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Things got crazy last week!!

Every day I was just studying and doing assignments and reading for tests and doing more homework and more studying. Lesley and I stayed after school multiple times to do work. And I had a million appointments to go to as well. FUN TIMES! It was definitely the hardest week of school so far this year.

Then when it was finally the weekend I had to wake up at 7 AM to spend all of Saturday in North Van with Gillian and Victor at a BRAIN SPECT SYMPOSIUM. We are ultra-nerds.


The conference was… weird. It was really cool that it was the exact combination of my scholarly interests (neuroscience + nuc med + doctors) but everything was really biased. The featured speaker was Daniel Amen. Maybe you have seen him on TV.  He really likes nuclear medicine brain SPECT scans. He used to be a doctor but now he has his own clinics [Amen clinics] and sells his treatments and books and SUPPLEMENTS etc etc.

He said some good stuff though. Such as: “psychiatrists are the only type of doctor that don’t look at what they specialize in (cardiologists look at hearts, optometrists look at eyes, psychiatrists GUESS)”. And it really is awesome for us [nuc med techs] if he tells every doctor to order a brain SPECT for their patients. But he’s so much of a salesman it makes me weary.

Plus all of the rest of the speakers at the conference were doctors that went to Amen’s training so they were also extremly pro-Amen. I feel uncomfortable when I hear that much stuff for one side of a debate without hearing the other side.

Well anyway it was still pretty interesting and we learned a bit of stuff and we got free lunch so all is well.

Sunday I worked on labs all day. And the Monday after work I went to Lesley’s house so we could finish off even more homework. We spent 6.5 hours on ONE ASSIGNMENT! GAH!

All this staying after school and doing homework with Lesley is all part of my new study plan. We’ve decided that doing stuff together is much much better than struggling through it alone. So far it’s been working really really well. And we’re getting stuff done earlier rather than later, which will be good when things start to get crazy again next time.

Today was finally not so busy. I’m at clinical this week and next and almost all of my school work is done so I kind of have some free time again. YAY! Tomorrow Leslie Hab is coming to visit Scott and I on her way to Korea!! I am excited to see her.

I feel like I still have even more stuff to talk about but this is long enough for now. Until next time dudes!!

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HALLO. I AM STRESSED OUT.

Right now I am on a dinner break but as soon as I stop eating I have to get back to work. OMG so much stuff to do this week. I made a schedule today so I don’t forget anything.

See you next week!! :'(

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Nutella pecan pie. This pie was really really really good. I used store-bought crust.

I mean look at that. YUM.

This is the paper that ripped off inside my printer. I called Epson support to get them to tell me how to get it out. I got it out no problem but then the printer decided to say that all of my ink is empty even though I can hear the ink sloshing around the cartridge when I shake it. What a scam.

I complained to Epson on Twitter and the rep said that customer service would be contacting me, but they haven’t yet. I’m not going to let this go though.

Water marbled my nails last week. I like the swirl patterns but I don’t like the colours together.

I’ve been doing school work all day. Ugh. I’ve accomplished a lot though, which is good news. I have three midterms this week, plus a case study, and two labs to do, then four labs total to write up. BLECH.

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The UBC Apple Festival is on this weekend and it just happens to be the rainiest weekend we have had in a LOOONG time. 150+ mm of rain today and tomorrow, supposedly.

Being serious apple enthusiasts, the rain didn’t stop us from going this morning. Luckily a lot of the stuff is under tents. We still did everything we did last year, but just spent less time dawdling in between. We did the whole tasting session (you can try pieces of like 60 different apples for 20 minutes), got the big samples of the new apples, ate lots of samples of apple chips, flavoured almonds, popcorn, and drank warm apple cider.

I didn’t take many pictures this year because it was so wet.

My favourite grocery store apple is the Macintosh. I actually really enjoy that kind of mushy texture. I know I am a minority. Anyway the apple festival is awesome because they cross all sorts of types of apples and you can try all these different variations of the type of apple you usually like (crisp, crunchy, tart, juicy, sweet etc.) and find something that YOU really really love.

yoko, sinta, jonamac

I don’t think they had as many Macintosh-like apples this year, which was a little disappointing for me. I wanted to buy something different, but ended up getting the same type as I did last year, the Jonamac (cross between a Jonathan and a Macintosh). Scott got Sinta and we are going to share the bag of Yoko (which is a good thing because they are ginormo).

I forced everyone to get into a picture. You can see how hard the rain is coming down if you look in front of the umbrella. And how soggy Lesley and Scott look, haha. Yup it was a damp morning.

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Just a reminder that this is a NO CANNED PUMPKIN zone. On this blog you WILL NOT find gross recipes using canned pumpkin such as pumpkin white chocolate cookies/hot chocolate, pumpkin dip/cream cheese/scones, pumpkin pie oatmeal/milkshake/smoothie/french toast. Blech. Why are people so obsessed with ruining perfectly good things by adding canned pumpkin to them in the fall??!! I don’t get it.