad for drinking the dining hall's coffee despite not having a meal plan and therefore not specifically paid for it? Absolutely not. I give Marquette $30,000 a year; they can give me a cup of coffee a few times a week.

There is this couch thing in the women's bathroom on the first floor of the Life Sciences building. I'm not really sure why, personally, whenever I have felt like having a lie-down between classes, I have never thought to do it in a bathroom. I have however, seen girls put their backpacks and coats on it.

And now I'm just realizing this picture kind of looks like it was taken from a movie about a crazy mental hospital or something equally creepy. I promise that is not the case, and it is just the angle of where in the bathroom I am standing.