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Today was much better than yesterday. Yesterday we got back our microbiology midterms. The whole class did pretty poorly. I passed, but not by much. Pass is 60% in our program. Today I wrote another anatomy and physiology midterm. She was nice to us!! It was filled with “choose 1 of these 2 questions to answer”, or “choose 4 of these 6”. Sweeeet. I studied a lot for it, and I think I did well.

Last night was very quiet around the Jorna household. Scott was working on his math and I was studying. He’s writing his math test right now.

I went to Metrotown after school today to look for track shoes. I need shoes with metal spikes on them for skeleton this weekend. No one had any! After a bunch of telephoning I think I tracked some down (pun intended). They cost more than I thought though. :( I guess track & field equipment isn’t huge in the winter.

from euronuclear.org

I am really liking nuclear medicine more and more. Sometimes I think it’s totally inefficient and stupid to have to study nuclear medicine before studying MRI, but really I love the whole diagnostic imaging field. And nuclear medicine is pretty awesome. I mean, using specific radioactive drugs to label active areas of the body is pretty neat. In the end it will probably be useful to have two specialties anyway because I think all the technologies are converging into one piece of equipment. Ideally I would get nuc med + MRI + CT + PET.

By the way that kid is growing. All those dark black bits are bone cells dividing in the growth plates.

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I water marbled my nails last weekend during a break from schoolwork. I did rainbow colours this time and am quite pleased with how they turned out. I kinda need a brighter green though, I think.

I won’t be buying any though because I officially signed up for skeleton club. Scott and I discussed it a lot and decided that this is a pretty neat opportunity that may not come up again and in the long run what difference is a few hundred dollars going to make. In ten years I would regret not doing it more than regret spending the money, I think. Anyway so now I am on ultra-budget.

Of possible interest: My water marbling tutorial.

The first skeleton trip is next next weekend. :D I am iksidid.

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Extreme homework weekend!

Yesterday I sat at my desk for like ten hours. I listened to the entire Triple J Hottest 100 from 2010 playlist which is nearly seven hours long! And then I still did more work after that. And today I’ve spent all morning working on a paper and I still want to start my anatomy midterm notes. I’m hoping that if I do all this stuff now I will have a relatively easy week.

Paper Draft1 is now complete and printed out for proofreading! Woot.

Also banana muffins are in the oven.

Our freezer was getting a little full of frozen bananas so I decided to make up a batch of mom’s choc chip banana bread (in muffin format). Really I might as well stop trying to bring bananas to school because they get SO smashed before I am ready to eat them, so I end up bringing them home and putting them in the freezer.

I really need a banana case.

I saw some at the Granville Market (I think) but they were hard plastic in only one shape, so if your banana doesn’t fit you are out of luck. In my mind I have invented a banana case made of flexible but sturdy tubing (maybe corrugated bendable tubing?) that you can slip over any banana.

New plan: drop out of school and manufacture banana cases while training up for the 2018 Olympics. Yes?

 

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from zimbio.com

If you had the opportunity to throw yourself head first down an ice slide would you do it?

Because I have it, and I want to. REALLY REALLY BAD.

Rosemarie’s university is starting a bobsleigh and skeleton sliding club. She forwarded me the info knowing I would be interested in it (that is the understatement of the year) and I went up to SFU on Tuesday night to go to the information meeting with her. Officially I can’t join the team because I am not a SFU student, but they will still help me and I can still go with them. They’ll teach us what to do and everything.

The only problem is the cost, not surprisingly.

Surprisingly though is that it’s not actually THAT expensive.

The problem is that I thought it would be so I already decided to spend money on going home at Christmas instead. Doh. Now I need to see if I can scrounge up a few hundred more dollars so I can zoom up to 140 km/h head first too.

Ever since the meeting I’ve been thinking of ways to save some cash. No new clothes, no Christmas presents, no snacks, eat only Mr. Noodles, etc etc.

We’ll see we’ll see. I need to go over the ol’ budget again this weekend.

ONLY 7 YEARS UNTIL 2018 OLYMPICS. MUST START TRAINING NOW.

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Survivor USED to be one of my favourite shows. NOT ANY MORE!! What is up with all the praying?? I don’t watch Survivor to watch God’s handywork, I just want to see some challenges!! They don’t even do good challenges any more. And the product placements make my eyes roll out of my head. Seriously they prayed like 5 times in this last episode. WTF?

We definitely would normally stop watching but we entered this betting pool so I feel like I have to keep watching. I dunno though, it’s sooooooo bad.

Anyway in other news, I got another Harvest Box today. It came with lettuce, carrots, cucumber, pears, apples, onions, potatoes, and tomatoes. Not bad, not bad.

Ah last week I went to a Halloween pumpkin carving and Hocus Pocus watching party where I carved the most boring pumpkin ever. For whatever reason I was not feeling very inspired that day. Anyway it was still fun and I got to eat lots of tasty treats including brownie mini doughnuts and see some friends so all is good. ANYWAY, I put my pumpkin on the shelf near the TV and kind of forgot about it… until today…. when it started to smell. OH jeeze it looked gross with his decomposing grin.

Ewwwwww.