So there's this blog I used to read from time to time... Ah Yes, Medical School which is now Ah Yes, Residency since the author has moved on in his medical studies. It allows me to look on with detached bemusement and be glad that I'm not going that route. Anyways, there's an entry he has about pages, and some are hilarious. Like this one from a pharmacist:


ATTN: RE PT _____, PLEASE CLARIFY ROUTE FOR COMPAZINE SUPPOSITORY, CANNOT GIVE MED UNTIL CLARIFIED

...

wow. This is a pharamcist.




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Now playing: Gin Blossoms - Til I Hear it From You

mood: amused

oh and for a happier post... I bought a nintendo DS with my first paycheck and I'm totally addicted. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga is the bees knees. (where did that expression come from anyways?)

So music is a double-edged sword. I love it; it's a way for me to express myself, let out my emotions, de-stress, loosen up, concentrate, lose myself, etc. but being a musician changes your perception of things. I notice when people are out of tune (ruins a lot of mainstream music for me) and songs tend to get quite repetitive. I have this knack for remembering tunes and sometimes chord progressions, so the result is hearing the same song over and over again (not just the canon in D falling thirds progression). Some I've been noticing recently:

Hosanna (a new praise song we've been singing in church) and a System of a Down song (I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my girl)

Pearl Jam (Jeremy) and Train (Meet Virginia)

Linkin Park (What I've Done) and Papa Roach (Forever)
(The chords in the Linkin Park song are twice as fast as the Papa Roach song)

it drives me nuts sometimes. Don't even get me started on Christian praise songs. They all start to sound the same. I can predict the melody a lot even if I haven't heard the song before, which is sad. That and they have like one verse and one chorus that they repeat over and over, haha.



I played ultimate frisbee at the park today. It was fun. Haven't done something like that for a while.

And I got to actually do something in lab today. woot.

mood: cynical

Tomorrow's my first day on the new job. woot.

music: career day - the format

The government gave me $178 back from taxes. woot! hm... to spend or save... haha knowing me I'll save it.

Oh and finals are officially over. Now if only I could get the whole lab thing figured out...

I'm in the mood for a road trip, or some form of travel. This is the first summer I don't have anything planned in that direction yet. :/ There's a guy I know from music classes that's going to Ireland for 4 weeks this summer. I'm insanely jealous. Next year, or the year after... I'll find a way to go.

I think I'm going to take some form of art class this summer for fun. I'm thinking painting--I haven't picked up the brush in a long time. And I want to try and get some gigs, maybe for musicals or something. Idk. Too much to figure out.

too many "..."'s!

mood: creative music: it's all in my head

I forgot to mention in my earlier (long) post that Stephen and I had an epic staring contest on Wednesday. It lasted almost two hours (I think an hour and 45?). There were a couple of breaks for safety reasons but we continued it even while walking and we were super talented with checking things out in peripheral vision. I'm proud. haha.

I didn't get TGen. (they said I was in the top third?) I haven't heard from Rhode Island, so I'm sure that's out too.

My summer is a blank slate.

Ideas?

So I have to go home tomorrow... I wanna stay in Vancouver. :( It's pretty neat here. And hanging out with Alli, and her roommates and friends have been really nice. I like it here. AND I totally got to wear rainboots yesterday! It was pretty awesome. I went into Kits by myself (it's not really that far) and checked out some bookstores and other stuff. I swear there's a coffee shop here at least every block if not more. My trip here has totally been a whirlwind. I think I'd like to come back sometime. Here and Seattle. Oh and Victoria Island. It looks cute. haha, I want to go everywhere and do everything, it seems like. I dunno, I just really like traveling and seeing new places. I mean, I could hardly contain my excitement on the plane coming over here.

Let's see... Friday was Grenville Island and a dinner party; Saturday was geocaching around campus, tea, and improv; Sunday was the aquarium downtown at Stanley Park; Monday exploring, rain, and Juno; today apartment looking, the Anthropology museum, and battle of the bands.

I saw the ska band Friday Knights at the UBC battle of the bands tonight. It was pretty sweet. But, hey, I like trumpets and saxophones and stuff (in the right context anyways...) Man I'm such a nerd sometimes.

Oh yeah, and I found prickly pear fruit in the market here. Prickly pear.

So Flogging Molly concert for St. Pat's... and it looks like my friend from high school I thought was going to go may not be going. Which leaves awkward slightly annoying (possibly drunk) guy I went with two years ago, (possibly drunk?) ex-bf, random creepy guy, random cute guy, or myself. Seems like a crap-shoot, eh? I'm still debating whether or not to let my ex-bf know I'm actually going. That could be, um, heh, interesting. I might just go by myself. I don't need protection, right? I just seem to have bad luck with Flogging Molly concerts. (1) Creepy men, (2) awkward/slightly annoying guy, (3) most awkward date EVER, (4) we'll see... Though I guess (2) wasn't that bad.

I REALLY do not want to hop on a plane and come home tomorrow. Oh well.

mood: thoughtful music: Flogging Molly - Float

I took this from trenchkamen. I dunno, I think some of these are kind of obscure...

- Pick 10 of your favourite movies.
- Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
- Post them here for everyone to guess.
- Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
- NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

1) With a name like "Long Arrow" I didn't think he'd be Irish.

2) Why do we even *have* that lever?
The Emperor's New Groove: antisocialmoose

3) Let me 'splain. [pause] No, there is too much. Let me sum up.
The Princess Bride: antisocialmoose

4) You're not a eunuch are you?
Pirates of the Carribean: antisocialmoose

5)
Doesn't anyone wear any clothes around here?
No.
What?!
This is a nudist colony.

6) Hmm... we see you have boom-boom sticks... bye bye.

7) Well, there's the usual things: flowers... chocolates... promises you don't intend to keep...

8) Oh, incidentally, I'm Alan-A-Dale, a minstrel. That's an old time folk singer. My job is to tell it like it is, or was, or whatever.

9)
All of your pens have turned to inkcicles.
Our assets are frozen.
How would the bookkeeping staff like to be suddenly... UNEMPLOYED?
[singing] HEAT WAVE. This is my island in the sun.

10) You remember the day I went out for cigarettes and didn't come back? You must have noticed.

mood: artistic music: Run Around by Blues Traveler

My performance in the studio recital went pretty well yesterday. Dr. McLin (the violin prof) said it's the best she's heard me play: intonation, bow arm, tone, everything. I'm still on cloud nine from that comment... and she started talking to me about planning a recital! :) And Ben came, which was awesome, because everyone else was too busy. It's nice having someone other than my parents go... eee! I love that piece. I think I'm going to play it in my recital.

So my first round of exams didn't go terribly well. My science and society courses should have been fine, but I missed points for really stupid stuff. I guess I know how they grade now. Biochem though, grr. I guess I just need to study more. And I'll get more sleep next time (hopefully). I just have to make it through the next two weeks, and then... VANCOUVER! woot! :D

mood: chipper music: Nieblas Del Riachuelo - Bebo & Cigala

I slept 11 hours last night. I guess it's been weeks since I've had a full night's rest but I didn't realize it was that bad. I've been pretty physically and emotionally exhausted lately. Life is returning to some semblance of normalcy, which is relieving. I'm still miffed (and got a bit of Irish anger, I suppose) about the pageant, but I guess I just have to realize that I did well (I really can't think of anything I would change, not to sound arrogant) and that it was rigged and I just have to let it go. Besides, now I'm free to do whatever the heck I want for spring break. :D My mom is turned off to Irish stuff in general now, which is sad... I still love Ireland and the culture. It's totally a part of me. I fiddled for a few hours today and totally lost track of time. I should go to seisiuns more regularly. I'm turned off to being involved in the Irish community anymore though.
I'll get to go to Ireland someday (for longer than a day and a half); I'll just have to pay for it on my own.
...and find someone to go with me. :/

and I really wish that my bio-dad would just leave me alone. It's really low that he's using the kids (my half sibs) to try and manipulate me. I feel sorry for them. They don't need to harbor that kind of anger.

My dad got me a book called "microterrors" that basically has factsheets/photos on a bunch of diseases (viruses, bacteria, protazoa, and fungi). It's pretty sweet. (yeah, I'm a nerd.) So I was talking about prion diseases, and mentioned kuru, and how this tribe in Africa got it from ritualistic cannibalism, and my mom said if I ever mention that on a date it would scare the guy away. Haha, I will scare guys with my nerdiness! Mwah-hah-hah. :) I can't wait.

I'm in the "ahhh! I sound terrible and I'm performing in less than a week!" stage... hopefully it passes soon. Lots of practicing I guess. I have a pianist... we'll rehearse next week and hopefully everything will come together. It should. I love the piece and really want to do it justice and convey my mental image. I just changed some fingerings in my last lesson though, which has me a bit nervous. And my mom said I was giving her a headache when I was practicing and tuning things up. :/ That makes me really nervous...

Is it weird that I'm already excited for the Flogging Molly concert that's a month away? Oh man, St. Pat's is going to be AWESOME.

Oh and there's this REU internship for the summer in Rhode Island that I want to apply for. I have to really work on the app though, seeing as I don't have a current resume... and hopefully a few science profs know me well enough to write letters of rec. There's also one at Trinity College in Dublin, but I dunno if I'll apply for it or not. And I could always apply at TGEN or BioDesign. Too many options... I kind of want to get out of here this summer though. I definitely have the travel bug.

Speaking of which, I bought my plane ticket for Vancouver! woot! :D I can't wait to visit Alli. AND she's here this week, haha. I've been wanting to check BC out, so I can't wait. So much better than my friend's spring break trip to some little town in Mexico. :/

yeah, i'm done rambling...

mood: peaceful music: Rawlin's Cross

I just realized that I'm playing in a recital in just over a week and I still haven't found a pianist. holy crap I'm screwed! Two said no and a third is MIA. I dunno who else to ask.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

:/



back to the real world, elizabeth...

mood: anxious music: Graceful Ghost Rag...and...Real World-Matchbox Twenty

I don't know why I even bothered getting out of bed this morning.

Ok, I know life isn't fair and everything, but does it really have to be rubbed in my face? Would it be too much to ask to go a week without crying? Or even a couple of days? That would be nice.



hm. this feels a little too rant-ish.

mood: annoyed music: The Worst Day Since Yesterday--Flogging Molly

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands

mood: somber music: Duke Ellington

My ex-bf is on an online dating site. (Don't ask me how I know...)

I can't stop laughing.



...is that bad?

mood: amused music: Evans Blue - Over

It was actually pretty awesome being back at school this week. I got to see/have conversations with all my good friends again. You'd think I was starved socially or something before school started. haha, and then this weekend I became antisocial. Guess I can't decide. I do have pretty awesome friends though, which was verified in the last week or so. And this semester should be easier than the last, though there's a LOT more reading. But, last semester pretty much sucked, so it's not hard to make this semester better. And I'm almost done with theory, piano, and concert attendance. :D

so... optimism, right?

Wednesday I walked around Hayden library and just checked stuff out. It was pretty neat. I randomly found the section with a bunch of books in French, and I actually understood quite a bit. I'm not sure what it is about libraries so much... maybe just think about the massive amounts of information that are there.

Saturday was my pageant interview, I think it went well overall. I'm excited for the pageant now. Finding a dress definitely helped. And it's greeeen. :D


My wrist has been hurting really badly off and on since yesterday. It actually woke me up in the middle of the night, which I don't think has happened before. And the shooting pain has lasted longer and been more intense. :/ I hope it goes away again. I need to play violin, and if it continues, I'm going to worry. Needing to have surgery would ruin everything.

mood: apathetic music: The Format--I'm Ready, I Am

I dunno if I can do all this pageant stuff... getting all pretty, etc.

In a way, I'm glad that school is starting so I have something to do/can get out of the house. I love my parents, but break always makes me want to get away, haha.

Christmas break is always so freakin' weird.

mood: sarcastic

I got home at 2 AM today. mwah-hah-hah. :) breaking down the "curfew"...

Turns out my piano class is getting dropped, so I have to switch to the 8:40 section. grr. :( bye-bye sleep... oh and for some reason I can't register for piano, so I guess I didn't beat the system.



In other news, being an adult (and taking responsibilities/being mature) sucks. So does 2008 so far.

mood: upset, restless

My music DOG finally went through so...

I'm now a dual major in every way shape and form.

It took two auditions, two DOGs (declarations of graduation) to different departments, a petition to Herberger (the music school), countless advisement meetings in two departments, 4 semesters in the music school, and many long explanations, but I BEAT THE SYSTEM. This is a wonderful moment, children. Perseverance prevails.

So now that I have 120 credit hours and have completed 4 semesters in the music school, I'm official, and, most importantly, I can register for music classes without getting overrides!


This is a beauteous time, ladies and gentlemen.



My grades didn't turn out how I wanted, but oh well. I shouldn't stress about it now. It's just frustrating to have a bunch of hard classes/arbitrary grading in the same semester. Oh well. Next semester should be easier. Except for research... man, I keep on adding on responsibilities. Hopefully I don't crash. Should be fun!


So, tomorrow... DISNEYLAND!! WHOHOO!!

mood: excited

wow.

i think i just went through a time warp and i'm back in high school again.

i have a curfew. midnight on weekends and 10:30 on school nights.

and apparently i also have a midnight curfew on the phone. ...?

yay for being almost 21.

and for being trusted.


though, in high school i didn't have a set curfew... it always depended on who i was with and what i was doing and what i had to do the next day.



seriously though, i don't know what i have to do to convince my parents that i'm capable of being responsible and that i'm dedicated to finishing my degree and that i'm not having sex until i get married. they don't seem to believe any of that, even when it's stuff that's important to me, and i tell them that.


maybe my mom's just cranky from lack of sleep?

mood: annoyed