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+ Scott and I figured out how to make kettle corn at home. It’s super easy. I may never eat anything else again. I will take some pics and post the recipe the next time we make it (probably tomorrow, haha).

+ I won a scholarship for my performance at school last year. YAY! It’s the Brenda Clark Nuclear Medicine Technology Scholarship. How fancy.

+ I was thinking maybe I could do some posts about nuclear medicine. I could write up some of the explanations that I give to patients and show you some of the equipment and maybe some of the types of pictures we take? I am tired of people having no idea at all about what I am studying. Would you be interested in some “intro to nuclear medicine” posts at all?

+ Scott and I are (probably) renting a car this coming weekend and going up to Whistler. Brian and I are going to do skeleton school. And Brian and Morgan have moved up there permanently now, so Scott and I get to stay with them. :) Was that confusing? Hope not. Anyway of course I am super pumped about skeleton and if we get to do the course we will be able to join any training sessions now instead of relying on the SFU ones. WOOOO. Brian really got hooked last year so he’s probably going to be doing it a lot this season!! Hopefully I get to go a few times as well.


+ H&M has SPACE PANTS and I really want a pair. The H&M at Metrotown didn’t have any though. I’ll have to check out the store downtown.


+ And this is the best sweater ever. They only have it at the American Forever 21 though. Bummer.

+ My hospital placement is going fine. Not great, but fine. I don’t think I could ever be loud enough to fit in there, really.

OK BACK TO BUMMING AROUND. BYE BYE!

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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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I am so glad it is the weekend because I had a super busy last two days.

Thursday

  • Worked 7 to 3 in the stress lab. Stress lab is my least favourite rotation because it is really busy all day long and can get really chaotic and hectic at certain points. The tech I was working with got me to run the whole thing with no help. IT WAS HARD!! I did manage to do it though, which I think is a pretty good accomplishment. I got a pretty good evaluation for the week.
  • Then I walked around downtown for an hour.
  • Met up with Scott near his work, then walked over to Meat & Bread for dinner. Unfortunately they were out of porchetta so we decided to walk all the way back to Davie Street to try out the American Cheesesteak Co instead.
  • Ate a delicious classic cheesesteak with beef, American cheese, and sautéed mushrooms.
  • Killed time in a coffee shop for an hour or so.
  • Went to Zsofi and Dylan’s apartment for Dylan’s birthday party! Drank some wine and got to try Dylan’s homemade ice cream sandwiches. Really good.
  • Finally went home and went immediately to bed.

Friday

  • Scott went to Edmonton for 4 hours. Seriously. He had to wake up at 4:30 AM to do that.
  • I went to school. Human Behaviour class was extra uncomfortable and awkward. So much second hand embarrassment. Wasted two hours of my life in Research Methods learning about maybe using highlighters as a research aid, and some other stuff that we already went over in another class last year. Then a couple hours of Communications, which was actually fine. I don’t mind that class.
  • Went out for bubble tea with most of the people from the other set. I miss them. I had milky strawberry slush with pearls and it was yummo.
  • Went home for a couple hours. Scott arrived with sushi in hand. The best.
  • Took public transit for 1.25 hours to get to SFU to help out at the skeleton club Gangnam Style pub night. I helped sell tickets and do coat check for three hours. It wasn’t the best night for a fundraiser (Thanksgiving weekend!) but I think we still made a bit of money for the club, which is really good news.
  • Bussed home and collapsed into bed for the night.

Today is homework and chores day. We have to get the apartment ready to host the 2nd Annual Orphan Thanksgiving Potluck on Monday night. I think we have 12 people coming, and I’m making turkey again. :D