Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

drowning rats

powerade had this line of drinks called power zero and i love the flavor mixed berry. why? because we have SO MUCH in common.

lets review our similarities:
::i like foods and drinks low in calories and power zero mixed berry has the lowest amount of calories possible-ZERO!
::i also like foods and drinks that are sweet and power zero mixed berry is deliciously sweet
::we both like the clear blue color
::i like things that have a good grip and power zero mixed berry has a handy grip mechanism
::it's called power zero and that's what i'm expecting for my grade on my pharmacology exam (maybe)!

okay, so maybe we don't have that many similarities.. but that's how i felt coming out of my pharmacology exam-- powerless and zero. waaaahhh! dang you, power zero!

if you could, how would you kill a rat? today, andy told me that dan caught a rat and drowned it in the toilet. not only do i never want to use that toilet again (located at Douglass Park, Apt. 412 to save you all who would have a toilet-ing experience there), i also wondered, why soap water? please dan, enlighten us:

"generally the idea is.. uh.. i put, you're typing exactly what i'm saying?? i put conditioner around the edge of the tub so if the mouse tries to climb up, it will slip down. i opened up my bag and pulled out each piece of clothing, with a glove of course, shook each one to make sure the mouse wasn't in it, and then andy looked in and saw a TERRIFIED little mouse in the corner. poor thing. and so we took the bag and dumped everything upside down into the tub and out fell the mouse. and when it hit the water it started swimming back and forth the tub. oh we took "a trash bucket," not mine of course, and scooped it out of the water.. and for a while it was swimming and when it was in the bucket i was thinking back to the analogy of cheese.. of milk? no wait, butter? i don't know what it is. what the heck? you're writing everything i'm saying? so i was thinking about cheese.. no wait it wasn't cheese, it was cream, and two mice (please erase all my stuttering).. and two mice were swimming.. WAIT no no that was a different analogy. i think it was one mice. no wait.. that was a different analogy. so one mouse is kicking really hard. actually no. both mice are fighting for their lives. but one gives up while the cream is still liquidy and drowns. stupid mouse. dumb mouse. the other mouse keeps kicking and after a while it turns into butter, or coagulated milk, and crawls its way out. but unfortunately for this mouse there's no cream in the tub. so the mouse was swimming actively and then suddenly stopped. andy said it was just hibernating so we poured out all the water. grabbed chopsticks to pick it up. and then andy picked it up by it's slimy tail. he tried a few times.. and then yea just dropped it in the toilet."

"did it flush well?" "yeah it flushed well." "why soap water?" "because it's slippery."

as much as i dislike mice, i kind of feel sorry for this one. never would i want my torturers to be andy and dan. jenny says she would have done the same thing. if you are applauding them for their terrible actions, you can ask dan for some of their torture pictures and videos. yes, they have pictures AND videos.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

how do i start this thing?

this blog was created about one or two months ago and this is my first attempt to post. right now, all i have to say is that Northeastern's nursing class of '10 is so limited on time for studying that we've resorted to completing our assignments during any "spare" moment of the day. this includes taping up* our lecture notes outside the shower doors so that we can read while we clean ourselves, reading the textbook while we carry out our other ADLs dooodies, carrying our pocket books/notes during clinical so while loitering we can pull them out to memorize at least one more concept, playing med-surg hangman and then teaching the concepts to each other while waiting for our instructors, reading books from other people outside of our class on acute and chronic renal failure, interrupting casual conversation to ask about lab values, studying for two classes at the same time, studying for one class while in another and so forth. i wonder if there are other ways to utilize our time to the fullest.. hm..

i can't wait for this week to be over!